Posts by notmyopinion

Labor unions sue Trump administration over social media surveillance

Re: Does freedom of speech work both ways?

You say> "The article is talking about non-US citizens who openly support Hamas"

The article says the government "monitor these visa holders' social media accounts for support of Hamas, Palestine, or antisemitism... any individual that expresses non-conforming... views could be stripped of their visas."

So for NON-Hammas-Supporters, this includes those who express support of Palestine (perhaps supporting two-state solution - like most or all Republican presidents before Trump), or who say anything that can be labelled as antisemitism (which seems to mean criticism of Israel, these days).

You seem to be pretending (or mistakenly arguing, if we're being kind) that the government is not trying to restrict free speech.

Finally, whats a TDS libtard? You say it like it's a bad thing, but it's hard to tell exactly what one is.

Open Source world's Bruce Perens emits draft Post-Open Zero Cost License

Re: Very interesting

Making the governance work is hard. Organisations tend towards corruption, when money is involved.

Consider what happened to the popular democracy and the "at large" governance provisions in early internet governance. Now we have policies that are designed more as revenue extraction opportunities than as ways to promote good governance.

So best of luck.

State-by-state is the best approach for right to repair, says advocacy leader

Yeah - the article title was a bit confusing (member-state of the US, not nation-state, or member-state of the EU). The subtlety you mention was only apparent on closer reading.

Re: YES!

Your federal system really isn't the oldest continually functioning representative government on Earth, even though it is a respectable age. Sadly the democratic system has been subverted in certain key respects by moneyed interests - which may be what the previous poster meant by "If your system of national government is broken, that would seem a more urgent candidate for repair".

Yes, the "most rigorous" regulation winning out is probably a good thing in this context. But it is likely to be relatively cheap for lobbyists to weaken whichever state's legislation is the strongest. And in the next presidential term it's quite possible that the federal government or the supreme court might undermine "inconvenient" state laws (ideological posturing on state rights notwithstanding, as ideology seems trumped by interests these days).

European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal

Re: Well good thing the UK had Brexit

I'm pretty sure there are almost no French refugees coming to the UK.

Perhaps you meant fleeing *through* France?

Mozilla calls cars from 25 automakers 'data privacy nightmares on wheels'

Re: It just keeps getting better

Maybe when a company is fined, the board members should also be fined, in proportion to their total remuneration.

The Home Office will need to overturn a long legacy of failure to achieve ambition of all-digital border by 2025

Will it really?

So the UK borders will become “fully digital” by the end of 2025?

Did she explain how the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic would work, without any border infrastructure?

And did she explain how the Common Travel Area would continue to work? It allows travel between the UK and Ireland (for UK and Irish nationals) without any documentation?

Openreach engineers vote to strike amid changes to job grading structure

This has potential to run and run - there are clearly undercurrents of discontent.

Alphabet Workers Union hits Google data center contractor with labor complaint: We were banned from discussing wages, say staff

Re: Sigh!

I think you're missing the point of a union. Headhunting services hardly solves the problem of widespread abusive behaviour by employers.

And whatever the final straw that led to the formation of the union (Maven or something else) there are still issues within the company that should be highlighted and addressed.

Mad dash for webcams with surge in videoconferencing has turned out rather nicely for Logitech

Re: My actual webcam costs $5000...

Logitech web sales seem to be operated by a third party, which is full of one star ("because you can't give zero stars") reviews on trustpilot, mostly complaining about no delivery, and failure of customer service to resolve problems. I decided not to risk my money.

DBA locked in police-guarded COVID-19-quarantine hotel for the last week shares his story with The Register

Re: And this is why the Aussies are on top of it

I didn't find 'Boris on TV' last night garbled at all. There is little detail that could be conveyed in 10-11 minutes. We'll need to wait for the 50 page document. Then we can properly assess the next stage in the plan.

This should really have been announced in parliament, where the announcement would have been followed by questions to clarify what it actually meant. And if this has been in the planning for longer than since last week's PMQs, when Boris was on the ropes and needed a distraction, why didn't Boris have some of the detail that might have gone into that 50 page document you mention?

Re: And this is why the Aussies are on top of it

A timely quarantine would also have reduced the number of infections due to returning UK nationals who had picked up Covid-19 while abroad - quarantines don't just affect foreigners, you know.