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• On the post: Canadian Town Bans Spitting, Swearing And Gathering In Groups Of Three Or More

  

  streetlight ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2015 @ 09:36pm

  Re: Re: Sounds like the police could shut down everything

  There may be some ambiguity about whether your back yard is a Public Place. Item 18 states that noise that may come from a private place is subject to this bylaw. Furthermore, the bylaw discusses application to private places that the public normally has access to. I think this probably applies retail establishments like restaurants or bars but might include the backyard of a house if the owner allows folks to pass through to get to some site back of the house like a park or hiking trail.

• On the post: Canadian Town Bans Spitting, Swearing And Gathering In Groups Of Three Or More

  

  streetlight ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2015 @ 11:21am

  Sounds like the police could shut down everything

  Everything might include church services in which more than three people attended, a company picnic, a backyard barbeque of mom, dad and their two children, a retail establishment with three or more customers including a cafe, restaurant or bar, a classical music concert in the park with fireworks on Canada Day. Why would anyone want to live in such a place?

• On the post: Verizon Latest To Balk At Weather Channel Rate Hikes For 'Weather Coverage' That's 70% Fluff And Nonsense

  

  streetlight ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2015 @ 10:40am

  I'm a Comcast subscriber

  My problem is that I'm a Comcast subscriber and The Weather Channel is owned by NBC Universal owned by Comcast so I have not many options from viewing weather information on TV. I haven't looked at it for years because of all their nonsense programs. Their Local on the 8s tended to be about places other than where I live. Worthless. Classic Wunderground is great on the Internet.

• On the post: Apple CEO Tim Cook Makes It Clear That He's Not At All Interested In Giving The Government Backdoors To iOS Encryption

  

  streetlight ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2015 @ 03:54pm

  The louder one talks the less trustworty the message

  The more we hear from Apple about how secure one's privacy is with their devices and how much they want to continue to insist they will do nothing in the future to compromise privacy the more I wonder how many back doors they have in their equipment. Take a look at the recent planting of code in hard drive firmware as drives were allegedly intercepted during shipment as an example that Apple might not be able to do anything about the security of privacy. Apple buys hard drives by the millions and probably doesn't know if they have been intercepted during shipment or even after they've been installed in a computer.

• On the post: Jury Wastes No Time In Finding Ross Ulbricht Guilty On All Counts

  

  streetlight ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2015 @ 06:27pm

  Re: Conspiracy in the USA

  I read an article in the Atlantic many years ago about the legality of conspiracy charges in the USA. It turns out, IIRC, that almost anyone can be convicted of conspiracy - kind of a last resort of prosecutors when they can't find evidence that someone was actually involved in a crime. It turns out that the co-conspirators don't even have to know each other or ever met.

• On the post: Florida Legalizes Teen Sexting By Trying To Outlaw Teen Sexting

  

  streetlight ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2015 @ 03:23pm

  Sounds like amateurs writing laws

  If those writing these laws are lawyers they're probably either amateurs or bad lawyers, else they would be working for a law firm making $650 + per billable hour. Either way, they are incompetent.

• On the post: Maryland Politician Says Local Paper Can't Use His Name Without Permission

  

  streetlight ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2015 @ 03:43pm

  I'll use those two words again:

  Streisand effect

• On the post: Korea Threatens To Put Uber's CEO In Prison For Offering An 'Illegal' Taxi Service

  

  streetlight ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2014 @ 04:45pm

  Re:

  They can jail the person at the top of the Korean Uber subsidiary. Presumably Uber must be registered with the Korean government in some way as a corporation and the company's officers are known.

• On the post: Iowa Dept. Of Transportation Announces Plan To Give Police Officers, Security Personnel Full Access To Your Smartphone

  

  streetlight ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2014 @ 03:56pm

  Re: ... tell if you're speeding

  It also might indicate when and where you've been and if a crime were committed where you've been, you might become a suspect even if you were an innocent passerby.

• On the post: Google Pulls Out The Nuclear Option: Shuts Down Google News In Spain Over Ridiculous Copyright Law

  

  streetlight ( profile ), 11 Dec, 2014 @ 09:01am

  What about using a VPN to get the news?

  Most, if not all, the comments here are about the law and Google. What about Internet subscribers? These folks will be missing an important resource used for getting the news which they might not get any other way. Would subscribers get around the law and access their missing news by accessing a foreign, Spanish language news aggregator by using a VPN? I don't know the answer. Besides, I don't think Spain can tax foreign aggregators of Spanish news.

• On the post: Comcast CEO Still Pretending His Company's Horrible Satisfaction Ratings Are Just A Normal Part Of Being So Huge

  

  streetlight ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2014 @ 08:01am

  Comcast is a monopoly in most places served

  In most of Comcast's service area it is basically a monopoly as far as high speed internet is concerned. For pay TV service there are the two satellite companies and maybe a telephone company, but for high speed internet service it's the only game in town. So why should they spend money on customer service? It's better to recover some or all of that cost by making it a sales organization by turning CSRs into sales reps through their compensation structure.

• On the post: IP Is No Excuse: Even If Someone Is Using Fake Chips, It's Not Okay To Kill Their Devices

  

  streetlight ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2014 @ 12:22pm

  Where are these chips used?

  I'm concerned about where these chips might be used and then disabled. Could they be used in:
  
  - Equipment at police departments and fire departments for emergency response purposes?
  
  - 911 systems?
  
  - Building alarm systems?
  
  - Medical devices in hospitals' emergency rooms, operating rooms, intensive care rooms where failure could cause death?
  
  and the list goes on.
  
  I'm not sure widows operates some of these devices and would be connected to the Internet for update. Both producers of the fake devices, if they could be discovered, and the company writing the stupid dll should be in deep trouble if serious problems resulted form their actions.

• On the post: Shocking: Red Light Camera Company CEO And Chicago City Official Indicted On Corruption Charges

  

  streetlight ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2014 @ 12:21pm

  The one red light camera in out city

  Our city of ~450,000 people put one of these on a main thoroughfare just next to downtown; just this one in the whole city. They shortened the yellow in the 25 MPH zone from something like four seconds to two seconds and rear end collisions at that intersection skyrocketed. Also, they had to put two full time cops on the duty of looking at all the pictures this setup took and writing the tickets to be mailed. The increase in ticketing, both for red light camera and accidents, put a big strain on the police and the city court where the tickets were to be adjudicated. Finally, people learned to avoid this camera by driving one block east of this four-lane road to a much more residential two lane drive. The final result: after less than a year the system was removed and no more talk of red light cameras has been heard since.

• On the post: New York Guest House Burns Own Reputation To The Ground By Trying To Charge Customers $500 For Bad Reviews

  

  streetlight ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2014 @ 03:35pm

  Too many words where two would do it:

  Streisand effect.

• On the post: Shamed By Google's Email Security Transparency Report, Comcast Is Rushing To Better Encrypt Emails

  

  streetlight ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2014 @ 06:29am

  TLS for Web mail only and/or stand alone software?

  I use Thunderbird to look at my Comcast email, not their web site email function. Will TLS apply to both or only one of these methods to get and send email?

• On the post: Google To Enable End-To-End Email Encryption, Highlight Good Email Security Practices

  

  streetlight ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2014 @ 09:15pm

  Re: TrueCrypt not open source

  It's my understanding that TrueCrypt code is not open source because of it's license restrictions. The code is available and others can use to code to fork the application but it a forked app cannot be used for commercial users.

• On the post: Medialink Threatens Customer With Lawsuit For Writing A Negative Amazon Review

  

  streetlight ( profile ), 07 May, 2014 @ 10:17am

  Re:

  Two words: Streisand Effect.

• On the post: Keurig Insists Coffee DRM Brings 'Interactive-Enabled Benefits' And Is For Your Own Safety

  

  streetlight ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2014 @ 10:42am

  Will the new coffee maker be Internet connected?

  This new device must have an internet connection: Ipv4 and Ipv6 capable, 802.11 a, b, n, ac, gigabit ethernet. This so newer, more intrusive firmware and DRM can be installed to defeat any hacks and provide more useful, controlled options. Control through a lan connected device, including lap top or desktop computer, iOS or Android phone or tablet. Optional 11.6 inch monitor and Bluetooth keyboard can be had. The March of Technology.

• On the post: Dash-Cam Revelations In NJ Show Again The Importance Of Video As Evidence In Police Abuse

  

  streetlight ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2014 @ 07:25pm

  I didn't know cycles had dash cams

  That's what the summary seems to say.

• On the post: Oregon Police Push State Law-Violating ID Scanners On Nightclub And Bar Owners

  

  streetlight ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2014 @ 09:33am

  Re:

  Isn't there a priciple often used by police and prosecutors that goes something like: ignorance of the law is no defense. If it's really a legal principle then enforce it.

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