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  1. Re:The ONLY Way this should work is... on Watching the Police: Will Two-Way Surveillance Reduce Crime? · · Score: 1

    Agreed, a corrupt officer would form a pattern where on a report of malfunctions per year or something they'd glare out way above the rest flagging them for further investigation. It's not instant, but its better than the nothing we have now, besides basically peer reviews inside the department.

  2. Re:The ONLY Way this should work is... on Watching the Police: Will Two-Way Surveillance Reduce Crime? · · Score: 1

    So I argue that people are sometime falsely accused of rape and I get called a rapist? You poor fool... you represent everything that's wrong with the country. Hopefully you can experience it first hand one day.

  3. Re:Well, you were dumb enough on Banking Malware, Under the Hood · · Score: 1

    I don't get any emails from my bank, but I do on less important accounts, I tend to click the link also and what lets me sleep at night is the security cert's browser logo that basically states that this is the certificate and here's who it's issued by (I forget the exact lingo).

  4. Re:The ONLY Way this should work is... on Watching the Police: Will Two-Way Surveillance Reduce Crime? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why don't you let your balls drop before making any more arguments boy? :)

    You have no understanding of any law it seems, or the fact that in a rape case you're guilty until proven innocent based on the female's statement. Regulatory agencies sometimes work, ever heard of the FDA or FCC, you can thank them for your meat (largely) not having salmonella, or not blowing our your ear drums when your TV switches to commercial.

    Of course you're probably just going to reply with some dumbass remark that makes no fuckin sense, so... have at it!

  5. Re:The ONLY Way this should work is... on Watching the Police: Will Two-Way Surveillance Reduce Crime? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let's think about this for a second, lets say you were falsely arrested for rape, it happens EVERY day thanks to a certain breed of woman, would you really want that footage to immediately be uploaded for the public's viewing? Probably not.

    The police department isn't the right department to regulate the police department either, they've had enough chances. We'd need yet another government regulatory agency for this to work. It'd also make being a cop even tougher, so its a shame a few bad apples have to spoil the bunch, but we don't live in medieval times anymore either where it's acceptable to get away with vagrant abuses of power.

  6. Re:Well, you were dumb enough on Banking Malware, Under the Hood · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's a very basic question that needs to be asked by people: why am I getting this email? If you can't figure it out, a siren should go off in your mind as to what this could be.

    I do feel bad for anybody that's been caught by this, technical ineptitude is not a valid reason to get your money stolen, especially considering the average age of the victims (it's up there).

  7. Re:I think... on Can Microsoft Survive If Windows Doesn't Dominate? · · Score: 0

    They make the money back and then some off the accessories and games. They sell the system at low profit or at a loss with the assumption that buyers will need additional things to get the most out of the system, so far they've been spot on and the other game console manufacturer's have adapted this model.

  8. This is funny because... on IBM Buys Dallas Based Softlayer For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    AWS (Amazon web services) is the largest cloud solutions provider. So don't be fooled, privately owned is the keyword here, like anybody gives a shit in regards to solutions.

  9. I think... on Can Microsoft Survive If Windows Doesn't Dominate? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft makes more money on Xbox & business licensing than in the consumer market.

    Consumer MS has been declining for a while now.

    Doesn't stop some dumbass author from writing an article, or an editor who can't distinguishing between Windows desktop OS and Windows Server, from "predicting"/praying for the death of Microsoft via their lynx browsers.

  10. Re:Is there really a copyright on baseball? on Managing an Elite eSport Team · · Score: 1

    The GSL is a "pro" league the equivalent of pro baseball, are there other pro baseball leagues besides the MLB you're aware of?

    If say the Yankees wanted to play in another league, they wouldn't be able to under the Yankees and players would have to term their affiliation with the organization as MLB owns the copyright to that before they could be broadcasted in another league on another team.

  11. Re:Temperature probes are pretty cheap on IBM Uses Roomba Robots To Plot Data Center Heat · · Score: 1

    You can move the roomba data center to data center though as a fleet. With temperature probes you have to factor in the labor cost as well in installing them and configuring the reporting software.

  12. Re:Whether another league can start on Managing an Elite eSport Team · · Score: 1

    The MLB actually owns the copyright, ceasing broadcasting is not enough, they'd have to relinquish the copyright or grant permission for somebody else to do it. Same thing applies to Blizzard & the GSL. Blizzard has given permission to the GSL to do its thing.

  13. Mentality on SCOTUS Says DNA Collection Permissible After Arrest · · Score: 1

    This is the whole lets see what you have if you have nothing to hide type decision. The theory being that somebody brought in for being rowdy might be a car thief from the neighboring state, but how about some competent police work to catch the thief in the other state rather than assuming anybody they pick up can be guilty?

    The pigs of authority have scored a major blow here, and we're two steps closer to becoming an Orwellian state.

  14. Re:So what if Blizzard were to object? on Managing an Elite eSport Team · · Score: 1

    Same thing that happens when the mlb, nhl and nfl pro sports organizations do, the broadcast is taken down one way or another.

  15. Bunch of fools on Will Users Get a Slice of the "Big Data" Pie? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Individually your data is worth nothing, when summarized it provides trends and statistics, when integrated it can vastly improve the healthcare system and make the government run smoother.

    The first market personal data collectors seem like fly by night type people who don't really know what they're doing. I mean the very concept of willingly giving data for money screams put your best foot forward, greatly skewing the data and making it worthless.

  16. Re:Tesla shorts, not Ford investors. on No, the Tesla Model S Doesn't Pollute More Than an SUV · · Score: 1

    I'd actually seriously consider buying one if I knew I'd have a car past the 10 year mark. At this point its looking like this is more of a 5 year car.

  17. Re:Tesla shorts, not Ford investors. on No, the Tesla Model S Doesn't Pollute More Than an SUV · · Score: 1

    Incentives are a proven way to jump start a market such as housing. It just shows the the government who'd spend your money either way favors those that make 175k a year to drive electric cars. The price tag isn't really that much of a surprise here, maybe Tesla's marketing is a bit misleading on its tax incentives and affordability part as 80k - 10k in tax incentives is still 7/8 the cost.

  18. Re:I was born in the wrong era... on Managing an Elite eSport Team · · Score: 2

    Starcraft's GSL league had it's own channel in S. Korea.

    As far as American culture goes, you're right though, I watched a Halo tourney once and couldn't finish it because it was just well... boring. Playing Halo = fun, watching "pro's" play it = boring. Some Starcraft games were fun to watch on youtube back when I played it.

    They also have several major multi-game pro-gaming tournaments. People show up to those like to events such as comic con for example.

    I think, it's got a future small time, but will never go maintstream like say baseball and football.

    Obligatory analogy: football player vs pro-gamer in rugby action.

  19. Re:What if the person is innocent? on SCOTUS Says DNA Collection Permissible After Arrest · · Score: 1

    what if the DNA is a false positive match?

  20. Re:Tesla shorts, not Ford investors. on No, the Tesla Model S Doesn't Pollute More Than an SUV · · Score: 4, Informative

    They have a very thorough section here: http://www.teslamotors.com/true-cost-of-ownership including how long you spend at the gas station and tax incentives. I still think for about 70k (their cheapest car seemingly) they may be in more of a premium market kind of like the land rover.

  21. Re:Same as last time on No, the Tesla Model S Doesn't Pollute More Than an SUV · · Score: 5, Funny

    A Prius is so efficient that you can't even feel yourself pressing the gas pedal, unfortunately the speedometer doesn't either.

  22. Re:Coding Architecture Models on When Smart Developers Generate Crappy Code · · Score: 1

    Everything depends on implementation, but sticking to an architecture is meant to make implementing the various components a lot easier. The framework is actually supposed to enforce the practices, so while its possible to deviate and not follow the pattern, ...I guess its really not that hard to make those choices, especially for expert programmers (ex. does it require behind the scenes computation? model!).

  23. Coding Architecture Models on When Smart Developers Generate Crappy Code · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't this exactly what MVP, MVC, etc... are meant for?

    At that point it doesn't matter how crappy your code is, all it is is isolated to a single portion of a layer with inputs and outputs and relatively modularized as a result in regards to similar models.

  24. Re:and some can see leaning up and work on who you on New York City Wants To Revive Old Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    why can't you put a lever machine in a booth?

  25. Re:What kind of encryption did the FBI break? on Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the explanation, a few things:

    1. Installing truecrypt doesn't mean beyond a reasonable doubt that you've used it.
    2. In regards to a plausible deniabiliy I may or may not be using a hidden volume, the fun part is to prove I am, cause anybody using it will tell you they don't.
    3. Anything that is publicly known (OS w a hidden container) implies a forensics expert already knows it.

    Last, I believe the current state of the law... has actually changed as a result of this, it was do they know what's on your encrypted container, now it seems its do they know if the container is yours or not.