1) They had a warrant, but they did not need one. 2. There is no number 2
The fact that he downloaded kiddyporn is not relevant. Seriosuly, it isn't.
This is NOT about this one case. It is about the NEXT case where they do NOT need a warrant. That means they are able to get into YOUR computer now if they so like to (and they like to)
Do they not understand it, or do they not care? I assume that these people are not idiots. I assume they will have no detailed knoweldge about a lot of things that are handled in their courts.
I would not expect them to have that information. It should not even matter that it IS a computer. To me it is clear:
You have something in your house. That means you need a warrant to see it. It does not matter if you enter the house through the door, through the window, through the chimney during X-mas or through some Inter-Tubes.
It does not matter if that box is a safe, akitchen with a meth lab or a computer.
Simple: Inside the house? Warant. There are no exceptions, like a phone that you take outside, like the data you send outside, like a car you drive onto the road.
But what you can do is vot next November and all will be well. At least they won't take your guns. Because why would they if they have all your data already.
As somebody who works for a company that could be called "asshole", we do not really care HOW you pay, as long as you pay. But please do not come crying that you get late fees because your dog ate your bill or you were on a holiday or whatever. It was your choice to handle the payments yourself.
OTOH, we are no where near as much of an asshole as Comcast is. If we were, we would have been closed a LONG time ago. EU regulations and such.
Compalint procedure is as follows: 1) Try to find a solution with the customer 2) Written complaint by the customer, otherwise it is not a complaint 3) Still no solution? Official complaint where we have to pay 750EUR (I think) regardless if we were right or wrong 4) Legal steps
This means that sometimes we let it slide even though we are in our right as a company, so we do not need to pay the 750EUR. However: when you are a speical type of cunt of a customer, we WILL go all the way.
I personaly have forgiven 200-300EUR for a customer where we were in our right to do what we were doing; yet went after an asshole for 50.
What I often think is if you do not trust us, why do business with us in the first place? We don't do business with customers we do not trust (and there are a few of them).
And it works similar in thefew comapnies in different industries I have worked for in the last several years.
So get me up to speed here (see what I did there?) You decide to live in a place where you know that essentials (need) are not available? Perhaps the choice of where you live was not that well made.
"But I was born here and things changed and when I bought it, I did not have that need". Well, either you do not actually need it as you are able to exist without it, or you DO need it and then you NEED to move to a place where what is essential for you is available.
This goes not only for fast Internet, this also goes for things like water, electricity or roads or the lack of them or whatever your needs are.
I am not even sure what the American Dream is. I see one person making a calculation on a 60 hour week and another a working year of 52 weeks.
As a European that sounds more like a nightmare. I rather have my 38 hours per week and 45 weeks per year. That way I can actually live my life and not just dream about it.
But then if the American Dream is to work as much as possible, more power to you. Just do not be surprised if people are less jealous of your dream.
They DO filter. Try looking for the name of a known porn actress on images. You will get a filtered result. Now try to turn that filter off. You can't.
Sure, there are some other companies who do search, but in reality, they are the only one. Next to that they are slowly buying all of the rest as well.
What I think that should be done is what is done before when a cartel was formed in the oil industry.
I truly believe that they are getting too big and this not only on a national, but on a global scale. Remember when banks where too big to fail? That went well.
A camera is also a thing that can easily pointed to elsewhere. It is very limited in what and when it can see things. So if you are doing something it should not see, you better just turn it in another direction. That way you are more aware that you ARE being watched and not think all is well.
What is worrying is the microphone. We all know that search engines can understand what we are saying. What about the rest? How do YOU turn off you microphone?
Do you trust the software or do you open your device and de-solder the internal microphone if there is one, like on most laptops. And what about the one on the most used device, your phone?
Also, when this is detected, the person who posted the video will not get anything (except Internet fame) and the companies can opt in or opt out to do this.e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... has 35MM hits. Not that bad. However https://www.youtube.com/watch?... has 217MM hits. Yep, three times as much. (To be fair, the second one is WAY better)
So why would they want it taken down when they multiply their income by 4?
Same as some people who think that if they send you a proof of payment means that the payment is done. It isn't. It is when it is on our bank account.
With automatic payment there are rules that they can get the money back within a certain amount of time and when they follow certain rules. So even AFTER it has arrived on our account. Luckily almost nobody knows how to do that and if they do it for the wrong reason, it will be fraud and the payment has to asked for by the receiver, not send to by the person doing the payment.
As a European we do not use checks anymore. So no "the check is in the mail". What we are dealing with now is that when a person does a money transfer it take several working days (not even calander days) before the money is with us. Technically this could be done almost instandly, like a credit card payment. However due to some laws it takes 3 working days (to businesses).Not going int detail, but the reason is that the Americans are not working on the weekend when they want to look at the transactios.
The issseu as a company is that when people say they did a payment, they show they did a payment we still can not handle it as if the payment was done and you have customers that are pissed of and thing we are stealing.
So no, this is NOT because the banks can make money from those two days. It is NOT because we want to make money for a few days. It is even NOT the customer who want to pay a few days late and says the payment was done while it wasn't. It is because the Mericans need to know because of terrawrists.
Unfortunately many banks employess do not know this and give the wrong info to their customers, because they do not deal with companies and mainly with payment between private persons within their own bank where the payments DO happen almost imediately.
Private person to company at the same bank? 3 working days.
In general I do like the banking system. It works, exept for this where the US had to meddle because they want all the data they can get their hands on.
That part where they say that no one is asking for it is wrong. The end users did not ask for this. They are however not the customers. They are just the people who pay for things.
The customers are the operators and they are snug with the MAFIAA as that is where the real monies are.
Apple sells music. They want exclusive deals with operators. As soon as they see they can get extra monies now from the music industry, they will ask the others for the same.
Buy a phone with DRM and you get 2 songs free!
Many people will not buy one, but enough will as the new phones will all have it. So one by one people will switch and find an excuse as to why they are doing it.
So for them it does NOT work fine. They are interested in making money, not in a phone that works fine.
I have been misdiagnosed twice and it has been corrected twice as well. I know that doctors do not know everything.
The fact that many or most go along says nothing about the doctors.
I get an apointment withing a working day, unless it is flue season, then I light not be able to go to my reglar doctor.
To me doctors are the ones that diagnose me correctly most of the time. Sometimes they are wrong. I do not mind them being wrong sometimes. They are human and are unable to know and foresee everything. One wrong diagnose was because I was giving him the wrong information. He later corrected me by telling what I was telling him was not related to what I had.
The reason they are arrogant is because people just go along with them. I know several doctors and surgeons personally. They are a bit like IT people living in an ivory tower within their profession. And a surgeon is in no way middle management.
And we always hear about the people who were wrongfully diagnosed and that the Internet saved them, because that is news. Almost never about the people who did a wrong diagnose on themselves or took the wrong medicine. You know why? Because they ded! (Insert Steve Jobs reference)
When I went to my doctor, he used Google to do some extra research. I was happy with that, To me that means he is most likely looking for confirmation or extra information that can help him to do a better diagnosis.
Even if I would do the same search and gotten the same results, the treatment might have been completely different. And even then he said: We start with A, take a scan and then we will do B and perhaps C and later D.
In fact I did a search and step A was mentioned on page 3 of the resuls and that while it worked and required no medicine at all
This all because he not only know what to look for but also how to interpret it.
If you do a search for an issue in IT and they all say to do "rm -rf/" you will know if that would be the right thing to do or not. I would not expect my doctor to know that.
Cars: When you go to the doctor and sum up the symtons is like telling a mechanic there is a strange noise and descibe the noise. The better you describe the noise, the more likely it is that the mechanic know what the problem is. It is, however, also his experience that knows if he needs to look at the transmission or sell you some blinker fluid. This experience Google has not. Also because Google will not ask extra question, like "How many km did you drive?", "What car are you driving" or "Have you already replaced the blinker fluid since you last bought the car?"
You laugh at the Cyber Terror Attack now, but have you not seen the documentary "Hackers" where it is clearly shown how possible this all is? HACK TEH PLANET!!1!
I do not even want my details on line when I have NO diseases. Even if I were 100% healthy, I would not want that.
Where I go to the doctor in Belgium, I need to sign a paper each two years that allows OTHER doctors in the same building to see my details. This for when my own doctor is hit by a bus on his holiday.
It should be stricter, not less strict. No third party should be involved in any way just so the CEO can buy a bigger boat.
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1) They had a warrant, but they did not need one.
2. There is no number 2
The fact that he downloaded kiddyporn is not relevant. Seriosuly, it isn't.
This is NOT about this one case. It is about the NEXT case where they do NOT need a warrant. That means they are able to get into YOUR computer now if they so like to (and they like to)
Do they not understand it, or do they not care? I assume that these people are not idiots. I assume they will have no detailed knoweldge about a lot of things that are handled in their courts.
I would not expect them to have that information. It should not even matter that it IS a computer. To me it is clear:
You have something in your house. That means you need a warrant to see it. It does not matter if you enter the house through the door, through the window, through the chimney during X-mas or through some Inter-Tubes.
It does not matter if that box is a safe, akitchen with a meth lab or a computer.
Simple: Inside the house? Warant. There are no exceptions, like a phone that you take outside, like the data you send outside, like a car you drive onto the road.
But what you can do is vot next November and all will be well. At least they won't take your guns. Because why would they if they have all your data already.
As somebody who works for a company that could be called "asshole", we do not really care HOW you pay, as long as you pay.
But please do not come crying that you get late fees because your dog ate your bill or you were on a holiday or whatever. It was your choice to handle the payments yourself.
OTOH, we are no where near as much of an asshole as Comcast is. If we were, we would have been closed a LONG time ago. EU regulations and such.
Compalint procedure is as follows:
1) Try to find a solution with the customer
2) Written complaint by the customer, otherwise it is not a complaint
3) Still no solution? Official complaint where we have to pay 750EUR (I think) regardless if we were right or wrong
4) Legal steps
This means that sometimes we let it slide even though we are in our right as a company, so we do not need to pay the 750EUR. However: when you are a speical type of cunt of a customer, we WILL go all the way.
I personaly have forgiven 200-300EUR for a customer where we were in our right to do what we were doing; yet went after an asshole for 50.
What I often think is if you do not trust us, why do business with us in the first place? We don't do business with customers we do not trust (and there are a few of them).
And it works similar in thefew comapnies in different industries I have worked for in the last several years.
So get me up to speed here (see what I did there?) You decide to live in a place where you know that essentials (need) are not available? Perhaps the choice of where you live was not that well made.
"But I was born here and things changed and when I bought it, I did not have that need". Well, either you do not actually need it as you are able to exist without it, or you DO need it and then you NEED to move to a place where what is essential for you is available.
This goes not only for fast Internet, this also goes for things like water, electricity or roads or the lack of them or whatever your needs are.
I am not even sure what the American Dream is. I see one person making a calculation on a 60 hour week and another a working year of 52 weeks.
As a European that sounds more like a nightmare. I rather have my 38 hours per week and 45 weeks per year. That way I can actually live my life and not just dream about it.
But then if the American Dream is to work as much as possible, more power to you. Just do not be surprised if people are less jealous of your dream.
They DO filter. Try looking for the name of a known porn actress on images. You will get a filtered result. Now try to turn that filter off. You can't.
Sure, there are some other companies who do search, but in reality, they are the only one. Next to that they are slowly buying all of the rest as well.
What I think that should be done is what is done before when a cartel was formed in the oil industry.
I truly believe that they are getting too big and this not only on a national, but on a global scale.
Remember when banks where too big to fail? That went well.
I think Orwell was an optimist.
2012? I hate them since they raped DejaNew.com and blocking porn from the images did not help.
Even if all the people in IT would stop using Google, it would not make a difference, because persons are smart and people are stupid.
Not saying they are not interested. I am saying it is not the reason.
If the device does not work, your OS might not able to use it. That does not mean it stopped working.
Oh and another thing: speakers can be used as microphones pretty easy.
A camera is also a thing that can easily pointed to elsewhere. It is very limited in what and when it can see things. So if you are doing something it should not see, you better just turn it in another direction. That way you are more aware that you ARE being watched and not think all is well.
What is worrying is the microphone. We all know that search engines can understand what we are saying. What about the rest? How do YOU turn off you microphone?
Do you trust the software or do you open your device and de-solder the internal microphone if there is one, like on most laptops. And what about the one on the most used device, your phone?
Try http://bandcamp.com/ that will have music you never heard for cheap and sometimes free,
Streaming is free.
That is why the Rolling Stones hired the Hells Angels. To protect the public.
Also, when this is detected, the person who posted the video will not get anything (except Internet fame) and the companies can opt in or opt out to do this.e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... has 35MM hits. Not that bad. However https://www.youtube.com/watch?... has 217MM hits. Yep, three times as much. (To be fair, the second one is WAY better)
So why would they want it taken down when they multiply their income by 4?
Hint: You most likely wont find them on sites like http://bandcamp.com/
You mean like no DMCA at all and just use the laws that were already in place concerning copyright. Got it.
Same as some people who think that if they send you a proof of payment means that the payment is done. It isn't. It is when it is on our bank account.
With automatic payment there are rules that they can get the money back within a certain amount of time and when they follow certain rules. So even AFTER it has arrived on our account. Luckily almost nobody knows how to do that and if they do it for the wrong reason, it will be fraud and the payment has to asked for by the receiver, not send to by the person doing the payment.
As a European we do not use checks anymore. So no "the check is in the mail". What we are dealing with now is that when a person does a money transfer it take several working days (not even calander days) before the money is with us. Technically this could be done almost instandly, like a credit card payment. However due to some laws it takes 3 working days (to businesses).Not going int detail, but the reason is that the Americans are not working on the weekend when they want to look at the transactios.
The issseu as a company is that when people say they did a payment, they show they did a payment we still can not handle it as if the payment was done and you have customers that are pissed of and thing we are stealing.
So no, this is NOT because the banks can make money from those two days. It is NOT because we want to make money for a few days. It is even NOT the customer who want to pay a few days late and says the payment was done while it wasn't. It is because the Mericans need to know because of terrawrists.
Unfortunately many banks employess do not know this and give the wrong info to their customers, because they do not deal with companies and mainly with payment between private persons within their own bank where the payments DO happen almost imediately.
Private person to company at the same bank? 3 working days.
In general I do like the banking system. It works, exept for this where the US had to meddle because they want all the data they can get their hands on.
That part where they say that no one is asking for it is wrong. The end users did not ask for this. They are however not the customers. They are just the people who pay for things.
The customers are the operators and they are snug with the MAFIAA as that is where the real monies are.
Apple sells music. They want exclusive deals with operators. As soon as they see they can get extra monies now from the music industry, they will ask the others for the same.
Buy a phone with DRM and you get 2 songs free!
Many people will not buy one, but enough will as the new phones will all have it. So one by one people will switch and find an excuse as to why they are doing it.
So for them it does NOT work fine. They are interested in making money, not in a phone that works fine.
I have been misdiagnosed twice and it has been corrected twice as well. I know that doctors do not know everything.
The fact that many or most go along says nothing about the doctors.
I get an apointment withing a working day, unless it is flue season, then I light not be able to go to my reglar doctor.
To me doctors are the ones that diagnose me correctly most of the time. Sometimes they are wrong. I do not mind them being wrong sometimes. They are human and are unable to know and foresee everything.
One wrong diagnose was because I was giving him the wrong information. He later corrected me by telling what I was telling him was not related to what I had.
The reason they are arrogant is because people just go along with them. I know several doctors and surgeons personally. They are a bit like IT people living in an ivory tower within their profession. And a surgeon is in no way middle management.
And we always hear about the people who were wrongfully diagnosed and that the Internet saved them, because that is news. Almost never about the people who did a wrong diagnose on themselves or took the wrong medicine. You know why? Because they ded! (Insert Steve Jobs reference)
When I went to my doctor, he used Google to do some extra research. I was happy with that, To me that means he is most likely looking for confirmation or extra information that can help him to do a better diagnosis.
Even if I would do the same search and gotten the same results, the treatment might have been completely different. And even then he said:
We start with A, take a scan and then we will do B and perhaps C and later D.
In fact I did a search and step A was mentioned on page 3 of the resuls and that while it worked and required no medicine at all
This all because he not only know what to look for but also how to interpret it.
If you do a search for an issue in IT and they all say to do "rm -rf /" you will know if that would be the right thing to do or not. I would not expect my doctor to know that.
Cars: When you go to the doctor and sum up the symtons is like telling a mechanic there is a strange noise and descibe the noise. The better you describe the noise, the more likely it is that the mechanic know what the problem is. It is, however, also his experience that knows if he needs to look at the transmission or sell you some blinker fluid.
This experience Google has not. Also because Google will not ask extra question, like "How many km did you drive?", "What car are you driving" or "Have you already replaced the blinker fluid since you last bought the car?"
And for those who do not get it: it is cheaper two send two tootbrushes on one ship then it is to bring them on two ships.
You laugh at the Cyber Terror Attack now, but have you not seen the documentary "Hackers" where it is clearly shown how possible this all is?
HACK TEH PLANET!!1!
I do not even want my details on line when I have NO diseases. Even if I were 100% healthy, I would not want that.
Where I go to the doctor in Belgium, I need to sign a paper each two years that allows OTHER doctors in the same building to see my details. This for when my own doctor is hit by a bus on his holiday.
It should be stricter, not less strict. No third party should be involved in any way just so the CEO can buy a bigger boat.
Almost none, as they accept the deal, reagardless if theyare guilty or not.
Due to the fact that judges are elected, you get people that are in for revenge, not for justice.
I see it as offical mob justice. "Hang em high" is what they voted for and that is what you get. That does not mean that it is in any way reasonable.