It's standard procedure in policing to sieze anything and everything for which even the slightest excuse exists. There are three reasons:
- Because it's easier to take the lot at arrest and work out later what is actually relivant rather than get that done beforehand.
- Intimidation value. The most miserable the suspect, and the more their life is ruined, the more other potential offenders will fear the police.
- Profit! Much of the equipment is never returned even if the suspect is later found innocent, or even released without charge, and eventually gets sold at police auction.
I don't know about the US, but here in the UK all mobile internet providers are required to censor adult content from connections by default. If you want an unfiltered connection you need to get them to remove the filtering on your account, which requires jumping through a few hoops. The difficulty of the hoops varies by provider.
Nope. I know the bible better than most Christians, and there is nothing like that in there at all. If you want lots of shapechanging kinkyness, you need to head for the Greek mythology. Zeus alone could (and has) filled books with stories of his meddling in the affairs of mortals.
Oh, great... I see that one being heavily abused. I can so easily imagine a group of anti-porn campaigners going on a pornbuying spree for the express purpose of using chargeback and having the company lose ability to process payments.
Edward addressed that personally: He said he was eighteen, but that he'd been eighteen for a long time. IIRC, he died in 1918. In the pandemic. I make a point of researching things before I start to hate them fully.
It also explains why the US has pressured other countries so hard to pass equally tough copyright laws, with ACTA just being the latest example. It's one industry where the US exports a great deal.
Or they'll realise that the US isn't very good at manufacturing any more because they don't have the cheap peasant labor and total disregard for safety and the environment to be found in China, so intellectual property and services are all they have left to export.
Facebook is a Goliath. Yahoo used to be a Goliath, until old age set in. Now Yahoo is the giant who sits in the corner of the pub bombarding anyone who comes too close with stories about the Great Portal War of the nineties.
Mostly, yes. Short walls. There are two limitations though. Firstly, you can't install anything that needs root access without resorting to some form of exploit. Carriers love this one, because it lets them install lots of bundled crap on their contract phones that the user (being without root access) has no way to remove. Espicially evil when they install spyware, as has been known to happen. Secondly, most devices are locked to only accepted signed firmware images from the manufacturer - though more their fault than googles.
You could also use Google's walled garden, or Microsoft's walled garden, or RIMs walled garden.
Google's walls are considerably shorter than the others, but walls nontheless. It really just comes down to business management: There is some profit to be had in device manufacture alone, but there is far greater profit to be made in providing services those devices must depend upon.
That would require emergent behavior. The internet is specifically designed to prevent that from happening. Emergent behaviors are fun academically, but in a global communications network would be a diagnostics nightmare.
Then the new one gets flagged too, for the audio will still be similar... plus Youtube may consider this a deliberate effort to circumvent their contentID system, and block the account. I've been in the same situation myself, when contentID flagged the audio which couldn't possibly be copyrighted even in the US. I tried to protest, but after youtube completly ignored my appeal for a few months (Never even replied to my repeated attempts) I simply left the site in protest. I've got the videos hosted on my own personal website now (HTML5 makes this much easier!), but youtube is more than a video host. It's also a search engine and recormendation system, and I know that without the promotion that youtube provides very few people will ever see my video.
In a contest of douchbaggery between the RIAA and Monsanto... I'd have to say the RIAA wins. Monsanto loses points because they do actually produce something truely useful, while the RIAA member's only purpose is to sit in between artists and listeners and take a cut. A position that made perfect sense pre-internet when getting music distributed required a substantial investment in disc manufacture and trucking, but is increasingly obsolete now.
Possible, yes - but only those with jailbroken iPads would be able to install it. Apple are very strictly opposed to flash on the iPad, and won't be certifying such an app for the forseeable future.
There are lots of tricks. Another good one was allegedly used to advantage GW in his first presidential election in Florida - manipulating polling booth allocations. Districts likely to vote democratic were given insufficient polling stations, resulting in around-the-block queues and long journeys to discourage voters. Nothing was really shown conclusively though, as in this case deliberately trying to influence the outcome would be indistinguishable from plain old screw-the-poor-districts mismanagement.
If I want instant communication with someone, I'll run skype, or AIM, or an old-fashioned phone call. Maybe even just use SMS. Email was not supposed to be real-time.
Foxconn isn't a well-known brand, they just make the parts that go into the well-known brands. I am sure the vast majority of people using Foxconn products have never heard of the company.
Not always. Sometimes you can confess but in such a way as to minimise the damage, and thus prevent a worse response should the information become public later on. An easy way is to make the confession during a major news event, thus ensuring next to no media coverage as more important things dominate the headlines. There's a biggie coming up in November, but I think that is too far away for Foxxcon to use, so they'd have to find something sooner.
That's all difficult! It'd be easier to go the almost old-fashioned route. Hack people's home computers, steal their e-banking passwords. You'd only get a couple of thousand per account, but that's not bad money for a fraudster.
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Words change. What was originally a misuse of the word 'hacker' has since become dominant over the earlier meaning.
It's standard procedure in policing to sieze anything and everything for which even the slightest excuse exists. There are three reasons:
- Because it's easier to take the lot at arrest and work out later what is actually relivant rather than get that done beforehand.
- Intimidation value. The most miserable the suspect, and the more their life is ruined, the more other potential offenders will fear the police.
- Profit! Much of the equipment is never returned even if the suspect is later found innocent, or even released without charge, and eventually gets sold at police auction.
Why so?
I don't know about the US, but here in the UK all mobile internet providers are required to censor adult content from connections by default. If you want an unfiltered connection you need to get them to remove the filtering on your account, which requires jumping through a few hoops. The difficulty of the hoops varies by provider.
Nope. I know the bible better than most Christians, and there is nothing like that in there at all. If you want lots of shapechanging kinkyness, you need to head for the Greek mythology. Zeus alone could (and has) filled books with stories of his meddling in the affairs of mortals.
Oh, great... I see that one being heavily abused. I can so easily imagine a group of anti-porn campaigners going on a pornbuying spree for the express purpose of using chargeback and having the company lose ability to process payments.
Edward addressed that personally: He said he was eighteen, but that he'd been eighteen for a long time. IIRC, he died in 1918. In the pandemic. I make a point of researching things before I start to hate them fully.
Well, you have to admit.. this is rather hot.
How about humans who turn into aliens and have sex with real aliens?
Avatar is a bigger budget, and thus a better example.
It's a major entertainment event though. Like reality TV, only with more crazy.
It also explains why the US has pressured other countries so hard to pass equally tough copyright laws, with ACTA just being the latest example. It's one industry where the US exports a great deal.
Or they'll realise that the US isn't very good at manufacturing any more because they don't have the cheap peasant labor and total disregard for safety and the environment to be found in China, so intellectual property and services are all they have left to export.
Facebook is a Goliath. Yahoo used to be a Goliath, until old age set in. Now Yahoo is the giant who sits in the corner of the pub bombarding anyone who comes too close with stories about the Great Portal War of the nineties.
Providing you don't want root access. If you do, you'd need to use an exploit of some form.
Mostly, yes. Short walls. There are two limitations though. Firstly, you can't install anything that needs root access without resorting to some form of exploit. Carriers love this one, because it lets them install lots of bundled crap on their contract phones that the user (being without root access) has no way to remove. Espicially evil when they install spyware, as has been known to happen. Secondly, most devices are locked to only accepted signed firmware images from the manufacturer - though more their fault than googles.
You could also use Google's walled garden, or Microsoft's walled garden, or RIMs walled garden.
Google's walls are considerably shorter than the others, but walls nontheless. It really just comes down to business management: There is some profit to be had in device manufacture alone, but there is far greater profit to be made in providing services those devices must depend upon.
That would require emergent behavior. The internet is specifically designed to prevent that from happening. Emergent behaviors are fun academically, but in a global communications network would be a diagnostics nightmare.
Then the new one gets flagged too, for the audio will still be similar... plus Youtube may consider this a deliberate effort to circumvent their contentID system, and block the account. I've been in the same situation myself, when contentID flagged the audio which couldn't possibly be copyrighted even in the US. I tried to protest, but after youtube completly ignored my appeal for a few months (Never even replied to my repeated attempts) I simply left the site in protest. I've got the videos hosted on my own personal website now (HTML5 makes this much easier!), but youtube is more than a video host. It's also a search engine and recormendation system, and I know that without the promotion that youtube provides very few people will ever see my video.
I dabble in restorations. If I may shamelessly plug myself, http://birds-are-nice.me/video/restorations.shtml
In a contest of douchbaggery between the RIAA and Monsanto... I'd have to say the RIAA wins. Monsanto loses points because they do actually produce something truely useful, while the RIAA member's only purpose is to sit in between artists and listeners and take a cut. A position that made perfect sense pre-internet when getting music distributed required a substantial investment in disc manufacture and trucking, but is increasingly obsolete now.
Possible, yes - but only those with jailbroken iPads would be able to install it. Apple are very strictly opposed to flash on the iPad, and won't be certifying such an app for the forseeable future.
There are lots of tricks. Another good one was allegedly used to advantage GW in his first presidential election in Florida - manipulating polling booth allocations. Districts likely to vote democratic were given insufficient polling stations, resulting in around-the-block queues and long journeys to discourage voters. Nothing was really shown conclusively though, as in this case deliberately trying to influence the outcome would be indistinguishable from plain old screw-the-poor-districts mismanagement.
If I want instant communication with someone, I'll run skype, or AIM, or an old-fashioned phone call. Maybe even just use SMS. Email was not supposed to be real-time.
Foxconn isn't a well-known brand, they just make the parts that go into the well-known brands. I am sure the vast majority of people using Foxconn products have never heard of the company.
Not always. Sometimes you can confess but in such a way as to minimise the damage, and thus prevent a worse response should the information become public later on. An easy way is to make the confession during a major news event, thus ensuring next to no media coverage as more important things dominate the headlines. There's a biggie coming up in November, but I think that is too far away for Foxxcon to use, so they'd have to find something sooner.
That's all difficult! It'd be easier to go the almost old-fashioned route. Hack people's home computers, steal their e-banking passwords. You'd only get a couple of thousand per account, but that's not bad money for a fraudster.