We see this in patents as well. Patents are supposed to cover inventions, not ideas, but you'll see law firms that specialize in patents advertising that they can get your "idea" patented... and they're usually right. The USPTO rubber-stamps just about anything these days, including "inventions" that don't include any kind of real device solving a real problem.
In that film, our hero was framed for massacring innocent people from his helicopter, who were rioting for food. The method used? Well, essentially a deep fake although the way it's presented could just be tricky editing.
It was just splicing. They cut sections of his dialogue, and spliced in a fake voice on the other end of the radio. The deep fake was later when they faked his death so they could hunt him down off-screen.
Actually, they only have a few hundred unique keys, so it's worse than that. That was one of the weird cases that occurred in Houston while I was going to college there. Someone dropped dead at the park from heart problems or some such, and only had his keys on him. They went back to his vehicle to get his ID and called his family to tell them the bad news, only it was the wrong vehicle. Someone else had the same make/model and just happened to use the same key. The person they thought was dead had come back, gotten in the wrong vehicle and driven off, leaving his own vehicle to be identified as the dead man's.
It can be even worse than that in some cases. Back in the 90s, a Mazda blank could open the doors and trunk of ANY model/year Mazda, and could start half of them. We had a Mazda 323, and a locksmith showed us - he took a blank and opened the doors and trunk, but couldn't start the car. We were "lucky". We got rid of that car quickly.
Except the response isn't to close the barn door, it's to burn down the barn and salt the earth for miles around it. That's always the issue with minor problems - the hand-wringers always go to the nuclear option first.
On July 10, 2017, Gabriel Anthony Olivas called 911 and reported that his father was threatening to kill himself and burn down their house. Corporal Ray, Sergeant Jefferson, and Officers Scott, Elliott, and Guadarrama of the Arlington Police Department responded.
He called 911, maybe thinking they'd link him to a suicide prevention hot-line or something similar. Instead, they sent the police. This is bad as it means that people will be discouraged from calling 911 for any emergency lest the police show up and make things worse.
That's bullshit as well. I come from a period where cops rarely drew their weapon, much less fired it at someone. Where they talked down threats like this instead of going in guns blazing. The problem today is in WHO gets hired and HOW they are trained. It's no longer the best getting the best training, it's bullies and psychos who get taught how to get away with literal murder.
The solution is easy - whatever the news companies say google owes them in link tax, google doubles it and sends it as a bill to those same companies for services rendered (directing web traffic). Google was doing it for free, now they can charge for those services.
I had a similar situation with MediaFire. After FileDen shut down, I switched to MediaFire as my primary cyberlocker for sharing (only files I can share... nothing illegal). MediaFire took down one of my files when they got a DMCA notice that was clearly just doing partial mapping to file names. I was sharing a PSP port of the open source emulator Basilisk, while the file was flagged as being the movie Basilisk. I changed the name of the file and reupped it. Lesson - give your files names that can't possibly match to anything commercial less the stupid bots used for sending DMCA notices take notice.
Spectrum has been busy raising prices on internet service the last several months. My bill has gone from $69.99 to $79.99 per month in less than six months. I'd love to see anything that got those prices back down.
"Sound moderation policy", yeah I want the company that has to put suicide prevention nets around its chinese factories to tell me what sound moderation policies are.
What does one have to do with the other? Nothing. You do know that suicide rates for those workers is lower than the general population, right? Also, most American skyscrapers have provisions to try to stop suicide attempts. That in itself means nothing more than the owners of the building are worried about liability lawsuits from relatives of people who try to commit suicide using the buildings. You also seem to think that those factories are owned and operated by Apple when Apple is merely a customer. A big customer, yes, but still just a customer.
If you want to complain about not taking Apple seriously about moderation advice, try pointing to their App store or something similar rather than oversea factories that supply them (and many other companies) some parts.
It's like you didn't read it. There's little the BSA can do to advertise to girls that the GSA doesn't seem to have an issue with. As the next replier mentions, anything that doesn't at least resemble ads the GSA might make will all come across as bizarre or clunky. The GSA has had decades to work out ads for getting girls to join, and those same methods would need to be used by the BSA to appeal to girls. Naturally, those ads will seem very similar and MUST to generate the same appeal.
Not just copyright
We see this in patents as well. Patents are supposed to cover inventions, not ideas, but you'll see law firms that specialize in patents advertising that they can get your "idea" patented... and they're usually right. The USPTO rubber-stamps just about anything these days, including "inventions" that don't include any kind of real device solving a real problem.
Re: Re: Re:
It was just splicing. They cut sections of his dialogue, and spliced in a fake voice on the other end of the radio. The deep fake was later when they faked his death so they could hunt him down off-screen.
Re: No SRV and no maps
Actually, they only have a few hundred unique keys, so it's worse than that. That was one of the weird cases that occurred in Houston while I was going to college there. Someone dropped dead at the park from heart problems or some such, and only had his keys on him. They went back to his vehicle to get his ID and called his family to tell them the bad news, only it was the wrong vehicle. Someone else had the same make/model and just happened to use the same key. The person they thought was dead had come back, gotten in the wrong vehicle and driven off, leaving his own vehicle to be identified as the dead man's.
It can be even worse than that in some cases. Back in the 90s, a Mazda blank could open the doors and trunk of ANY model/year Mazda, and could start half of them. We had a Mazda 323, and a locksmith showed us - he took a blank and opened the doors and trunk, but couldn't start the car. We were "lucky". We got rid of that car quickly.
Re:
Except the response isn't to close the barn door, it's to burn down the barn and salt the earth for miles around it. That's always the issue with minor problems - the hand-wringers always go to the nuclear option first.
Re: This is how you get not just protests but riots
He called 911, maybe thinking they'd link him to a suicide prevention hot-line or something similar. Instead, they sent the police. This is bad as it means that people will be discouraged from calling 911 for any emergency lest the police show up and make things worse.
Re: Re:
That's bullshit as well. I come from a period where cops rarely drew their weapon, much less fired it at someone. Where they talked down threats like this instead of going in guns blazing. The problem today is in WHO gets hired and HOW they are trained. It's no longer the best getting the best training, it's bullies and psychos who get taught how to get away with literal murder.
That bad
Knowing how BAD the USPTO is, I'd bet this is granted.
Re:
If you require a chastity belt, there isn't any trust. Period. It's like the opposite of trust.
Re:
Of course not! Laws are for the peons.
Telling
It's extremely telling that even GOOGLE can't break the ISP monopolies. The major ISPs need to be broken up, badly.
How clever
Seems the muggles finally figured out how to make something like our magical portraits. Such clever little beasts!
Re: Re:
Nope. They're the double-down and dig-deeper kind.
Solution
The solution is easy - whatever the news companies say google owes them in link tax, google doubles it and sends it as a bill to those same companies for services rendered (directing web traffic). Google was doing it for free, now they can charge for those services.
Re: Could have saved Lincoln from shooting themselves in the hea
Needs more flash...
;)
Similar situation
I had a similar situation with MediaFire. After FileDen shut down, I switched to MediaFire as my primary cyberlocker for sharing (only files I can share... nothing illegal). MediaFire took down one of my files when they got a DMCA notice that was clearly just doing partial mapping to file names. I was sharing a PSP port of the open source emulator Basilisk, while the file was flagged as being the movie Basilisk. I changed the name of the file and reupped it. Lesson - give your files names that can't possibly match to anything commercial less the stupid bots used for sending DMCA notices take notice.
(untitled comment)
Spectrum has been busy raising prices on internet service the last several months. My bill has gone from $69.99 to $79.99 per month in less than six months. I'd love to see anything that got those prices back down.
Re: Re: Meanwhile and relevantly,
What does one have to do with the other? Nothing. You do know that suicide rates for those workers is lower than the general population, right? Also, most American skyscrapers have provisions to try to stop suicide attempts. That in itself means nothing more than the owners of the building are worried about liability lawsuits from relatives of people who try to commit suicide using the buildings. You also seem to think that those factories are owned and operated by Apple when Apple is merely a customer. A big customer, yes, but still just a customer.
If you want to complain about not taking Apple seriously about moderation advice, try pointing to their App store or something similar rather than oversea factories that supply them (and many other companies) some parts.
Re: Re: Re: Confused
Sorry, not the next replier, but an AC a couple down.
Re: Re: Confused
It's like you didn't read it. There's little the BSA can do to advertise to girls that the GSA doesn't seem to have an issue with. As the next replier mentions, anything that doesn't at least resemble ads the GSA might make will all come across as bizarre or clunky. The GSA has had decades to work out ads for getting girls to join, and those same methods would need to be used by the BSA to appeal to girls. Naturally, those ads will seem very similar and MUST to generate the same appeal.
Re: Re: Confused
You need to be a bit more expansive on the answers as the article directly contradicts both assertions.
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