One may with some validity wonder, given their (lack of) response to past judgments, whether this lawsuit will yield meaningful results. Ignoring even the possibility of failing to pay or even weasling out of fines and property seizure, does disbarment in Illinois preclude practice elsewhere?
Quite true. As I've been told. Over and over. But the Gorg is supposed to take our privacy "very seriously". (Of course, OTOH, "If you have something you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it.")
If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption.
Freedom, schmeedom. The new norm must be "censorship-challenged". Moderators need carefully to be trained, and meet in committee to approve each and every post prior to publication. Committee meetings must of course be recorded for periodic independent auditing by impartial international tribunals appointed by recognized authorities. (Source of recognition yet to be determined.) Bureaucracy. Our friend in these difficult (easiness-challenged) times. /sarcasm
While channel surfing, we stumbled upon the season finale of Person of Interest, with the Machine that surveiled us all and prevented 54 terrorist attacks. At the end, its evil twin Machine was awakened to surveil us all: the evil twin, named Samaritan. With the last line, from the villain addressing Samaritan, ?We await your orders.? /sarcasm
?Yeah, that's another cloud service I won?t be using.?
Yep, so there: I unlinked a bunch of apps and pulled Dropbox off my various devices? With the full understanding that, if I expect to drop every service that hires a somehow unsavory character, I?ll soon not be using the web. Or communicating via known civilized paths in general.
Truth, justice, and the American way? Now we seem to be looking for a connection between the three. Perhaps Hayden suffered mental abuse as a child. When I see this, and I saw the earlier techdirt article in which the NSA suggested it?s time we reform the 1st Amendment, I deduce the NSA is ready to reform history itself. All the way back to the principles of logic.
Any software the NSA might install to ensure strict internal monitoring, security, and control, would itself have to be placed under careful scrutiny to ensure its own reliability and the absence of internal malware and hooks. And on, and on. Endless reports and meetings. By the end of the scrutiny, the software would likely be obsolete. Tail wags dog.
Sounds as if a troll can make a fortune in tiny settlements too small to justify hiring a lawyer to defend.
[According to Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, The World's Gone Crazy:] "To demonstrate flaws in the patent system, in 2001 an Australian lawyer patented the wheel." There's a *lot* of folks using the wheel. There'd be a lot of tiny settlements flowing from that, enough to make a troll incredibly wealthy.
If I use an image of Mickey Mouse to pick on George Bush, someone may take it that I am implying that Disney (by virtue of the fact that Mickey Mouse "is" Disney) endorses the picking-on of George Bush.
Re "people assume that no one will ever out innovate it, and then fear that we're stuck with the dominant player forever"! You've left me wondering who those "people" are. I suspect most "people" have functioning brains, especially the folks who use iPhones. I suspect no one feared or assumed we'd be stuck with a dominant player FOREVER. That's patently ridiculous!
I'm confused, too. It's of course impossible to block links to AP stuff or to demand payola for links or to demand, even, accreditation. To enforce honor would take more web enforcers than web users. There are just too danged many computers!
Honor among thieves? I'd like "intellectual property rights" over the stuff I publish, too. Them's fightin words in the web world these days, too. Lots of flack against GoOgle and Facebook, as I recall, for trying to lay claim to folks' postings without fair permission.
Where do we draw the line? Fair use of our own postings? Fair use of AP? Eminent domain?
Techdirt has not posted any stories submitted by jjwaters.
Frivolous lawsuit (this included)
One may with some validity wonder, given their (lack of) response to past judgments, whether this lawsuit will yield meaningful results. Ignoring even the possibility of failing to pay or even weasling out of fines and property seizure, does disbarment in Illinois preclude practice elsewhere?
Re: Re: Re: encryption
Quite true. As I've been told. Over and over. But the Gorg is supposed to take our privacy "very seriously". (Of course, OTOH, "If you have something you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it.")
If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption.
/sarcasm
Re:
[Meaning, what led Google to look for and at these emails, and how did Google gain access? Email has privacy. Right?]
"Google revealed one of the few emails that they have been able to get access to so far..."
I wonder what sort of pagerank the emails had. We should get a handle on their SEO.
Websites must encourage—indeed, demand—politically correct speech
Freedom, schmeedom. The new norm must be "censorship-challenged". Moderators need carefully to be trained, and meet in committee to approve each and every post prior to publication. Committee meetings must of course be recorded for periodic independent auditing by impartial international tribunals appointed by recognized authorities. (Source of recognition yet to be determined.) Bureaucracy. Our friend in these difficult (easiness-challenged) times. /sarcasm
Re: Re: FBI...
I, too, tire of the term "homeland". Sounds menacingly like Vaterland
Re: "Frontline" does it again
While channel surfing, we stumbled upon the season finale of Person of Interest, with the Machine that surveiled us all and prevented 54 terrorist attacks. At the end, its evil twin Machine was awakened to surveil us all: the evil twin, named Samaritan. With the last line, from the villain addressing Samaritan, ?We await your orders.? /sarcasm
Re: I just read the headline to a co-worker
?Yeah, that's another cloud service I won?t be using.?
Yep, so there: I unlinked a bunch of apps and pulled Dropbox off my various devices? With the full understanding that, if I expect to drop every service that hires a somehow unsavory character, I?ll soon not be using the web. Or communicating via known civilized paths in general.
The NSA seems to have forgotten what it?s protecting
Truth, justice, and the American way? Now we seem to be looking for a connection between the three. Perhaps Hayden suffered mental abuse as a child. When I see this, and I saw the earlier techdirt article in which the NSA suggested it?s time we reform the 1st Amendment, I deduce the NSA is ready to reform history itself. All the way back to the principles of logic.
Too costly to install internal controls
Any software the NSA might install to ensure strict internal monitoring, security, and control, would itself have to be placed under careful scrutiny to ensure its own reliability and the absence of internal malware and hooks. And on, and on. Endless reports and meetings. By the end of the scrutiny, the software would likely be obsolete. Tail wags dog.
I'm not sure what you'd foresee as an alternative...
Any "law" written to regulate the NSA would be written by ? wait for it ? lawyers. Read the fine print.
Does the BMG need to censor itself?
Is use of that takedown text considered "Fair Use"? Seems to me it was copied from the Romney URL and downloaded to the Obama URL. Not very original.
I don't fully understand your title
I took the link, hoping for an explanation. You mention, "for the wrong reasons". What, in detail, are the "wrong reasons"?
Anything you get for free is worth about what you pay for it
Which politician is in _your_ wallet?
A fortune in tiny settlements...
Sounds as if a troll can make a fortune in tiny settlements too small to justify hiring a lawyer to defend.
[According to Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, The World's Gone Crazy:] "To demonstrate flaws in the patent system, in 2001 an Australian lawyer patented the wheel." There's a *lot* of folks using the wheel. There'd be a lot of tiny settlements flowing from that, enough to make a troll incredibly wealthy.
My guess about the difference:
If I use an image of Mickey Mouse to pick on George Bush, someone may take it that I am implying that Disney (by virtue of the fact that Mickey Mouse "is" Disney) endorses the picking-on of George Bush.
Re: Satire
Honored @Balderstone: If you write a 100-word essay, then I will honor your wish not to use it to make fun of someone else.
How about if I use 50 words? No? 25? No? 10?
At what point is the quality of intellect strained, today? Tomorrow? Make your sad comment, in more specific terms.
WHO assumed???
Re "people assume that no one will ever out innovate it, and then fear that we're stuck with the dominant player forever"! You've left me wondering who those "people" are. I suspect most "people" have functioning brains, especially the folks who use iPhones. I suspect no one feared or assumed we'd be stuck with a dominant player FOREVER. That's patently ridiculous!
Re: AP
I'm confused, too. It's of course impossible to block links to AP stuff or to demand payola for links or to demand, even, accreditation. To enforce honor would take more web enforcers than web users. There are just too danged many computers!
Honor among thieves? I'd like "intellectual property rights" over the stuff I publish, too. Them's fightin words in the web world these days, too. Lots of flack against GoOgle and Facebook, as I recall, for trying to lay claim to folks' postings without fair permission.
Where do we draw the line? Fair use of our own postings? Fair use of AP? Eminent domain?