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• On the post: Is Nvidia Playing Fair With Their New Development Tools?

  

  Jack Of Shadows ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2014 @ 06:55pm

  Re: Video Sync

  Sorry but that feature dates all the way back to the Amiga 1000 [1985]. Innovation? Go talk to the ghost of Jay Miner on that one.

• On the post: Appeals Court Reaffirms The Public Has The Right To Record The Police, Except For All The Times When It Doesn't

  

  Jack Of Shadows ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2014 @ 09:06pm

  QM

  As has been demonstrated quite regularly by experimentation, mere observation of individual photons creates an interference pattern. So the ruling and behavior of the officers is physically validated.

• On the post: Words Mean Something: How Eric Holder Pretends He Won't Put Reporters In Jail Without Actually Saying That

  

  Jack Of Shadows ( profile ), 29 May, 2014 @ 06:15pm

  Re: Small but important change:

  Yeah, do notice that two letter difference, persecution vice prosecution.

• On the post: India Wants To Take On 'US Hegemony' Over The Internet… By Renaming It The Equinet

  

  Jack Of Shadows ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2014 @ 07:19pm

  Same people, different list

  Funny how that list in many ways resembles the list of countries on the UN Human Rights Commission. You know, all the people who don't respect human rights so they want to be on the commission to block enforcement of same.

• On the post: DOJ Issues Scathing Review Of Albuquerque Police Department' Use Of Force, Tempers It By Prioritizing Officer Safety

  

  Jack Of Shadows ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2014 @ 03:47pm

  Re: Re:

  Our prisons simply aren't equipped to deal with former LEO's. Any incarceration could be considered a death sentence and if kept in solitary, a sentence to lifelong insanity.
  
  That's my concern around former law enforcement officer in the criminal (in)justice system. Hell, keeping them alive through trial is remarkable.
  
  On occasion I've had a badge and for much of my career authorized to use deadly force. There was no call from what I saw. They should be crucified. My question ia how.

• On the post: Shameful Security: StartCom Charges People To Revoke SSL Certs Vulnerable To Heartbleed

  

  Jack Of Shadows ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2014 @ 03:22pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Disagree

  Obviously you haven't been paying attention to those EULA's, ToS, or any other screen or print that concerns IT. Try reading this crap sometime. IT (sic) may not function correctly if at all, IT's (sic) never their fault since you bought IT (sic)knowing this, IT's (sic) damages are your problem not theirs, and lastly IT's (sic) forbidden to use it anywhere near a regulated environment (medical, nuke power plant, airport).
  
  So, what's your point? IT's (sic) not just them.

• On the post: Shameful Security: StartCom Charges People To Revoke SSL Certs Vulnerable To Heartbleed

  

  Jack Of Shadows ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2014 @ 04:39am

  Something for the weekend...

  Nice to know why email accounts I have list subscribed are headed for the stratosphere. No, I really haven't looked. And no, in my downtime the internet can turn into molten slag for all I care. Wait, what?

• On the post: DC Judge Smacks Down Government For Vague iPhone Search Warrant

  

  Jack Of Shadows ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2014 @ 03:53am

  More like never expected to see power-conflict practiced quite in this way and in exactly this place. All motives are suspect.

• On the post: Nearly Half Of Americans Claim They've Changed Their Behavior Due To NSA

  

  Jack Of Shadows ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2014 @ 02:16pm

  Re: Regardless of what Americans are doing...

  Curious that whole banks of questions were withheld. It is extremely difficult to determine if, for instance, "priming the pump" questions were incorporated. I have more reservations (subgroup sampling errors,etc.) but that'll do for a basic challenge.

• On the post: Nearly Half Of Americans Claim They've Changed Their Behavior Due To NSA

  

  Jack Of Shadows ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2014 @ 01:40pm

  Re:

  I've done some reading on terrorism, which makes sense if you are a #1 target, and one of the goals is to force alterations on the society that the citizenry will find unacceptable thus weakening until society destroys itself from within. That's the core of asymmetrical warfare where the terrorist doesn't have the resources for a straight-on slug-fest. Golly-gee-whiz, looks like bin Laden was on target, don't it?

• On the post: Newegg Gets Patent Troll Macrosolve To 'Fold Like A Cheap Suit'

  

  Jack Of Shadows ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2014 @ 10:42am

  Re: I like Newegg's stance on patent trolls.

  And with the best market demographic that they sell to. Works for me and why yes, I do spend thousands there ;-).

• On the post: Microsoft-Sponsored Study Says Problems Caused By Using Windows Software Will Cost Businesses $500 Billion In 2014

  

  Jack Of Shadows ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2014 @ 08:40am

  Re: Re: Re:

  The only problem with that is that you need to purchase a copy of Windows specifically for that Virtual machine. The license that comes with most any computer these days is an OEM which only applies to that machine installed bare-metal (no VM). And don't forget it has to be Professional or Enterprise (finally becoming something normal people can buy). Oh yeah, you may need CALs with that for others to use it and device CALs to remotely access via remote desktop. Then there's VDI.
  
  Microsoft licencing is such a pain in the ass that it's a complete IT specialization of its own. I'm trying to create an any OS, any application, any device for our multiple home/office setup here and... 'Oh, my aching head!' Sorting through all the Open Source and Distribution licenses ain't much fun either as you have Community licenses (what do you have to contribute if you change anything?) then you have the Support licenses with their funky rules. BTW, if you think all of this is bad, I can introduce you to Oracle et. al. Double Jeopardy! You want BSA with that?

• On the post: Mosaic: The Publishing Of Science, And The Science Of Publishing

  

  Jack Of Shadows ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2014 @ 05:19pm

  I for one Welcome & Trust our new CC-BY overlords.

• On the post: Ruling In Favor Of NSA's Program Relied On Claims In 9/11 Report That Aren't Actually In That Report

  

  Jack Of Shadows ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2013 @ 04:52pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Treason is the only crime whose punishment is proscribed in the Constitution.

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

  

  Jack Of Shadows ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2013 @ 04:10pm

  It's not me!

  The last time I searched on my full name, I came up with over 160 people in the state of California with the same name and mine isn't even close to average. That doesn't count the whole US, nor Western Europe, or even the world. To expect other people to realize that names are no longer enough of an identifier is expecting too much. Our means of telling one individual from another has outstripped our social mechanisms. Short of (borrowing from ShadowRun) individual System Identification Numbers, bio-implanted of course, confusion will reign.
  
  Do look on the bright side. Just think how screwed things are for the NSA, TSA, et. al. who rely on individual names as a matter of course. And that doesn't even begin to take into account transliteration from one alphabet to another.

• On the post: RSA's 'Denial' Concerning $10 Million From The NSA To Promote Broken Crypto Not Really A Denial At All

  

  Jack Of Shadows ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2013 @ 06:37pm

  Which throat?

  Which throat should be choke over this? Are any of those people still around? And if they've moved on, with suitably stuffed pockets, how can we reach out and touch them? While treated as people, sometimes (hell, often!) Corporations have significant bouts with amnesia, especially after a buyout.
  
  Thankfully never worked at such a place, 'less the US Navy counts.

• On the post: Task Force Report's Langauge Hints At Backdoors In Software

  

  Jack Of Shadows ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2013 @ 11:03pm

  Ya know...

  ... every time I see one of these government agency or committee reports, it reads like an TOS/EULA 'cept we're the ones getting used or served.

• On the post: German Court Says CEO Of Open Source Company Liable For 'Illegal' Functions Submitted By Community

  

  Jack Of Shadows ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2013 @ 10:52am

  Luck?

  That was why I thought of it in the first place. It reminds me of a certain Joe Isuzu advertisement where the potential other guys customers say "Lucky we ran into you" to which he replies, "I wouldn't call it luuuck." (tortured grammar there, sorry.)

• On the post: German Court Says CEO Of Open Source Company Liable For 'Illegal' Functions Submitted By Community

  

  Jack Of Shadows ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2013 @ 10:44am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Since the code was as checked anonymously, how much do you want to bet as to the source of the submission?

• On the post: Case Over No-Fly List Takes Bizarre Turn As Gov't Puts Witness On List, Then Denies Having Done So

  

  Jack Of Shadows ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2013 @ 09:37pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Agreed. I used to wear the uniform and wherever I went, I was treated extremely well. I always treated everyone as well as I would treat 'my own' especially with an eye to the Constitution whose enumerated rights were natural rights, not something that only applied to 'Americans.'
  
  Now? I'm not sure how I would be received, in uniform or out. And the way that we've treated fellow human beings speaks ill toward what treatment our fellow citizens can expect elsewhere. We were better than that.

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