I'm not excited about Waymo self-driving vehicles either, but I don't know of any lawsuit against Google/Alphabet due to injuries (at least 3 of them) with lying and deception like Tesla did here!
Tesla oversold the self-driving feature of their passenger vehicles.
Who says she killed 0 people with her lies?!
The State of Arizona approved her Theranos blood test facilities inside every location of a big pharmacy chain here. They were wildly inaccurate. I know because my doctor sent me there, and the results showed my cholesterol up 120 points so she prescribed medicine for it. I didn't want to take it, asked her to re-order at a normal lab that didn't do finger pricks like Theranos. Results came back: cholesterol and LDL were normal, same as they usually were.
I wouldn't have died from taking the unnecessary meds. If I were old and fragile and got meds for wrong blood tests, it could have been very bad.
I was revisiting this article, and revisited your link. That was a great post in January 2022, and is playing out IRL now, 11 months later. Thanks for sharing.
*I love the look of that infrequently dot org's guy's website design too~
Remember that Wikipedia has all sorts of institutional assets, about $400 million as of 2021. I cast no aspersions on Wikipedia for the thoroughness of their fund raising campaigns and outreach efforts, btw. I actively edit Wikipedia. Yes, there are female editors!
In contrast, for most of its existence, Archive.org aka the Wayback Machine was entirely funded by its creator, Brewster Kahle. He primarily used the funds he received from the sales of his internet search-and-retrieval and web traffic analysis companies during the mid-1990s. Even with some recent external support by non-profits, there was never any concerted effort to raise funds to support the project until ~2020. This was the situation despite the Internet Archive's unique role in preserving:
all sorts of books, pamphlets, speeches, images, press releases, and even the occasional video or film, from the early 20th century through the present. Many of these documents are no longer available via the Internet-at-large but only through university libraries, government archives, foundations, or private collections.
Remember, content that is:
--today's consumer or popular culture (K-Pop?)
--1st amendment protected "hate speech"
--near-ubiquitous recounting of current events (e.g. Russia's invasion of Ukraine)
--widely taught history of post-U.S. Civil War Reconstruction massacres of freedmen
may one day soon be "memory holed" or accessible only by overcoming considerable obstacles, be they financial or otherwise, e.g. allowing view at physical location only!
Do consider donating to archive.org. Even $1 is an accepted amount, right from the site's landing page.
Now I keep seeing random religious ads, including one that literally was just a tweet praising God...and another for Scientology.
Religious ads and ads praising G-d aren't examples of "hate running rampant". There have been plenty of full page ads in the New York Times praising religion or making a call to action. Alleging that Twitter accepts ads for Scientology, a known pernicious cult, requires some evidence, maybe a screen shot. Is this a change in Twitter policy from the former ownership? The rest of your article is well-sourced. This should be too.
For what it's worth, see here for time-series level of hate speech on Twitter. Without knowing underlying assumptions (e.g. what constitutes hate speech under Musk?) it's of limited use.
Timothy Geithner was Secretary of the Treasury during the 2008 financial crisis. I would find it VERY amusing if he were to write an article shilling for NFTs on TechDirt!!!
I think you meant Timothy Geigner?
PA Observer: I am curious. Are you referring to Cathy Gellis as the "poster", and if so, why is this the most ridiculous post on TD in many years? I looked at your comment history, which seems well-informed. (I looked at my own, realized I haven't commented since 2014!)
I'm not a legal pretender, merely a statistician at a bank. My understanding was that the Sedition Act of 1917 or so was a bridge too far, and was mostly replaced by the Espionage Act (conviction of such being punishable by death but only in very specific and extreme circumstances).
KKK and Illinois neo-Nazis have the right to assemble and speak freely, without prosecution or harassment by the US government. The Jewish residents of Skokie, IL were not happy about the neo-Nazi parade. President Carter wasn't thrilled either, but he was on the side of the ACLU and First Amendment. The neo-Nazis got a permit, held their march in Chicago without harming or being harmed, then departed never to return. That's how the First Amendment applies to protected speech, yes? Child pornography and incitement to violence/rioting are the only exceptions, yes? The law hasn't changed although willful misinterpretation of it has since 1973, e.g. the ACLU would never file an amicus briefs for neo-Nazis now.
I'd suggest that most people, when referencing the phrase, "one can't shout 'Fire!' in a crowded theatre", are appealing to a colloquial expression that has no actual bearing on the letter of the law as it exists today and for the past hundred years.
The "correction" does not keep getting ignored. Rather, it is upheld, and is very much the point of protected speech under the First Amendment. For example, I was listening to Chris Cuomo (the CNN guy) exchange heated words about the harm caused by hate speech. Chris Cuomo is an attorney. When pressed, he readily acknowledged that he considers hate speech to be immoral, but certainly NOT illegal.
No, it doesn't work like that. Two or more people can be convicted of, and punished for conspiracy IF AND ONLY IF at least one of them actually does commit an illegal act. See 18 U.S. Code § 371 (Conspiracy to commit offense against or defraud the United States). If the conspirators talk about doing something illegal, but none of them DO anything illegal, there is no crime and free speech is not restricted.
Adobe is probably tracking reading speed, bookmarks etc. just like AMZN did. I used Adobe Digital Editions, the free e-reader using EPUB (?) format. It was good, but not better than any others. This sounds like the best option to me:
buy the printed version that's usually cheaper and more pleasant to read at home.
There isn't anything wrong with "stockpiling" cereal. As long as you eat it, it is a discounted bulk purchase, and nothing to feel guilty over. Well, if there aren't food shortages! As for renting power tools, great idea! I think Home Depot and small non-chain hardware stores used to offer that.
Most of the sharing economy so far seems to enrich a tiny number of middle men who own the distribution platform, with inconsistent or questionable benefit to users/customers. I do NOT see Google in that role though.
The Obama administration has revealed so few details about the negotiations, even to members of Congress and their staffs, that it is impossible to fully analyze the Pacific partnership. Negotiators have argued that it?s impossible to conduct trade talks in public because opponents to the deal would try to derail them.
That isn't how U.S. government works. There are always opponents to legislation by some members of Congress. Hiding the details from them, and the public, is wrong, and very ominous.
ottonomy, I visited your website from your profile here, after reading that URL to the MoveOn news.
Wow! You are so kind and introspective, based on what I read. You seem like a very good person, emotionally and ethically. Keep up the great work, and don't doubt yourself! * No one here is allowed to poke fun at me for this, okay?
Speaking of LA education, I think they may have seen the light, scales falling from eyes. (Sorry, that was for dramatic effect. I am not a Christian, but love their way with words sometimes). I say that with respect to the highly STATIST Common Core, which Gov. Jindal is finally turning away from.
I haven't seen the billboard or read the text. Two thoughts: 1. This is bad precedent by MoveOn. It will open the floodgates for more mudracking political crud, from all parties. I'm tired of that, don't need more. I doubt I'm the only person who is sick of politicized discourse about every little thing.
2. It doesn't imply any deficiency in voter intelligence to assume that a state's trademarked slogan is used exclusively by that state, or in support of the elected officials (and policies) of that state. The Lt Governor should have taken a "wait and see" attitude, rather than sue. Depending on how the billboard is worded, it might lead viewers to believe that MoveOn is organizing on behalf of the Louisiana GOP. Now wouldn't THAT be ironic! :)
Hello CBimerrow formerly of IT support! I didn't know any other way to reply to you, about what I read on the TechDirt insider chat thingy. That's where y'all talk to each other and we get read access. You mentioned something that I noticed and winced at (just like you did, when you said, "it burns!") but no one talks about. Same as the reaction on TechDirt Insider chat; no one replied to you, re this hxxp://gizmodo.com/sochi-official-our-shower-surveillance-footage-says-ho-1517435247?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow I agree, it is unsightly! The UTM's are for Google, or other web analytics "campaign metrics". I strip them away whenever I post or send a URL. They look cheezy. Even if I'm using a URL shortener, I want that crud gone. I was curious why the person you were IM chatting with didn't post this instead, hxxp://gizmodo.com/sochi-official-our-shower-surveillance-footage-says-ho-1517435247 Is it considered immoral or rude to excise the crud, because the URL creator can't surveil (track?) as well? That URL was so lengthy that it forced the sidebar chat widget to scroll out to 4 times width!
For etiquette's sake, I'll return to the current topic. Why don't these comments have any respect for IT? IT departments are NOT always clueless bureaucrats who don't know how to set a password other than to "password". Someone else described how their IT department isolated Macs because of PC viruses (I didn't say that quite right, it's down below). Just maybe, the IT guys know something that the users don't know, about security. The user's job, in this case, is to be a developer. IT doesn't sit around all day doing nothing. Their job, among other things, is to be real-time up to date about viruses. Macs are not immune, regardless of OS used. Even computers running Linux can be vulnerable.
As for getting in the way of business and customers, I learned the hard way that IT needs to be consulted. I worked on a project using PHI (protected health information). At the beginning, before we bid on the contract, one of our IT guys warned us that there would be problems with using VolP as part oF the dEliverable, that HIPAA didn't allow it, in that context. Client said it would be okay, but didn't check with their own IT guy, nor anyone else. So we did months of work and sure enough, our IT guy was right. We should have spent some time to see if he were correct, before proceeding further. We were still paid, nothing terrible happened. Client had to spend more though, for us to do (lots of tedious) changes.
IT security can be a huge pain to deal with, like a law enforcement bureaucracy in your midst, e.g. a visit from Tyler in Data Security was much worse than having the Assistant District Attorney stop by to "ask you a few questions"! It is management's job to reign in overzealous IT, or replace any who are incompetent.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, TechDirt and Mike Masnick for sharing this with us! And thank you for so kindly posting the full text of the document.
I knew about the NRC having no reporting procedure to track breaches pertaining to accidental release of sensitive information, because I noticed an entry in the Federal Register (or somewhere similar) saying that they needed to draft and instate one, in October or November last year. I wasn't aware of the pervasive carelessness in so many other U.S. government departments though.
The SEC is my primary interest. Lax security increases exchange infrastructure vulnerability. There is another concern, namely, the always-tempting opportunity to exploit and profit from unauthorized access to material non-public information.
Uneasy about current self-driving vehicles but Tesla is...
I'm not excited about Waymo self-driving vehicles either, but I don't know of any lawsuit against Google/Alphabet due to injuries (at least 3 of them) with lying and deception like Tesla did here! Tesla oversold the self-driving feature of their passenger vehicles.
Elizabeth Holmes lies
Who says she killed 0 people with her lies?! The State of Arizona approved her Theranos blood test facilities inside every location of a big pharmacy chain here. They were wildly inaccurate. I know because my doctor sent me there, and the results showed my cholesterol up 120 points so she prescribed medicine for it. I didn't want to take it, asked her to re-order at a normal lab that didn't do finger pricks like Theranos. Results came back: cholesterol and LDL were normal, same as they usually were. I wouldn't have died from taking the unnecessary meds. If I were old and fragile and got meds for wrong blood tests, it could have been very bad.
web3 washed up
I was revisiting this article, and revisited your link. That was a great post in January 2022, and is playing out IRL now, 11 months later. Thanks for sharing. *I love the look of that infrequently dot org's guy's website design too~
Internet Archive
Remember that Wikipedia has all sorts of institutional assets, about $400 million as of 2021. I cast no aspersions on Wikipedia for the thoroughness of their fund raising campaigns and outreach efforts, btw. I actively edit Wikipedia. Yes, there are female editors! In contrast, for most of its existence, Archive.org aka the Wayback Machine was entirely funded by its creator, Brewster Kahle. He primarily used the funds he received from the sales of his internet search-and-retrieval and web traffic analysis companies during the mid-1990s. Even with some recent external support by non-profits, there was never any concerted effort to raise funds to support the project until ~2020. This was the situation despite the Internet Archive's unique role in preserving:
- what would otherwise be Internet ephemera and impermanence since 1996 as described by this Anonymous Coward's comment;
- all sorts of books, pamphlets, speeches, images, press releases, and even the occasional video or film, from the early 20th century through the present. Many of these documents are no longer available via the Internet-at-large but only through university libraries, government archives, foundations, or private collections.
Remember, content that is: --today's consumer or popular culture (K-Pop?) --1st amendment protected "hate speech" --near-ubiquitous recounting of current events (e.g. Russia's invasion of Ukraine) --widely taught history of post-U.S. Civil War Reconstruction massacres of freedmen may one day soon be "memory holed" or accessible only by overcoming considerable obstacles, be they financial or otherwise, e.g. allowing view at physical location only! Do consider donating to archive.org. Even $1 is an accepted amount, right from the site's landing page.Scientology advertisements?
Mike, seriously?
Religious ads and ads praising G-d aren't examples of "hate running rampant". There have been plenty of full page ads in the New York Times praising religion or making a call to action. Alleging that Twitter accepts ads for Scientology, a known pernicious cult, requires some evidence, maybe a screen shot. Is this a change in Twitter policy from the former ownership? The rest of your article is well-sourced. This should be too. For what it's worth, see here for time-series level of hate speech on Twitter. Without knowing underlying assumptions (e.g. what constitutes hate speech under Musk?) it's of limited use.Re: US Treasury Secretary writing for TechDirt
Timothy Geithner was Secretary of the Treasury during the 2008 financial crisis. I would find it VERY amusing if he were to write an article shilling for NFTs on TechDirt!!! I think you meant Timothy Geigner?
Green Bay Packers stock like GOOGL
Neither has voting rights but shares of Google GOOGL can be bought and sold and investors can make a profit if the price goes up.
Also, I'm not convinced that NFTs or DAO is an easier way to offer decentralized, widely distributed ownership than an actual common stock offering.
Re: LOLOL
PA Observer: I am curious. Are you referring to Cathy Gellis as the "poster", and if so, why is this the most ridiculous post on TD in many years? I looked at your comment history, which seems well-informed. (I looked at my own, realized I haven't commented since 2014!) I'm not a legal pretender, merely a statistician at a bank. My understanding was that the Sedition Act of 1917 or so was a bridge too far, and was mostly replaced by the Espionage Act (conviction of such being punishable by death but only in very specific and extreme circumstances). KKK and Illinois neo-Nazis have the right to assemble and speak freely, without prosecution or harassment by the US government. The Jewish residents of Skokie, IL were not happy about the neo-Nazi parade. President Carter wasn't thrilled either, but he was on the side of the ACLU and First Amendment. The neo-Nazis got a permit, held their march in Chicago without harming or being harmed, then departed never to return. That's how the First Amendment applies to protected speech, yes? Child pornography and incitement to violence/rioting are the only exceptions, yes? The law hasn't changed although willful misinterpretation of it has since 1973, e.g. the ACLU would never file an amicus briefs for neo-Nazis now.
Re: This argument tends to remind me
I'd suggest that most people, when referencing the phrase, "one can't shout 'Fire!' in a crowded theatre", are appealing to a colloquial expression that has no actual bearing on the letter of the law as it exists today and for the past hundred years. The "correction" does not keep getting ignored. Rather, it is upheld, and is very much the point of protected speech under the First Amendment. For example, I was listening to Chris Cuomo (the CNN guy) exchange heated words about the harm caused by hate speech. Chris Cuomo is an attorney. When pressed, he readily acknowledged that he considers hate speech to be immoral, but certainly NOT illegal.
Re: What about conspiracy?
No, it doesn't work like that. Two or more people can be convicted of, and punished for conspiracy IF AND ONLY IF at least one of them actually does commit an illegal act. See 18 U.S. Code § 371 (Conspiracy to commit offense against or defraud the United States). If the conspirators talk about doing something illegal, but none of them DO anything illegal, there is no crime and free speech is not restricted.
Re: Re: Two lessons here
Adobe is probably tracking reading speed, bookmarks etc. just like AMZN did. I used Adobe Digital Editions, the free e-reader using EPUB (?) format. It was good, but not better than any others. This sounds like the best option to me:
I don't like messing with DRM.Re: We need to get into a borrowing society...We do?
There isn't anything wrong with "stockpiling" cereal. As long as you eat it, it is a discounted bulk purchase, and nothing to feel guilty over. Well, if there aren't food shortages! As for renting power tools, great idea! I think Home Depot and small non-chain hardware stores used to offer that.
Most of the sharing economy so far seems to enrich a tiny number of middle men who own the distribution platform, with inconsistent or questionable benefit to users/customers. I do NOT see Google in that role though.
Secret negotiations
This is really awful:
That isn't how U.S. government works. There are always opponents to legislation by some members of Congress. Hiding the details from them, and the public, is wrong, and very ominous.Thank you etc for ottonomy
ottonomy,
I visited your website from your profile here, after reading that URL to the MoveOn news.
Wow! You are so kind and introspective, based on what I read. You seem like a very good person, emotionally and ethically. Keep up the great work, and don't doubt yourself!
* No one here is allowed to poke fun at me for this, okay?
Re: Re: MoveOn for Louisiana GOP
Speaking of LA education, I think they may have seen the light, scales falling from eyes. (Sorry, that was for dramatic effect. I am not a Christian, but love their way with words sometimes).
I say that with respect to the highly STATIST Common Core, which Gov. Jindal is finally turning away from.
Re: Here's the image:
Thank you!
Waging war on Medicaid... ugh, that isn't good.
MoveOn for Louisiana GOP
I haven't seen the billboard or read the text. Two thoughts:
1. This is bad precedent by MoveOn. It will open the floodgates for more mudracking political crud, from all parties. I'm tired of that, don't need more. I doubt I'm the only person who is sick of politicized discourse about every little thing.
2. It doesn't imply any deficiency in voter intelligence to assume that a state's trademarked slogan is used exclusively by that state, or in support of the elected officials (and policies) of that state. The Lt Governor should have taken a "wait and see" attitude, rather than sue. Depending on how the billboard is worded, it might lead viewers to believe that MoveOn is organizing on behalf of the Louisiana GOP. Now wouldn't THAT be ironic!
:)
Judge Shelly
That was the first thought I had too.
It is a remarkably unfortunate surname. Bad anglicization maybe? Middle initial "D" doesn't help either...
Re: Say what Christopher Best?
Hello CBimerrow formerly of IT support! I didn't know any other way to reply to you, about what I read on the TechDirt insider chat thingy. That's where y'all talk to each other and we get read access. You mentioned something that I noticed and winced at (just like you did, when you said, "it burns!") but no one talks about. Same as the reaction on TechDirt Insider chat; no one replied to you, re this
hxxp://gizmodo.com/sochi-official-our-shower-surveillance-footage-says-ho-1517435247?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
I agree, it is unsightly! The UTM's are for Google, or other web analytics "campaign metrics". I strip them away whenever I post or send a URL. They look cheezy. Even if I'm using a URL shortener, I want that crud gone. I was curious why the person you were IM chatting with didn't post this instead,
hxxp://gizmodo.com/sochi-official-our-shower-surveillance-footage-says-ho-1517435247
Is it considered immoral or rude to excise the crud, because the URL creator can't surveil (track?) as well? That URL was so lengthy that it forced the sidebar chat widget to scroll out to 4 times width!
For etiquette's sake, I'll return to the current topic. Why don't these comments have any respect for IT? IT departments are NOT always clueless bureaucrats who don't know how to set a password other than to "password". Someone else described how their IT department isolated Macs because of PC viruses (I didn't say that quite right, it's down below). Just maybe, the IT guys know something that the users don't know, about security. The user's job, in this case, is to be a developer. IT doesn't sit around all day doing nothing. Their job, among other things, is to be real-time up to date about viruses. Macs are not immune, regardless of OS used. Even computers running Linux can be vulnerable.
As for getting in the way of business and customers, I learned the hard way that IT needs to be consulted. I worked on a project using PHI (protected health information). At the beginning, before we bid on the contract, one of our IT guys warned us that there would be problems with using VolP as part oF the dEliverable, that HIPAA didn't allow it, in that context. Client said it would be okay, but didn't check with their own IT guy, nor anyone else. So we did months of work and sure enough, our IT guy was right. We should have spent some time to see if he were correct, before proceeding further. We were still paid, nothing terrible happened. Client had to spend more though, for us to do (lots of tedious) changes.
IT security can be a huge pain to deal with, like a law enforcement bureaucracy in your midst, e.g. a visit from Tyler in Data Security was much worse than having the Assistant District Attorney stop by to "ask you a few questions"! It is management's job to reign in overzealous IT, or replace any who are incompetent.
SEC OMG!
Thank you, thank you, thank you, TechDirt and Mike Masnick for sharing this with us! And thank you for so kindly posting the full text of the document.
I knew about the NRC having no reporting procedure to track breaches pertaining to accidental release of sensitive information, because I noticed an entry in the Federal Register (or somewhere similar) saying that they needed to draft and instate one, in October or November last year. I wasn't aware of the pervasive carelessness in so many other U.S. government departments though.
The SEC is my primary interest. Lax security increases exchange infrastructure vulnerability. There is another concern, namely, the always-tempting opportunity to exploit and profit from unauthorized access to material non-public information.