Unless, of course, the husband copied them to another location (say, a [Movies] subdirectory) instead of, say, MOVING them?
Say there's some Hadopi requirement that the warn-ee delete the offending files (I have no idea if there is or not). I can totally see the wife deleting ABC Movie from the [Movies] subdirectory and thinking she's taken the required action, having no freaking clue there's another copy of ABC Movie in a [Share] subdirectory somewhere else on the hard drive.
Because no one who downloads video files makes copies to another location, all renamed per personal organization preference, right? Because everyone who downloads video files just plays them all from the [Share] subdirectory, right?
While that may very well be a commonly generally-accepted belief, it's simply not true!
In reality, ignorance of the law is not an acceptable defense when charged with or tried for breaking the law. In reality, being mistaken in a matter of fact is also not an acceptable defense when charged with or tried for breaking the law.
In reality, the best that either ignorance or mistaken-ness of fact will bring a defendant is a reduction in the severity of penalty if convicted (i.e. either a reduction in fine or a reduction in time to be served).
IANAL, but I am certain this isn't a recent development.
Real Name policies are simply unenforceable. Show me a site that requires a ?Real Name,? and I?ll introduce you to Riot.Jane or another online persona. Generating a burner web mail account and online persona are not a challenge to a determined troll. It?s also not a challenge to a non-troll like me who simply doesn?t want prospective hiring managers or HR departments Googling me and finding out non-job-related opinions. Yes, they?re not allowed to use that sort of thing against me in a hiring decision, but I?d never know if it was done in order to bring the law into play. There?s more than one reason I blog pseudonymously, but that?s the primary reason.
Real Name policies are an extremely poor substitute for quality moderation, moderators, and moderation policies. Quality effective comment moderation involves more than searching for curse words or wielding the almighty [Delete] key. Media presences open comment forums ostensibly to have a conversation with their readers but then don?t hold up their end of the conversation! Moderators need their own forum-active personas, and they need to be willing and authorized to implement clear and productive moderation policies that are both publicly posted and extend beyond the [Delete] key. Moderators should be speaking up, calling out trolls, redirecting the conversation when needed, and filling in the conversation holes that trolls exploit. When the [Delete] key must be invoked, they need to explain why it was invoked; nothing inflames trolls like apparently capricious persecution. Stop slacking here!
Early commenters set the tone of a conversation. Once a negative tone has been set, it?s well-nigh impossible to redirect a conversation. Once your comment forums have devolved into a cesspool, don?t even try to recover them. Close them. Post-mortem what went wrong. Develop a moderation policy to address what went wrong (consider reaching out to other organizations with the kind of comment forums you?d like to have and asking them how they accomplish it). Re-train or replace your moderators and give them the authority to accomplish #2 above. Try opening up comments again. See how things go. Lather, rinse, repeat until you get it right.
Somehow, The Economist has a robust non-trolled comments section that doesn?t require real names. People disagree there constantly, but they are troll-free. How do they do it? Quality moderation. Someone at HuffPo really should call them and ask how they?re doing it or find out what consultant they used. Every corporate site should look to The Economist for the comment forum Gold Standard.
Online anonymity has important social benefits. As a culture, we will pay a price for eradicating it.
Better article, linked from the first, includes the poor wording of the ad. Also has the dude's email address at the end, and this is the one I think I saw that allowed me to track him down. http://www.11alive.com/news/article/261774/3/Foreclosed-family-watches-helplessly-as-craigslist-crowds-strip-house-bare
I don't remember the exact wording, but this link describes the incident ..... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/25/vercher-family-woodstock-craigslist-foreclosed_n_2017738.html
Remember the guy who posted a poorly-worded Craigslist ad that resulted in his rental house being stripped of belongings by the general public? I tracked that guy down myself (I don't remember how), and reached out to him offering to PayPal him a small amount of cash for personal items. He was grateful, and he gave me his PayPal email address. I didn't have a lot to spare, but I wanted him to know that someone gave a crap about what happened. Try to track her down .... You might be able to find her, since she's clearly not shy :)
Agreed. Not only did I FB this post, I also opened a support account with these jackasses simply to tell them this (because if course they don't have a way to email them):
Protip: Doing business this way will ensure that your business fails. When this was published, you lost hundreds of possible customers, including me and everyone I know.
18 comments in and no one has mentioned the fact that private parties broadcasting public details of famous people doing interesting things _is_not_the_same_thing_ as the government drag-netting then collating every detail of our lives into dossiers that ARE BEING SHARED with any other governmental agency.
Look at someone's intimate details for a year, and you can FIND something to prosecute them for. The surveillance gives the government the power to prosecute because it feels like it. Again, _not_the_same_thing_ as the public broadcasting interesting things famous people do in public.
I disagree with Zenni, as they make their product overseas (last I checked, which was more than 2 years ago).
EyeBuyDirect makes their glasses in the US, has a reasonable return policy if you simply dislike what you chose, have a great return policy if the workmanship is defective, have a FANTASTIC accidental breakage replacement policy ($7.95, flat!), and have native-American-English speaking customer service. Yes, EyeBuyDirect is more expensive than Zenni, but their pricing is WELL below retail and their products are well-made.
(I have no financial interest or relation to EyeBuyDirect, I'm simply a very pleased customer. Almost two years ago I paid them ~$130 for specs that I priced at $600+ at multiple retail places. These, of course, I accidentally broke 4 days after receipt. EyeBuyDirect replaced them for $7.95! I'm also a fan of the $6.95 prescription sunglasses I bought from them, too!)
If DHS wanted the TSA to be effective, they'd make it a point to hire highly-paid competent security professionals to revamp the entire TSA approach. If Israel can accomplish what they have in the area of travel security (which, btw, includes courtesy, respect, and almost no time lost to the traveler), then we can, too. It's just a matter of if we can motivate the politicians to make it so.
I'm surprised no one else brought this up sooner than you did. I'm also surprised that yours is the ONLY reference to this concept, throughout the entire comments section, as I write this.
The most common false positive on the TSA's explosives test is GLYCERIN. You know, a prime ingredient in many common soaps and lotions?
Believe it or not, because one of the things the TSA tests for is nitroglycerin, freaking HAND LOTION tests positive for explosives so often that the screeners actually SAY, "It's probably just hand lotion."
But still ..... Test positive, and you've TESTED POSITIVE. Period.
Yes, but what can't be limited is the amount of data others use. Roommate and I are stuck on a low-speed DSL connection in a 40 year old building with a nightmarishly low 2-gig data cap. I also work from home. As it is, I get poor-connection warnings on the corporate laptop whenever the roommate streams Netflix. I just can't take the chance that others will kill my cap or suck what little bandwidth I have. As much as I firmly believe I sharing the connection as well :-/
All right, Mike. I am devoted to This American Life and Radiolab .... Both of which I leaned about from you. I am now going to check out WTF, per your mention. What other podcasts should I be checking out?
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Unless, of course, the husband copied them to another location (say, a [Movies] subdirectory) instead of, say, MOVING them?
Say there's some Hadopi requirement that the warn-ee delete the offending files (I have no idea if there is or not). I can totally see the wife deleting ABC Movie from the [Movies] subdirectory and thinking she's taken the required action, having no freaking clue there's another copy of ABC Movie in a [Share] subdirectory somewhere else on the hard drive.
Because no one who downloads video files makes copies to another location, all renamed per personal organization preference, right? Because everyone who downloads video files just plays them all from the [Share] subdirectory, right?
;)
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While that may very well be a commonly generally-accepted belief, it's simply not true!
In reality, ignorance of the law is not an acceptable defense when charged with or tried for breaking the law. In reality, being mistaken in a matter of fact is also not an acceptable defense when charged with or tried for breaking the law.
In reality, the best that either ignorance or mistaken-ness of fact will bring a defendant is a reduction in the severity of penalty if convicted (i.e. either a reduction in fine or a reduction in time to be served).
IANAL, but I am certain this isn't a recent development.
Why real-name commenting doesn't work
(From https://culturaldissidence.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/why-real-name-commenting-doesnt-work/)
Real Name policies are simply unenforceable. Show me a site that requires a ?Real Name,? and I?ll introduce you to Riot.Jane or another online persona. Generating a burner web mail account and online persona are not a challenge to a determined troll. It?s also not a challenge to a non-troll like me who simply doesn?t want prospective hiring managers or HR departments Googling me and finding out non-job-related opinions. Yes, they?re not allowed to use that sort of thing against me in a hiring decision, but I?d never know if it was done in order to bring the law into play. There?s more than one reason I blog pseudonymously, but that?s the primary reason.
Real Name policies are an extremely poor substitute for quality moderation, moderators, and moderation policies. Quality effective comment moderation involves more than searching for curse words or wielding the almighty [Delete] key. Media presences open comment forums ostensibly to have a conversation with their readers but then don?t hold up their end of the conversation! Moderators need their own forum-active personas, and they need to be willing and authorized to implement clear and productive moderation policies that are both publicly posted and extend beyond the [Delete] key. Moderators should be speaking up, calling out trolls, redirecting the conversation when needed, and filling in the conversation holes that trolls exploit. When the [Delete] key must be invoked, they need to explain why it was invoked; nothing inflames trolls like apparently capricious persecution. Stop slacking here!
Early commenters set the tone of a conversation. Once a negative tone has been set, it?s well-nigh impossible to redirect a conversation. Once your comment forums have devolved into a cesspool, don?t even try to recover them. Close them. Post-mortem what went wrong. Develop a moderation policy to address what went wrong (consider reaching out to other organizations with the kind of comment forums you?d like to have and asking them how they accomplish it). Re-train or replace your moderators and give them the authority to accomplish #2 above. Try opening up comments again. See how things go. Lather, rinse, repeat until you get it right.
Somehow, The Economist has a robust non-trolled comments section that doesn?t require real names. People disagree there constantly, but they are troll-free. How do they do it? Quality moderation. Someone at HuffPo really should call them and ask how they?re doing it or find out what consultant they used. Every corporate site should look to The Economist for the comment forum Gold Standard.
Online anonymity has important social benefits. As a culture, we will pay a price for eradicating it.
Re: Re: Corrupt judges and Juvie Jails
Know the name of documentary? I'd like to look it up.
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Ok, now THAT link has quite a bit of specific information about specific people and companies, all apparently related to this criminal organization.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Where can I donate?
Better article, linked from the first, includes the poor wording of the ad. Also has the dude's email address at the end, and this is the one I think I saw that allowed me to track him down.
http://www.11alive.com/news/article/261774/3/Foreclosed-family-watches-helplessly-as-craigslist-crowds-strip-house-bare
Re: Re: Re: Re: Where can I donate?
I don't remember the exact wording, but this link describes the incident ..... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/25/vercher-family-woodstock-craigslist-foreclosed_n_2017738.html
Re: Where can I donate?
Remember the guy who posted a poorly-worded Craigslist ad that resulted in his rental house being stripped of belongings by the general public? I tracked that guy down myself (I don't remember how), and reached out to him offering to PayPal him a small amount of cash for personal items. He was grateful, and he gave me his PayPal email address. I didn't have a lot to spare, but I wanted him to know that someone gave a crap about what happened. Try to track her down .... You might be able to find her, since she's clearly not shy :)
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Their response? Login failure with the message Your account has been suspended.
Nice.
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Agreed. Not only did I FB this post, I also opened a support account with these jackasses simply to tell them this (because if course they don't have a way to email them):
Protip: Doing business this way will ensure that your business fails. When this was published, you lost hundreds of possible customers, including me and everyone I know.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131113/06112425228/online-retailer-slaps-unhappy-customers-with-3500-fee-violating-non-disparagement-clause.shtml
Obvious point is obvious. D'oh!
18 comments in and no one has mentioned the fact that private parties broadcasting public details of famous people doing interesting things _is_not_the_same_thing_ as the government drag-netting then collating every detail of our lives into dossiers that ARE BEING SHARED with any other governmental agency.
Look at someone's intimate details for a year, and you can FIND something to prosecute them for. The surveillance gives the government the power to prosecute because it feels like it. Again, _not_the_same_thing_ as the public broadcasting interesting things famous people do in public.
Re: Glasses
I disagree with Zenni, as they make their product overseas (last I checked, which was more than 2 years ago).
EyeBuyDirect makes their glasses in the US, has a reasonable return policy if you simply dislike what you chose, have a great return policy if the workmanship is defective, have a FANTASTIC accidental breakage replacement policy ($7.95, flat!), and have native-American-English speaking customer service. Yes, EyeBuyDirect is more expensive than Zenni, but their pricing is WELL below retail and their products are well-made.
(I have no financial interest or relation to EyeBuyDirect, I'm simply a very pleased customer. Almost two years ago I paid them ~$130 for specs that I priced at $600+ at multiple retail places. These, of course, I accidentally broke 4 days after receipt. EyeBuyDirect replaced them for $7.95! I'm also a fan of the $6.95 prescription sunglasses I bought from them, too!)
If DHS wanted the TSA to be effective, they'd make it a point to hire highly-paid competent security professionals to revamp the entire TSA approach. If Israel can accomplish what they have in the area of travel security (which, btw, includes courtesy, respect, and almost no time lost to the traveler), then we can, too. It's just a matter of if we can motivate the politicians to make it so.
Re: Sale
Mmmmmmm how yummy is that?! Marry me? ;)
Re: In the Capitals
Thank you very much for taking the time to share this.
Re: Re: Re: Damned if you do, damned if you don't
+1
I'm surprised no one else brought this up sooner than you did. I'm also surprised that yours is the ONLY reference to this concept, throughout the entire comments section, as I write this.
The most common false positive on the TSA's explosives test is GLYCERIN. You know, a prime ingredient in many common soaps and lotions?
Believe it or not, because one of the things the TSA tests for is nitroglycerin, freaking HAND LOTION tests positive for explosives so often that the screeners actually SAY, "It's probably just hand lotion."
But still ..... Test positive, and you've TESTED POSITIVE. Period.
Re: Re: Open WIFI would work except ISP bandwidth and use restrictions
Yes, but what can't be limited is the amount of data others use. Roommate and I are stuck on a low-speed DSL connection in a 40 year old building with a nightmarishly low 2-gig data cap. I also work from home. As it is, I get poor-connection warnings on the corporate laptop whenever the roommate streams Netflix. I just can't take the chance that others will kill my cap or suck what little bandwidth I have. As much as I firmly believe I sharing the connection as well :-/
Re: Re: Re: Re: Alternative?
Tell me more abt integrating Diaspora and Facebook?
All right, Mike. I am devoted to This American Life and Radiolab .... Both of which I leaned about from you. I am now going to check out WTF, per your mention. What other podcasts should I be checking out?