Incorrect. In the US right now it's not uncommon for newsrooms to strip metadata and use photography even taken from professionals then claim ignorance or worse that they have a license (from a never specified third party). Corporations stealing photography for advertising, websites and promotional print media is common too.

Media companies own the big stock photography houses. The purpose of this law is to devalue photography for anyone but themselves, and to make sure that perpetual copyright isn't a two edged sword for them. The same legislation has been floated in the US.

Are you really so sheltered you haven't personally witnessed 'I don't like the way you look' law enforcement? The variety I see most often is 'Your car looks fast so you must have been speeding sometime, here's your ticket for 10-15 over your actual speed'.

Do you really think annoying them with puffed up story about something they consider trivial will have a better outcome? I hope your first experience with the sad reality is as a witness instead of victim. As a photographer I was lucky that my first experience with actual law enforcement/photographer interaction was as a witness when a professional photographer was beaten bloody for pointing a camera at them while they 'tuned up' someone who refused a search.

That's nothing. I lost Brigadoon!

I know they offer throw it at the ground shipping. We shipped about a dozen computers and at least half literally had the metal case warped. One had a fork lift tine driven through the box. One of our branch employees saw the UPS delivery driver throwing packages out of the truck onto the concrete. In all cases (include the fork-lift smashed one) UPS denied insurance claims because we didn't pack it well enough.

Besides all of the security companies revealing that oracles 'quick' security fixes for 0-day exploits were actually for severe problems that had been reported six or eight months prior? Other than that oracle seems to make no repairs unless there's a high margin profit in it or they're facing a PR problem costing actual dollars?

Given that this is oracle, I have more questions. How long have they known about these problems without addressing them. How long have they been falling behind the curve for security updates without adding more resources and how many more severe still unfixed problems are there?

oracle managed to 'Open Office' Java for me. They've so abused their position I can't see ever returning to Java. I've removed it from 60 systems so far, very noticeably reducing the infection rate. These patches are far, far too late.

And CBS released a statement saying 'CNET maintains 100% editorial independence, and always will'

BUT

that's 'in terms of covering actual news,', i.e. only when we say they can.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/14/3874682/exclusive-cbs-forced-cnet-editors-to-recast-vote-after-hopper-win

You're forgetting all of the 'product enhancement' opportunities with selling a defective but update-able product!

There is an active security exploit you better update right away. Thieves are driving through neighborhoods opening garage doors to steal everything right now! Click 'I Agree *' or we'll block your install!

* By installing this update you agree that we can play doubleclick advertisements via the included loudspeaker each time the door is triggered. Your home entry and exist times will be logged and reported to comscore along with your openers registration address. Unless you've bought the Garage door opener XL remote and paid the monthly fee for at least Gold tier service your remote use is ad based. Watching a 30 second ad is required for each door activation, verified via eye detection on the include camera.

I told Facebook to FO when they asked for my number too.

Facebook took my number from a friend's mobile phone's contact list and added it to my profile two weeks later. I never gave it to them. They can die in a fire.

You mean Larry will have to rehire Sun's QA team and reduce the number of America's cup boats he builds?

His software is more expensive already. It's just that he's not paying. Fixing it as you build is cheaper than fixing it later. Not fixing it at all is most expensive, but he's not paying. It's costing Mom & Pops cash to have their PC cleaned at (worst) Buy, with extra rape charge if you don't want to lose all of your pictures of your grand kids forever.

The article says he saw the police handling a bloodied man. While shooting the video he wouldn't know the circumstances resulting in the injury. Even now we don't have information about whether the person in the video was bloodied by the police. If he was, that's the exact time video should be rolling. A complete video record is the best defense an honest officer has. People in positions of special trust should be held to a higher standard, and we can start with the 'if you have nothing to hide' trope.

I'm against this becoming (continuing to be..) a tracked/logged/surveillance society where everyone's actions are kept in a permanent file. If we are going down that path though, allowing a privileged class of any kind to operate without scrutiny is extremely harmful. Remember the pre-war on drugs, policing as a town profit center days when most of America could trust the local police? (with the tragic exception of race issues...) Why are we allowing the police to become 'them' instead of requiring them to be 'us' as an employment condition?

When you have such thick law book, you have equally thick people applying them.
Charles Rovira - the mirror

And now that we've got everyone carrying around personal tracker/informant electronics, it's trivial for leaders of opposition groups to have unfortunate accidents (traffic or otherwise). You really only need to neutralize a very small number if you nip it in the bud. Think what Hoover could do with modern tech! (Read about him lest you think it can't happen here)

FYI: Since the phone GPS initiative, phones can have location, voice and camera data remotely pulled silently. Log and data-mine that for Today's-SA goodness!

Nope. TSA is perfect. Todays SA!

Why does a religion that sings 'father, son and holy ghost' when worshiping get away with calling itself monotheistic? How is praying to patron saints monotheistic? It looks like deification from over here.

Lets have an intellectual property tax for registered copyrights based on a percentage of the appraised value of the IP. The percentage is near zero for the first twelve years, then scales logarithmically. The tax is to compensate society for the loss of the freedom to remix and reinvent it's heritage so it must become significant enough that few works remain protected past two generations (40 years). i.e. When you're middle aged the IP of your childhood should enter the public domain.