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• On the post: Appeals Court Says A Person Driving A Registered Vehicle On A Public Road Is Not 'Reasonably Suspicious'

  

  hij ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2019 @ 04:36pm

  They appealed this?

  The fact that the prosecutors appealed this thinking they could still get away with it just further demonstrates how bad the system is.

• On the post: French Defense Secretary Says Country Is Willing To Fire First In Cyber Wars

  

  hij ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2019 @ 12:46pm

  Silent room

  At least the war room will be quiet with all those mimes pounding in imaginary keyboards.

• On the post: EU Cancels 'Final' Negotiations On EU Copyright Directive As It Becomes Clear There Isn't Enough Support

  

  hij ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2019 @ 12:25pm

  MP and proportional voting

  The European MPs are supposed to represent the variation within the states they represent. For example, Poland's MP's are based on proportion of the parties' votes.The idea that countries are voting as blocs on this should be disappointing and does not represent the complexities of the countries they are supposed to be representing.

• On the post: Why Does Everyone Else Want To Stop Netflix Password Sharing, When Netflix Is Fine With It?

  

  hij ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2019 @ 04:47am

  electronic media is not widgets

  It is amazing how many people in the business of sharing electronic media still think of it in terms of exchanging physical goods. All they are doing is sharing bits, and they feel a need to control numbers. Scarcity in this context is artificial, and they cannot wrap their heads around the idea that the supply curve is different, and they cannot shift and control it.

• On the post: LinkedIn Is Helping The Chinese Government Silence Critics

  

  hij ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2019 @ 02:43am

  Re: You'd think a shift like that would have been on the news...

  In the US it is also considered to be a person due to its corporationness. It finally hit the trifecta of country, company, and critter.

• On the post: LinkedIn Is Helping The Chinese Government Silence Critics

  

  hij ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2019 @ 02:41am

  To make matters worse

  Linkedin is a bit more insidious than the others in that they wish to make themselves important to people's livelihoods. If they become an important part of the employment process then it becomes harder for people to simply avoid them. It is like trying to build a honeypot.

• On the post: Facebook Rejects GRIS Launch Trailer For Being Sexually Suggestive When It Clearly Is Not

  

  hij ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2019 @ 03:06am

  Training matters

  This is what happens when your programmers are all fixated on hentai.

• On the post: No, BitTorrent's Plan for Cryptocurrency-Fueled Speed Boosts Doesn't Violate 'Net Neutrality'

  

  hij ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2019 @ 01:06pm

  How is this different?

  They already set priorities by sorting and setting the order that links to torrents are displayed. The use of a monetary reward only insures that other people get a share of the wealth. Why did they wait till now to get upset over bias in how seeds are shared?

• On the post: Despite Losing Its Copyright Case, The State Of Georgia Still Trying To Stop Carl Malamud From Posting Its Laws

  

  hij ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2019 @ 11:31am

  Mature and reasonable - lol

  You lost me when you presumed that the state would be mature and reasonable about losing control and allowing the little people the same access to information as the important people(TM). Although, I am sure they are willing to forgo forcing police officers to have to take the trouble to know any of the laws they are supposed to enforce when they can just make up their own instead.

• On the post: Photographer Licenses Photo To Shutterstock, Is Shocked When It Plays Out Exactly How Everyone Would Imagine

  

  hij ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2019 @ 02:58am

  Who sold those items?

  Seems a bit arrogant for the photographer to assume that it was his pictures that sold all those items. It is not as if people go into Walmart just to hang out with friends but upon seeing a nice glossy photo think to themselves, "Damn, that is one sweet tube of toothpaste in that picture. I need me some of that!"

• On the post: Copyright, Culture, Sharing, Remix… And A Congresswoman Dancing As A College Student

  

  hij ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2019 @ 03:06pm

  But those dance moves

  Perhaps the movie studios who produced The Breakfast Club will sue everyone based on their copyright of the dance moves.

• On the post: Once Again, GDPR Is A Potential Privacy Nightmare: Amazon Sends 1,700 Voice Recordings To The Wrong User In GDPR Request

  

  hij ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2018 @ 10:00am

  What should the person have done?

  What were the requirements under GDPR for the person who received the recordings? Did the person break the rules by sharing the data? Is the person required to take the same precautions as Amazon was supposed to take?
  
  If someone send you this information on accident what kind of burdens does the GDPR impose on you?

• On the post: CBS Eyes Ditching Nielsen As Streaming, Cord Cutting Change The Game

  

  hij ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2018 @ 06:08am

  More money for the rest of us!

  So that means they will be lowering prices to share the price savings with the rest of us. That is how efficient markets work. Right?
  
  Also, looking forward to the time when I can not purchase access to a large number of media outlets rather than not purchasing from just the one.

• On the post: If You're Surprised By Verizon's AOL, Yahoo Face Plant, You Don't Know Verizon

  

  hij ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2018 @ 05:55am

  Mayer's genius

  All those people critical of Melissa Mayer should be thinking twice. Despite decades of trying nobody was able to turn Yahoo! into a viable media company, and Verizon could not do it with its notable resources. Mayer was at least able to foist it off on some rather unclever saps for an oversize sum of money. That is more than any of its other CEOs were able to achieve.

• On the post: New York Police Union Says More Reporting On Stops/Frisks Will Hurt The NYPD's Effectiveness

  

  hij ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2018 @ 04:41am

  proactive misconduct

  When you define policing to be akin to misconduct, then reducing proactive harassment is a good thing.

• On the post: Cubs, Nationals Launch Another Trademark Opposition Over A 'W' Logo

  

  hij ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2018 @ 01:43pm

  Too little, too late

  Wish they had done this before GWB(45) was elected.

• On the post: Stupid Patent Of The Month: A Patent On Using Mathematical Proofs

  

  hij ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2018 @ 05:09am

  How is this new?

  There is plenty of prior art for the application of formal systems in verifying algorithms. See for example MIT's PS+SE group. Software to verify formal logic systems has been in use for a long time now, and formal systems has been a focus of academic research for well over a decade. The software of evaluating formal systems is well known, and the hard part is developing the system of formal logic to define a problem in question.

• On the post: SoundCloud Troll Getting DMCA Takedowns Shows The Weakness Of Notice And Takedown Systems

  

  hij ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2018 @ 02:38pm

  The Burden Is On The Wrong Person

  There is no way an artist can "prove" that another work has not been sampled or used in a given piece. This is not a real standard that can be applied in a consistent way, and it can only be applied in arbitrarily. The burden of proof is on the wrong party.

• On the post: Police Misconduct, Data Breaches, And The Ongoing Lack Of Accountability That Allows These To Continue

  

  hij ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2018 @ 12:58pm

  Or Just Not Treat Law Enforcement As Gods

  How about we just stop worshiping law enforcement officers. If certain people in power would be capable of recognizing that they are fallible human beings that are not deserving of unequivocal praise and power without question that might solve a whole host of problems.

• On the post: Donald Trump Suddenly Pretends To Care About Comcast Antitrust Violations

  

  hij ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2018 @ 03:27pm

  Serious discussions about tweets

  Sadly, we are once again in the position of trying to have a serious conversation about a tweet. We have given up even trying to make a joke about what is happening and simply accepting that this is how adults are supposed to discuss important matters. Children in pre-school should be pointing at us and laughing, but they have better interpersonal skills.

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