According the summary, they know they were caught by the spam filter, but then they pretend not to know why so that they can abuse various administrative processes...

All these people acting like they're fighting for world peace on this should ask themselves, what effect does it have on that bureaucracy to post abuse the processes with dishonest claims? Even if you like the person and think it's a great app, it was clearly spam. Self-promotion is one of the form spam takes. Everybody defending him already knew that. Why does there need to be a "what else?" If people think reddit is too strict on their anti-spam policy, they should just be honest and say so!

Also I could point out that most of the penis pill spams from days of yore were also "self promotion" by a small business.

Spamming should be a capital offense. There was a time when that was not a controversial thing to say on slashdot.

So instead of banning all spamming, you want them to carefully weigh each spam, and permit things you approve of?

Kyoko-chan, are you sure you really thought about that first?

I heard it was the new slashdot.

I also heard the place sucks.

I'm glad they're finally taking a stand against spam, though... their user will probably appreciate it.

None of the laws cited contain any language about not being able to ban spammers, or self-promotion being a protected form of spam.

Spam is shit. Spammers are shit. "Spammers I like" are not less shitty.

The industry is in trouble because mergers reduced the jobs, and the remaining jobs didn't go to the most creative people, they went to the people who were best at cultivating influence. Which is almost never the same people that do the quality creative work. They're driven by completely different fundamental motivations.

Further consolidation will just damage things even more, until finally there isn't anything to consolidate with to kick the can and the companies collapse, and then a new cycle can be started by thousands of small efforts since there won't be a funded boot to squash them.

The problem with moving isn't about relocating staff, it's all the network effects in LA that made the industry big in the first place, that made the output better than efforts elsewhere. Every consolidation destroys part of that network. Every outsourcing destroys part of it. Moving is a self-imposed maximizing of the problem, dropping network effect close to zero.

"Some wirbles are wobbles, therefore all wirbles are wobbles."

No, you're wrong.

That's how it happened here... the City Council saw how angry people were and realized if they didn't act we'd use the ballot measure, and forcing us to do that would probably get them replaced so they cancelled the contract. Half of them had to do a 180 for that, but nobody cares that their first statements were on the wrong side, since in fact they did the right thing when the vote came up.

Ballot measures are by far the strongest tool for Democracy. And in a Republic, it keeps those "Democratic Traditions" alive.

"An istory" is bad enough, but you really say "an opper?" For real?

I am not a lawyer, but bagging them to interfere with the signal might actually be just as federal a charge as a jammer, whereas cutting them down is likely only a State charge.

Usually federal charges are a lot worse. The food might be better, but you'll be there a lot longer...

Finally, after all these years, the tinfoil hats finally finally finally can protect our freedom from a giant evil conspiracy.

Tin foil brigade, call up all your friends, mobilize, your day has come!

It's not about where they put the cameras, it's about access to the data.

The police won't have it again in my city, because we forced the City Council to cancel the contract.

If they replace a contract that the City Council forced them to cancel with a similar contract, without going to the City Council for permission, we'll end up with the new Chief of Police, and that contract also cancelled.

My advice: If your city government doesn't respond to community demands... elect different people.

Another point is that in my State we have a functioning and effective Ballot Measure system of Direct Democracy, and if the City Council refuses to implement the Will of the People, we'll pass an ordinance using Direct Democracy to get our way. And when that happens against the will of the politicians, those politicians almost always get replaced (at the primary stage!) in the next election.

All the places in the US where the People have no local power are places that lack Direct Democracy as a backup, or that let the politicians hobble that system.

You are, intentionally or not, playing the role of "useful idiot." (I suspect that you do know, and it's intentional, based on your long history of commenting in support of all things horrible)

It wasn't my point, I simply saw it happening and spoke up, falsely thinking that would clue you in.

For the former, it's not useful for that. The file metadata already serves that role. The testimony of the person claiming it already will be the only evidence. Opposing council can say, "nu uh," and the Court is going to weigh "testimony by the creator" against "nothing." Testimony wins against nothing. Futhermore, "some guy made an app that has a database that I claim proves I took the picture" isn't actually different than "I claim I took the picture." You uploaded the picture first, that doesn't prove you took it, and the person or company that made the app is going to have to show and give testimony, or else it's not worth anything.

For the latter, it's the same; "I uploaded it first" doesn't prove anything.

If you want to prove you took a picture, use a camera and shoot in RAW, and never share the RAW file. This is a case where the "solution" is less robust that than the existing practice.

Mozilla could also simply become un-captured, and instead of a giant paycheck machine for managers and executives, it could go back to being an association of developers with a common interest. Supported by individual donations.

The budget would be smaller, but the output might increase in quality. And the number of new lines of code that are just feature thrash could potentially be reduced.