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Comment Re:Idealism in the real world is childishly naive. (Score 1) 255

Having stuff that matters on your phone is like storing drugs in your car, you can but nothing makes that smart.

Who gets to decide what "matters"? The government does. In this case the defendant thinks the government wants messages and identities of other protestors. The government may be able to get the information with a warrant; they have clearly decided to use the guise of border crossing to obtain that information instead without a warrant.

Comment Re:The short answer is "yes". (Score 1) 14

It's not today I can do their job trust me it can't. It does in many cases moderately increase productivity and there are a few cases where somebody who is basically an idiot can do something that they couldn't do before.

You are letting your sleeves show though when you go on about the covid pandemic that happened quite a while ago and has absolutely nothing to do with this. Just a friendly reminder that when the baby boomers die in the next few years because those rapacious motherfuckers took all the money and they're taking 70% of it with them to the grave spending it on the healthcare system they ruined if they don't blow it on RVs and cheap booze that our entire economy is not going to have enough consumers to sustain it.

Now if you're one of those baby boomers who's going to be rotting in hell sure go right ahead. You got yours fuck everybody else.

Remember that I got mine fuck you is the baby boomer slogan. That and make America great again.

But if you don't just drop dead then there isn't going to be enough taxpayer dollars to fund the massive militarized police system that's been keeping all those desperate people from showing up at your door. Let alone the social programs that have given them just enough food so they think they might have something to lose.

And you're going to run out of bullets before the world runs out of desperate people with nothing to lose.

But like I said if you're pretty old and most of us are you will probably drop dead before the consequences of your actions actually directly affect you. Maybe. Kind of depends on your age and genetics. I guess you're going to find out.

Comment Do you like being lied to? (Score 1) 14

You can literally look up the statistics on degrees being awarded. Virtually no worthless degrees or being rewarded. Unless what you mean is that when somebody goes and studies a serious discipline and they can't get a job because we've created the economy with the same trickle down economics we've been cratering the economy with since Ronald Reagan then I mean yeah I guess but that's not really the fault of the student, there is plenty of work for them to be doing that would be useful to you and everyone else, that's the fault of the voter who after 50 fucking years still can't realize that it never trickles down.

Getting back to how much you like being lied to, again there is a propaganda Network feeding you that line and you are willfully sloping it up like a pig at a trough. Why? Literally a few minutes on Google and you can find the government backed statistics that tell you degrees awarded by Major and you can see that there is a very tiny handful of people getting degrees that do not have an immediate productive economic purpose. Everything else is people doing work and a bunch of teachers. And you need teachers for your fucking crotch fruit.

Again I ask why do you actively seek out people to lie to you and obvious ways? I would legitimately like an answer and a explanation for why you find that so engaging and entertaining.

Comment They had massive impact on operations (Score 1) 14

If you actually use the site it has tons of technical problems. Also they completely eliminated all the manual moderation.

Twitter has a major problem. So the US Republican party are basically nazis. I don't say that as some dumb edgy insult I mean it. They are active fascists with a heavy emphasis on racism. This is not up for debate it's just a brute fact. We all know what the southern strategy is and we all know that the Republican party routinely engages in voter suppression.

Now the US Republican party would like to give you some plausible deniability so that when you are angry at the Democrats for not fixing the problems caused by the Republicans you will continue the vote for the Republicans and they can cause more problems for you. This is the cycle of American politics that we have been trapped in since Richard Nixon.

So Republicans use dog whistles. That is to say they blurt out incredibly racist and fascist things but they say it in a way that is not obvious to people who don't follow politics.

The problem is automatic moderation tools that exist to ban Nazis going on about the Jews and calling for extermination and whatnot will quickly draw the connections between the dog whistles that is sitting US senator or member of the House says and what the open neo-nazis are saying. You can't fold those algorithms they're too well written.

This meant that the algorithms kept banning major Republican politicians for being Nazis and we can't have that because those people have a lot of money and power.

But the advertisers don't want the out in the open Nazis because they are bad for business. Those guys turn off consumers and you don't want your brand associated with them. Look up the YouTube adpocalypse to see what happens when the advertisers find out that they're brands are sitting next to guys like Nick Fuentes.

So Twitter needed an army of moderators to keep the obvious Nazis off while keeping the less obvious Nazis on.

Musk fired those so now Twitter is Nazi City. This makes it basically impossible to engage with Twitter in any useful manner which means they can't do data acquisition and they can't throw advertisements in the people's eyeballs because all of that depends on massive amounts of engagement.

That means Twitter is basically useless to any advertiser except for scam artists and sure enough Twitter is full of scams and nothing else. The scam artists cannot pay very much so Twitter is constantly bleeding cash. That's fine though because it's mostly being used as a propaganda tool to keep people from questioning why a man with no technical skills who has repeatedly failed to meet promises and whose cars have killed several people because of faulty Lane assist features being sold as self-driving gets to be a trillionaire.

Nerds meanwhile see musk is one of their own when he's nothing of the sort. Yeah he's kind of weird and creepy like a lot of us are but in our case that's through no fault of our own and mostly an accident of birth musk worked to get that creepy and weird.

All this means that yeah the website doesn't constantly experience full crashes but it breaks all the time and is basically unusable for anything except of message board you do a single post too that nobody replies to except box and Nazis.

Previously there was a shitload of really good journalism being done on Twitter Believe it or not. And naturally all of that is dead. Not to mention all the other useful features that were taken away.

So no you can't just fire your whole staff. Any other company that wasn't just being propped up so that it could be used for propaganda by right wing extremist fascists would have immediately collapsed after cutting that staff.

Remember Twitter did not pay off all the debt it took on for the buyout. It transferred that debt to other companies that Elon Musk owns and then a complicated series of stock maneuvers took that that and put it into your 401K retirement plan.

Comment Re:Slippery Slope (Score 1) 255

Well, they might legally detain your jersey, and seize it after verification, if they suspect it's a counterfeit that violates IP rights. But that would come under "illicit" items.

Customs has to prove it is counterfeit then the item has to be destroyed. Considering the vast number of authentic and not authentic jerseys, that would be a monumental task for one jersey. An agent can't take home a jersey because they want. Customs agents generally do not seize single counterfeit items. They seize shipments of lots of counterfeit items. A box of 100 counterfeit jerseys maybe. A single one in a suitcase, not likely.

Comment Re: This isn't the EU. He's going to win. (Score 1) 255

You're not "denied" entry. In my experience they give you the option to turn back.

How is being the "option to turn back" remotely legal for a citizen?

If you insist you are legally allowed to enter the country and still refuse a search, then they will detain you and your devices until you comply.

Different courts disagree whether data on devices like phones can be seized. Physical objects can be seized as long as there are noted statutes. For example, fresh fruit and meat are not allowed. Illicit drugs are not allowed, etc. First liter of alcohol is tax free; additional alcohol must be taxed. etc.

Comment Re:Slippery Slope (Score 1) 255

The border agents had the authority to examine the information on his phone without a warrant.

Not entirely true. Different courts have disagreed on this point. There is no definitive case when it is a yes or no.

Things are different when you cross a border. Due process rights are reduced significantly. Agents don't need probable cause or a search warrant. They can just search.

They can physically search a person and their belongs for physical objects like drugs. Searching devices for data is less clear.

And there doesn't need to be a predicate crime to be charged, or even convicted, of obstruction.

In this case the government is claiming the search was both a random stop and not a random stop at the same time. They have to pick one or the other. Either he was being investigated which then requires a warrant or he was not being investigated however Customs was asked to search him.

Martha Stewart spent time in jail for obstruction regarding an investigation of alleged insider trading, even though she was cleared of the charges of insider trading.

How is that relevant to this case? Martha Stewart was charged with 9 counts including insider trading but the jury failed to convict on 5 of those charges. In this case, Trunick is not charged with destruction of property but obstruction.

Comment Re:Slippery Slope (Score 1) 255

Customs agents do not need probable cause or a warrant to initiate a routine seizure and basic search of your electronic devices at a U.S. port of entry.

Not necessarily true. Different courts have split on whether agents can search a phone. Physical searches are allowed; seizure of specific items like agricultural products, illegal drugs, weapons are allowed. Seizure of data is less clear.

Almost any seizure while under the border search exception is basically considered justified.

Not true. Seizure of specific items are justified. Fresh fruit/meat for example can be seized. A suitcase can be searched for drugs. Agents can't seize a suitcase that has no illicit substances just because they want. If an agent likes my [Sportsball team jersey of favorite player], they can't just seize it.

So if you delete your phone, burn your wallet, tear up your love letter to your EX, flush your drugs, etc. The border agents can view that as "Destruction or removal of property to prevent seizure"

The problem as noted by the lawyer in the video is the problem is the person must be given notice that property is to be preserved. For example, my company shreds old financial records digital and physical routinely because they only have so much storage room. The government can't charge the company with destruction of property if they never gave notice to preserve those records.

Don't like it? Write your legislature to reverse the long-held ruling.

Which long held ruling do you refer?

Comment Re:This isn't the EU. He's going to win. (Score 1) 255

When you use the duress password, it doesn't overwrite the data on the flash memory, instead that key is wiped. The secure memory has an integrated processor that generates a new key.

Here is where there may or may not be a technical loophole. Technically the data still exists on his device; it is just inaccessible.

Comment Re:This isn't the EU. He's going to win. (Score 1) 255

That is where they have him. He did not invoke his 5th amendment right and remain silent... he gave the federal investigators false information which he knew would result in the destruction of any potential evidence on his device.

He asked for his lawyer which they denied. While he did not necessarily invoke his 5th, denying council is a possible reason for suppression.

Comment Under Trump North Korea got the bomb (Score 1) 83

I'm actually a little surprised this isn't bigger news. It's debatable whether they have full nuclear weapons capability but they absolutely have an ICBM that can hit us now. Under Trump they built the ICBM and then detonated a nuke at least according to our intelligence agency and this is the same one that has been telling everyone that Iran is not pursuing a nuke.

Basically if you just praise Donald Trump and give him some fancy gifts he'll let you do basically anything but if you stand up to him he'll send the US military to kill you. As always hiding behind somebody bigger and stronger than him because he's always been a weedy little weakling or a fat little weakling.

I will never understand what the people with Trump derangement syndrome seeing him

Comment Re: Linux Domestic Everywhere (Score 1) 83

Is your Google broken?

https://www.gadgetreview.com/chinese-memory-flood-could-finally-drop-dram-and-ssd-prices

You can find tons of other articles just by searching for the phrase Chinese ram production surge.

There are tons of other companies everywhere in the world except America that could pretty rapidly build ram manufacturing capacity. India could do it. Same with Vietnam. And of course Taiwan.

It would require a very large capital investment that would require loans from Banks and no Bank in its right mind would loan that money out knowing that they would never get it back.

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