1. There is no concept in modern America of "did the time, paid for the crime" with regard to social attitudes and how ex-felons can be treated. 2. Say something "offensive" in public and watch a wild-eyed mob that makes a witch-burning look tame come after and try to make sure there is "no place in society" for you. 3. Now corporations are getting in on the act with Chase locking accounts because the person was a Badthinker(tm).
Because in most of the areas where it's a problem, the police either don't care or don't have the resources to care so there's a high probability that even if you're recorded stealing the phone the police won't actually hunt you down.
What we need is reformation of our concept theft laws to divide it into three categories:
1. Theft for reasonable survival. 2. Petty theft for pleasure. 3. Grand theft for pleasure.
All forms of "illicit acquisition of property and cash" should be included in #3 making it so that anyone from a burglar to Bernie Madoff can be found guilty.
It should be punished--always--with hard labor.
In fact, we could use this to solve a lot of our "digital equality" issues by forcing the to provide free labor 10-12 hours a day digging ditches Mon through Sat for utilities and ISPs to lay fiber in poor rural and urban areas.
1. Fire all of the SJWs who continue to lose their shit that there are still Nazis howling from the virtual street corner. In 2019, anyone obsessed with Nazis should be assumed to either be a closet Nazi or sexually fetishizing them; either of which is moral turpitude for employment purposes as far as I'm concerned.
2. Abolish the whole ad system in favor of an ad marketplace that takes all of the ML engineers off of hunting Nazis and focusing on finding quality content creators to line up with big name advertisers who must then sign a digital contract saying "yes, we reviewed this and yes we accept full responsibility for all harm YouTube and other producers suffer if we pull out because this producer does some shit that offends us rather than just severing ties with them."
3. Give every non-premium creator a disk space quota.
4. Impose the video game rating system on content with severe penalties for any obvious attempt to evade it.
5. Create a credit system with no transaction fees that encourages people to pay for content. I would go as far as allowing people to offer up a single penny with payments happening every 90 days once a producer has made at least $5.
They should have made an example out of Facebook and pulled their developer certificates. Apple could have even issued a 1MB OS update that tells all users "we are nuking all Facebook apps because we discovered them stealing your private data."
Apple still has the brand loyalty that if they did that, it would be a PR coup for them and would terrify SV into submission on obedience to their ToS.
Weed grown in California and consumed in California is constitutionally outside the jurisdiction of the DEA because no matter what Congress says, the butterfly effect does not expand the ICC into a general warrant to regulate anything that might remotely impact interstate commerce. Weed grown in California and sold illegally in another state is very much a federal manner per the the ICC.
Same with guns.
Same with pollution that can be reasonably shown to have either no interstate transmission or its interstate transmission does not meaningful damage to people, property or commerce.
Only muddle-headed morons treat SCOTUS precedence with real reverence. Much of the time the federal courts, including the SCOTUS, make stuff up as they go. You know how we go qualified immunity for cops and absolute immunity for prosecutors acting in a court? Because the SCOTUS decided it made sense in relation to other laws that didn't specify anything about their liability if they break the law in good faith. Why are parts of the Bill of Rights applied to the states via incorporation and others not? Because the SCOTUS said so. No "wow, damn, that's a good reason" argument, more like "meh, we don't think this should apply."
Yet again, YouTube demonstrates the sort of behavior that could never be tolerated if it weren't for having Alphabet as their sugar daddy. Say what you will about the general desire a lot of folks have to use antitrust laws to bust up Silicon Valley's darlings, but YouTube is one incredibly good argument for wielding it against Alphabet. Why? A few reasons:
1. They continue to operate at a loss. 2. Alphabet continues to tolerate their amateurish ways of dealing with ToS that pisses off folks at every turn--including gaming their premium content producers. 3. Their content regulation is a total amateur hour shit show that a for-profit company accountable to shareholders could never put up with. 4. Serious competitors struggle to gain ground because they're essentially treated as a loss leader by Google with access to Google's infrastructure and cash to subsidize them.
If they had been bought by Microsoft to join with Bing, a lot of their defenders would be railing at how Microsoft is crippling the market with that crap.
What does that say to working people that a company would leave them high and dry simply because some people raised criticisms
Why don't you go ask Ms. Occasional-Cortex why she and her peers lead a rage mob at them when Amazon was willing to move into a community that has an average income of $15k and create jobs there? None of the "criticisms" were sober and civilly expressed. It was typical Twitter culture rage mob with over-the-top rhetoric, vilification, etc.
And then you wonder why Amazon politely says "no, you can fuck right off and die" and leaves? Truth is, if AOC and co had been civil and demanded that the benefits package be cut in half, then had been otherwise welcoming, Amazon would very likely still be moving in. This is real life, not Twitter. You don't have Jack Dorsey and his biased admins padding your safe space every night while you sleep. There are consequences.
It will be policies like the ones that lead cities like San Francisco to allow drug addicts and the homeless to shit everywhere and the state to focus on a $70B train boondoggle while the rat population is apparently exploding in every city.
This is why I Fucking Hate the I Fucking Love Science crowd. The same idiot who guffaws about some yuppie being wrong about vaccines will turn around and pretend "it's complicated" about homeless shitting all over the street. No, it's not. If you Fucking Knew History, you'd know that the West Coast is risking recreating the sort of environment that is a fertile ground for a disease like the Bubonic Plague to suddenly rise up and go epidemic.
And Roger Stone has proof that the Mueller probe dropped a hot tip about the raid to CNN before they did it. They know that someone in the DoJ or IC leaked a very sensitive SIGINT program targeting the Russian embassy to score political points against Gen. Flynn. And don't even get started on the royal shit show of perjury that the Steele dossier turned out to be.
At this point, Trump should formally pardon Assange and order the leaky insiders to face a scorched Earth retaliation from his AG.
It really shows how little imagination that Wall St has that no one has gotten the idea to support Brave's business model, particularly on their patron side, to help push a shift toward ultra-cheap micropayments for content. The banking sector has A LOT to gain by promoting the aggressive burn down of the advertising economy in favor of people paying for content, yet no one seems to want to do it as a long-term play that fundamentally shifts the Internet funding ecosystem into their laps.
If I were a big wig, my plan would be to get the tech in place and then create an astroturfing campaign to get products like AdNauesum installed on so many users' PCs that the advertising networks cannot handle the feedback and lose customers. Then sit back and laugh as content providers have to sign up for the patron model that just so happens to send 5-10% cuts to us.
And spend it in places like the Rust Belt, coal country, etc. where people will happily maximize the opportunity.
I'm really sick of these virtue-signaling assholes that go "look we made opportunity for people" while further enriching already rich cities like San Francisco, Seattle and NYC.
Congratulations, you helped people--primarily UMC girls and minorities at magnet schools from good families.
This is why, to the consternation of progressives who know me, I say I have more respect for actual Communists than progressives because Marx for all of his faults would be tearing into and gutting the progressive notions of "equality" and "inclusion" and "opportunity" as the worst sort of aristocratic mutual-masturbation by public policy we've ever seen. (And if you don't get what I mean, according to the modern narrative it is possible for a gay billionaire to be "oppressed" by minimum wage workers who don't want to cater his event. Even Marx would be laughing hysterically at what amounts to an aristocrat whining that the surfs are being mean to him.)
When the scientific establishment calls for relocation policies that encourage colonization of "flyover country" in the US by the coastal population.
I'm perfectly willing to accept the possibility that "global warming" is happening, but until the discussion is "it's happening, but why" and all "whys" are entertained including "we have no control, move in with the Hillbillies if you don't want to drown" I'm not going to give much credence to the fearmongering because skin in the game determines the degree of commitment one has.
"In a very real sense, the files do not exist on the phone in any meaningful way until the passcode is entered and the files sought are decrypted. . . . Because compelling Seo to unlock her phone compels her to literally recreate the information the State is seeking
File compression does the same thing if you hold to this reasoning. In fact, you could argue that this is almost a philosophical gap between machine vs human-readable content.
it would rely on Seo's mental knowledge of the passcode and require her to implicitly acknowledge other information such as the fact that it was under her possession and control.
If they have a witness showing her unlocking the phone, they've established that it's her phone. If they have even purchase records showing that she paid for a plan tied to the IMEI code and made frequent use of it, they've established that she is the owner and a reasonable person would assume she knows how to aid a valid warrant service on her phone.
Contrary to popular Anglocentric belief, English isn't the world's most-spoken language by total number of native speakers -- nor is it the second.
The percentage of folks who think English is the top native language on Earth is almost certainly much smaller than the percentage of people who believe they know better than "dumb rednecks" that it isn't.
Is going back to giving poor people staples and not a credit card to buy delicious, low-nutrition processed food that comes in a very trash-heavy packaging. It would also be a lot healthier for them.
We need a comprehensive common carrier statute, not one that discriminates against providers of the last mile service. If you think discriminating against some protocols is bad, you should be losing your mind at MasterCard telling Patreon "stop doing business with Robert Spencer or else." The least discriminator businesses overall seem to actually be the ones who just want to sell bandwidth.
They owe us one where the batteries can be replaced. Things like video game consoles are precisely the sort of thing where the government should be outlawing planned obsolescence in the form of non-fixable batteries. "Send it in and we'll replace the battery or unit" should not be permissible on consumer electronics.
If anyone should be investigating them, it should be the SEC and DoJ because of all of the hinky things that have come out like their tolerance for "friendly fraud," the number of bots (goosing stats to sell ads) and such.
While we're at it, what we really need is something like Brave's wallet/patron system to go global and burn the ad industry to the ground.
Is anathema to consumer protection laws. Regardless of whether his case has merits, people here should meditate on the fact the culture of much of our sector of the economy is one giant middle finger to the laws the rest of the economy operates under. At some point, software should be liable. For example, I have no sympathy for medical device companies that play the dilettante on infosec, particularly in devices inside the human body. If they are going to make it remotely connectable then it needs rock solid, NSA-approved infosec measures.
The fact that we have a wide gradient of people involved is not an excuse to not acknowledge that certain categories of software should have to be "fit for purpose" under the law. Something like FaceTime--which is enabled by default--should be that way given Apple's pockets.
You have a choice: increase access to the poor and protect the environment. There is no viable market model for a = $100 phone that makes it not a pile of crap that will be unsupported 2 months before it hits the market. If there were, Apple probably would have found it and monetized it.
People need to get used to the fact that the market forces that open up all of these electronics to people who cannot afford to spend $700 for a phone, $2k for a laptop and such guarantee that it will be a pile of garbage that is designed to be replaced more of than it should be from an environmental perspective. You simply cannot make a super high quality device at that price point using anything resembling current specs.
For something this extreme, Apple should have pulled Facebook's development certificates for Facebook as a whole. Leave WhatsApp and Instagram, but Apple should have immediately revoked Facebook and pulled the
and that the technology will not disparately impact a community or group
In other words, we couldn't possibly let it disrupt our view that we're all the same and just the same cast wearing different skins.
Who is more likely to rape a young child based on arrest rates? A middle age white male or a 19 year old black male? The former. Who is more likely to hold up a convenience store at gun point? The latter.
Maybe there are a lot of uncaught black child sex offenders. Maybe white males are getting away with robbery more.
If you want to Fucking Love Science and talk about how you are driven by data and evidence then accept the fact that different crimes tend to skew to different communities and that simplistic "that's racist" explanations don't cut it outside of an emotional response.
Apple cannot seem to figure out what business it's in. Making their own CPUs makes sense given their history and that they're using an ARM base design. But let's see:
1. Making original TV/movie content. 2. Flirting with building cars. 3. Making components that Samsung does better. 4. Letting the Mac languish because i* is all that matters now.
One of these days, they're going to finally try to get into the game market and notice that Microsoft and Nintendo have them outflanked now. When I saw the Switch, I said "Apple's done, they waited too long because that's the gaming tablet people will want."
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1. There is no concept in modern America of "did the time, paid for the crime" with regard to social attitudes and how ex-felons can be treated.
2. Say something "offensive" in public and watch a wild-eyed mob that makes a witch-burning look tame come after and try to make sure there is "no place in society" for you.
3. Now corporations are getting in on the act with Chase locking accounts because the person was a Badthinker(tm).
Sounds more like Wipro or Infosys got a sweet contract than just "automation."
Because in most of the areas where it's a problem, the police either don't care or don't have the resources to care so there's a high probability that even if you're recorded stealing the phone the police won't actually hunt you down.
What we need is reformation of our concept theft laws to divide it into three categories:
1. Theft for reasonable survival.
2. Petty theft for pleasure.
3. Grand theft for pleasure.
All forms of "illicit acquisition of property and cash" should be included in #3 making it so that anyone from a burglar to Bernie Madoff can be found guilty.
It should be punished--always--with hard labor.
In fact, we could use this to solve a lot of our "digital equality" issues by forcing the to provide free labor 10-12 hours a day digging ditches Mon through Sat for utilities and ISPs to lay fiber in poor rural and urban areas.
1. Fire all of the SJWs who continue to lose their shit that there are still Nazis howling from the virtual street corner. In 2019, anyone obsessed with Nazis should be assumed to either be a closet Nazi or sexually fetishizing them; either of which is moral turpitude for employment purposes as far as I'm concerned.
2. Abolish the whole ad system in favor of an ad marketplace that takes all of the ML engineers off of hunting Nazis and focusing on finding quality content creators to line up with big name advertisers who must then sign a digital contract saying "yes, we reviewed this and yes we accept full responsibility for all harm YouTube and other producers suffer if we pull out because this producer does some shit that offends us rather than just severing ties with them."
3. Give every non-premium creator a disk space quota.
4. Impose the video game rating system on content with severe penalties for any obvious attempt to evade it.
5. Create a credit system with no transaction fees that encourages people to pay for content. I would go as far as allowing people to offer up a single penny with payments happening every 90 days once a producer has made at least $5.
They should have made an example out of Facebook and pulled their developer certificates. Apple could have even issued a 1MB OS update that tells all users "we are nuking all Facebook apps because we discovered them stealing your private data."
Apple still has the brand loyalty that if they did that, it would be a PR coup for them and would terrify SV into submission on obedience to their ToS.
Weed grown in California and consumed in California is constitutionally outside the jurisdiction of the DEA because no matter what Congress says, the butterfly effect does not expand the ICC into a general warrant to regulate anything that might remotely impact interstate commerce. Weed grown in California and sold illegally in another state is very much a federal manner per the the ICC.
Same with guns.
Same with pollution that can be reasonably shown to have either no interstate transmission or its interstate transmission does not meaningful damage to people, property or commerce.
Only muddle-headed morons treat SCOTUS precedence with real reverence. Much of the time the federal courts, including the SCOTUS, make stuff up as they go. You know how we go qualified immunity for cops and absolute immunity for prosecutors acting in a court? Because the SCOTUS decided it made sense in relation to other laws that didn't specify anything about their liability if they break the law in good faith. Why are parts of the Bill of Rights applied to the states via incorporation and others not? Because the SCOTUS said so. No "wow, damn, that's a good reason" argument, more like "meh, we don't think this should apply."
Yet again, YouTube demonstrates the sort of behavior that could never be tolerated if it weren't for having Alphabet as their sugar daddy. Say what you will about the general desire a lot of folks have to use antitrust laws to bust up Silicon Valley's darlings, but YouTube is one incredibly good argument for wielding it against Alphabet. Why? A few reasons:
1. They continue to operate at a loss.
2. Alphabet continues to tolerate their amateurish ways of dealing with ToS that pisses off folks at every turn--including gaming their premium content producers.
3. Their content regulation is a total amateur hour shit show that a for-profit company accountable to shareholders could never put up with.
4. Serious competitors struggle to gain ground because they're essentially treated as a loss leader by Google with access to Google's infrastructure and cash to subsidize them.
If they had been bought by Microsoft to join with Bing, a lot of their defenders would be railing at how Microsoft is crippling the market with that crap.
Why don't you go ask Ms. Occasional-Cortex why she and her peers lead a rage mob at them when Amazon was willing to move into a community that has an average income of $15k and create jobs there? None of the "criticisms" were sober and civilly expressed. It was typical Twitter culture rage mob with over-the-top rhetoric, vilification, etc.
And then you wonder why Amazon politely says "no, you can fuck right off and die" and leaves? Truth is, if AOC and co had been civil and demanded that the benefits package be cut in half, then had been otherwise welcoming, Amazon would very likely still be moving in. This is real life, not Twitter. You don't have Jack Dorsey and his biased admins padding your safe space every night while you sleep. There are consequences.
It will be policies like the ones that lead cities like San Francisco to allow drug addicts and the homeless to shit everywhere and the state to focus on a $70B train boondoggle while the rat population is apparently exploding in every city.
This is why I Fucking Hate the I Fucking Love Science crowd. The same idiot who guffaws about some yuppie being wrong about vaccines will turn around and pretend "it's complicated" about homeless shitting all over the street. No, it's not. If you Fucking Knew History, you'd know that the West Coast is risking recreating the sort of environment that is a fertile ground for a disease like the Bubonic Plague to suddenly rise up and go epidemic.
And Roger Stone has proof that the Mueller probe dropped a hot tip about the raid to CNN before they did it. They know that someone in the DoJ or IC leaked a very sensitive SIGINT program targeting the Russian embassy to score political points against Gen. Flynn. And don't even get started on the royal shit show of perjury that the Steele dossier turned out to be.
At this point, Trump should formally pardon Assange and order the leaky insiders to face a scorched Earth retaliation from his AG.
It really shows how little imagination that Wall St has that no one has gotten the idea to support Brave's business model, particularly on their patron side, to help push a shift toward ultra-cheap micropayments for content. The banking sector has A LOT to gain by promoting the aggressive burn down of the advertising economy in favor of people paying for content, yet no one seems to want to do it as a long-term play that fundamentally shifts the Internet funding ecosystem into their laps.
If I were a big wig, my plan would be to get the tech in place and then create an astroturfing campaign to get products like AdNauesum installed on so many users' PCs that the advertising networks cannot handle the feedback and lose customers. Then sit back and laugh as content providers have to sign up for the patron model that just so happens to send 5-10% cuts to us.
And spend it in places like the Rust Belt, coal country, etc. where people will happily maximize the opportunity.
I'm really sick of these virtue-signaling assholes that go "look we made opportunity for people" while further enriching already rich cities like San Francisco, Seattle and NYC.
Congratulations, you helped people--primarily UMC girls and minorities at magnet schools from good families.
This is why, to the consternation of progressives who know me, I say I have more respect for actual Communists than progressives because Marx for all of his faults would be tearing into and gutting the progressive notions of "equality" and "inclusion" and "opportunity" as the worst sort of aristocratic mutual-masturbation by public policy we've ever seen. (And if you don't get what I mean, according to the modern narrative it is possible for a gay billionaire to be "oppressed" by minimum wage workers who don't want to cater his event. Even Marx would be laughing hysterically at what amounts to an aristocrat whining that the surfs are being mean to him.)
When the scientific establishment calls for relocation policies that encourage colonization of "flyover country" in the US by the coastal population.
I'm perfectly willing to accept the possibility that "global warming" is happening, but until the discussion is "it's happening, but why" and all "whys" are entertained including "we have no control, move in with the Hillbillies if you don't want to drown" I'm not going to give much credence to the fearmongering because skin in the game determines the degree of commitment one has.
There is no way they're going to prove to anyone now that any controversial moderation decision wasn't forced on them by outside pressure now.
File compression does the same thing if you hold to this reasoning. In fact, you could argue that this is almost a philosophical gap between machine vs human-readable content.
If they have a witness showing her unlocking the phone, they've established that it's her phone. If they have even purchase records showing that she paid for a plan tied to the IMEI code and made frequent use of it, they've established that she is the owner and a reasonable person would assume she knows how to aid a valid warrant service on her phone.
The percentage of folks who think English is the top native language on Earth is almost certainly much smaller than the percentage of people who believe they know better than "dumb rednecks" that it isn't.
Is going back to giving poor people staples and not a credit card to buy delicious, low-nutrition processed food that comes in a very trash-heavy packaging. It would also be a lot healthier for them.
We need a comprehensive common carrier statute, not one that discriminates against providers of the last mile service. If you think discriminating against some protocols is bad, you should be losing your mind at MasterCard telling Patreon "stop doing business with Robert Spencer or else." The least discriminator businesses overall seem to actually be the ones who just want to sell bandwidth.
They owe us one where the batteries can be replaced. Things like video game consoles are precisely the sort of thing where the government should be outlawing planned obsolescence in the form of non-fixable batteries. "Send it in and we'll replace the battery or unit" should not be permissible on consumer electronics.
If anyone should be investigating them, it should be the SEC and DoJ because of all of the hinky things that have come out like their tolerance for "friendly fraud," the number of bots (goosing stats to sell ads) and such.
While we're at it, what we really need is something like Brave's wallet/patron system to go global and burn the ad industry to the ground.
Is anathema to consumer protection laws. Regardless of whether his case has merits, people here should meditate on the fact the culture of much of our sector of the economy is one giant middle finger to the laws the rest of the economy operates under. At some point, software should be liable. For example, I have no sympathy for medical device companies that play the dilettante on infosec, particularly in devices inside the human body. If they are going to make it remotely connectable then it needs rock solid, NSA-approved infosec measures.
The fact that we have a wide gradient of people involved is not an excuse to not acknowledge that certain categories of software should have to be "fit for purpose" under the law. Something like FaceTime--which is enabled by default--should be that way given Apple's pockets.
You have a choice: increase access to the poor and protect the environment. There is no viable market model for a = $100 phone that makes it not a pile of crap that will be unsupported 2 months before it hits the market. If there were, Apple probably would have found it and monetized it.
People need to get used to the fact that the market forces that open up all of these electronics to people who cannot afford to spend $700 for a phone, $2k for a laptop and such guarantee that it will be a pile of garbage that is designed to be replaced more of than it should be from an environmental perspective. You simply cannot make a super high quality device at that price point using anything resembling current specs.
For something this extreme, Apple should have pulled Facebook's development certificates for Facebook as a whole. Leave WhatsApp and Instagram, but Apple should have immediately revoked Facebook and pulled the
In other words, we couldn't possibly let it disrupt our view that we're all the same and just the same cast wearing different skins.
Who is more likely to rape a young child based on arrest rates? A middle age white male or a 19 year old black male? The former. Who is more likely to hold up a convenience store at gun point? The latter.
Maybe there are a lot of uncaught black child sex offenders. Maybe white males are getting away with robbery more.
If you want to Fucking Love Science and talk about how you are driven by data and evidence then accept the fact that different crimes tend to skew to different communities and that simplistic "that's racist" explanations don't cut it outside of an emotional response.
Apple cannot seem to figure out what business it's in. Making their own CPUs makes sense given their history and that they're using an ARM base design. But let's see:
1. Making original TV/movie content.
2. Flirting with building cars.
3. Making components that Samsung does better.
4. Letting the Mac languish because i* is all that matters now.
One of these days, they're going to finally try to get into the game market and notice that Microsoft and Nintendo have them outflanked now. When I saw the Switch, I said "Apple's done, they waited too long because that's the gaming tablet people will want."