It should really be called IoS, not IoT.
Internet of Shit not Internet of Things.
The only privacy Zuckerberg respects and will fight for is that which involves his own finances and where exactly he stashes his cash overseas.
You would need a logical Rube Goldberg machine to even attempt to follow along with this judges thinking.
Clinton was right. The Republican party and its adherents are a basket of deplorables, as is the media who feeds their ignorance and racism.
Are you sure they weren't talking about rule 34? Occam's razor suggests it is more likely.
What bothers me most is not the fact that law enforcement is corrupt (by design apparently), it is the fact that the courts are just as corrupt. All the way up to the supreme court.
Every time LEOs need an out, the courts provide one. Cops don't need to know the laws they enforce. Cops don't need to know that they aren't supposed to violate the constitution. At both the federal and state level they have an easy out, created by the courts just for them. They just have to claim that their illegal and/or unconstitutional behaviour was made in good faith. (We all know, and the record supports, that they'll lie their asses off to accomplish this.) Between good faith and qualified immunity, they can do almost anything. And with the collusion of prosecutors (at all levels) they can literally get away with murder. Hell, they can get away with almost anything.
At this point, there probably isn't much anyone can do about it. Hell, we have two sex offenders on the Supreme Court as it is. Republicans will put in anyone who hates abortion and goes along with the fictional crap the corporations are people. Democrats will put in anyone who supports abortion rights. The only thing that really separates them at this point is that at least the Dems don't support sexual predators in the judiciary.
"all its really served to do is make it much more widely known why no one should ever bother" respecting copyrights at all.
Fixed that for ya.
So if our illustrious politicians from Ohio use social media to spread alternative facts I can look forward to their arrests and convictions on counts of "inducing panic"?
Bullying is no longer sustainable. You ain't actually used the Internet, have you?
'Nobody ever went wrong buying IBM' for a new age.
The one thing in common in all of these stories is the behaviour of the cops.
They all exhibit the classic signs of being addicts. Instead of drugs or alcohol, they are addicted to seizures and forfeitures. They have become addicted to stealing from the public, plain and simple and no one can seem to rein them in.
Maybe it is time for some enterprising lawyers to start filing lawsuits. Not aimed at the cops themselves, but at their enablers. Don't sue the cops, sue the cities and counties they work for. There are so many constitutionally suspect practices involved, they should be able to bankrupt many local governments and force wholesale changes in policies and practices.
Of course, this assumes their buddies in the courts don't invent new ways to let them off the hook.
This is one of the saddest stories I have ever seen on TD. Not on TDs part, on the governments part. In this day and age, FOIA requests should be able to be fulfilled quickly and easily compared to when it first passed. That it takes so long, and more importantly, typically requires a federal lawsuit is just.... pathetic. I'd say that the government agencies should be ashamed of themselves. However, as they have amply demonstrated over the years, the government employees are incapable of that feeling.
He's a Republican, did anyone, honestly, expect better?
One word describes voting in GA, and has for the last several decades. Diebold. And amazingly, all of the fuckups with Diebold equipment benefited one party. The same one doing everything they can to screw over everyone now. Again.
Snowballs chance in Hell.
The Patriot Act's expansion of government power already lowered the bar for law enforcement, allowing it to obtain records without subpoenas or judicial review.
Even without lowering the bar, the judiciaries role is anemic almost to the point of being an afterthought. Y'all need to talk about meaningful oversight by the the courts. Currently, while their is oversight and approval by the courts, it's nothing more than a rubber stamp that is abused by LEOs on a daily basis. The state ethics boards refuse to investigate corrupt or mendacious judges, the legislatures refuse any oversight responsibilities that might conceivably affect re-election chances and the absolute immunity judges and prosecutors enjoy means there is absolute power, with zero responsibility or accountability.
While there may have been very good historical reasons for the way the courts are structured and ran, the judiciary has shown that they no longer merit any such consideration.
Nah. My mom wanted to name me that, but she was told no underscores allowed on birth certificates.
I still do not understand why anyone uses their "real" name online. I've been online since the mid '80s, on the 'Net since the early '90s, never used my legal name. Never have, never will.
https://www.creators.com/read/judge-napolitano/09/13/is-the-fisa-court-constitutional
There you go chump.
It's as if the Author Guild lives in Bizarro world. If the NRA operated in the same way would be advocating for repeal of the second amendment.