Mod parent up.

Washington State has a very good public records law; but this is sometimes a problem. The press should be able to get police body cam feeds, probably, and certainly on matters of public concern but realistically it causes more harm than good to have all police bodycam feeds publicly available through, for example, data-mining firms.

Should the time cops broke up that party a kid was at be available, in video, for the rest of the kid's life?

How about the time the couple at the end of the block fought and a noise complaint got called in? Should future employers be able to get access to recordings of people at the worst moments of their lives?

Announcing their names would cost the companies billions of dollars and get the victims of the fraud fired and possibly make them unhireable.

And Reuters would get sued by all of them.

It would probably win, but it would still be expensive.

In addition there is almost certainly an ongoing investigation.

No.

The NSA already has most of that data from their wiretaps. If they wanted to game the market they wouldn't do it using such easily detectable moves.

The article indicates heavy speculation that this is done by insiders in the i-banking community. My guess is former i-bankers who got laid off at some point, but it could also be i-bankers who are using the information to fuel their trading behavior for their firm.

Wrong.

The purpose of the tort system is to incentivize people to act reasonably. It has big costs--a bunch of jerks trying to get money--but that's what it's all about.

Socialized healthcare takes care of the cost to the individual who is harmed--it does not incentivize the high school to act reasonably.

If that were true, then she should say that.

Apparently 50%+ of the people on slashdot think she is lying to her husband about why she wants the gaming PC out of the living room.

The algorithm is dumb. Explaining it is smart. We had to do thousands of long division problems when I was a kid, and it was utterly useless after, say, the first hundred. Boring as hell. Math should be fun.

That being said, most people don't do math--not because they're incapable (I refuse to believe that many people are so congenitally stupid)--but because they're not trained well and they don't *have* to do it. So if you don't spend time teaching math that they're not going to use anyway, you could wind up with a lot of extra time to teach life skills.

Or more useful math. Let them graduate knowing how to deal with the time value of money and needing a calculator for long division--that would be a net gain.

Failure to communicate is on both parties. Therapy may help, but so can talking.

Try making the critique in a way which doesn't put half of everybody down. What specifically would have been a better system for you and why?

The system isn't "against you." It just evolved not understanding you. So make it better.

I think we've determined who should never, ever write grant proposals.

Maybe it's a very roundabout plot to tax heating. Diesel works in place of heating oil, right?

Not being invaded by Germany!

They didn't bankrupt him; he did that. He could probably have hired less experienced lawyers to represent him. My guess is his lawyers were up-front about the rates and he decided to keep using them anyway.

It's a bad system, and his choices sucked at the point where he had already committed what is technically a pretty major crime, but he still had choices.

Pretty much everyone I've ever met--with a very few exceptions--believe that copyright violation should get noncommercial violaters no more than a small civil violation. Basically a ticket with no criminal record and a small fine.

But this is commercial infringement. It's a big deal. The system still sucks, but is anyone claiming he's actually an innocent guy getting railroaded?

Probably they get to write it up as a victory in their funding request. Either that, or somebody drastically overestimated the effect it would have--But they got it wrong in a few ways. (I will not speculate on exactly how. Certain discussions are better not shared with, you know, the Syrian Electronic Army when they happen across slashdot.)

There are lots of targets that would be really smart to go after if you wanted to get the attention of the average american and/or hurt the US markets. But this op... not so much.

It actually sounds like Xinhau broke some kind of law or agreement here, just from the way this went down.

Specifically, they disclosed the company by describing it without ever saying its name. They knew everyone would figure out who the company was. But they never would have done that unless they were prohibited from telling you the company. So they broke whatever was prohibiting them from doing that.

It's unlikely Microsoft will sue them for it (not impossible, but unlikely), but no Western company will ever trust that agreement or law again.

This is a classic example of a really *Stupid* move to make yourself seem good in the short term that makes other people less willing to deal with you in the future.

#GOP has just become a top-10 target for US Offensive cyber-operations...