Living in the Pacific NW. Living the dream.
I write about computing, politics, and fun stuff sometimes.
Mostly here for the fun takes.
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We should be pretty clear about police powers when it comes to accessing public/private data online.
Not trying to take anything away from the awful deaths of those four kids in Idaho. Whoever did it should go away for life.
I’m predicting the #Idaho slayings case will go to #SCOTUS if they rely mostly on a #genealogy #database for establishing guilt. Or perhaps not. Police like to use these databases a lot nowadays. I’m not speaking to the suspect’s innocence or guilt.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-24/law-enforcement-dna-crime-cases-privacy
Police and prosecutors are determined to keep access to DNA information from private, consumer sites. They say that the data is invaluable in their hunt for criminals, including killers. But privacy advocates say that the practice -- which some in law enforcement call "revolutionary" -- is ripe for abuses.
They need to privatize these markets and not have them open to public speculation/ownership. This is effing ridiculous. #biodiesel #SeQuential
Oregon is now going to process all of California's oil byproducts thanks to some publicly traded Finnish monopoly. Where are the damned #regulators? Why is there little or no #oversight over stuff like this?
For sale to the highest bidder, 6 Supreme Court Justices who go whichever way the Federalist Society says:
I am reminded of part of that quote by the late author Ursula K. Le Guin that goes something like:
The power of corporations seems inescapable but so did the divine right of Kings..
Something's gotta give, eventually.
People keep asking why do we have to work for commercial corporate enterprises that rip us off and don't return anything substantial to the community?
The short answer is you don't. If we developed a way to keep profits local and used some kind of split commission on revenue to generate income where the transaction lifecycle was measured instead of total cost of ownership it would help.
The more commercial corporate entities screw things up, the more open enterprises look appealing.
