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thomasvillain

Re:NSA Unlawfully Surveiled Kim Dotcom in New Zealand on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @12:24AM (#14907914)
Congress is capable of enacting laws with extraterritorial reach. I am unaware of any law that should be interpreted to criminalize the NSA's international spying.
Yes, agreed. If music doesn't have some copyright infringement grunginess to it, it's not for me. Everyone knows that the best music is made by self-taught DJs and garage bands.

Workplace by Facebook: HR Nightmare

I am wondering what problem Workplace by Facebook is trying to solve, and if they are aware of how 99% of corporations operate? While I acknowledge that SV has for a longtime marketed a Utopian vision of how the post-modern corporation would operate, it was my understanding that this was in fact just a recruiting tool, and not a genuine expectation of how workers need to be supervised and...

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Re:Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber on Monday February 20, 2017 @04:08PM (#13690903)
There are reasons for hiding this. There are also reasons for lying. When you purport to have a slam dunk case of harassment and retaliation, but wait until you want to get press for your book — you lose some (but not all) credibility. Just know that having investigated a lot of these stories, very few turn up credible.
This is why Microsoft v. US re: the Ireland email server litigation is the most fascinating case of the year. (i.e. https://www.lawfareblog.com/microsoft-ireland-case-brief-sum...)

You avoid all of these issues if you just never let your emails touch American soil.

FreeEed

I wanted to share the FreeEed (http://freeeed.org/) project, because I believe that it is very important. The ability to quickly and easily collect, review, and tag electronic documents is important for just about every company -- it is not just lawyers who these obligations affect. Currently, the software offerings are quite expensive. Legacy providers have been replaced by "inexpensive"...

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