If the government there were more Republican, the society would be wealthier and closer to American, and more could afford air conditioning.
In India, a government job is the way not to security, but wealth, via demanding kickbacks. That is why it is such a struggle to get the economy growing.
Mainly for failing to perform any checks to see if the party filing the DMCA notice actually has the authority (i.e. copyright ownership) to be able to enforce the notice. However, such checks would go a long way toward invalidating the defense used by media companies who abuse the DMCA provisions when faced with such patently absurd filings - that they filed this specific request in error as a result of a failure of an automated reporting system, and that nobody at the media company making the filing was aware that the filing was incorrect. In the meantime, sanctions related to the number of DMCA notices received against content uploaded by specific accounts remains triggered even when many/most of the notices are shown to be bogus/in error, meaning that there is no incentive for the media companies to change and there are no satisfactory mechanisms in place for small uploaders to recover their content/challenge the behaviour.
This is probably the worst part. Automated tools are fine, but you need to pass it by real humans for review before submitting claims.
In this case, the automated tool should have raised a red flag that the violation was uploaded years before the work in question even existed, which is impossible...unless the work is the scammer!
I disagree with it being censorship - and data protection does have clauses about being able to correct information that is wrong. (Removal being a bit severe but you can't really expect them to rewrite the pages...?)
That's not to say it's not being misused, though.
As a final note, I don't think Iran or China would have been as foolish to try and impose their views on other countries but fear that their opinions on that may have changed.
Censorship is people with guns threatening violence if you say something they don't permit.
We didn't whip the ass of dictatorship to let anything but the first amendment set the rules of the digital high seas, any more than we let local thugs send out pirate ships to international waters to harass trade there.
From the halls of Montezuma To the shores of Normandeeeeeeee We will fight our country's battles On the land or in the tubes!
The system, which is just a proof of concept, alarms privacy advocates who worry that prudent surveillance could easily lead to government overreach, or worse, unauthorized use.
Or even worserer, authorized use. Nothing like the 1984 panopticon for a pleasant life.
Fucking Batman the Animated Series and Justice League the Fucking Animated Series.
Fucking forest for the trees, dude. Hint: They aren't so geeked (double hint, that word) to go see Star Wars as you might think.
The last superhero movie that should, in theory, have appealed to women was Superman Returns which was essentially a Christopher Reeve Superman movie wrapped up in a chick flick, complete with dueling love interests for Lois, and a whole subplot of will Superman figure out and care for his own child? Plus he dies (chick flick requirement) and comes back to life sweetly to give a soliloquy to his sleeping child!
It probably flopped more for male assholery in word of mouth than female. And as a reward, gents, you got a new movie where Superman learns he must kill sometimes. Sigh.
It was dumb to map backspace to back anyway. With Internet and browsers dominating existence, keyboards should be redesigned with common browser clickies built in and separate from editing keys.
Objections? Consider your useless neck broken and your body left for the wolves.
Hollywood women the past decade or more have been largely pastey white, too, essentially never tanning (carrot pills and colored creams aside). Sun has been a no no ever since National Geographic published the photos of the 60 year old Andes woman who had spent much of her life outdoors, looking like a leather bag, and an 80 year old Tibetan monk who had spent almost his whole life indoors, skin fresh and smooth.
Slashdot's metamod system is a failure. Whether that's because metamoderators were fine approving censorious mods they agreed with, or the system was terribly designed, I don't know.
...fuck Wikipedia. It's entire model can literally be summed-up as, "King of the Hill." Whoever camps at their computer to edit pages is the editor, regardless of any acumen or credentials with the subject matter, and without regard to any actual rules that govern article structure or citation.
If Wikipedia wants to fix this, they need to disallow users from camping on pet articles. They need to disallow reverts based on style that have nothing to do with substance and have no real benefit, and they need to ban users that continue to engage in these practices. Until that's done the entire process will be at the whim of the cave trolls that patrol the site because they have nothing better to do.
Slashdot had (has?) a metamod system where mods get moderated. Presumably people who downmodded things for political or other reasons would get their own mod points reduced or stripped. Didn't do squat.
Even if we assume America won't abuse it, which is anathema to the American political philosophy of chaining up government, the rest of the world will.
Does anyone think Russia, or China, or any of the dictatprships or corrupt nominal democracies across any continent on the Equator or mid east won't?
Quit building the 1984-like tools to aid those places keeping their boots on their humans' faces...forever.
I am ashamed my government is demanding cracks in these things for transient crime or even terrorist activities, when dictatorship and misery still rules half the world and will happily misuse these tools...once built.
With thousands of agents with warrantless access, it will be trivial for a plant to track who a political opponent calls to flesh out their supporter network.
This will allow for mysterious IRS audits, in the worst case, or just rhetorical games to discredit people.
This is the reason government spy powers on citizens are supposed to be limited to warrants -- the goal was stopping those in power from harassing opponents.
The King of England would have traced phone call networks. And so the founding fathers would have banned it sans warrant.
The modern "metadata" concept is a complete unconstitutional fraud designed to pretend to honor this by asserting only the content of the call is private. Yet the connecting the dots is precisely and arguably more important.
Just get a damned warrant so it is all tracked and reviewed by elected officials.
Asking to change in a year or two things that took decades of free speech persuasion to change here is indeed asking a lot.
Don't ask, don't tell was not a compromise with just Republicans. Sam Nunn, Democrat, took cameras on tour of a submarine, oh look, they share bunks in shifts. What if your son had to sleep in the same bunk as a gay man? Oh dear!
So a country that is closer to 1950s US, or 1850s, should change overnight?
Keep in mind much political shifting is due to older generations dying off and more liberal youngsters dominating the vote. You have decades to go in this case...assuming it is even changing, which it may not be.
Slashdot Mirror
If the government there were more Republican, the society would be wealthier and closer to American, and more could afford air conditioning.
In India, a government job is the way not to security, but wealth, via demanding kickbacks. That is why it is such a struggle to get the economy growing.
A slight increase means a slight increase on average, so max and min will increase slightly, too.
There is no reaction because there is no total surveillance.
Now go to bed and don't worry your pretty little mind about it. There are Top Men in charge.
Mainly for failing to perform any checks to see if the party filing the DMCA notice actually has the authority (i.e. copyright ownership) to be able to enforce the notice.
However, such checks would go a long way toward invalidating the defense used by media companies who abuse the DMCA provisions when faced with such patently absurd filings - that they filed this specific request in error as a result of a failure of an automated reporting system, and that nobody at the media company making the filing was aware that the filing was incorrect. In the meantime, sanctions related to the number of DMCA notices received against content uploaded by specific accounts remains triggered even when many/most of the notices are shown to be bogus/in error, meaning that there is no incentive for the media companies to change and there are no satisfactory mechanisms in place for small uploaders to recover their content/challenge the behaviour.
This is probably the worst part. Automated tools are fine, but you need to pass it by real humans for review before submitting claims.
In this case, the automated tool should have raised a red flag that the violation was uploaded years before the work in question even existed, which is impossible...unless the work is the scammer!
What I really wanna see is Nintendo sue Fox for copyright violation. Let them pick on someone their own size.
I disagree with it being censorship - and data protection does have clauses about being able to correct information that is wrong. (Removal being a bit severe but you can't really expect them to rewrite the pages...?)
That's not to say it's not being misused, though.
As a final note, I don't think Iran or China would have been as foolish to try and impose their views on other countries but fear that their opinions on that may have changed.
Censorship is people with guns threatening violence if you say something they don't permit.
Sounds like censorship to me.
We didn't whip the ass of dictatorship to let anything but the first amendment set the rules of the digital high seas, any more than we let local thugs send out pirate ships to international waters to harass trade there.
From the halls of Montezuma
To the shores of Normandeeeeeeee
We will fight our country's battles
On the land or in the tubes!
Well, you know, with a warrant. In theory.
The system, which is just a proof of concept, alarms privacy advocates who worry that prudent surveillance could easily lead to government overreach, or worse, unauthorized use.
Or even worserer, authorized use. Nothing like the 1984 panopticon for a pleasant life.
How about a red LED hard wired to the CCD power or whatever so it cannot be shut of with software or even a firmware update?
Fucking Batman the Animated Series and Justice League the Fucking Animated Series.
Fucking forest for the trees, dude. Hint: They aren't so geeked (double hint, that word) to go see Star Wars as you might think.
The last superhero movie that should, in theory, have appealed to women was Superman Returns which was essentially a Christopher Reeve Superman movie wrapped up in a chick flick, complete with dueling love interests for Lois, and a whole subplot of will Superman figure out and care for his own child? Plus he dies (chick flick requirement) and comes back to life sweetly to give a soliloquy to his sleeping child!
It probably flopped more for male assholery in word of mouth than female. And as a reward, gents, you got a new movie where Superman learns he must kill sometimes. Sigh.
It was dumb to map backspace to back anyway. With Internet and browsers dominating existence, keyboards should be redesigned with common browser clickies built in and separate from editing keys.
Objections? Consider your useless neck broken and your body left for the wolves.
The FDA arguably kills more than it saves, by delaying cures. Those don't show up in front of the camera as well as 1 800 bad drug zomgggggg.
Bill got lucky. After a couple of years, he threw up his hands and said, "I give up! Deficits as far as the eye can see!"
The Internet boom was completely unexpected, and brought in money so fast neither Congress nor the states could keep up.
But they eventually adjusted, like in 2 years.
Sweeeeet! Now Slashdot nerds can have no sex but without a condom!
This is a confluence of a nerd issue (Snapchat filters) and SJW-itis. Why is it here? Which one?
Hollywood women the past decade or more have been largely pastey white, too, essentially never tanning (carrot pills and colored creams aside). Sun has been a no no ever since National Geographic published the photos of the 60 year old Andes woman who had spent much of her life outdoors, looking like a leather bag, and an 80 year old Tibetan monk who had spent almost his whole life indoors, skin fresh and smooth.
Nobody tans anymore except idiots.
He feels like shit because assholes surround him, and you pile on.
Good job.
Slashdot's metamod system is a failure. Whether that's because metamoderators were fine approving censorious mods they agreed with, or the system was terribly designed, I don't know.
...fuck Wikipedia. It's entire model can literally be summed-up as, "King of the Hill." Whoever camps at their computer to edit pages is the editor, regardless of any acumen or credentials with the subject matter, and without regard to any actual rules that govern article structure or citation.
If Wikipedia wants to fix this, they need to disallow users from camping on pet articles. They need to disallow reverts based on style that have nothing to do with substance and have no real benefit, and they need to ban users that continue to engage in these practices. Until that's done the entire process will be at the whim of the cave trolls that patrol the site because they have nothing better to do.
Slashdot had (has?) a metamod system where mods get moderated. Presumably people who downmodded things for political or other reasons would get their own mod points reduced or stripped. Didn't do squat.
"We're not giving feet to the geometric shapes... What you [will] see in Tetris is the teeny tip of an iceberg that has intergalactic significance."
"Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada."
Even if we assume America won't abuse it, which is anathema to the American political philosophy of chaining up government, the rest of the world will.
Does anyone think Russia, or China, or any of the dictatprships or corrupt nominal democracies across any continent on the Equator or mid east won't?
Quit building the 1984-like tools to aid those places keeping their boots on their humans' faces...forever.
I am ashamed my government is demanding cracks in these things for transient crime or even terrorist activities, when dictatorship and misery still rules half the world and will happily misuse these tools...once built.
Passive resistance works well in a society that is basically just, combined with freedom of the press to broadcast the government's shoddy behavior.
Hence gag orders hamper that.
With thousands of agents with warrantless access, it will be trivial for a plant to track who a political opponent calls to flesh out their supporter network.
This will allow for mysterious IRS audits, in the worst case, or just rhetorical games to discredit people.
This is the reason government spy powers on citizens are supposed to be limited to warrants -- the goal was stopping those in power from harassing opponents.
The King of England would have traced phone call networks. And so the founding fathers would have banned it sans warrant.
The modern "metadata" concept is a complete unconstitutional fraud designed to pretend to honor this by asserting only the content of the call is private. Yet the connecting the dots is precisely and arguably more important.
Just get a damned warrant so it is all tracked and reviewed by elected officials.
If there is to be a panopticon, the only sensible next step is to make sure everybody has access, not just government.
Asking to change in a year or two things that took decades of free speech persuasion to change here is indeed asking a lot.
Don't ask, don't tell was not a compromise with just Republicans. Sam Nunn, Democrat, took cameras on tour of a submarine, oh look, they share bunks in shifts. What if your son had to sleep in the same bunk as a gay man? Oh dear!
So a country that is closer to 1950s US, or 1850s, should change overnight?
Keep in mind much political shifting is due to older generations dying off and more liberal youngsters dominating the vote. You have decades to go in this case...assuming it is even changing, which it may not be.