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kj4ips··on Alabama police raid home, take money out of man's wallet over $50 of marijuana
I am not sure what makes me angrier, the abuse of civil forfeiture, or the initial breaking down a door and use of a flash bang as initial contact.

Now, this is only off of one source, but I am of the opinion that the use of a explosive designed to cause hearing and vision damage on a civilian (without any other interaction) was blatant overuse of force, and needlessly endangering the nearby public, as well as the risk of fire.

The civil forfeiture abuse is bad enough, but using an explosive device on a civilian, while flashbangs are, in almost all cases, nonlethal, the do produce sound levels that cause instant and permanent hearing damage, and can sill cause burns as well as other injuries.

I still don't understand how task forces like this can start with this kind of interaction, where a normal warrant has to be served like any other legal demand. I assume there is some special provision that is meant for use when some level of danger is expected during the interaction, and is used to "skip-past" the usual formalities used for executing warrants, that was meant to be used where extreme expedience was needed, or the persons being served were assumed to be actively hostile...

kj4ips··on Freedom to Compete Act [pdf]
While reading this, I found that "Computer Professionals" are often exempt from Minimum Wage and Minimum Hours/Overtime Pay, because of 29 usc 213(a)(17). (104th congress, HR 3448)

https://www.congress.gov/bill/104th-congress/house-bill/3448...

Fortunately, this bill (in it's current state) does not reference that exemption, and only exempts executives, school employees including teachers, and outside salesmen.

kj4ips··on Freedom to Compete Act [pdf]
It's strange, this only calls out one specific class of exemptions [13(a)(1)], the one that deals with outside sales and executives, and not section 13(a)(17) which exempts "Computer Professionals"
kj4ips··on BBC podcasts on third-party apps
Looks like it may have just been cached, a few minutes ago at approximately 9:28 Eastern my podcatcher of choice just downloaded the episode, even though pulling the RSS through my browser still does not show the episode.

Additionally, the podnews article linked in other comments indicates this is just a trick with robots.txt, and does not appear to impact the actual function of the podcast.

kj4ips··on BBC podcasts on third-party apps
I'm somewhat unsure what they actually changed, I'm really hoping they didn't just abandon the RSS feeds.

As of 9:20 Eastern, I don't yet see the second release of BBC global news that I would expect to see for yesterday, which does not bode well.

If you take away RSS, it's not even a podcast anymore.

kj4ips··on The World's Longest URL “Shortener”
Hacker news tested, Tarzan approved.
kj4ips··on System requirements
I am able to login with Firefox 64.0.2 on fedora. If they are doing user-agent filtering, they either don't target me, or they backed it off due to the hitrate.
kj4ips··on Cable networks are speeding up TV shows to cram in ads
Does this mean that the networks are creating derivative works of the content they licensed, and then airing that? Especially if they are cutting out opening titles.

Overlays and EAS have usually been acceptable, and composing the end titles with something else is a longstanding practice, but it doesn't actually modify the content directly.

kj4ips··on FCC fines robocaller record $120M
There is no way this guy can pay that, so I assume he will either:

* sacrifice an LLC (if he has one)

* declare bankruptcy

* be garnished at the legal maximum rate for the rest of his life? (little bit less than 25% of after-tax)?

I wonder if it is worth an FOIA to ask some of these high-profile agencies how much they are raking in with garnishments from gigantic fines?

kj4ips··on FCC fines robocaller record $120M
ANI does not typically come with end-user lines, and is (sadly) also spoofable. There are already some systems for fraud analytics, but thye have their own issues.

A user can request a "trace" (usually by dialing a feature code), but not only does this hit the user with a ~$20 fee each time, but the information gathered can only be released to law enforcement, and since local law enforcement would need to make the request, it rarely happens.

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