It is interesting that Sean Bridges wanted to buy a new identity, a service that most likely would have been available on Silk Road. Maybe he should have stolen a new identity at the same time he stole the bitcoins.
Isn't social media just communication on a wider scale? For someone to blame social media without mentioning those using using those platforms to incite violence is like blaming air for conveying speech between two people talking. If we must, blame physics!
This just goes to show you that Comcast has been protecting its customers for years by delivering crappy bandwidth. In fact, Comcast could use this bit of news as justification to continue to deliver service that is not "high-speed".
A Qualcomm representative stated: "Since issuing these requests, we have been advised that at least one of these files may, in fact, not be Qualcomm Confidential. At this time, Qualcomm is retracting all of those DMCA take-down requests, and will be either reviewing such files further for possible approval for posting, or reaching out collaboratively to the project maintainers for assistance in addressing any remaining concerns. To those project maintainers who received these DMCA notices, we apologize for the approach taken." http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/07/05/qualcomm-backtracks-after-issuing-dmca-takedown-notices-for-116-github-repos-including-some-belonging-to-cyanogen-sony-and-qualcomm/
I used to work in the community being discussed (now retired). I was briefed on specific lifetime obligations (to which I agreed and signed). This wasn't one of them...so how can I be retroactively held to an obligation to which I did not agree?
Isn't the intent of putting countries on such a "list" to bring those countries back into some acceptable norm, or to cause regime change? I would think allowing the citizens of said countries access to iTunes would expose them to outside cultures, and wouldn't that be a good thing? Unless, of course, iTunes has some military application about which we don't know.
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As long as I'm here...
It is interesting that Sean Bridges wanted to buy a new identity, a service that most likely would have been available on Silk Road. Maybe he should have stolen a new identity at the same time he stole the bitcoins.
Exponential Communication
Isn't social media just communication on a wider scale? For someone to blame social media without mentioning those using using those platforms to incite violence is like blaming air for conveying speech between two people talking. If we must, blame physics!
Update: Available on Google Play
I just installed this app from the Play Store, so this story may need an update on Google's stance on this.
Thank You Comcast!
This just goes to show you that Comcast has been protecting its customers for years by delivering crappy bandwidth. In fact, Comcast could use this bit of news as justification to continue to deliver service that is not "high-speed".
Qualcomm is reversing
A Qualcomm representative stated:
"Since issuing these requests, we have been advised that at least one of these files may, in fact, not be Qualcomm Confidential. At this time, Qualcomm is retracting all of those DMCA take-down requests, and will be either reviewing such files further for possible approval for posting, or reaching out collaboratively to the project maintainers for assistance in addressing any remaining concerns. To those project maintainers who received these DMCA notices, we apologize for the approach taken."
http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/07/05/qualcomm-backtracks-after-issuing-dmca-takedown-notices-for-116-github-repos-including-some-belonging-to-cyanogen-sony-and-qualcomm/
Wait, what?
I used to work in the community being discussed (now retired). I was briefed on specific lifetime obligations (to which I agreed and signed). This wasn't one of them...so how can I be retroactively held to an obligation to which I did not agree?
Wrong Target
Isn't the intent of putting countries on such a "list" to bring those countries back into some acceptable norm, or to cause regime change? I would think allowing the citizens of said countries access to iTunes would expose them to outside cultures, and wouldn't that be a good thing? Unless, of course, iTunes has some military application about which we don't know.