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• On the post: Obama Complains That TPP Critics Are 'Conspiracy Theorists' Who 'Lack Knowledge' About Negotiations

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 01 May, 2014 @ 02:47pm

  Re: I do not think it means what you think it means

  So somewhere between "The best theory that fits the evidence" and "The closest thing to fact that science can get without being fact"? Sounds about right.

• On the post: What Inefficient Airline Boarding Procedures Have To Do With Net Neutrality

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 01 May, 2014 @ 02:45pm

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  Just report him and move on. He's got nothing to add to the story or the website as a whole. He's intentionally trying to derail the conversation. Remember Out of the Blue? Say hello to his new persona.

• On the post: What Inefficient Airline Boarding Procedures Have To Do With Net Neutrality

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 01 May, 2014 @ 02:43pm

  Re: I'm confused

  An dumb pipe to the internet would seem to give preference to the closest server, by default giving best speeds to Google, Netflix, and the like who have servers all over the world.
  
  Just because the right way might give what appears to be preference to some doesn't make it any less the right way.

• On the post: The Supreme Court's Real Technology Problem: It Thinks Carrying 2 Phones Means You're A Drug Dealer

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 01 May, 2014 @ 12:57pm

  For a while I carried three cell phones with me every day. I must have been the king of drug dealers. Damn, I wish I had known. I would have asked for more money.

• On the post: Censorious Parent Calls Cops On Teen Giving Away Books In A Local Park

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2014 @ 06:20am

  I have every intention of teaching my kids if there's a book that's banned, they should probably read it. They'll ether learn how stupid these kinds of bans are, or they'll learn the horrible secret those who ban the book are trying to hide.

• On the post: Driver Finds Himself Surrounded By Cops With Guns Out After Automatic License Plate Reader Misreads His Plate

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2014 @ 07:34am

  Re: Re: It Happened Before-- In The Railroads

  Modern RFID chips can be read from hundreds of feet away with a hand held scanner. I learned this while researching a way to keep track of kegs at our brewery. The problem with RFID chips (any RFID chip) is that the signal is blocked by metal. The RFID wouldn't work if attached to a car.
  
  We also researched QR codes, but they would get damaged too easily.

• On the post: Driver Finds Himself Surrounded By Cops With Guns Out After Automatic License Plate Reader Misreads His Plate

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2014 @ 07:26am

  Re: Re: Re: technical solution

  It's not practical for cops to pull someone over then confirm, takes too long. However, someone at the police station could look at the picture before dispatching anyone.
  
  I personally think the cop did exactly what he should have. Maybe drawing the gun was a little much, but he definitely should have been ready. The problem I have is he was dispatched in the first place. This should have been checked beforehand.

• On the post: Driver Finds Himself Surrounded By Cops With Guns Out After Automatic License Plate Reader Misreads His Plate

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2014 @ 05:29am

  Re: technical solution

  There's another technical solution that could have saved some time. I'm also mildly surprised no one has brought this up yet.
  
  The ALPR could have taken a picture of the license plate at the same time it read it. Then, if the system gets a hit, it saves the image. A human can look at the image and double check the machine. If the license plate can't be read, then the ALPR probably can't read the license plate ether.

• On the post: Netflix Exploring Peer-To-Peer Delivery Just As Spotify Gets Ready To Kill Its Peer-To-Peer Streaming

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2014 @ 12:25pm

  P2P for video streaming and a chance to piss off Comcast. I'm in, when can I sign up for the beta?

• On the post: The Stupidity Of Installing Bloatware That No One Uses… And Everyone Hates

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2014 @ 06:25am

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  I have a Nexus 4 that took me about 3 minutes to get sick of it and flash with Cyanogen. But even with that, I despise bloatware.
  
  It's an Android phone. Android phones are specifically advertised to be fully customizable. They're for people who don't want the walled garden of the iPhone. When you get apps forced upon you, it goes against everything that Android stands for.
  
  I won't even go into the fact that probably 90% of people can't/don't want to root their phone.
  
  I do want to say that the Samsung keyboard sucks compared to the one in Cyanogen Mod.

• On the post: Five Illinois Cops Are Caught Lying On The Stand When Defense Produces A Recording Contradicting Their Testimony

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2014 @ 08:32am

  So what I'm getting out of this article is that there is no nation wide government conspiracy, no police state. It's just one giant cluster-fuck. Every part is broken in a tiny way, and it all adds up.
  
  Well, conveniently, those tiny parts are made up of (supposedly) intelligent people. The broken bits should be able to fix themselves once they realize it's not one giant problem, but a bunch of tiny ones.
  
  People are scared of big problems, they think they can't do anything about it. But one person can fix their own tiny problem.
  
  Long story short: Your a judge, this is what you signed up for, do your damn job. Same with the cops, same with the agents, same with everyone. Fix your own little problem and the whole will fix itself.

• On the post: And, Of Course, Labels Sue Pandora Over Pre-1972 Recordings

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2014 @ 02:24pm

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  "I'm pretty sure that's the position that most labels have always taken."
  
  You would be wrong. Radio stations paying to play music is a relatively new thing. The labels didn't start pushing for that until years after Internet radio and satellite radio started to get big.
  
  There was a scandal between the record labels and radio stations a while ago. The record labels got into trouble for paying radio stations to play their music. So the exact opposite of what you were pretty sure of.
  
  The labels took the position of "Get the music out there any way possible". I don't know why that changed.

• On the post: The Logical Conclusion Of Zero Tolerance: College Prof Suspended Because Daughter Wore A GoT Tshirt

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2014 @ 07:24pm

  There are phrases in this world that will sit in the back of your brain and vary slowly cause aneurisms. For example:
  
  "If it wasn't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college."
  
  I think we found a new one:
  
  "'fire' could be a metaphor for 'AK-47s.'"
  
  Can saying something so stupid that it's physically painful count as assault?

• On the post: US Has A 'Secret Exception' To Reasonable Suspicion For Putting People On The No Fly List

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2014 @ 09:45am

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  "Who makes a form where you check what you DON'T want to add a person to? That's insanity."
  
  This is what bothers me most about this story. A check list to say what lists someone shouldn't be on just shows how deeply "guilty until proven innocent" is engrained. Everyone is guilty until that checkbox is checked, everyone is a threat, everyone is the enemy.

• On the post: Google Apparently Chose Not To Tell The NSA About Heartbleed

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2014 @ 03:32pm

  I don't know how I feel about this. I understand fully why they didn't inform the government, but this was a huge thing, they probably still should have.
  
  I guess there's one bit of information that would change my mind. Who was it that first broke the news about HeartBleed? Did Google just skip the government and go straight to the public? If they did that, then I'm right there with them. If they kept it secret, then I'm glad I just changed my passwords.

• On the post: Obama Tells NSA To Reveal, Not Exploit, Flaws… Except All The Times It Wants To Do The Opposite

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2014 @ 07:53am

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  Far too many people believe the mantra "The best defense is a good offense". The defensive NSA would become the offensive NSA, it would only be a matter of time.

• On the post: Obama Tells NSA To Reveal, Not Exploit, Flaws… Except All The Times It Wants To Do The Opposite

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2014 @ 07:45am

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  But the more we close, the less they can use.

• On the post: German Town Shoots Down Father's Plan To Name His Son 'Wikileaks'

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2014 @ 09:21am

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  "if you can't buy a "personalized" bike license plate at Disneyworld, you should really reconsider the name."
  
  'Bort' it is then.
  
  I would point out that my real name is vary common in the US, but it's almost impossible to find pre-made stuff with my name on it.

• On the post: UPDATED: NSA Denies Claims That It Knew About Heartbleed And Did Nothing

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2014 @ 01:11pm

  They knew about this "at least the past two years"? Wasn't this flaw introduced two years ago?
  
  If one person can do it, many can. How many others found this bug and used it while the NSA was sitting on this thumbs?

• On the post: Bracket Watch: EA Upset Early, Comcast Beats Monsanto For 'Worst Company' Award

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2014 @ 05:11pm

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  And that's where the controversies lie. They broke patent law by growing plants? The wind blew Monsanto seeds into your farm, don't you fucking dare harvest them. You legally purchase seeds (and I want to reemphasize legally purchase) and sort them out. Well, fuck you too.
  
  How does patent law cover any of that? That's the problem. The patent law that allows this is fucked.

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