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• On the post: PA Cop Refuses To Take Accident Report Unless Citizen Stops Recording; Cites 'Department Policy' [UPDATED]

  

  ThatFatMan ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2013 @ 04:42am

  Who is a Journalist?

  Thus, a journalist does not need consent to record conversations in public where there is no reasonable expectation of privacy
  
  Well, sounds like his friend with the camera was a journalist to me. Unless PA has a special definition that wasn't mentioned?

• On the post: School Suspends Students For Playing With Airsoft Guns In Their Own Yard

  

  ThatFatMan ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2013 @ 10:13am

  It's just conduct.

  I work for the federal government. Honestly, this doesn't shock me at all. Having found myself in the unfortunate situation of facing "investigatory meetings" for allegations of wrongdoing at work, I learned very quickly that "off-campus" means nothing to these people. There are even apparently MSPB cases on the matter. So when the government steps in and says if you want our money that you really need, then you have to do things our way...well, the schools don't really have much choice.
  
  How bad can it get? Put it this way, they barred me from talking to people who are not even employees of the government. And even though I won a court case against my accuser for the same allegations, it wasn't enough to stop my agency from first trying to fire me and ultimately suspending me for the same charges.
  
  This is what we have to deal with from our government, and frankly I don't expect this is going to change anytime soon. Expect many more of these kinds of stories.

• On the post: 1,000 Sys Admins Can Copy Any NSA Document Without Anyone Knowing About It; Think Only Snowden Did?

  

  ThatFatMan ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2013 @ 07:24am

  Re:

  http://xkcd.com/705/
  
  forgot the link...whoops

• On the post: 1,000 Sys Admins Can Copy Any NSA Document Without Anyone Knowing About It; Think Only Snowden Did?

  

  ThatFatMan ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2013 @ 07:23am

  This seemed appropriate here...

• On the post: NSA-To-English Dictionary: I Don't Think These Words Mean What You Think They Do

  

  ThatFatMan ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2013 @ 06:54am

  Classified

  1. A tool used for feeding limited information to congress under the guise of "oversight".
  
  2. Stuff the public already knows but we still don't want to tell them anyway.

• On the post: Cameron's Anti-Porn Program Tells ISPs To Do The Impossible: Only Block Bad Content; Don't Block Good Content

  

  ThatFatMan ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2013 @ 05:03am

  Re: A brave solution to the problem...

  Well, I like the way you are going. However, I think the better course would be to just flat deny internet access to any portion of their government. This includes cellular services as well. Let them get their information from U.S. media. I'm sure the Obama administration has done an adequate job of filtering out media content for Cameron's tastes.