If you’ve been following the whole net neutrality fight for a while, the following graphic may be familiar to you — showing what a potential “cable-ized” world the internet would become without strong protections for net neutrality:
Month: June 2014
CIA rendition jet was waiting in Europe to SNATCH SNOWDEN
As the whistleblowing NSA sysadmin Edward Snowden made his dramatic escape to Russia a year ago, a secret US government jet – previously employed in CIA “rendition” flights on which terror suspects disappeared into invisible “black” imprisonment – flew into Europe in a bid to spirit him back to America, the Register can reveal.
US Trade Rep’s Updated “Trade Objectives” Continue to Reflect Flawed Priorities
The Office of the United States Trade Representative published its updated objectives for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, including its priorities in the Intellectual Property (IP) chapter of the multilateral trade agreement. Its new objectives in copyright enforcement mostly contain some vague rhetorical changes while continuing to bolster bloated claims about the necessity of IP enforcement for the U.S. economy without any commitment to protecting users’ rights. The U.S. Trade Rep’s language reflect the underlying, ongoing problem with the executive agency’s misplaced priorities on negotiating international trade deals.
Watch Dogs Now Proactively Being Blamed For Traffic Sign Hacking By Apparent Pre-Crime Division
Blaming stuff is becoming something of a fad, I guess. If recent reports are to be believed, it’s not all hip and whatnot to blame ghost stories for violence, video games for everything, and specifically Watch Dogs for teaching children how to hack Glenn Beck’s iPad. And speaking of Watch Dogs, the game du jour, it apparently has such a target on its back these days that it’s being blamed for pre-crime. Confused?
Malibu Media (X-Art) goes into meltdown mode over FightCopyrightTrolls
Plaintiff is the target of a fanatical Internet hate group. The hate group is comprised of BitTorrent users, anti-copyright extremists, former BitTorrent copyright defendants and a few attorneys. Opposing counsel is one of its few members. Indeed, as shown below, opposing counsel communicates regularly with the hate group’s leader. Members of the hate group physically threaten, defame and cyber-stalk Plaintiff as well everyone associated with Plaintiff. Their psychopathy is criminal and scary.
By administering and using the defamatory blog www.fightcopyrighttrolls.com, “Sophisticated Jane Doe” (“SJD”) leads the hate group. SJD is a former defendant is a suit brought by another copyright owner… She is a self-admitted BitTorrent copyright infringer. SJD’s dedicates her life to stopping peer-to-peer infringement suits.
The US is at war… with itself
Police SWAT teams are now deployed tens of thousands of times each year, increasingly for routine jobs. Masked, heavily armed police officers in Louisiana raided a nightclub in 2006 as part of a liquor inspection. In Florida in 2010, officers in SWAT gear and with guns drawn carried out raids on barbershops that mostly led only to charges of “barbering without a license.”
Pony pantie website
This is somewhat disturbing… There’s a guy who wants $100 to start a web site to show himself wearing my little pony panties.
Amazon Got ‘Photography Against A White Background’ Patent Because CAFC Says Obvious Ideas Must Be Written Down
So, about a month ago, we [Techdirt] wrote about Amazon’s ridiculous new patent on “photography against a white background,” which got a fair bit of attention. There were debates among photographers, patent lawyers and lots of other people with opinions about just how legitimate (or not) the patent really was (hint: it’s not). However, Charles Duan, Public Knowledge’s patent expert, has written up a fantastic explanation for how Amazon was able to get the patent. And the main culprit, in a twist that should surprise no one is… CAFC. Yes, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit strikes again.
The ethically challenged court that is at the root of so many problems in the patent system, often thanks to a too close relationship with patent lawyers, is the heart of the problem once again. Even with the Supreme Court unanimously reversing CAFC left and right (and even saying that CAFC “fundamentally misunderstands what it means to infringe” a patent), CAFC is still causing all sorts of damage.
Head over to Techdirt to read the full article. It will make most people cringe.
Project Riven
on our website you can buy the game and food with a discount. you buy the game for €50 * 8 = €400. you might say that’s a lot of money, but for €30 you can buy food for 8 people for an entire 24 hour LAN-party. so for €430 you have 8 games and enough food for the entire LAN-party. if you divide that by 8 its €53,75 per person and you own the game for the rest of your life.
the biggest risk is the ability to deliver. delivering the product is the most important this as a web shop and we are looking for a storage to place enough product to last at least 3 days of service.
The guy is correct in “the ability to deliver” being the biggest risk. I don’t think he realizes just how gigantic the task of stocking and distributing food-products across a country is. He’s probably going to need A LOT more than €5000.
If The NSA’s System Is Too Big To Comply With Court Orders, Court Should Require It To Change Its System
This is a follow up on the Jewel vs NSA case from last week
For an agency whose motto is “Collect It All,” the NSA’s claim that its mission could be endangered by a court order to preserve evidence is a remarkable one. That is especially true given the immense amount of data the NSA is known to process and warehouse for its own future use.
The NSA also argued that retaining evidence for EFF’s privacy lawsuit would put it in violation of other rules designed to protect privacy. But what the NSA presents as an impossible choice between accountability and privacy is actually a false one. Surely, the NSA — with its ability to sift and sort terabytes of information — can devise procedures that allow it to preserve the plaintiffs’ data here without retaining everyone’s data.
The crucial question is this: If the NSA does not have to keep evidence of its spying activities, how can a court ever test whether it is in fact complying with the Constitution?(…)
The ACLU calls this “too big to comply,”