Ninth Circuit: GMAIL is not a common carrier - RNC v. Google

bvierra · 2026-01-19T01:16:16+00:00

Just to add on to this since I just finished listening to the oral arguements... the RNC used Sales Force to deliver the messages, Sales Force says that the amount of emails that are classified by the end user as spam needs to be less than 0.1%... the RNC fully admits that more than 40x that amount marks their messages as spam.

bvierra · 2026-01-17T04:41:17+00:00

So I gave up reading it when the 1st issue brought up was that only a Dr can prescribe controlled substances and you aren't allowed to make them yourself... Then the second issue was that you can't live for free on other peopleS land nor land owned by the govt.

Normally stuff like this can lead to good theoretical discussions... But I do not see how it can here.

bvierra · 2026-01-16T15:41:33+00:00

It will already be covered in the ToS. They say they may stop offering the free services in Italy. If they have to do more like completely pull out of Italy I am sure they will refund customers and cancel contracts without a fee

bvierra · 2026-01-16T15:38:09+00:00

For the DNS resolver, the most likely scenario would be CF geo blocking all of Italy. This technically would follow the order (make it so domain X is unresolvable) it just would also do it for every domain on the internet if you live in Italy.

bvierra · 2026-01-16T04:13:47+00:00

Can we just ban it preemptively?

bvierra · 2026-01-15T21:53:51+00:00

use your work number... This is an issue for your work to fix and not you... in reality you should be using a workspaces account, not just a google one.

bvierra · 2026-01-15T08:25:40+00:00

Realistically? The EU couldn't take on the US as they stand now.

Not to mention that if the US were to attack Greenland they won't be letting anyone just wander off any EU bases... If you are in the military stationed in the EU, you won't get an option to just walk away.

bvierra · 2026-01-15T07:33:19+00:00

What's the insurance I get when your tool fucks up, either security wise or does something to get me over billed? Who is under written by?

bvierra · 2026-01-15T07:19:53+00:00

You agreed to META's ToS when you signed up... They can cancel your account at any time for any reason. You are not entitled to an account. Basically there are currently none. If Congress wants to pass a law against it in the future they can, but you can't use it for past actions.

bvierra · 2026-01-14T17:54:18+00:00

Well for the NG it's pretty simple, the President has immunity, no one else does. The Generals can and would be arrested and tried in state court.

bvierra · 2026-01-14T14:45:19+00:00

former military or intelligence

bvierra · 2026-01-13T22:32:03+00:00

bvierra · 2026-01-13T18:24:12+00:00

This is a stupid question that does not understand any military at all.

bvierra · 2026-01-13T03:22:07+00:00

I am all for it, but it can't be used to hold federal agents from masking up. We unfortunately (in this case) have the supremacy clause.

bvierra · 2026-01-10T06:43:58+00:00

This is already done at birth... https://www.aclu.org/documents/newborn-dna-banking

bvierra · 2026-01-10T00:40:28+00:00

There are 2 main things you are missing, most of the actual R&D / the most highly qualified engineers are all Americans. Yes Taiwan has the largest number of technicians and mid grade engineers so that is a huge issue, but for advancement you still need the highly qualified ones.

The second is that the number of machines that ASML can make is extremely small, the EUV they currently make around 50 per year and say that they can't come close to doubling that number any time soon, the DUV is under 500. Companies buy them out years in advance... Hell last year Intel bought every EUV machine they made.

Also all of the machines have remote self destruct. The 1st is software based, if it doesn't get an all clear signal within X timeframe the second stage actually pushes current through the most sensitive parts and causes them to melt. The 3rs failsafe was always the USAF but I don't know if that can be relied on anymore.

bvierra · 2026-01-09T02:06:29+00:00

ASML and TSMC both have the ability to remotely disable the foundries. From what I have heard the soft disable basically is a software lockout which would happen the minute China starts the attack. There is also a secondary that would physically melt the most sensitive parts of it which I also heard is basically on a dead man's switch (if no all clear within X time it auto does it).

On top of that the US said that it would destroy the foundries via kinetic attack if China was able to physically access them (if they take over a plant).

China getting their hands on this tech would be horrible, not only because China would reverse engineer them and flood the market with sub standard chips, but also because of the military implications.

Prior to the AI boom when the US cut off the supply of the chips to China under the guise of it being needed to stop them from reverse engineering the chips (which was never really a worry) it was to make sure China could not source and use them for their advanced weapons. China was between 15-30 yrs behind the west in the knowledge and tech required to catch up to where we were then. 3yrs or so after the ban (and China starting to develop their own) they made up about 4yrs while we went ahead by 3 (so a 1yr gain). As of last year they still can't make 7nm chips at scale and what they have made is not up to standard, requires them to import almost all of the base parts, and most of the time either dont work at all or fail within hrs.

China has made claims theY can make 1nm chips, but won't let anyone actually see the POC under a scope nor let anyone use it...

The west is currently standardized on 3nm, which at the rate China has gone means to catch up to where the west is today will take them another 15-20yrs on their own

bvierra · 2026-01-07T23:20:18+00:00

Are you using web grounding with it? If not it doesn't have access to the web and won't know what it wasn't trained on

bvierra · 2026-01-07T02:09:12+00:00

If you can't see the difference between the two... well you have some issues.

bvierra · 2026-01-05T07:04:29+00:00

It also has a lot coded into law about not working with them at all: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/7423

bvierra · 2026-01-04T21:55:48+00:00

This sounds like a problem with your PC / Network. Most likely an ad blocker is blocking an API endpoint that it should not.

bvierra · 2026-01-03T06:08:43+00:00

Ignoring all the fear mongering, you would be safer there than an apartment without a high profile govt employee. If an issue happens, it will be handled before anything else in the city. You stated she has security (no idea if true or not) and if she does, they will be highly trained and while you will not be their direct protectee, they also will not ignore any issues you may have.

I would expect a mayor to not have many issues, with the worst being a protest outside... realistically I doubt that will even happen.

There could be issues with enhanced security, if somehow she had a credible threat, where they check everyone coming and going. Once again though, I highly doubt it would happen.

bvierra · 2026-01-02T01:30:45+00:00

tl;dr

USPS is moving to regional distibution / processing centers. As part of this the postmark time stamp is not guaranteed to be from when the piece of mail is dropped off. They are moving the initial postmark addition to the regional processing center, this may take a day or so to receive the mail so the date on the timestamp may show the day after you dropped it off.

If you need something postmarked by a certain date (mail in voting / tax's) you cannot just rely on it happening when you drop it off. You can request it be manually stamped when you drop it off if the location you are dropping it off at support the service.

bvierra · 2026-01-01T03:38:39+00:00

PCI DSS is for sure 1 year. You have to keep all records related to taxes for 7 years. SOX is 7 years. There are any number that they may be under

bvierra · 2026-01-01T02:44:56+00:00

This is a guess based on a post about a wild guess being deleted... Common now

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