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• On the post: New York Police Union Tells NYPD End Of Qualified Immunity Will Force Officers To… Act Lawfully

  

  z! ( profile ), 13 May, 2021 @ 11:26am

  Re:

  Unfortunately, IIRC a SCOTUS decision a couple of years ago ("broken tail light") said they don't (currently) need to know the laws they say they're enforcing. That also needs to change.

• On the post: Court To Cops: Waiting Sixteen Months To Search A Seized Phone Violates The Fourth Amendment

  

  z! ( profile ), 13 May, 2021 @ 11:41am

  contained only innocuous texts with defendant’s family and cat pictures

• On the post: Signal Founder Cracks Cellebrite Phone Hacking Device, Finds It Full Of Vulns

  

  z! ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2021 @ 08:28am

  One DLL used to handle extracted video content hasn't been updated since 2012, ignoring more than 100 patches that have been made available since then.

  Another article identifies that as ffmpeg, so it's really likely there's an LGPL/GPL violation there. Makes me wonder about how much other open-source code might be in there.

• On the post: Reporter Sues DOJ To See If It Is Trying To Help Devin Nunes Unmask @DevinCow Twitter Account

  

  z! ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2021 @ 02:39pm

  I wonder if Nunes can stomach the response, wouldn't be surprised if he tries to horn in on it.

• On the post: Appeals Court Affirms $1.5 Million Restitution Judgment Against Paul Hansmeier

  

  z! ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2021 @ 09:40am

  Isn't Hansmeier still in bankruptcy (or has that been discharged)? If I'm not mistaken, court orders move to the head of the line for payment from the estate.

• On the post: Snippet Taxes Not Only Violate The Berne Convention, But Also Betray The Deepest Roots Of Newspaper Culture

  

  z! ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2021 @ 05:28pm

  28 days?

  It would be sensible for google to provide a notification every hour that they're "changing the algorithms". Of course, what's announced today and what's implemented in four weeks may vary.

• On the post: Trump's Support Of Cops Pays Off: Multiple Police Officers Under Investigation For Illegal Invasion Of The Capitol Building

  

  z! ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2021 @ 05:23pm

  Re: Re:

  No, democrats hold 20th century traditional soviet values You have an extra comma in there.

• On the post: Despite RIAA's Claim That YouTube-dl Is Infringing, Journalists Use It All The Time

  

  z! ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2020 @ 09:17am

  Re: Downloading is killing streaming!

  I really wish people wouldn't use "disappear" as an active verb. That's like calling a question an "ask".

• On the post: Aussie Brewer Keeps Digging Holes With Trademark Lawsuits, Now Owes Court Costs

  

  z! ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2020 @ 09:13am

  Which, of course, would run straight into Legend Brewing (although the latter being in Richmond Virginia, USA, they probably won't care).

• On the post: Virginia Governor Passes A Long List Of Police Reforms, Including A Ban On No-Knock Warrants

  

  z! ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2020 @ 10:02am

  Re: Re: Ummm…

  Its' that "under the color of authority" thing.

• On the post: Judge Shuts Down Vallejo PD's Illegally-Obtained Stingray

  

  z! ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2020 @ 10:44am

  This is entirely consistent with how the City of Vallejo operates.

• On the post: Devin Nunes Asks Appeals Court To Invalidate Bedrock Supreme Court 1st Amendment Ruling

  

  z! ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2020 @ 11:19am

  But what does his cow have to say about the matter?

• On the post: Would You Believe That Infamous Copyright Troll Richard Liebowitz Is In Trouble Again?

  

  z! ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2020 @ 11:32am

  Liebowitz's first response reads a bit like it was written by an AI thing, or by students in answering an AI thing.

• On the post: E-Voting App Maker Voatz Asks The Supreme Court To Let It Punish Security Researchers For Exposing Its Flaws

  

  z! ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2020 @ 01:06pm

  For some reason, this harks back to the apocryphal compiler message:
  "Too many errors on one line (make fewer)"

  Perhaps instead of griping about how many bugs people find, they'd make fewer instead. Could work. Or maybe even hire some professional QA engineers to look for them first.

• On the post: Aldi, Brewdog Brand War Ends In The Best Possible Way: Collaboration

  

  z! ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2020 @ 09:19am

  Re: Eh,oh no!

  Probably not so starving that they couldn't afford a case of Brewdog.

• On the post: DHS Goes Full Gestapo In Response To Ongoing Protests In Oregon

  

  z! ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2020 @ 12:22pm

  Abductions?

  It's no stretch to call someone being hustled into an unmarked van by unidentified people an abduction. Since that's illegal (and unlawful), I'd fully expect the "Law and Order" types to want to the bottom of what happened, and as quickly as possible.

  Since I also don't see that happening, they must not really care about Law or Order.

• On the post: Internal Investigation Shows The Houston PD's Narcotics Units Was An Unsupervised Mess

  

  z! ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2020 @ 11:38am

  Re: Corruption means every interaction with that cop is invalid

  You can bet that a lot of defense attorneys are going to be reading that report in the next few days. Expect a flurry of motions shortly thereafter.

• On the post: When Piracy Literally Saves Lives

  

  z! ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2020 @ 11:55am

  Re: Sometimes there are reasons to lock down a device

  The warranty angle only works while it runs- a 10 year old machine isn't going to be covered anyway. A better approach might be to shield the manufacturer only if the "repair" can be independently shown to have caused the tort. Or... the manufacturers could just support their products at a reasonable cost and under reasonable conditions.

• On the post: Sketchy Gets Sketchier: Senator Loeffler Received $9 Million 'Gift' Right Before She Joined The Senate

  

  z! ( profile ), 07 May, 2020 @ 06:33pm

  Re: Let's be sure to check everyone's closets

  Citations, please.

• On the post: Sheriff's Office That Employed A Deputy Facing 9 Lawsuits And 44 Criminal Charges Says It Has Lost All Of His Dashcam Footage

  

  z! ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2020 @ 07:41pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  "I am going to appoint a special master to examine the drives. Bailiff, go to the sheriff's office, seize every computer drive you can find, and bring them back here. We'll get to the bottom of this soon enough."

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