Statutory damages. She allowed the Library of Congress to distribute the photos for free, but the Getty never had permission, and certainly never had permission to charge for them. The $400 million+ is straight up statutory damages for the number of violations.
Since they did this for commercial purposes, what should happen is criminal prosecution.
In some ways this is more honest, it's been demonstrated that the OS will talk to 107 domains whether or not some switches are toggled in the Control Panel to give the illusion of privacy.
Indeed. If the truth hurts you, the problem isn't with who reveals it, the problem is with you. And Hillary Clinton will do anything she possibly can to obfuscate that fact.
Of course, Trump will do anything he can to emphasize it.
In neither case does it matter if the emails are real or not.
I'll bet it's not nearly as prevalent as it is on Craig's List. CL personals are literally nothing left but the scammers. They've even driven the prostitutes out.
The consumer gets their money back by law (over $50, at least). They get it back from the bank,. Getting the money back from the con artist is up to the bank. Normally, a credit card merchant sees the money in their account within a day or two. The card holder doesn't see the bill for up to a month. The only way the bank has to get money back from the con artist is to take it out of their account, which is empty long before the bank gets the chargeback.
Yeah, they need to set up new merchant accounts every month or two, with new bank accounts. This can be done easily, quickly, and generally automatically.
I've been on it since a month or more before it first became active.
I get almost no telespam calls at all, and that was a huge improvement over the days before the list was active. It does work. It isn't perfect, but it helps a hell of a lot.
The people who ignore it are criminals in other ways, too. Virtually all robocalls and telespam calls are illegal in multiple ways.
On the other hand, once someone has committed a crime by calling you, they're the outlet for all your life's frustrations. You can let off any amount of steam you want, and there is nothing they can do about it without identifying themselves for criminal prosecution.
The laws are easy to enforce. What they're not is cheap to enforce. The FCC gets convictions and large fines from the ones they go after. They just don't have enough resources to go after all of them.
That is the current state of things. There's really no technical reason why the do not call list could not be a realtime check built into the auto-dialers. If the number's on the list, the software should automatically delete it (or at least flag it). And there should be criminal penalties for selling software that does not do this.
Upgrade callerID to use ANI or some other tech to prevent it from being spoofed or blocked; so we can find the bastards.
If you can figure out a technical way to do that without interfering with the legitimate reasons for spoofing Caller ID that works reliably, go for it. Get a patent, then lobby Congress to make its use mandatory.
Good luck on that.
Remove the exemption for charity and political fundraisers and pollsters.
The reason those exemptions exist is that SCOTUS case law suggests - very strongly - that not including them would make the law unconstitutional. So good luck with that, too. (I agree they should be illegal, too, but they're not.)
Remove the "existing relationship" loophole so that when you add your number the calls STOP unless you explicitly exempt them (And that exemption should be revocable.).
An existing commercial relationship does not constitute permission to be robocalled or texted.
Consumers can take back their permission to be called or texted in any reasonable way. A calling company cannot require someone to fill out a form and mail it in as the only way to revoke consent.
Virtually all robocalls are illegal.
Remove the 31-day wait when a number is added (Seriously, WTF? I'm not buying a gun here. I don't need a cooling-off period.)
That is to allow time for the telespammers to get the updated list - that they are required by law to buy and honor. Make it too onerous to comply, and the law gets struck down.
And crank up the penalties for violations such that it will hurt even a SuperPAC... maybe add in some criminal penalties too.
I think existing law is actually sufficient. What's needed is to give the FCC about an order of magnitude (or two) more money for enforcement. They do go after the worst of the telespammers, and they do impose huge fines. They just don't have the resources to go after more than the very worst. So write your congresscritter and tell him to give them more money.
There are a small number of them, believe it or not. Convince them that they won't ever get any money from you, or that you'll just waste their time, and they will stop. Try http://fakenamegenrator.com/ (they guarantee the credit card numbers they generate are not real), and see how long you string the assholes along. It's the new 419 baiting.
Not only do I rarely get robo calls (or live telemarketing calls, for that matter), but last week I got a check in the mail for $55 because I filed a complaint with the FCC on one I did get from a class action lawsuit. The do not call list isn't perfect (and it won't stop the outright criminals, like the psychotic asshole pretending they're doing a survey), but it really, really helps, especially when combined with formal complaints on the violators.
"You want references? No problem. Email the phone numbers of some of your johns, and I'll verify you're not a cop or a blackmailer, and then send my references right over."
I can't help but wonder if he owns stock in a company that makes biometric identification stuff, like facial recognition. Which, typically, runs about 80% accurate (which is to say, when you're looking for the 1% who are criminals, you'll get 20 false positive for every true positive, and another word for that is "useless.")
The problem with that is that more policy addresses preferences, not objective fact. Scientific fact would compel everyone to marry outside their ethnic group, because diversity makes for a stronger genome. Telling some old school southerner he had to marry his white daughter to black man is a good way to get dead.
Neil the ass Tyson is a theist, who worships the god of scientism, but doesn't know what actual science is.
This is more like going to a pimp who turns out to be an undercover cop, giving him your personal information and money, and finding out the cop is corrupt when he shakes you down for more money or he'll arrest you.
There is no actual sex trade involved.
Most dating web sites won't actually allow women to sign up, because real women interferes with the scam.
Are they any dating sites that don't do the same thing?
The reality of dating web sites is that all the pictures of women are real, but the profiles are fake, and all the profiles of men are real, but the pictures are fake.
At a decently run company, getting fired is never a surprise. So yeah, that is unprofessional.
And the company being unprofessional doesn't make it acceptable for you to be as well. Again, you're just telling future (not) employers that you're not a professional.
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Statutory damages. She allowed the Library of Congress to distribute the photos for free, but the Getty never had permission, and certainly never had permission to charge for them. The $400 million+ is straight up statutory damages for the number of violations.
Since they did this for commercial purposes, what should happen is criminal prosecution.
In some ways this is more honest, it's been demonstrated that the OS will talk to 107 domains whether or not some switches are toggled in the Control Panel to give the illusion of privacy.
My proxy server laughs are your 107 domains.
Indeed. If the truth hurts you, the problem isn't with who reveals it, the problem is with you. And Hillary Clinton will do anything she possibly can to obfuscate that fact.
Of course, Trump will do anything he can to emphasize it.
In neither case does it matter if the emails are real or not.
I'll bet it's not nearly as prevalent as it is on Craig's List. CL personals are literally nothing left but the scammers. They've even driven the prostitutes out.
The consumer gets their money back by law (over $50, at least). They get it back from the bank,. Getting the money back from the con artist is up to the bank. Normally, a credit card merchant sees the money in their account within a day or two. The card holder doesn't see the bill for up to a month. The only way the bank has to get money back from the con artist is to take it out of their account, which is empty long before the bank gets the chargeback.
Yeah, they need to set up new merchant accounts every month or two, with new bank accounts. This can be done easily, quickly, and generally automatically.
I've been on it since a month or more before it first became active.
I get almost no telespam calls at all, and that was a huge improvement over the days before the list was active. It does work. It isn't perfect, but it helps a hell of a lot.
The people who ignore it are criminals in other ways, too. Virtually all robocalls and telespam calls are illegal in multiple ways.
On the other hand, once someone has committed a crime by calling you, they're the outlet for all your life's frustrations. You can let off any amount of steam you want, and there is nothing they can do about it without identifying themselves for criminal prosecution.
The laws are easy to enforce. What they're not is cheap to enforce. The FCC gets convictions and large fines from the ones they go after. They just don't have enough resources to go after all of them.
That is the current state of things. There's really no technical reason why the do not call list could not be a realtime check built into the auto-dialers. If the number's on the list, the software should automatically delete it (or at least flag it). And there should be criminal penalties for selling software that does not do this.
Put some teeth into the do-not-call list:
Upgrade callerID to use ANI or some other tech to prevent it from being spoofed or blocked; so we can find the bastards.
If you can figure out a technical way to do that without interfering with the legitimate reasons for spoofing Caller ID that works reliably, go for it. Get a patent, then lobby Congress to make its use mandatory.
Good luck on that.
Remove the exemption for charity and political fundraisers and pollsters.
The reason those exemptions exist is that SCOTUS case law suggests - very strongly - that not including them would make the law unconstitutional. So good luck with that, too. (I agree they should be illegal, too, but they're not.)
Remove the "existing relationship" loophole so that when you add your number the calls STOP unless you explicitly exempt them (And that exemption should be revocable.).
From what I read, that's been done, as of last year with the new rules from the FCC. From https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/articles/202873880-Rules-and-Resources-for-Dealing-with-Unwanted-Calls-and-Texts:
An existing commercial relationship does not constitute permission to be robocalled or texted.
Consumers can take back their permission to be called or texted in any reasonable way. A calling company cannot require someone to fill out a form and mail it in as the only way to revoke consent.
Virtually all robocalls are illegal.
Remove the 31-day wait when a number is added (Seriously, WTF? I'm not buying a gun here. I don't need a cooling-off period.)
That is to allow time for the telespammers to get the updated list - that they are required by law to buy and honor. Make it too onerous to comply, and the law gets struck down.
And crank up the penalties for violations such that it will hurt even a SuperPAC... maybe add in some criminal penalties too.
I think existing law is actually sufficient. What's needed is to give the FCC about an order of magnitude (or two) more money for enforcement. They do go after the worst of the telespammers, and they do impose huge fines. They just don't have the resources to go after more than the very worst. So write your congresscritter and tell him to give them more money.
Who gets to decide what is and isn't a "legitimate business"? Hint: Whoever is writing the check to the phone company.
There are a small number of them, believe it or not. Convince them that they won't ever get any money from you, or that you'll just waste their time, and they will stop. Try http://fakenamegenrator.com/ (they guarantee the credit card numbers they generate are not real), and see how long you string the assholes along. It's the new 419 baiting.
Not only do I rarely get robo calls (or live telemarketing calls, for that matter), but last week I got a check in the mail for $55 because I filed a complaint with the FCC on one I did get from a class action lawsuit. The do not call list isn't perfect (and it won't stop the outright criminals, like the psychotic asshole pretending they're doing a survey), but it really, really helps, especially when combined with formal complaints on the violators.
You're not the only one paying for phone service. Telespammers pay a lot of money for their service.
If I did, it would be my impression of you.
"You want references? No problem. Email the phone numbers of some of your johns, and I'll verify you're not a cop or a blackmailer, and then send my references right over."
"Would you suck my dick for a million dollars?"
"Yes. A million dollars will buy a lot of mouthwash."
I can't help but wonder if he owns stock in a company that makes biometric identification stuff, like facial recognition. Which, typically, runs about 80% accurate (which is to say, when you're looking for the 1% who are criminals, you'll get 20 false positive for every true positive, and another word for that is "useless.")
The problem with that is that more policy addresses preferences, not objective fact. Scientific fact would compel everyone to marry outside their ethnic group, because diversity makes for a stronger genome. Telling some old school southerner he had to marry his white daughter to black man is a good way to get dead.
Neil the ass Tyson is a theist, who worships the god of scientism, but doesn't know what actual science is.
This is more like going to a pimp who turns out to be an undercover cop, giving him your personal information and money, and finding out the cop is corrupt when he shakes you down for more money or he'll arrest you.
There is no actual sex trade involved.
Most dating web sites won't actually allow women to sign up, because real women interferes with the scam.
The few lines of PHP may have passed the Turing test, but the guys they're talking to didn't.
Are they any dating sites that don't do the same thing?
The reality of dating web sites is that all the pictures of women are real, but the profiles are fake, and all the profiles of men are real, but the pictures are fake.
apparently many people (presumably mostly men) care about getting laid more than about anything else.
No, they care more about having the fantasy they'll get laid, but have clearly accepted they never will.
Generally, in ink.
Worth every penny you pay for it. Which is nothing.
At a decently run company, getting fired is never a surprise. So yeah, that is unprofessional.
And the company being unprofessional doesn't make it acceptable for you to be as well. Again, you're just telling future (not) employers that you're not a professional.