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• On the post: Keurig Will Use DRM In New Coffee Maker To Lock Out Refill Market

  

  Rabbit80 ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2014 @ 07:30am

  Re: Re:

  Luckily for me, I work just beneath a specialist green bean importer / distributor.. I get all the fresh coffee I want (usually 1-2kg at a time) - and its usually roasted / ground the same day! Much better than ANY of the muck you can buy in a supermarket!

• On the post: 'State Secrets,' Non-Denials And Lies: How The Government Tried To Bury Its 'No Fly' List Screwup

  

  Rabbit80 ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2014 @ 03:18am

  Re: Re: In other words...

  I chose my words carefully. The terrorists have not won yet - there are still plenty of people left fighting this.

• On the post: 'State Secrets,' Non-Denials And Lies: How The Government Tried To Bury Its 'No Fly' List Screwup

  

  Rabbit80 ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2014 @ 10:34am

  In other words...

  The terrorists are winning. They have created exactly what they wanted.

• On the post: Professional Wrestling Just Bodyslammed Their PPV Business Model

  

  Rabbit80 ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2014 @ 01:59am

  Lets hope..

  ...that they don't attempt to impose silly regional blocks and that this service is available worldwide!

• On the post: You Don't Own What You 'Bought': Disney And Amazon Play The Role Of The Grinch In Taking Back Purchased Film

  

  Rabbit80 ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2013 @ 05:35am

  Re:

  Indeed.. I have a couple of hundred games on Steam now and their service has generally been exemplary. I can still download, access and play games that I purchased in 2004.

• On the post: United Airlines Nearly Kills Pet, Aims For Streisand Glory Instead Of Paying Vet Bill

  

  Rabbit80 ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2013 @ 07:17am

  Re: Re: Re: Where can I donate?

  It could be this story..
  
  http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2003652872_webhouse05m.html

• On the post: Facing Backlash And A UK Govt Inquiry, LG Now Claims To Be 'Looking Into' Its Smart TVs' Data-Slurping Habits

  

  Rabbit80 ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2013 @ 05:11am

  Re: Case in point #3 through 5000: Google, once people wake up!

  The thing with Google is that I know they are harvesting my data - and I am guilty of letting them do that. For that priveledge, they give me some great things for FREE - we have Google maps / streetview - including on my phone which runs a Google operating system (that I get FREE, remember when sat-nav was expensive?), A secure modern browser which is FREE, a fantastic search engine which is FREE, many of Googles services that rely on the harvested information are genuinely useful, etc etc...
  
  In the case of LG in this story, the data was harvested WITHOUT permission or knowledge, overstepped the bounds of what might be acceptable and served no useful function for the end user (Most people would agree that additional advertising on your TV is excessive).
  
  Google is very transparent about what they collect and how they use the info - LG has been dishonest and overstepped the mark.

• On the post: Turns Out Paul Hansmeier's ADA Lawsuits Were Filed Without Knowledge Of The Plaintiffs

  

  Rabbit80 ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2013 @ 02:44pm

  Re: And they'd have got away with it too, except for you meddling kids!

  Fake comment - unless you forgot your timestamp / secret code?

• On the post: Cablevision Realizes It Argued Against Its Own Interests In Aereo Case; Flips Sides

  

  Rabbit80 ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2013 @ 03:44pm

  Sounds like a shrewd move...

  .. by the Cablevision lawyers. They just guaranteed themselves a truck load of extra pay!

• On the post: Lavabit Tried Giving The Feds Its SSL Key In 11 Pages Of 4-Point Type; Feds Complained That It Was Illegible

  

  Rabbit80 ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2013 @ 08:55am

  Re:

  I guess you don't read through the comments then?

• On the post: Lavabit Tried Giving The Feds Its SSL Key In 11 Pages Of 4-Point Type; Feds Complained That It Was Illegible

  

  Rabbit80 ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2013 @ 07:25am

  Re: Re:

  In fact, the quickest way to do this would be to have multiple typists copy the text and perform a test for differences across the produced text.

• On the post: Lavabit Tried Giving The Feds Its SSL Key In 11 Pages Of 4-Point Type; Feds Complained That It Was Illegible

  

  Rabbit80 ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2013 @ 07:22am

  Re:

  "OCR does exist and is quite feasible..."
  
  Unless you know of some magical new OCR technology then OCR is NOT feasible for this type of job. For it to work with 4pt text the OCR software would be very inaccurate. Modern OCR software uses predictive technologies such as dictionary checking, grammar checking, near-neighbor analysis etc in order to get good results. It expects text within certain size constraints in certain fonts and of a certain quality. A SSL key printed at 4pt might get 30-40% accuracy at best. Then you would have to compare each and every character by hand - that means looking at two separate images to make sure the OCR is correct.
  
  Much quicker to have it blown up and have a typist copy it by hand. A good typist could get 98% or above accuracy at a fair speed - and they would not need to look at two separate images.
  
  Disclaimer: I work on the development of a document management system with OCR capabilities and have studied many OCR technologies as part of my work.

• On the post: Lavabit Tried Giving The Feds Its SSL Key In 11 Pages Of 4-Point Type; Feds Complained That It Was Illegible

  

  Rabbit80 ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2013 @ 05:12am

  Re: Where is a scanner w/ OCR when you need one?

  OCR is not a perfect technology. Especially on 4pt text with mixed characters and no "dictionary" words it can check against. It would be just as quick to have the data typed in as it would be to manually check it after OCR.

• On the post: Lavabit Tried Giving The Feds Its SSL Key In 11 Pages Of 4-Point Type; Feds Complained That It Was Illegible

  

  Rabbit80 ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2013 @ 01:49am

  11 pages of 4pt text is significantly more than 2560 characters.. A typical page would be around 36000 characters.

• On the post: PA School Being Sued For Suspending 7-Year-Old Student 'Armed' With A Novelty Buzzing Pen

  

  Rabbit80 ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2013 @ 07:36am

  Hell, I used to build shockers from disposable camera flashes when I was at school! Never got me suspended, but did get me in a lot of trouble. Them things gave a massive jolt!

• On the post: MPAA & RIAA Return To Blaming Google For Their Own Inability To Innovate

  

  Rabbit80 ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2013 @ 07:55am

  Re: Re:

  Huh, in the UK we pay way more than you for petrol...
  
  Current prices where I live are around ?1.37/litre or over $10 per (us) gallon!!!

• On the post: Netflix Uses Piracy As Market Research, Isn't Afraid Of It Because It Knows It Can Offer A Better Service

  

  Rabbit80 ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2013 @ 04:17am

  Re: Is Netflix really better?

  If you are using Linux then that is your issue. The Netflix workaround cannot use hardware acceleration thus heating your laptop up. You could use caffeine to automatically disable your screensaver whilst watching.
  
  Once Netflix goes to HTML5 hopefully this will all be fixed!

• On the post: Netflix Uses Piracy As Market Research, Isn't Afraid Of It Because It Knows It Can Offer A Better Service

  

  Rabbit80 ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2013 @ 05:09pm

  Re:

  Never had audio issues - sounds better on my 5.1 system than stereo downloads. As for image - that is rarely an issue either. Perhaps your broadband is not up to par?

• On the post: Netflix Uses Piracy As Market Research, Isn't Afraid Of It Because It Knows It Can Offer A Better Service

  

  Rabbit80 ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2013 @ 03:13pm

  Netflix have a valid point...

  I no longer download TV / Movies and use Netflix almost exclusively. Along with another service which unblocks all regions of Netflix I have all the TV / Film I can consume.
  
  Unfortunately, Netflix have no offline option - so if I am travelling I have to break the rules :(
  
  All in all, it costs me less than ?10 / month or half the price of most DVDs or a trip to the cinema!

• On the post: PA Hospital First To Open Inpatient Treatment Program For Addiction To The Internet

  

  Rabbit80 ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2013 @ 11:11am

  You should think yourselves lucky..

  According to Cameron, everyone in the UK is addicted to INTERNET PORN - including our CHILDREN.
  
  He is therefore going to make us all do without porn :(

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