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worse--

The telecom industries were paid handsomely in the 90s to roll out a next generation fiber optic backbone infrastructure.

They laid a very small amount of fiber, and pocketed the rest of the money, then shrugged when asked where the money went.

https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

I see this all over again. Especially with Pai at the helm of the FCC.

Then why aren't you and the other 99,999 citizens launching a petition to get a fucking answer to that bullshit?

Taxpayers deserve to be fucked when they bend over and ask for it via silence.

worse--

The telecom industries were paid handsomely in the 90s to roll out a next generation fiber optic backbone infrastructure.

They laid a very small amount of fiber, and pocketed the rest of the money, then shrugged when asked where the money went.

https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

I see this all over again. Especially with Pai at the helm of the FCC.

This reminds me about that time Microsoft settled with patent trolls with the purpose of scaring Sony into paying. One of the conditions of their settlement was to get money back after Sony pays. They were not ashamed to try and enforce this agreement through court, thus making it public. Microsoft has always been a bunch of narcissistic douche bags, pretending to be a technology company.

And, of course, you have proof of this?

The NSA project is called Tailored Access Operations: http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Cisco got so pissed about it they went to visit the president to complain: https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

Warning of an erosion of confidence in the products of the U.S. technology industry, John Chambers, the CEO of networking giant Cisco Systems, has asked President Obama to intervene to curtail the surveillance activities of the National Security Agency.

Did Germany get the Japan version of "That The NSA Indeed Engages In Economic Espionage Against Allies" (Jul 31st 2015)
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

Yes, I get that the definition is subjective, that's my point.

So who decides on the definition? Traditionally it's our elected representatives, subject to refinement by the judicial branch as necessary. But if ISPs write the laws through their lobbyist proxies, you can bet any decisions will be more in their interests than consumers or content providers (or the general public).

Yep, nothing but a press release here. Bop over to techdirt to read the actual story. Both HBO and Netflix are fine with password sharing. So, why is this urgent solution even necessary?

It isn't.

https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

China has already installed over 165 GW (equiv to about 200 or NG plants), 40 of which was installed this year. The original target was 105GW, which they blew past and now are considering a 210-270 GW target by 2020. Also, due to gov. incentives, China has the largest EV market in the world, with over 1 million sold to date and they're just maturing. Shenzhen, with 13 million people, runs 100% electric buses. https://www.pv-magazine.com/20...

The narrative that China and India are polluting to gain economic advantage is just RW radio garbage. They realize that fossil fuels are a dead end and the country with the most advancements in growing renewable energy market will prosper. We should be leading, but instead we're falling further behind and ceding the lead to China.

Trump has no agenda - any fool can see. He only cares about his "ratings" and "brand" (his words). He just regurgitates whatever Fox News, Hannity, and Limbaugh say, which reinforces what that audience saw on TV or heard on the radio. Just as Pruitt set out to destroy the EPA and hand it over to the regulated, this administration has sold the government to the highest bidder. Many of those companies that lobbied for tax cuts used those profits to buy back stocks, pay executives bonuses, then they continued to lay off and outsource workers. https://www.theguardian.com/us... https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

And "anonymization", isn't... not when the adversary has as much data as Google does about every person living in a first world country. It can re-associate identities with anonymized datasets.

There are entire industries built around doing that. It is easily within Google's abilities.

The ONLY safe thing is to have no data collected.

There was a fella with the name of Tim Berners Lee who voted FOR the inclusion of DRM in HTML.

I do not know if it is the same Tim Berners Lee, or not

https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

The President is responsible for the activities of the people who work for him. That's the job.

Oh really? Then are we to presume the con artist is responsible for the FCC lying about being "hacked" when the Net Neutrality public response was out, when in reality they were overwhelmed by people who wanted to keep NN in place? Instead, the head of the FCC used at least one person's dead mother to post a fake comment.

Or how about the former head of the EPA, Scott Pruitt, who was essentially bought by big industry, who spent taxpayer money like it was water, had a security detail to rival the president's, who had secretive rooms installed (at taxpayer expense), and got a sweetheart deal from an energy lobbyist on a condo rental?

Or the head of FEMA who used government vehicles to drive back and forth between his home in North Carolina and Washington, a six hour trip, each weekend?

Considering all the scandals in this administration, it doesn't appear the con artist cares one wit about the activities of those who work for him. Even more so when one considers the criminals who worked on his campaign and are going to jail.

The company that sued a dead man who suffered from dementia for apparently torrenting their movie.
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

In case you hadn't noticed the government is run by Reppublicans

Does not stop them from persecuting Trump, for example, does it? Whatever the moniker, the swamp-creatures feel threatened by the very thought of citizens taking care of themselves — and doing without the swamp's benevolent and omniscient officials.

Secondly this came from Texas where the governer is [...]

The Governor in Texas is not a particularly powerful figure. More importantly, it could've bypassed him completely — the good old parallel construction could've been used, with the feds who've tracked Wilson's phone, for example, tipping off the local police to his encounter.

That the prosecutions originate from places unlikely to prosecute the two people is another similarity between Wilson and Assange.

During a discussion of methods to frustrate computer users who illegally exchange music and movie files over the Internet, Hatch asked technology executives about ways to damage computers involved in such file trading. Legal experts have said any such attack would violate federal anti-hacking laws.

"No one is interested in destroying anyone's computer," replied Randy Saaf of MediaDefender Inc., a secretive Los Angeles company that builds technology to deliberately download pirated material very slowly so other users can't.

"I'm interested," Hatch interrupted. He said damaging someone's computer "may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights."

(source)

On Facebook: “So, how do you sustain a business model in which users don’t pay for your service?” (April 2018)

This guy is another dinosaur that his constituents keep putting in because they have no idea how to vote for anyone else and doing so would require thought or energy which are scarce resources for the average American. At least this guy has the decency to retire! Just a few months ago, McCain was incapacitated and refused to step down unless the governor agreed to appoint his wife to take his place.

Putting the CON in Congress! :)

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Well there's your problem.

1984 was set in London for a reason.

This happened in Canada to Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews. Douchebag publicly advocated for invading citizens privacy. When his personal info started getting leaked, he sure didn't like it.

I mean, if the Porn Loicense thing didn't convince you then I doubt this will, but still...

The 9th Circuit, which bothers to abide by things like the 4th Amendment and implied privacy rights, which other "American" courts find antiquated and quaint? That rules against police when they abuse their power?

After all, the only amendment that really matters is the 2nd, right? I love the Nutty Ninth, one of the last bastions of freedom and Constitutionality in the US. May they never change...

https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

https://www.kmm.com/articles-3...

https://www.seattlepi.com/loca...

Nativity is the guy with his fingers in his ears pretending he can't hear reality.

How many hundreds of billions of dollars need the Pentagon "lose"?

How about insider trading? Are you aware that Congress specifically exempted itself from insider trading laws? i.e. if you approach your Congressman and ask him to push your business towards the Pentagon (for example), he can run out, but a shit load of your stock, "suggest" that the Pentagon gives you a nice fat juicy contract, and then when your stock price goes up, he can dump the stock for huge profits with no legal ramifications whatsoever.

HOW THE FUCK IS THAT NOT CORRUPT? If you or I did that, it's a trip straight to the big house (like Martha Stewart)

I suggest you read this if you don't believe me: https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

Only a complete idiot or tool thinks there is anything, at all, noble about our CURRENT government. yeah, a while ago, it was way less bad, but it gets worse year by year..

Remember the whole check kiting scandal of the 80's?

A lot of people seem to have forgotten that parallel construction is a thing.

Stopping trafficking isn't the goal.

> You can only be extradited for a crime in a foreign country that is also a crime in your own country.

There is a major mistake in your post. You assume that the legal system cannot be abused to unjustly punish innocent people.

Someone has already brought up the Kim Dotcom case. The (original) US "crime" in his case wasn't firmly based in precedent. (N.B. He could possibly not be a good poster child for the "innocent" part of my point, just the "abused" part. But your post was naively assuming the lack of possibility of abuse.)

So, good luck with your waving "the way it should be" flag if you piss off someone with enough power...

Musicians who don't make money off their music within 20 years have that problem because they partner with major labels that spend all the album revenue for them, or they simply don't get paid in the first place while their money goes back into labels' pockets.

Why would I restrict an eBook author to 20 years of selling? Well, I wouldn't. I'd restrict them to 20 years of copyright monopoly. They can still sell to anyone who will buy after the eBook is in the public domain, they just can't stop others from using the content as they please. Of all the media to pick as an example for justifying unethically long copyright terms, eBooks may be the worst way to go. Most eBooks are junk books hastily assembled to make a buck and don't have much in the way of literary or artistic value.

If you can't make money off of an artistic work within 20 years, there's a strong chance that your work simply sucks or you suck at marketing it. Neither of those are good justifications for long copyright terms; if anything, they're a good justification for shorter terms since you'll be further compelled to make something that's newer and better instead of trying to sell your sucky eBook for your entire life.

Musicians who don't make money off their music within 20 years have that problem because they partner with major labels that spend all the album revenue for them, or they simply don't get paid in the first place while their money goes back into labels' pockets.

Why would I restrict an eBook author to 20 years of selling? Well, I wouldn't. I'd restrict them to 20 years of copyright monopoly. They can still sell to anyone who will buy after the eBook is in the public domain, they just can't stop others from using the content as they please. Of all the media to pick as an example for justifying unethically long copyright terms, eBooks may be the worst way to go. Most eBooks are junk books hastily assembled to make a buck and don't have much in the way of literary or artistic value.

If you can't make money off of an artistic work within 20 years, there's a strong chance that your work simply sucks or you suck at marketing it. Neither of those are good justifications for long copyright terms; if anything, they're a good justification for shorter terms since you'll be further compelled to make something that's newer and better instead of trying to sell your sucky eBook for your entire life.

Nope. Sorry. Not so. Sorry Again

It's the truth, AT&T, Comcast, Chater, Frontier, took their little lawyers to court, and their bribe sacks to the state legislatures.

I get it, a little troll like you have to mouth your catechisms, but the rest of us remember your mounting lies. It's actually the best evidence of the depravity of your position.

Even if you found its goals laudable, SESTA is not a particularly good piece of legislation. Techdirt hates it because it's intentionally vague--what, exactly, constitutes "knowing conduct by an individual or entity, by any means, that assists, supports, or facilitates a violation"? We know what violates current law, that is, what constitutes "general knowledge" versus "specific knowledge" versus "red flag knowledge" under the DMCA--but knowing what the law actually is means you can comply with it, and that's exactly the flaw this new bill seeks to address.

Lest you think I'm overly cynical (I am), it's worth mentioning that the Department of Justice also hates the bill, also because it's too vague. (Sensing a theme?) While Techdirt's worried that the "knowing conduct" non-definition of "participation in a venture" could be mean anything and everything, the DoJ's worried about the exact opposite--that courts, having been given absolutely no guidance by the bill, could just as easily decide that "knowing conduct" means something highly specific, "effectively creating additional elements that prosecutors must prove at trial." That the trafficking bill's intentional, catch-all vagueness could make it harder for the DoJ to jail traffickers, in other words.

The DoJ is additionally worried that the bill will send you to jail, retroactively, for past "ventures", even if those "ventures" were legal at the time, and again without caring to get too specific on what actually counts as a "venture." If you're reading along, they list that issue under the heading "CONSTITUTIONAL CONCERN", which you'll find capitalized, bolded, and underlined in the original.

In other words, it's a shit bill. If prosecutors were really interested in stopping child trafficking, they would prosecute the traffickers--if allegations are to be believed, you'll find a list of just those people, conveniently enough, on Backpage. Instead, they'd rather go after Backpage--make an example of them, even, since they didn't cave to think-of-the-children grandstanding like Craigslist did.

...which is why we now have a bill tailor made to throw Backpage employees in jail, retroactively, for whatever, because fuck you. I don't think many people here are dumb enough to find credible the sincerity and good intentions of a politician, on the eve of midterms, crying THINK OF THE CHILDREN, but it bears repeating that those sentiments are exactly why we're entertaining an ex post facto law to make King George proud, in 2018, when everything it purports to criminalize is already illegal.

So replacing a 5 cent fuse on the PCB causes a security-issue?
Replacing a iPhone screen with a apple part causes a security-issue?
Having a re-pairing process with a fingerprint-reader from apple causes a security-issue?

Having some random repair-shop doing a hardware mode to install a hardware-keylogger etc it not really likley... It will cost them money, and it can be traced back to the person that did it.
The big problem is that the big brands don't want you to repair your own device but either replace or send it to them to fix at 10 times what it would cost with a local repair-shop...

If you have a look at the big brands out there..
Apple: Remember the recent issues where you could login as root without *any* password?
Lenovo: Remember the thing with Superfish where they installed a root-certificate on all their machines?
https://www.ghacks.net/2015/02...
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

HP: Remember the laptops with preinstalled keyloggers.
https://www.cnet.com/news/keyl...

All the big brandnames all have big issues with security and they do not care about your security... They care about their bottom line and getting you buying a new version as soon as possible instead of keeping your old device.
https://www.cnet.com/news/unbo...

Way to wish away the reality of the situation. Yes, extremists - like crazy lefties who want to silence speech

You appear to have an extreme case of irony deficiency. You should get that looked at.

"Crazy censoring lefties" is a talking point of your particular tribe of extremists who are desperate to accuse everybody else of your own crimes.

Rapper Common Disinvited By University As Commencement Speaker Over Song Lyrics
Vanderbilt puts Duke Med alum on leave after complaint about kneeling to protest white supremacy - The Chronicle
CBS Fires Jewish VP for Anti-White Comments Follows Las Vegas Shooting – Occidental Dissent
Drexel censures professor for white genocide tweet.
Firing of Shirley Sherrod - Wikipedia
After news reports on tweets, queer advocate fired from Claremont Colleges
Two Liberal Professors Fired after Making Controversial, Anti-White Remarks |
Texas State Student Who Wrote Anti-White Op-Ed Fired Off School Paper
L'Oreal Drops Transgender Model After 'All White People' Racism Post
Texas State newspaper fires anti-white column's author as backlash escalates | Fox News
Nurse fired for post suggesting sons of white women be ‘sacrificed’ | New York Post
Lawmaker pushing legislation to refund fans angered by anthem protests
Good News: Trump Protestors Accused Of 'Hiding Behind The First Amendment' Acquitted | Techdirt
Fox refuses to air tax ad with Trump impersonator - POLITICO
Profane anti-Trump sticker sparks free-speech debate in Texas | Fox News
Tennessee Baptist church that hired female pastor can't vote - WRCBtv.com | Chattanooga News, Weather & Sports
Why I was banned from the campus of Liberty University | Religion News Service
Why Liberty University Kicked an Anti-Trump Christian Author Off Campus - Th

The Internet advertising industry has exhibited, over the last two decades, a consistent pattern of complete, active and malevolent indifference to the well-being of yourself, your computing equipment and your data. "Malvertising" is a term because of their laxity. Their representatives equate using ad blocking software with racism combined with a direct attack on freedom of speech, and other editorials equate it to actively causing children to starve and stealing. Otherwise useful parts of JavaScript have had to be essentially obliterated because ads abuse them so very, very badly. They populate your screen with deceptive content, such as "diagnostic windows" and fake Download buttons in an attempt to entice you into downloading their shit.

Link to more information on how your ad blocker is racist censorship (according to ad firms)

A link to why they think you're a thief that steals food from children with ad blockers

Google's ad service being used for cryptocurrency mining on web browsers

It's too late for the Internet advertising industry. When trying to block out their crap has become an act of necessary self-defense, when they steal your processor cycles for their own gain for cryptocurrency, when they allow malware onto your machine, they've become an active hostile force. They are attacking you and consider you scum for defending yourself. Unfortunately there are just too many of the bad guys and not enough of the good guys here, and as such a potentially harmless way of keeping websites afloat is essentially doomed in its current form (although something like, say, the Brave browser's model might work).

Your probably wrong.
http://irregulators.org/bookof...
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

Ya they kinda do.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111107/18193216671/find-vulnerability-apple-software-lose-your-license-as-apple-developer.shtml

They didn't SUE. They simply revoked his Developer Cert.

Which is EXACTLY what they SHOULD have done.

Charlie Miller is no fool. One would ASSUME he knows the rules. But instead, he thought he'd be snarky and submit an iOS App that he KNEW violated his Developer Agreement, and then, when the App got Approved, he LEFT IT UP FOR A MONTH, where ANYONE could have downloaded and "learned" from it.

Yeah, he deserved what he got; regardless of how "altruistic" his intentions were (which I believe they actually were).

But he DIDN'T get SUED.

Ya they kinda do.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111107/18193216671/find-vulnerability-apple-software-lose-your-license-as-apple-developer.shtml

Armed man sets up ambush outside man's house, waits for him to open the door, yells incomprehensible instructions while blind the man then shoots him dead a quarter of a second later.

Sounds like murder to me.

There is no requirement to issue any instructions.

http://reason.com/blog/2012/07...
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

If someone is pounding on my door at night there is a very good chance of my being armed when checking the door.

That would be too bad for you if the police lack a warrant, lack probably cause, lack reasonable suspicion, show up in the middle of the night, do not bother to identify themselves, and do not issue any lawful orders. The lesson to be learned is to shoot first with something like a Garand since they are going to murder you anyway.

http://reason.com/blog/2012/07...
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

What happened to Andrew Scott is not even the only example.

You had to highly edit my comment to create your straw-man "you're a nut-job" argument.

And, frankly, if you trust everything the global multinational pharmaceutical industry is selling, from toe fungus pills to statin pills and other pills for the side-effects of those pills, well good luck with that. I'll stick to using exercise, good nutritional choices, and, yes, dietary supplements that have well-proven science-based benefits.

That's more than I can say for everything the FDA approves (and bans). Of course the FDA is a member of the Federal bureaucracy that still lists marijuana as a Schedule I substance. Who do you think that is benefiting? Because it's not the public.

https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

  Belgium was the first country to try it, and Google responded by removing complaining publications from Google News. In response, the publications then complained that Google News was being mean to them, even though they were the ones complaining. In Germany, a similar thing happened, whereby Google left the complaining publications in Google News, but without snippets since that was a key aspect of the law. Again, the publishers screamed "unfair" even though they were the ones who had pushed for the law in the first place.

That's always been a problem IMHO with any vendor pre-installed bullshit of any kind. Most of this turn-key OEM-installed bullshit isn't for the most of the crowd here, it's for the people who want that computer to 'just work' out of the box, and pre-installed with not-even-free versions of software packages anymore. This is such a non-story to me personally because over the last 20 year I've been into the tech/IT/computing realm of things, there's just way too many instances of this to cite of this going on at the big player level. It's here, and here for the 30 seconds of googling it too to refresh my memory.

I saw a lot of banter about installing Linux on this or that or 'Linux solves this issue' --- no it doesn't. I've ran Linux + X-windows + gnome/evolution/xfce window manager mixes since late 1990's on all my laptops and desktops to now in 2017; that's a preference. And the way Linux installs have become super mega friendly, tell me if you're in any worse a boat knowing every waking package you got installed on there? A great example is goa-daemon in Gnome Window Manager builds the last two years on most distros --- fuck that package. May not be spyware, but with all it's seemingly conspiracy-driven build-deps around it, I mind as well be trying to remove spyware.

My long winded point is: Please have that nephew, niece or some half savvy ass person in your life just put in a fresh install of Windows on that pre-bundled piece of OEM shit HP/Dell/Lenovo and anyone else in that space calling an 'Windows OS deployment'. I don't trust that shit and no one else should.

Yeah! I mean, it's not like we give billions of dollars to other industries like oil. Or have paid trillions of dollars in protecting those same interest abroad.

But it's not just oil. How about the $5.3 billion in improper subsidies for Boeing for the Dreamliner? Or that Boeing and Lockheed get billion dollar subsidies for launching absolutely nothing into space. Pork-barrel spending is never truer than in aerospace. How about the $20 billion we give to farmers to NOT GROW CROPS.

Do you know what Big Oil, Big Aerospace, and Big Agriculture all have in common? They are predominantly located in red states. Not that all subsidies are republican-related of course. $1T goes to medicare, medicaid, and ACA. $366B goes to safety net programs. Hell, $1.5B goes to the entertainment industry every year.

Personally, I'm very interested in the coming electrification of the auto industry and have invested my own money into it. It was a smart move. Anyone with half a head could see it coming a decade ago.

http://www.motherjones.com/pol...
http://nation.time.com/2011/04...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03...
https://www.economist.com/news...
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
https://www.cbpp.org/research/...

"Well officer, what did the transponder report? Only 55 MPH? Isn't the speed limit 55? The radar says 70? I think your radar is wrong..."

An officer's guess is good enough for the court.

https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

No, the estate claimed that he was still under copyright. I found this techdirt article that explains that the courts told the estate that they were wrong. Anyone could legally use the character; they just couldn't use a significant amount of anything in the final ten stories until they went out of copyright.

Now, this doesn't mean you couldn't be sued for using him without a license. It does mean that you'd win the case.

The FCC must die and states must take matters into their own hands and get the federal government out of it as much as possible.

Getting rid of the FCC would make it much more of a problem for corporate thugs to get what they want. (They'd need to bribe 50 state governments instead of 1 federal government.) However, you would very quickly run into an emissions issue that comes from an unregulated wireless spectrum, which would wind up recreating it in some (diminished, but not for long) form.

where true freedom is going to come from (sorry net neutrality was never that avenue)

Bzzt. Wrong. You can't decide how much of your allotted bandwidth is being used for what purpose if someone else is making the decision for you. The only way your prioritization takes any effect outside of your network (for example prioritizing Netflix over Steam traffic), is by your service provider not screwing with the bandwidth on their end. Sure you can slow some traffic down, but with a throttling ISP, that slow down doesn't mean the "unused" bandwidth is suddenly going to show up elsewhere.

Reusing the example from earlier: Let's say you have a 5/Mbps connection from your ISP. Normally Steam and Netflix use all of the available bandwidth. (In this case: 5/Mbps.) You might set Steam to only use 1/Mbps down (instead of 5/Mbps) but, if your ISP has set a limit for traffic from Netflix to 3/Mbps then you won't suddenly get 5/Mbps for Netflix. You just won't be using the other 1/Mbps. In the case of a neutral ISP, you get what you wanted. Netflix gets 4/Mbps and Steam gets 1/Mbps.

And that's the practical aspect, never-mind the possibilities for abuse we are already seeing. (Such as Verizon's new streaming deal where you pay an extra $10 per line so they'll allow you to use full quality video streaming instead of limiting it to 720p or less. Or another deal for tiered internet access in Portugal. (Can't wait for extra "packages" to come to the US like: "Deluxe AutoDrive Bandwidth now with Less Crashes and more coverage!" or "Instant Medical Device Alert surcharges ($24.55), buy the Medical Fast Lane package to better protect your loved ones TODAY!" Should be great fuel for the ISP's unsatisfiable lust for money.)

District Court Judge Posner ruled that streaming copyrighted material isn't a copyright violation, it is no more a copyright violation than sneaking I to a theater. He said it may be something else, but it is not a copyright violation.

Read all of the linked article:

https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

Back in 2014, Bittorrent Inc, ran a pro-NN ad campaign predicting exactly this sort of outcome. Their parody pricing schedules aren't parodies anymore:

BitTorrent Shows You What The Internet Looks Like Without Net Neutrality

Fast forward to late 2013, when a dentist named Rob Meaglia alerted some of his patients that a computer was stolen from his offices with "medical records and dental insurance information." But, Dr. Meaglia told his patients that the records system they were using, Dentrix, made by a company called Henry Schein, Inc., had all of that data encrypted. Except it appeared that Dentrix was actually using Faircom's "Data Camouflage" and not actual encryption. And, as that link notes, Henry Schein, Inc. had been informed of this problem months earlier, around the time Faircom admitted it wasn't actual encryption.

In May of 2016, the FTC announced a settlement with Henry Schein, Inc. over the claim that it "falsely advertised the level of encryption it provided to protect patient data." Kudos to Justin Shafer.

But, literally days later, the FBI was raiding Justin Shafer's home and taking all of his computers. This was not specifically about the Harry Schein case, but since Shafer had continued to investigate poor data security practices involving dentists, he'd come across an FTP server operated by another dental software company, Patterson Dental, which makes "Eaglesoft," a dental practice management software product. Shafer had discovered an openly available anonymous FTP server with patient data. Shafer did the right thing as a security researcher, and alerted Patterson. However, rather than thanking Shafer for discovering the server they had left with patient data exposed, Patterson Dental argued that Shafer had violated the CFAA in accessing the open anonymous FTP server. Hence the FBI raid.

When I heard about farmers whose tractors (John Deere) stopped working because they repaired it with a non-OEM part and the tractors telematics shut down because it didn't recognize the new part (non-electronic part BTW). I knew a shit-storm was coming. Then when I saw how John Deere responded to the outcry I knew it would be a protracted battle to get companies to do the right thing.

When I heard about farmers whose tractors (John Deere) stopped working because they repaired it with a non-OEM part and the tractors telematics shut down because it didn't recognize the new part (non-electronic part BTW). I knew a shit-storm was coming. Then when I saw how John Deere responded to the outcry I knew it would be a protracted battle to get companies to do the right thing.

That's Parody, not Satire (in the legal sense).

Parody, using a piece to make fun of something else, is less protected than people realize

https://www.techdirt.com/artic... (discusses a 1997 ruling).

Got any sources to Superfish being installed via firmware? Google doesn't know about it.

Need to search for BIOS specifically:

I had this happen to me a few weeks ago, on a new Lenovo laptop, doing a clean install with a new SSD, Win 8 DVD + wifi turned off. I couldn't understand how a Lenovo service was installed and running! Delete the file and it reappears on reboot.

From: https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

For anybody interested, and for some Streisand-Effecting, here is the article in question: How The Guy Who Didn't Invent Email Got Memorialized In The Press & The Smithsonian As The Inventor Of Email.

Enjoy!

The difference is, the Kuerigs (or at least the older models) don't have DRM, don't require Kuerig branded cups, and can do more than coffee. I've seen tea and cocoa K-cups, because basically, the operation is the same - run hot water over contents of K-cup.

Everyone of these points is untrue.

https://www.techdirt.com/artic...