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Comment Re: You cannot destroy data, harmless or not ... (Score 1) 149

So every corporation is liable for obstruction now for following their own data retention policies?

That depends on their policies. If they have competent legal counsel (and don't own/rent significant numbers of their own politicians) then those policies will not be only about what to delete when, but also what must be retained.

I'm not a lawyer, but your argument sounds like nobody should ever be able to delete any file, on any device, ever.

That's not how anything works either. If you have reason to believe it might be relevant to a court case, you're obligated to retain it. If you have no reason to believe it might be relevant, you're allowed to delete it. What can and can't be proven in court in between these things absolutely matters, but when it's obvious that something is pertinent, then you're obviously not allowed to delete it.

When a person is informed that the cops want to search their device, deleting information from it (including, obviously, tricking them into doing it) is obviously destroying evidence, so we're just having a fun conversation here which isn't relevant to the current discussion at all. It's very clear that what he did was destruction of evidence. I think it's approximately equally clear that he was being pretexted, but he still blundered and will still pay, and the only important takeaway lesson for anyone trying to learn something directly from this story is don't do that.

Yes, this is all terrible fuckery. Yes, in fact the laws are terrible too; making them less terrible wouldn't get someone out of this situation once they got into it, but it might keep them out of it to begin with. But wow, what a foolish thing to plan to do. And that's the problem with even having a device with a delete code — what's the legitimate use of a feature like that? To protect you from industrial espionage? How plausible a threat is that for you? Etc etc.

Comment Re:We really should stop jerking Ukraine around (Score 1) 11

Honestly, European defense is pretty screwed if Ukraine falls. We'd be losing a million-man veteran force with the experience in the most modern warfare on the planet, and instead Russia gaining their entire defense industry, as well as seizing their land, economy, and propagandizing to their kids and preparing to draft them into its own military - to turn all of that against other states in eastern Europe.

Comment Re:They are explicitly allowed to lie (Score 1) 150

Your first sentence is true. But your second sentence isn't a logical conclusion drawn from the first.

That's your opinion, My Friend. I think you know what I think that's worth already.

Just because they lie, doesn't mean they "don't work for us."

I would not intentionally pay anyone to lie to my face, because I'm not a simpering cuck. I don't know why you love watching the people we are supposed to trust to protect us fuck our freedoms, but it's not my kink, and it's not OK.

Comment Re:2024 called : been there, done that already (Score 1) 11

You do realize the difference between a controlled demo of a drone that can go a max 10 meters for a max 6 minutes in pristine conditions, and getting to a guy who's been trapped in a concrete drainage pipe for 491 days well behind enemy lines, all rescue attempts failed, his comrades dead, constantly being shelled, one foot rotted off and fallen off, the other cut off by him, relying on random drone airdrops of supplies to stay alive, and getting out to him - again, under fire - hoisting him and his rotted legs up, and escaping under fire, maneuvering low around obstacles for cover, without him or the drone being jammed or shot down or him being shot?

You understand the difference, right? The challenge was not "make an object that can lift a weight".

Comment Re:We really should stop jerking Ukraine around (Score 1) 11

I've been ranting about this for quite some years now. The war[s] of the future will be fought with toy technology, and practically all of the toys are made in China. They are well known for their drones. Everyone else is cooked, and had better up their fucking game instead of playing stupid games with no prizes.

Comment Re: Projection (Score 1) 150

That does not prevent investigation and prosecution. The protects the identity of a minor.

It doesn't, really. But even if it did, the files were sealed. They couldn't be used. It doesn't matter why they are sealed.

Actually not a Trump supporter. I just believe in intellectual honesty.

You forget, we've read your comments. We know that to be false.

Comment This makes no sense (Score 1) 22

Not trying to bilk "audiophiles" because nothing makes more sense than fleecing the second most gullible idiots in the world (after people who thought Trump would lower gas prices) but what doesn't make sense is putting a Sony logo on it. The very last thing any of them would do is buy anything from Sony.

Comment Re: Its not so bad (Score 1) 31

I just had the opposite experience with PayPal... See my journal.

When I search for information for complicated things I know a lot about with Gemini, the answers are always at least slightly wrong, and often they are exactly the opposite of accurate, sometimes they are just bananas with no connection to any facts whatsoever. This is going to go like shit.

Comment Re: Projection (Score 1, Troll) 150

He doesn't in fact do that, because many credible people with real platforms have accused him of raping children, and he has not even sued the ones who have done that who he has sued for saying other things. Every time you lie in order to defend child rape, everyone notices you are in favor of child rape.

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