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Again... People seem to be making their own rules for a stitation that the DOT already calls out

>Generally, no. If you have met the following conditions, airlines are not allowed to deny you permission to board, or remove you from the flight if you have already boarded the flight: You have checked-in for your flight before the check-in deadline set by the airlines; and A gate agent has accepted your paper boarding pass or electronically scanned your boarding pass and let you know that you may proceed to board

https://www.transportation.gov/individuals/aviation-consumer...


These rules were changed after this incident:

> "On January 13, 2021, the United States Department of Transportation amended its rules, forbidding involuntarily bumping from an overbooked flight after boarding starting on April 21."


> Generally, no. If you have met the following conditions, airlines are not allowed to deny you permission to board, or remove you from the flight if you have already boarded the flight: You have checked-in for your flight before the check-in deadline set by the airlines; and A gate agent has accepted your paper boarding pass or electronically scanned your boarding pass and let you know that you may proceed to board

That is pretty clear, so you can stop making up stuff for the sake of an invalid argument.


Keep reading. The next paragraph gives a bunch of easy to fake reasons for the airline to do it anyway.


Nice... This is cool. I really don't understand how recipe sites are so terrible... Why have they settled into that equilibrium?


The real question is - HOW can we control data that can be screen-shotted like images? Is it really a "genie out of the bottle" or is there some technical way that we can evolve file formats to ensure the owners of an image retain control of the rights to use and reproduce that image?


The real question is - HOW can we control data that can be screen-shotted like images? Is it really a "genie out of the bottle" or is there some technical way that we can evolve file formats to ensure the owners of an image retain control of the rights to use and reproduce that image?


Well she sold the rights to the image. Even if technical restrictions were possible, it wouldn't matter because she isn't the owner of the image.

As far as technically - given this was published in a paper magazine, it would be pretty impossible to prevent duplication - the so-called "analog hole"


ignore the specific case here - I am talking about the general case...


Fair enough - DRM is a thing. Its not typically the most robust thing, but people have certainly tried and modern cpus have secure enclaves that make implementing such a thing sort of fesible (see for example widevine).

However ultimately at some point, you have to convert the image to photons to look at it, and its pretty hard to prevent someone from taking a photo of those photons. I guess you could require every camera to auto recognize copyrighted work and refuse (think EURion constellation or Cinavia) but that is pretty orwellian and you still have plain old analog cameras.


Who said the owner has rights to stop me taking a picture?

Just because you have copyright does not mean I cannot make a copy for purposes of journalism, critique, inveatigation, law enforcement, etc.

Thr idea that my liberty should be limited to help copyright holder make money is obscene.


Centralized kill switches for information? Sounds like the dream of a tyrannical government, pretty dystopian and not something anyone should want.


no - a file format (or something else) that enforces rights of the owner of the data.


It’s all the same. For it to be possible for an image to stop you from taking a photo of it, your camera would need to be complicit in the scheme. That is just fodder for tyranny.


Nobody publishes RAW files, you edit them and publish a jpeg. That means you don’t need the camera to be complicit, you just need to add that DRM step to your editing process.


I don’t think you understand what I’m saying. As long as you can capture an image of something, be that by capturing your screen buffer a.k.a. screenshoting, or just pulling out your camera and taking a picture, any DRM scheme for images is circumventable by a child unless your device being complicit in the censorship.

The core point of the article is an image that was scanned in the 1970s. Preventing the spread of something like that requires a system where your devices don’t do what you want them to.


You are exposing your lack of knowledge on what it means to run a multinational corporation. It isn't one lucky choice, it is strategy and execution over the long term. This is the same for any successful company.


Oh? In which case, given your mastery of the topic, you should be easily able to produce the list I'm asking for.

Given that nobody has so far, and given all the handwaving like yours, I think you all have answered my question.


Facebook hasn't been around long enough to talk about its "long term".


You are misunderstanding or wilfully ignoring the details. They talk about interoperability as a key part of how this will become reality, and the fact that no single company can realise this vision...


I am misunderstanding then. I am also probably willfully assuming Facebook will continue to operate as they have been — trying to steer all users to their site, keep them engaged on their site.


Lol...you want him to have built more than one of the most successful businesses in history? It isn't one idea that got him here.. Everyone's a critic.


How is that not what is happening right now? Would you recommend users take responsibility for being custodians of their own data? If so, how will the average user keep that data safe without resources and understanding of the threats their data face?


Facebook is a monolith with 3 billion users. Instead they could be a technology vendor helping communities of manageable sizes run their own private/public social networks with their own moderation and data privacy needs, along with other companies, federated across geographic, corporate, and community lines using standardized protocols, like the standardized international telephone system or email.


Isnt that Facebook Groups? Interoperability is part of upcoming regulations which will facilitate the standards you mention. FB is still a company, not a nationalised infrastructure.


Why would it? Most people don't want that experience...


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