Melody

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https://archive.ph/20240805165905/https://www.404media.co/hotel-to-search-rooms-during-def-con-hacking-conference/

With all likelihood; it would have been 3 to 5 whole years before anyone could have purchased a localized, legitimate copy of the movie in Lat.Am.

So no; I do not blame them for doing this. Considering that this movie was even broadcast as a "Public Screening" and likely nobody paid anything in admission but for food and drink...I'd even argue this was a 100% non-commercial use. Depending on the laws in Brazil it might even be "fair use" for a city official to do this; as informational and educational arguments can be made for it depending on the audience.

Even if the punishment is largely symbolic and Google only pays a tiny (compared to it's massive size) fine; I'd still call that a significant win.

• Google can be REQUIRED to give users A CHOICE of Search Engines.
• Google can be FORBIDDEN from giving their OWN ENGINE an advantage in search results or advertising
• Google can be FORCED to ALLOW THIRD PARTIES access to the SAME APIs used in Chrome and Chromium.
• Google can be FORBIDDEN from BLOCKING THIRD PARTY FRONTENDS from using Google Search, Youtube and more.

It's likely they are trying to deflect on a technicality; something like "Medical experts say ...[etc etc]... at 108F."

They tend to do that a lot. Unfortunately that's probably the heat lethal point; and it can vary a lot based on weight and size; which a doctor or educated practitioner would know; but not an average prison guard, captain or warden who is only intelligent enough to go by what their little book says.

Obviously they are not taught nor instructed to have any compassion whatsoever; and prisoners' complaints are routinely ignored, intentionally misrouted, mishandled and withheld without good reason.

It's oftentimes 10x worse in states like Texas...where the usual attitude is to dehumanize prisoners. I genuinely hope they are forced to reform things and stop slacking.

Disgusting. I hope this stupid cop rots in jail for life.

It's apparent there's a crisis brewing in Law Enforcement and Officers are not getting trained properly. Frankly, I don't care what police training says; it isn't smart to use a sidearm on somebody who does not have any kind of weapon on them equal to that sidearm.

Similarly we need to quickly dismiss and retire officers to a desk job or no badge at all; who are showing signs of psychological trauma and problems; regardless of if they say they're OK or not.

Similarly departments should not be operating in a manner that can send a stressed officer out to assist someone. Make sure duty rotations do not overly tax them, make sure they have plenty of breaks, and make sure they're fresh, properly trained, calm and relaxed. Don't send the wrong officer out for the job if possible. Don't hire assholes, don't hire felons, don't hire people with dark triad tendencies, and don't hire people with psychological problems or problems with authority.

Being an officer of any jurisdiction is a privilege we should revoke in an absolute instant the moment that any indication of problems arise in their empathy and cognition. Officers need to be good and sensible people with no issues.

There just isn't any valid excuse for a police officer murdering an innocent, unarmed and scared woman like that. For any reason. It was his duty to protect her, and he not only did not do that, he intimidated her and killed her.

Yeah this isn't surprising.

What's funnier is how he acts like a toddler with his hand caught in the cookie jar; blaming it on his imaginary friend or whatever else is convenient to blame at hand.

Make no mistake; this is their plan. For far right extremist believers; this is their most fevered and deepest desire dream. They are, unfortunately, thinking that they are the only ones who are "right" to rule the world; despite how wrong they are and despite literally everything and everyone telling them they CANNOT do that.

To be clear; these kinds of minds have fallen to the trap that religion breeds.

When used in moderation; religion can be helpful for people both mentally and emotionally. It can allow them to cope with, and accept, reality and when they abandon all fear and put faith into something it can bring themselves back to focusing on things more productively.

When used in excess; religion can breed utter lack of reason and sanity. This is the trap. This is when someone loses touch with reality. When you abandon all fear and put faith into something; you become the most reckless thing imaginable; and the damage to the world and others you can do with this is virtually unlimited.

As they say; "The road to Hell is paved with 'Good Intentions'.". There is nothing more dangerous than a fool who believes he is doing the right thing. The foolish cannot be reasoned with, or dissuaded from their path, for they are a fool.

This is Google's way of throwing a fit. They've been thwarted at every attempt to replace cookies with something WAY MORE creepy and WORSE by privacy advocates.

They're quickly realizing that people will not give advertisers free reign anymore.

This is horrifying. Unfortunately this is a problem because most countries do not allow abortion after a certain period of pregnancy; and there is oftentimes no exceptions to this that isn't "a Rape charge on someone they might have slept with."

This means that certain women can get "stealth-ed" by someone^1^ and not realize they're pregnant until they're too late past the abortion deadline because of their biology and inexperience with being pregnant. It's also random and uncommon enough that authorities and lawmakers do not make accommodations for this situation.

^1^ - This also includes other situations such as uncommon birth control failures.

In this case; anti-abortion laws are intended to be cruel.

Unfortunately, women who are unknowingly pregnant also can't get help. I think it's likely the woman did not know she was pregnant until some point nearing the birth in the 8th or 9th month. If you're a woman who isn't native to the country, don't know it's laws, don't know where to get help and stuck on a business trip or company provided residency visa; I could see how easily one could be quite panicked.

I don't think she did the right thing. Unfortunately it's a rare case of some grey areas which too often we tend to treat like a black area of wrong.

I use SimpleLogin; and for the most part they don't show up like this most of the time.

That being said; I also don't deeply do investigation unless the emails being sent from the alias vary from that alias' purpose.

Typically as long as the emails remain from the same relative sender (From: field in header) and the subject matter of the emails do not materially differ from what I initially get on the alias; I don't really fiddle with them.

But since the alias typically is a fixed sender; I also have them configured to include the actual From: header in the alias From: fields. This allows me to quickly block with granularity from my inbox any stray emails that might wander onto an alias without making it necessary for me to kill the entire alias. (Assuming the alias is still in use and worthy of preserving)

But then again I don't have nearly the spam problem that most do. I have segmented inboxes for various needs; and my GMail catches most of my crap being the biggest inbox. Between SL and GMail spam filters alongside of additional inbox filters I have setup there; most of the spam I get is generally funneled to the correct place and spam is minimal.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-ppm-dap#name-security-considerations

In theory this could be defeated easily if a fork of Firefox wanted to send lots of noise or someone decided to emulate many Firefox clients with false information.

I can say confidently that even if you don't conflate the two; the Mozilla implementation can be broken and abused just as easily as the Google one can be.

I can already see how Advertisers AND Websites will collude and break this one.

• Specifically placed ads; targeted at specific website pages which a majority of their target grouping will visit.
• Generate an ad that will specifically reside on a page deep inside of the site; think 4+ clicks deep; which is intensely personalized to their target. ^1^
• Ad will trigger; register "Impression" and be boxed up into Differential Privacy set by the DAP.
• Since that's the only ad targeted for that specific page, any impression is an answer of 1 or 'True'.
• Through microtargeting of these deep pages they can learn a lot about what people do online and could potentially break Differential Privacy.

1 - In this example the URI being targeted could be something like https://www.example.com/zhuli/do/the/* in such a way that when you visit https://example.com/zhuli/do/the/thing/order.php is always recorded.