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• On the post: Chicago Transit Cops Start Up Their Own Security Theater, Will Start Randomly Swabbing Bags For Explosive Residue

  

  saulgoode ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2014 @ 06:29am

  Re: Do the math

  If there is one terrorist out of 1.7M *every day*, it will take 1005 days (2.75 years) of random testing before it even becomes more likely than not that the terrorist is caught.

  And assuming a success rate of 99.9% for the swabbing test, during that period, over 1000 innocent people will have been falsely identified as terrorists (base rate fallacy).

• On the post: Obama Administration Has Put Media Leakers In Jail For Nearly 50 Times As Long As All Other Administrations In History

  

  saulgoode ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2014 @ 10:53am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  According to the linked article (I personally do not know the statistics), there have been that many months of jail time assessed by Obama's administration; and only 10 months of jail time assessed by all others.
  
  Based on this, the Techdirt title, "Obama Administration Has Put Media Leakers In Jail For Nearly 50 Times As Long As All Other Administrations In History", is accurate.

• On the post: Obama Administration Has Put Media Leakers In Jail For Nearly 50 Times As Long As All Other Administrations In History

  

  saulgoode ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2014 @ 10:14am

  Re: Re: Re:

  But if your read the linked article, only 10 months of jail time were served by leakers. The other 14 months were annulled by either presidential pardon or charges being dropped.

• On the post: White House Says Its Rules Limiting Drone Attacks To Avoid Civilians Don't Apply In Syria

  

  saulgoode ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2014 @ 10:46am

  Indeed!

  Anywhere that drone strikes occur is indeed an "area of active hostilities" -- it's just that the source of those hostilities is the drone attacks themselves.

• On the post: FAA: Drones Are Okay For Hollywood, But Not Okay For Sports

  

  saulgoode ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2014 @ 07:38am

  The NCAA should hire Spielberg to film it.

• On the post: Seventh Circuit Court Upholds Fair Use Win, But Does So With Some Convoluted Reasoning And Bad Assumptions

  

  saulgoode ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2014 @ 02:11pm

  The court notes that Kienitz could have claimed that this lampooning would diminish photographic work for other dignitaries, seeing as he promised to keep their dignity intact when licensing, but those claims were never raised during this case's trip through the court.

  Such should not be a consideration during a Fair Use analysis. Copyright law protects the exclusive rights to a particular work, not the potential marketability of other works by the same creator.

• On the post: Onity Wins: Hotels That Bought Their Easily-Hacked Door Lock Can't Sue According To Court

  

  saulgoode ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2014 @ 07:09pm

  Re: Really?

  Does the lock do all the things it said it would do? Does it lock? Does it unlock? You may think it's childish to use the basic standards of a door lock, but there you go.

  I think you left out a basic question of door lock standards: Does it stay locked?

• On the post: Wireless Providers Desperate Not To Be Subject To Net Neutrality Rules

  

  saulgoode ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2014 @ 05:37pm

  ... continued (spurious Enter)

  ... "wireless is different" message.

• On the post: Wireless Providers Desperate Not To Be Subject To Net Neutrality Rules

  

  saulgoode ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2014 @ 05:36pm

  Fon'

  The tech industry clearly supports a more open and free internet, with fewer tollbooths and discrimination. Pitching them that wireless is somehow "different" isn't likely to win any fans.

  
  Yet I seem to recall Google teaming up with Verizon a couple years back to lobby this same

• On the post: U2 Still Insists No Value In 'Free' Music, Despite Making Millions From It

  

  saulgoode ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2014 @ 11:16am

  Music has become tap water, a utility, where for me it's a sacred thing, so I'm a little offended."

  Music has become a litigating weapon, an indictment, where for me it is a recreational pastime, so I am more than a little offended*.
  
  
  * Which is why I have not purchased a single album or attended a single concert by a major studio act since the recording industry started suing its fans 11 years ago (I do support indy and unsigned acts by direct purchases and attending performances at local venues and music festivals).

• On the post: George Lucas Wants Desperately To Preserve Old Movies… Unless They're His; So Fans Are Trying To Do It Instead

  

  saulgoode ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2014 @ 12:17pm

  The copyright holders, so far, have not been completely diligent in preserving the original negatives of films they control. In order to reconstruct old negatives, many archivists have had to go to Eastern bloc countries where American films have been better preserved.

  Shouldn't that be "where pirated copies of American films have been better preserved", Mr Lucas?

• On the post: Health And Human Services Ex-Cybersecurity Director Convicted Of Kiddy Porn

  

  saulgoode ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2014 @ 05:36am

  My mistake

  I misread the article and see now that he has been convicted by the courts.

• On the post: Health And Human Services Ex-Cybersecurity Director Convicted Of Kiddy Porn

  

  saulgoode ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2014 @ 02:12am

  I no longer consider accusations made by the Department of Justice to be convincing and will withhold any judgment of the defendant until after he has had his day in court.

• On the post: Tektronix Uses DMCA Notice To Try To Stop Oscilloscope Hacking

  

  saulgoode ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2014 @ 05:01pm

  Re: Re:

  "They are not claiming copyright on the instructions. They are claiming that the instructions violate the anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA. That clause specifically forbids telling people how to circumvent controls that restrict access to copyrighted material."
  
  Are you sure? What part of the DMCA forbids instruction?

• On the post: EFF Asks Court To Declare NSA's 'Internet Backbone' Collections Unconstitutional

  

  saulgoode ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2014 @ 02:57pm

  Re: Devil's advocate

  If you read the court's ruling in Berger v New York, it is apparent that eavesdropping upon a telephone call was treated as a "seizure" when addressing 4th Amendment concerns (e.g., "Likewise the statute’s failure to describe with particularity the conversations sought gives the officer a roving commission to ‘seize’ any and all conversations").
  
  There may be later Supreme Court rulings that supersede Berger's ruling (I didn't search for one) but on the face of it, it seems that the deprivation of property is not a requirement within the legal definition of "seizure".

• On the post: Revolving Door: Main Architect Of PIPA (Senate Version Of SOPA) Now… Lobbying For The MPAA

  

  saulgoode ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2014 @ 01:15pm

  Republicans don' monopoly on corruption

  You do realize that Howard Berman is a Democratic?

• On the post: Defending The Indefensible: Hilarious Talking Points On Ridiculous Copyright Terms

  

  saulgoode ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2014 @ 08:54am

  From a purely administrative standpoint, the "life of the author plus" formula needs to go. Copyrights should exist for fixed period from the point of registration (and, yes, copyrights should need be registered).
  
  There needs to be some modicum of sanity in the law such that people can at least know whether or not a work is under copyright.

• On the post: Awesome Stuff: Rethinking Retro: Rocket Skates, Coolers And Tickers

  

  saulgoode ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2014 @ 09:29am

  Disappointed

  Have to admit while watching the Rocketskate video I was really hoping to see flames spurting out from the back. Too many Roadrunner cartoons as a kid, I guess.

• On the post: Copyright Office To Aereo: Quack All You Want, We Don't Think You're A Cable Service

  

  saulgoode ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2014 @ 04:02pm

  The copyright office is soliciting comments from the public on the significance of the Aereo ruling.
  
  http://thehill.com/policy/technology/212178-copyright-office-ponders-aereo-fallout

• On the post: Aereo: Okay, Fine, If You Say We Look Like A Duck, We'll Quack Like A Duck

  

  saulgoode ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2014 @ 02:36am

  Re: Re: Can I now get New York channels in Vancouver?

  But the argument is that the Supreme Court has effectively overruled ivi.

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