http://blog.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1599 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:17:04 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1599

The cop was on a classic authoritarian power trip. "respect my authority"

The real crime here is that the "institutional authoritarian regimes" will not be punished or have a higher authority police them. convenient and a coincidence of authoritarians in general


Cops,principal and security guards should all be sued, fired, maybe even thrown in jail and be granted a criminal record.
It's what they would do to the kids if people didn't stand up in outrage.]]> http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c149 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:16:45 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c149
This shouldn't surprise anyone though. The entire system is corrupt from the President down to the lowliest form of authority. It's only gonna get worse.]]> http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c144 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:15:19 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c144 http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c143 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:13:51 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c143 http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c531 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:13:28 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c531 http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c137 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:13:20 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c137
By the way, kids, over-reaction is good reason to NOT throw water balloons at police: yeah, it's minor in absolute terms but police will go wild in practice, and technically in that case be in the right.

Oh, and take this egregious tenuously related dig: I bet EVERY ONE of those savages played violent video games until they could do it in real life. How could violent games possibly lead to any other behavior than savagery?]]> http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c572 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:13:06 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c572 I'm not sure how anyone could claim that the mere use of Wget constitutes a form of hacking, even under the extremely loose interpretations of the CFAA.

I bet there are a few organizations in Washington DC that would be happy to pontificate on Wget being a dangerous hacker tool used by Chinese cyberhackers to perpetrate cyber-9/11 cyberterrorism on our cybercountry.]]> http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c522 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:11:28 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c522
I don't know if it is the fact that the people who created snow fall misled the NYT into paying for 6 months work where it could easily have been done in a few hours even without the tool. Yes there is still the time taken to investigate the story and question the survivors but to say that using them as an example of what is great and what the future could look like is nothing more than rewarding them for their design and hopefully encouraging them to make more of it available on their site.

I am surprised that the NYT could think that pointing to them as a good example of what their software can achieve is bad in any way.

If i was stroll i would have take a story and created a site and used that to show how useful the software is, ignore the NYT give them no acknowledgment for their design and just release it as something new.
With the NYT going so crazy and not thinking they have enabled scroll to get a lot of much needed advertising, something i doubt was their intention to start with.]]> http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c513 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:10:28 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c513
Please show the actual fair use here, pointing to the fair use laws to explain.]]> http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c130 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:08:35 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c130
Number 2 does not seem too useful when Police Officers can lie but sure if their sanity is questioned then they can be sent off to be evaluated.

Number 4 seems a fair request and part of the job agreement but weekly seems a bit too intrusive where random checks can work better.

This whole case though is about cops not following established procedure rules, and even in breaking the law, where they will indeed be judged and fairly punished for what they have done.

I would hope to see in this case that the system works with no changes needed beyond reminding Police Officers to actually follow the law and standard procedures.]]> http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c129 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:06:58 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c129 http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/11032823096/how-low-can-drones-go.shtml#c807 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:06:18 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/11032823096/how-low-can-drones-go.shtml#c807 http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c122 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:04:56 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c122 http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130421/21241622795/angry-prenda-is-angry.shtml#c382 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:04:11 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130421/21241622795/angry-prenda-is-angry.shtml#c382 continues to entertain.]]> http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c560 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:01:29 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c560 ... yet they ignore the robots.txt file's disallow instructions, and not only that, but publicly display links found on a site where those links were clearly delineated as "disallow" in that file.

Do you have a citation for that? It's not that I don't believe you - just haven't heard that one before.]]> http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1582 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:00:37 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1582
Authoritarians and the sheeple following them are complete assholes.]]> http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/11032823096/how-low-can-drones-go.shtml#c794 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:57:45 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/11032823096/how-low-can-drones-go.shtml#c794
End of story.]]> http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c121 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:57:08 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c121 http://blog.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130521/20101423164/att-says-you-can-use-any-video-streaming-app-you-want-just-as-soon-as-it-can-get-meter-running.shtml#c161 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:56:08 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130521/20101423164/att-says-you-can-use-any-video-streaming-app-you-want-just-as-soon-as-it-can-get-meter-running.shtml#c161 http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c105 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:52:02 PDT http://blog.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c105