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• On the post: Judge Orders Release Of Information On Cases Involving Electronic Surveillance

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2016 @ 02:54am

  Re: Right for the wrong reasons

  Depends what your target is:
  - if it is justice, then it is not detrimental
  - if it is maximising "guilty" pleas and verdicts then it is detrimental
  Now, the court system is meant to be the former, not the latter.

• On the post: Not Content With Silencing Human Critics, Russia Has Now Arrested A Robot

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2016 @ 01:22am

  The US has declared corporations to be "people", so Russia has done the same with robots. Now that robots are people in Russia, can PromoBot get on the electoral register?

• On the post: Those Terrible Takedowns Aren't Mistakes, They're Intentional Fakes

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2016 @ 02:19am

  Re: Re: Re: It's all results driven...

  Wriong place - comments system screwed up...

• On the post: Those Terrible Takedowns Aren't Mistakes, They're Intentional Fakes

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2016 @ 02:18am

  Re: Re: It's all results driven...

  Go on then - report a shit ton of false theft reports to the police and see what happens.

• On the post: Those Terrible Takedowns Aren't Mistakes, They're Intentional Fakes

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2016 @ 02:16am

  Re:

  YouTube, Spotify and so on pay far more but the robber barons of Sony and Disney are shrieking like a boy bands in a concrete mixer.

• On the post: Those Terrible Takedowns Aren't Mistakes, They're Intentional Fakes

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2016 @ 02:14am

  Re: Re: Re: It's all results driven...

  No - make it 150k until the cartels make that number sensible - say $25.

• On the post: New Economic Study Indicates EU-Canada Trade Deal Will Cause 'Unemployment, Inequality And Welfare Losses'

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2016 @ 02:02am

  If the only viable option is to reject CETA entirely, its an outcome I for one would welcome. These "Trade Deals" are generally corporate wishlists that do little for the benefit of the people in these countries, and impose substantial costs on them, often by dismantling social and environmental protections.
  
  These corporates have little interest the value of the deal to the trading countries - just to themselves, so it should be no surprise that they add little if any value.
  
  If a few more go the way of SOPA, then just maybe a more reasonable negotiation style may come about - one that includes the people.

• On the post: UK Court Says Lauri Love Can Be Extradited To Face Hacking Charges In The US

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2016 @ 10:54am

  I take it as read that these agencies have free reign to hack into anyone elses computer (including the accused, and have probably done so) without fear of prosecution. I wonder how the irony is lot on them.

• On the post: Gizmodo Completely Misses The Point Of Cord Cutting

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2016 @ 07:22am

  "You don't get to magically eliminate discussing piracy as an avenue for consumer cost savings when discussing the pay TV landscape just because it's naughty"
  
  Why is it naughty? Most estimates reckon around 1/3 of the population do it regularly or semi-regularly. Seems to me to be pretty normal behaviour.

• On the post: Lead Investigator For CIA 'Torture Report' Explains Why It Was Necessary To Hijack A Copy Of The 'Panetta Review'

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2016 @ 04:02am

  I still struggle to see how it can be called oversight when the CIA can decide what to release. Yes - the CIA lies to everyone, including presidents - how is that allowed to continue?

• On the post: Holy Crap: Wells Fargo Has To Fire 5,300 Employees For Scam Billing

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2016 @ 07:04am

  Re: Re: Wells Fargo also plays with transaction ordering...

  I was once charged and overdraft charge where it was the overdraft charge that put me in overdraft.

• On the post: Holy Crap: Wells Fargo Has To Fire 5,300 Employees For Scam Billing

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2016 @ 07:02am

  Re:

  See my previous post - there is some industrial grade denial going on around some seriously stupid targets.

• On the post: Holy Crap: Wells Fargo Has To Fire 5,300 Employees For Scam Billing

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2016 @ 07:00am

  Re: Re:

  This happened a lot in the UK as well. The incentives given to floor staff are usually in terms of "conversion rates". The targets are based on the "best" staff calculated on those conversion rates. The "best" are invariably those that are cheating.
  
  In one case I am aware of, one staff member "upgraded" the accounts of all 13 customers she saw that day. In return, she was:
  - rewarded with a commission for each sale
  - rewarded with a bonus for being a top op
  - given recognition throughout the company
  
  When her manager reviewed those upgrades, it was plain that the customers had not agreed to them. So what happened? The manager had to contact all 13, explain the "mistake" and put it right. This member of staff:
  - kept the commission, bonus and recognition
  - was not reprimanded (how could you having so publicly congratulated her)
  
  The new targets the following week were increased in proportion to this record achievement. The reason this gets really out of hand is that those staff not making the targets face criticism and sometimes even dismissal for poor performance.
  
  My wife was a co-worker in this branch. As she said, you could do you job with integrity, or you could hit your targets which were spectacularly unattainable. My guess is that stupid incentives structures combined with a refusal to reprimand dishonest behaviour is behind this too. The management need to be sacked whether they knew or not.

• On the post: Austrian Courts Uphold Creative Commons License Terms — For Now

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2016 @ 02:33am

  Re:

  CC licenses are far from perfect. The train wreck here is copyright law which created the need for CC. Due to laws requiring registration being dropped (I guess Hollywood just couldn't be bothered keeping track of it's rights) every trivial thing is now bound for life + (50 / 70 / 100?) years, whether people want it to be or not this change means that Public Domain is no longer the Defacto standard - which it should be. It is not even possible to simply state that something is in the Public Domain, and every use of something risks silly battles like this. Nor is it possible in the vast majority of cases to work out what copyright may apply to a work. CC should not generally be necessary. In this case - a simple attribution should have been all that was needed.

• On the post: Twitter Suspends YouTube Phenom PewDiePie For Making A Stupid ISIS Joke

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2016 @ 07:01am

  I don't suppose the Morris Isis owners club has got a chance...

• On the post: Riot Games Joins Blizzard In Misusing Copyright To Go After Video Game Cheaters

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2016 @ 06:10am

  So let me get this straight. In these eSports, people are eCheating - by using what amounts to eSteroids? Sounds perfect for the Olympics.

• On the post: Judge Who Signed 'Criminal Defamation' Warrant For Sheriff's Raid Of Blogger's House Says Warrant Perfectly Fine

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2016 @ 08:11am

  Re: Re:

  You left out the General Lee. You can't leave out the General Lee..

• On the post: Judge Who Signed 'Criminal Defamation' Warrant For Sheriff's Raid Of Blogger's House Says Warrant Perfectly Fine

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2016 @ 03:53am

  ... btw TD - you have a script being served thats maxing out processors...

• On the post: Judge Who Signed 'Criminal Defamation' Warrant For Sheriff's Raid Of Blogger's House Says Warrant Perfectly Fine

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2016 @ 03:52am

  Sounds like an episode from Dukes of Hazzard

• On the post: Australian Government's Stupid Census Plans Puts Privacy At Risk, May Destroy Their Own Census

  

  MadAsASnake ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2016 @ 06:40am

  Re: Re: Re: Nothing to See Here

  ... but strangely appropriate in this case...

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