There is something to be said for not wasting your advice on a company that refuses to take it, especially when someone else can put your time to better use.
If the company is going to sink with or without your help, you may as well jump ship and rescue someone else instead of going down with them.
If I'm a consultant, I'm aware that my knowledge, and consequently, time, is a valuable resource. I'm not going to take a lot of crap from a company that pays me well just to have the privilege of ignoring me. There are other companies who could put my advice to a lot better use, which are currently going without thanks to my current asshole of a client.
In general my point is that wrecking someone's day because of a bogus ticket is just the sort of "egregious conduct" that IMHO should warrant punitive damages.
At the very least, it's reckless.
1. Police owe a duty of care to enforce the law correctly 2. Writing a bogus ticket is a breach of that duty 3. Getting a bogus ticket causes you expense and you suffer as a result, and your insurance might even go up 4. All that happened because of the ticket.
Let's see, I think that's 4 out of 4?
Writing a bogus ticket should be justiciable as a tort of negligence.
I knew this was bad news the minute they screamed "national security" over a counterfeiting treaty. Pretty lame actually.
What sucks is knowing:
1. That Joe Sixpacks like me (i.e., the citizens) can't do a damn thing about it as long as it remains classified. 2. That big media is tickled pink they're actually using big bad fed to protect their profits 3. That, contrary to what slashdot may say, "your vote matters" really isn't true these days.
Such an obvious abuse of state secrets privilege to keep this under wraps is inexcusable.
Regardless of whether or not Obama is responsible for this mess though, I don't think he could undo the damage even if he wanted to. Big media has so many congress critters in their pockets that they could probably get Obama impeached if they wanted to.
And that's because it's a closed system where only the cheats and liars are even allowed to run.
If you're honest, you won't be in bed with the corporations you'll need to get your face out there. Remember that the media is owned by the same bastards that are pushing ACTA, so if you don't bend over backwards to kiss corporate ass, you'll never get on the ballot in the first place.
And even if you DO manage to raise enough money to pay for a campaign, all the PHBs running the show need to do is order the media not to deal with you.
What if you did a circular translation with google translate or babelfish?
Turn it into spanish, pump it into chinese, and maybe run it into arabic then back to english again. I'm sure that enough translation entropy will contaminate the end result that tracing will be quite difficult.
If only there was a way to FORBID the kernel from accessing certain pointers.
Usually you want to protect the kernel from the user...
Possible fix: When switching into kernel mode, mark page zero as not present and invlpg. Any access to page 0, which btw is userspace that should be guarded with get_user et-al, would cause a fault. The exception handler, upon noticing the access was NOT done through the appropriate macro, would oops.
Ok, let's apply this logic to the real world on a bigger level.
Some would say the US supports thermonuclear war because it has missiles. The obvious way to show support for world peace would be to get rid of our nukes, right?...So why aren't they drawing down?
When you understand that, you will understand why OIN, Redhat, and others have large patent portfolios and actively purchase them even though they have no intention of ever enforcing them against the average schmuck.
In priniciple it's wrong to weigh lives versus dollars.
In practice the greedy folks at the top of the food chain have such complete control of the system that nothing less would even faze them. They've got congress critters making nice laws for them, they've got judges on their payroll making sure they don't get in hot water, and are cozy in bed with the regulators to make sure they look the other way.
Combined with monopoly control over the market in many cases, the consumer, normally the one with the power of wallet-voting, has to go without, and perhaps risk bankruptcy due to supply problems. A proposition even less viable considering that the customers themselves often have competitors of their own, and can't really afford the luxury of holding out trying to force their vendor to behave.
The corporations pushing this crap won't give a shit if their agenda murders the political career of the PC gov. They're already quite happy to screw over the consumer...what makes you think they'd show any loyalty to their political puppets once they have what they want?
Except that by making photocopies instead of doing actual writing what you're doing is creating a derivative work. Depending on how small of a sample you took out of each though you might be covered by fair use.
Doesn't change the fact that the DMCA is still a sack of bullshit though.
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And also why those mofos are tickled pink they get to use state secrets to shut out criticism.
Speaking in general. In this specific case the officer got it right.
There is something to be said for not wasting your advice on a company that refuses to take it, especially when someone else can put your time to better use.
If the company is going to sink with or without your help, you may as well jump ship and rescue someone else instead of going down with them.
If I'm a consultant, I'm aware that my knowledge, and consequently, time, is a valuable resource. I'm not going to take a lot of crap from a company that pays me well just to have the privilege of ignoring me. There are other companies who could put my advice to a lot better use, which are currently going without thanks to my current asshole of a client.
Don't forget about society's opportunity cost.
In general my point is that wrecking someone's day because of a bogus ticket is just the sort of "egregious conduct" that IMHO should warrant punitive damages.
At the very least, it's reckless.
1. Police owe a duty of care to enforce the law correctly
2. Writing a bogus ticket is a breach of that duty
3. Getting a bogus ticket causes you expense and you suffer as a result, and your insurance might even go up
4. All that happened because of the ticket.
Let's see, I think that's 4 out of 4?
Writing a bogus ticket should be justiciable as a tort of negligence.
That would be perjury, not contempt.
I think there should be an offense known as "frivolous citation"
A cop knowingly writing a bogus ticket should get a huge fine of their own.
Too bad the cities that rely on ticket revenue won't bite.
Simple
Lack of internet only kills you in a figurative sense.
Lack of water will LITERALLY kill you.
Then people who run red lights that ARE legit should get heavy fines.
Problem is that often times cities will screw with light timings on purpose just to beef up ticket revenues.
Being stingy with yellow light times is a popular method to do that.
I knew this was bad news the minute they screamed "national security" over a counterfeiting treaty. Pretty lame actually.
What sucks is knowing:
1. That Joe Sixpacks like me (i.e., the citizens) can't do a damn thing about it as long as it remains classified.
2. That big media is tickled pink they're actually using big bad fed to protect their profits
3. That, contrary to what slashdot may say, "your vote matters" really isn't true these days.
Such an obvious abuse of state secrets privilege to keep this under wraps is inexcusable.
Regardless of whether or not Obama is responsible for this mess though, I don't think he could undo the damage even if he wanted to. Big media has so many congress critters in their pockets that they could probably get Obama impeached if they wanted to.
And that's because it's a closed system where only the cheats and liars are even allowed to run.
If you're honest, you won't be in bed with the corporations you'll need to get your face out there. Remember that the media is owned by the same bastards that are pushing ACTA, so if you don't bend over backwards to kiss corporate ass, you'll never get on the ballot in the first place.
And even if you DO manage to raise enough money to pay for a campaign, all the PHBs running the show need to do is order the media not to deal with you.
Let's pit them against the IRS!
What if you did a circular translation with google translate or babelfish?
Turn it into spanish, pump it into chinese, and maybe run it into arabic then back to english again. I'm sure that enough translation entropy will contaminate the end result that tracing will be quite difficult.
Mangle it up a bit by juggling it through google translate a couple times.
If that's not good enough whack it with a wet babeltrout.
Obama reads 10 letters every day from americans.
Maybe if all us techies started a campaign some of them would get through?
If only there was a way to FORBID the kernel from accessing certain pointers.
Usually you want to protect the kernel from the user...
Possible fix: When switching into kernel mode, mark page zero as not present and invlpg. Any access to page 0, which btw is userspace that should be guarded with get_user et-al, would cause a fault. The exception handler, upon noticing the access was NOT done through the appropriate macro, would oops.
Ok, let's apply this logic to the real world on a bigger level.
Some would say the US supports thermonuclear war because it has missiles. The obvious way to show support for world peace would be to get rid of our nukes, right? ...So why aren't they drawing down?
When you understand that, you will understand why OIN, Redhat, and others have large patent portfolios and actively purchase them even though they have no intention of ever enforcing them against the average schmuck.
"won't have a job next election cycle" is hardly a deterrent if they've collected enough bribes from corporate america to retire comfortably.
In priniciple it's wrong to weigh lives versus dollars.
In practice the greedy folks at the top of the food chain have such complete control of the system that nothing less would even faze them. They've got congress critters making nice laws for them, they've got judges on their payroll making sure they don't get in hot water, and are cozy in bed with the regulators to make sure they look the other way.
Combined with monopoly control over the market in many cases, the consumer, normally the one with the power of wallet-voting, has to go without, and perhaps risk bankruptcy due to supply problems. A proposition even less viable considering that the customers themselves often have competitors of their own, and can't really afford the luxury of holding out trying to force their vendor to behave.
Oh come on now, when have little details like that EVER been even a nuisance?
Of course it's dark matter in the middle
Still though, it's like an international version of a contract. If we fail to ratify the treaty, could that put us in hot water internationally?
The corporations pushing this crap won't give a shit if their agenda murders the political career of the PC gov. They're already quite happy to screw over the consumer...what makes you think they'd show any loyalty to their political puppets once they have what they want?
It's still a big load of crap using "national security" as an excuse to classify it.
Something that nefarious only means that someone's up to no good.
This is beyond run of the mill political corruption with politicians getting bought off.
For them to stoop so low as to invoke state secrets is downright scary, and is damn close to the sort of thing they do in China and the old USSR.
Except that by making photocopies instead of doing actual writing what you're doing is creating a derivative work. Depending on how small of a sample you took out of each though you might be covered by fair use.
Doesn't change the fact that the DMCA is still a sack of bullshit though.
"It's a two party system, you have to vote for one of us!"