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• On the post: Sheriff's Dept. Hopeful Wishes A 'Holocaust And Gas Chambers' On CopBlock.org's Writers And Readers

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2014 @ 08:58pm

  He attempts to defend the 99% of cops, the good cops, by threatening bodily harm and death.
  
  In the famous words of Bender "Now that is irony."

• On the post: Journalism! MSNBC Cuts Off Congresswoman Talking About NSA To Get To 'Breaking News' About Justin Bieber

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2014 @ 10:19am

  Re: pfffffff

  "Wait, does this mean that they beliebe that the NSA is less important than 'celebrity' gossip?"
  
  No, but I'd lay odds that's exactly what they want us to believe.

• On the post: NSA Interception In Action? Tor Developer's Computer Gets Mysteriously Re-Routed To Virginia

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2014 @ 12:02pm

  Didn't the NSA swear up and down that they didn't do this domestically?
  
  I don't know about you, but if I saw that kind of thing, I'd start getting someone else to order my stuff for me.

• On the post: Australian Teen Alerts Transit Department To Security Hole On Website… Gets Reported To Police

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2014 @ 04:51pm

  Re: "likely he used a SQL injection vulnerability" -- That IS hacking.

  Oh, I found the fan-bot, his name is out_of_the_blue. I wouldn't call him a fan, but he matches all of your criteria including 2a and 2b. What do I win?

• On the post: Senator Leahy Tries To Sneak Through Plans To Make Merely Talking About Computer Hacking A Serious Crime

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2014 @ 04:03pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Jackn, you have no clue what you're talking about. Reading this comment and the ones before makes it quite clear that you don't know anything about security or computers.
  
  You can password protect individual files and have the editing software support the encryption. Adobe Acrobat does that, Microsoft Office does that, good database software can do that. Hell, Windows (pro and up) itself supports that.

• On the post: Dan Bull Takes On YouTube's ContentID Changes, Stolen Revenue, With A Diss Track

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2014 @ 08:25pm

  Re:

  Vimeo is a lot more picky about who they let put up videos. Not everyone can use their site.

• On the post: Oh Look, Hollywood Had Yet Another Record Year At The Box Office

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 02 Jan, 2014 @ 12:31pm

  Re: Re:

  Audio and video quality don't have to be perfection for the vast majority of things. Why would you need to watch Futurama in HD? And even the things that are better viewed in HD, most people won't even notice the compression artifacts.
  
  In all honesty, if you're that concerned about quality, you probably shouldn't be downloading the compressed BluRay rips ether.

• On the post: Oh Look, Hollywood Had Yet Another Record Year At The Box Office

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 02 Jan, 2014 @ 12:27pm

  Re: Compete With Free

  I've used their website to try and watch The Walking Dead. That website is crap. You can only watch the most recent episode, the stream is jumpy, and their player is glitched to hell and back.
  
  The takeaway should be that they need to fix their damn website. I'd much rather record the episode, edit out the commercials, and watch it cleanly at my leisure.

• On the post: TSA Agent Hassles Actress For Carrying 'Knuckle Duster' Purse, Accuses Her Of Buying A Knockoff

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 31 Dec, 2013 @ 10:19am

  Re: Why brass knuckles?

  "Yeah, they can't do much while on the purse, but what if they detach?"
  
  Assuming you have fingers small enough to fit in those tiny ass things, they'd do more damage if you left them on the purse. Take them off and they're rings. Similar to rings that millions of people wear every single day.

• On the post: Traffic Safety Administration Takes Its Blood And Saliva 'Survey' To Pennsylvania, With Predictable Results

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 31 Dec, 2013 @ 10:07am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: I'm driving to Reading...

  Why are you fighting so vehemently for something that if done by anyone else would involve fines and possible jail time? IF this is a voluntary survey, why are they blocking traffic and intimidating motorists?
  
  Why isn't there a big giant sign that says "Voluntary Survey, up to $165, turn here" outside of a parking lot? Police aren't required, traffic isn't blocked, and people aren't looking for a conspiracy.

• On the post: TSA Agent Hassles Actress For Carrying 'Knuckle Duster' Purse, Accuses Her Of Buying A Knockoff

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 31 Dec, 2013 @ 09:38am

  Anyone else picturing a short fat guy in a red coat screaming "Respect my f**king authoritah"?

• On the post: NSA Admits Lots Of People Could Have Done What Snowden Did

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 31 Dec, 2013 @ 09:30am

  Does anyone else think it's strange that you can look around the NSA network anonymously?
  
  If there are thousands of theoretical Snowdens, how many of those theoretical are black hats?

• On the post: Former Pop Star Angry At Google News For Providing Relevant Search Results

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2013 @ 01:06pm

  Re: Re:

  You know, that's something I hadn't thought about. Techdirt links to itself a lot for that exact reason, what's there today can be gone tomorrow.

• On the post: Former Pop Star Angry At Google News For Providing Relevant Search Results

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2013 @ 01:03pm

  Re: fuck google

  That's a vary understandable part of the search algorithm. Google has no idea what you're actually looking for so it has to take the vary limited data you gave it and compare it against the same vary limited data that everyone else gave it. Then it sees what everyone else clicked on and assumes you're looking for the same. Since you didn't give it any more information (until the second more specific search) that's all it can do.

• On the post: Former Pop Star Angry At Google News For Providing Relevant Search Results

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2013 @ 12:49pm

  Not wanting to defend this "H" person, but Google probably should look at their algorithm. Quite often I'm looking threw Google news and see pictures that seem to be associated with the article, but actually have nothing to do with it. I click on the article to see what that picture's about, but the picture isn't anywhere in the article. I click on the picture directly and get the same exact, unrelated article.
  
  It's quite annoying. Not enough for Google to get sued or anything, but enough that they probably should fix it.

• On the post: Viral Satire Over Student Suspended For Saying 'Merry Christmas' Leads To Real Problems For Elementary School

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2013 @ 08:08pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  "Nothing hateful or bigoted about that statement, eh?"
  
  As long as AC keeps going with that idea:
  
  "People are incredibly violent people who perpetuate an ideology steeped in hatred, bigotry, and persecution."
  
  It was just the Christians this time around. It'd be the Atheists if it was about someone getting in trouble for refusing to say "Marry Christmas".

• On the post: Awesome Stuff: Computer Vision And Motion Capture Via Your Webcam

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2013 @ 10:18am

  What does a small Youtuber do when he wants to do a face-cam, but doesn't want to show his face on the Internet?
  
  This is actually a question I've asked myself. Now I have an answer (and $40 less).

• On the post: UK's New Mandatory Porn Filter Already Defeated By A Single Chrome Extension

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2013 @ 06:37pm

  Re: Law

  "Proxies are easy to circumvent, but they requires an action to be circumvent. And such actions can be targeted by law. That's the point."
  
  I'm not sure that's really as easy as you think it is. Traffic can travel all over the world threw the Internet. Who's to say that the IP address you connected to isn't a legitimate website giving you a lot of data. Proxies act as web servers downloading the data to their own internal storage and forwarding it off as if the data came from them.
  
  Besides, a proxy block would be bypassed with only minor difficulty. Tor is encrypted, can't inspect a packet if it's just gibberish. There's VPN software that activates with a click of the mouse and is also encrypted.

• On the post: Texas Court Allows Cops To Search First, Acquire Warrants Later

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2013 @ 09:33am

  Re: Why does counter.theconversation.edu.au need a "security certificate" here, Mike?

  "If you don't like Amazon, you don't have to use it." - blue

• On the post: When Vladimir Putin Is Envious Of Your Surveillance State, You've Gone Too Far

  

  Chronno S. Trigger ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2013 @ 09:14am

  My history may be a little rusty, but did Obama get held up as an ideal for Communism? Hay, calling him a totalitarian wasn't good enough, maybe there's enough of the "red scare" left.

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