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• On the post: Lego Confirms Zelda Lego Set By Trying To DMCA Leaks Of It To Hide It

  

  ke9tv ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2023 @ 08:48am

  who’s gonna be able to prove significant actual damages?

  That's an issue with copyright claims in general, on both sides of the courtroom--actual damages are well-nigh impossible to assess. The law provides for statutory damages against copyright infringers. Fairness would suggest that it provide a statutory damage regime against fraudulent claimants. But it doesn't.

• On the post: Current Classified Document Scandals Show The Government Is Still Classifying Way Too Many Documents

  

  ke9tv ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2023 @ 11:43am

  From over forty years' experience in the aerospace industry, I can report anecdotally than many managers in that business view classification as an indicator that a project is important. (Anything that's worth doing, the government wants to keep secret, right?) 'White world' projects get deprioritized. No doubt people who work in DoD's procurement organizations are aware of this phenomenon, and so there's a perverse incentive to overclassify to ensure that the work gets done in a competent and timely manner.

• On the post: Court Gives Its Blessing To FBI’s J6 Geofence Warrant, Denies Motion To Suppress

  

  ke9tv ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2023 @ 09:52am

  I’d argue that the reason this is taking so long to prosecute everyone who committed crimes while broadcasting them to the world is because they’re taking great pains not to involve innocent parties.

  The biggest single reason that it's taking so long is that there are so many defendants. Prosecuting over a thousand criminal cases doesn't happen overnight. You can't really have a large number in the courtroom simultaneously and give everyone a fair trial, so the cases are having to go in sequence. One thing that's impressed me with the prosecutions is that they're being so successful at going after the big charges, such as sedition. They've been agonizingly slow at going after the suits, but these things always start by prosecuting the boots and working up. For one thing, prosecuting the boots is one way that you get witnesses to flip on the bigger fish. Unfortunately, Tr-mp's life expectancy at his age is shorter than the probable time it will take to bring him to trial.

• On the post: It’s Time To Codify The ‘NY Times v. Sullivan’ Standard Into Law

  

  ke9tv ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2023 @ 10:19am

  Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre. If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu (attribution disputed)

• On the post: John Deere Once Again Pinky Swears It Will Stop Monopolizing Repair

  

  ke9tv ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2023 @ 10:28am

  As you know well know, you can do so because of the First Amendment. Section 230 was just a patch to rescue an otherwise unconstitutional law. Which won't keep you from being sued in Texas.

• On the post: Senator Manchin Tries To Sneak His Dangerous ‘See Something, Say Something’ Attack On The Internet Into The Must Pass NDAA

  

  ke9tv ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2022 @ 10:26am

  Prediction: It gets attached to the debt ceiling bill in 2023. It passes by extortion. The tech world responds by flooding the system with not-quite-false alarms. (Well, the person could have meant that a crime was intended!)

• On the post: Dumb GOP Propaganda Long Ago Conflated Essential Infrastructure With ‘Socialism’

  

  ke9tv ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2022 @ 10:24am

  There is one cohort of the GOP who are actually anarchists. When it's an article of faith that actually having the government provide any service to the public without 100% cost recovery is 'socialism' and evil, what is left for government to do? And that's the point. Government small enough to drown in a bathtub is no government at all. The GOP assumes that its donors will be able to fund their own services, and everyone else is disposable. They take Hobbes's Leviathan as an instruction manual.

• On the post: Dumb GOP Propaganda Long Ago Conflated Essential Infrastructure With ‘Socialism’

  

  ke9tv ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2022 @ 10:16am

  The Republicans are NOT ok with Social Security. Just this week Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) promised to put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block. They're willing to shut down the government and even default on debt if they don't get their way. In short, extort Biden into complying with the GOP agenda and then blame him for the toxic effects.

• On the post: French Parliament Wants To Make People Pay A License Fee To Use Public Domain Works

  

  ke9tv ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2022 @ 09:35am

  It's a common[s] confusion

  When the politicians hear, "public domain", they think of it as "public property". When they think of "public property", they conceive of it as "owned by the government". When they think of "government ownership", they think of "the government has the right to admit or exclude, or to charge fees for use". Ownership by the People doesn't ever come into the equation, and never has. "They hang the man, and flog the woman Who steal the goose from off the common, But turn the greater villain loose, Who steals the common from the goose."

• On the post: Supreme Court Takes Section 230 Cases… Just Not The Ones We Were Expecting

  

  ke9tv ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2022 @ 09:28am

  Grocery stores put the candy by the checkstand to have it within reach of the toddler riding in the shopping basket, or in sight of the over-tired and squalling kid.

• On the post: Supreme Court Takes Section 230 Cases… Just Not The Ones We Were Expecting

  

  ke9tv ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2022 @ 09:25am

  I think he meant...

  how [it is possible that] the Internet will work.

• On the post: You’re Living In The True Golden Age Of Television. Enjoy It, Because It’s About To End.

  

  ke9tv ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2022 @ 11:57am

  I'm a Boomer. The curl-coil merger died out with my parents' generation.

• On the post: Fearmongering CS Professor Insists That California’s Design Code Is Nothing To Worry About. He’s Wrong

  

  ke9tv ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2022 @ 11:34am

  If a web site commanded me to touch my nose with the third finger of my left hand...

  ... I would do so with said finger extended in a manner that would surely be considered unsuitable for children.

• On the post: Kids Use Discord Chat To Track Predator Teacher’s Actions; Under California’s Kids Code, They’d Be Blocked

  

  ke9tv ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2022 @ 11:25am

  Defending a law because it's selectively enforced appears to me to run contrary to the rule of law.

• On the post: Surprise: U.S. Quest To Purge Chinese Gear From Domestic Networks Was A Sloppy Mess

  

  ke9tv ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2022 @ 04:34am

  Question: since when is “government” a synonym of “presidential administration”?

  2016?

• On the post: Supreme Court Asked To Deny Qualified Immunity To County Engineer Who Decided Entrapment Was The Best Use Of Taxpayer Money

  

  ke9tv ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2022 @ 12:18pm

  Lately, [the Supreme Court] seems far more interested in discussing opportunities to limit rights enjoyed by citizens while expanding the government’s ability (at both federal and local levels) to control what citizens can or can’t do.

  Except when said citizens want to overthrow the government by force of arms in order to install an authoritarian regime in its place. That, they say, is freedom.

• On the post: Supreme Court Asked To Deny Qualified Immunity To County Engineer Who Decided Entrapment Was The Best Use Of Taxpayer Money

  

  ke9tv ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2022 @ 12:16pm

  It is already a single party state. Read the US Constitution, article 4, section 4:

  The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government

  and tell me that a 6-3 majority of today's Supreme Court wouldn't interpret that language as enshrining a political party.

• On the post: Polling The Public About Social Media Policies Turns Up Nothing Particularly Useful

  

  ke9tv ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2022 @ 10:17am

  Alternatively

  Just read it with the wrong vowel points: Meanie! Meanie! Tickle a person!

• On the post: Polling The Public About Social Media Policies Turns Up Nothing Particularly Useful

  

  ke9tv ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2022 @ 10:16am

  Mene, tekel (shekel in Hebrew) and upharsin

  The KJV translation - or at least the translation of Daniel's interpretation: "Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting." But all three words were types of coins, so a better translation might be the punny: "You will be quartered, halved, and cent to perdition."

• On the post: Hackers Already Prepared To Screw Up BMW’s Subscription Heated Seat Model

  

  ke9tv ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2022 @ 08:15am

  I would bet that the price is higher

  Price is likely to be higher because they also have to recover the future cost of administering the subscription system. not to mention amortizing the development cost of whatever control system that makes the car inoperable if the seats are hacked. (And I bet makes it inoperable if the heater fails, as well!)

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