Month: November 2016

Trump’s FCC advisor wants to eliminate most of the FCC | Ars Technica


FCC should handle spectrum licenses, but nothing else, Trump advisor wrote.

Source: Trump’s FCC advisor wants to eliminate most of the FCC | Ars Technica

Woman Sues Google Because SEO Guy Wrote A Mean Blog About Her Company | Techdirt

do me a favor, and look at the caption on the lawsuit, and tell me where Scott Pierson is as a party to the lawsuit?Hmm. No Scott Pierson? Instead, there’s just a giant corporation that didn’t do anything here? Yup. This has all the hallmarks of a Steve Dallas lawsuit where a marginally connected big company is sued because “Hey, they’ve got the money.” The rationale for Google being the defendant is just as ridiculous as you’d expect

Source: Woman Sues Google Because SEO Guy Wrote A Mean Blog About Her Company | Techdirt

Dealership Threatened To Post Nude Photos Of Woman Who Wrote A Bad Review: Lawsuit


Dealerships contend with bad reviews all the time, and how they respond to those reviews can tell you a lot about how that store operates. In an all-but-unprecedented and horrifying response to dealership criticism, a shop in Georgia allegedly threatened to post nude photos of a customer after she posted negative feedback on social media.

Source: Dealership Threatened To Post Nude Photos Of Woman Who Wrote A Bad Review: Lawsuit

Officer Clocks Police Chief Driving 107 MPH, Laughs It Off Without Giving Him A Ticket


According to CBS affiliate THV11, Arkansas police recently clocked the Brinkley Police Department chief driving 107 mph in his personal truck. An officer asked a state trooper to help pull the truck over, only to walk up and recognize the boss. They laughed it off, and THV11 reports that they didn’t give him a ticket.

Source: Officer Clocks Police Chief Driving 107 MPH, Laughs It Off Without Giving Him A Ticket

Appeals Court To Cops: If You ‘Don’t Have Time’ For ‘Constitutional Bullshit,’ You Don’t Get Immunity | Techdirt

The officer who had asked for his key told him: “I don’t have time to play this constitutional bullshit. We’re going to break down your door. You’re going to have to pay for a new door.” Corrigan Dep. 94:15–18. Corrigan responded, “It looks like I’m paying for a new door, then. I’m not giving you consent to go into my place.”

Source: Appeals Court To Cops: If You ‘Don’t Have Time’ For ‘Constitutional Bullshit,’ You Don’t Get Immunity | Techdirt

Top FBI Lawyer Argues Against Requiring Warrant for Data That Tracks People’s Location


IF LAW ENFORCEMENT was forced to get a warrant to obtain information about a suspect’s whereabouts from the phone providers, it would be “crippling,” according to James Baker, general counsel at the FBI.“I don’t know how we would handle that,” said Baker, speaking on a panel at the American Bar Association’s annual conference on national security law in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. The executive branch would suffer from “a huge amount of uncertainty and confusion while we are doing investigations.”

Source: Top FBI Lawyer Argues Against Requiring Warrant for Data That Tracks People’s Location

President Obama Claims He Cannot Pardon Snowden; He’s Wrong | Techdirt

In a big interview with the German media outlet Der Spiegel, President Obama was asked about his interest in pardoning Ed Snowden in response to the big campaign to get him pardoned. Obama’s response was that he could not, since Snowden has not been convicted yet

Source: President Obama Claims He Cannot Pardon Snowden; He’s Wrong | Techdirt

Rightscorp Only Has Enough Cash to Last Until December – TorrentFreak

Good riddance, I say

Rightscorp’s dream of turning piracy into profit continues to be a nightmare. In its latest quarterly filing the anti-piracy outfit reports revenue down 35% over the same period last year, alongside a loss of $385,433. Year to date, the company has lost almost $1.4m and only has enough money to last until December.

Source: Rightscorp Only Has Enough Cash to Last Until December – TorrentFreak