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• On the post: FBI's Facial Recognition Database Still Huge, Still Inaccurate, And DOJ Shows Zero Interest In Improving It

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2016 @ 02:24pm

  How does that saying go?
  
  When your job is to make sure you have at least a vague excuse for doing something, you're not interested in the accuracy of your data?

• On the post: Europe Is About To Create A Link Tax: Time To Speak Out Against It

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2016 @ 04:25pm

  Or, alternately, let the entire EU figure out the same lesson Spain and Germany did.
  
  "You don't like us advertising your publication for free? Fine, we'll stop. Oh? Your readership/linkrate just dropped into the floor? Ok, YOU PAY US for every link we make back to you now, or watch your smarter competitors buy what's left of you for a penny on the dollar at your bankruptcy sale."
  
  An entire continent wants to become irrelevant?
  
  Let them ...

• On the post: Appeals Court: No Expectation Of Privacy In Credit Card Magnetic Strips

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2016 @ 01:22pm

  Actually, mag-stripes are read/write

  Now knowing what to write on them is a different story, but the tech to re-write a mag-stripe has been around for decades. So, I can kind of see the judges point, that mag-stripe is not a fixed item. It's entirely possible, and probable, that somebody could emboss one number on the front, but the number that got submitted to commit fraud was different. How many sales clerks would notice the difference?
  
  The people forging cards, even those that should have security chips, obviously have easy/cheap access to devices that can write what ever they want onto a cards mag-stripe.

• On the post: You Don't Actually Own What You Buy Volume 2,203: Google Bricking Revolv Smart Home Hardware

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2016 @ 02:25pm

  Home Automation R Us

  Seriously? If it's useless without an internet connection and related services, why were you stupid enough to buy it for a critical part of your home automation system?
  
  Convenience or Reliability, pick one.

• On the post: Congress Might Actually Be Moving Forward On Fixing Outdated Email Privacy Law!

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2016 @ 05:35pm

  Yeah, Right

  If they've decided to re-visit that law, it's because they've found a way to make it worse.

• On the post: Judge In Nutty PETA Monkey Copyright Trial Skeptical Of PETA's Argument, But Let's Them Try Again

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2016 @ 10:11am

  Well, we let children inherit the copyright of their parents, so who in PETA wants to claim the monkey is their parent? :)

• On the post: Anne Frank's Diary… And Hitler's Mein Kampf Hit The Public Domain In Europe – Despite Concerns About Both

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2016 @ 03:35pm

  Best Timing Ever

  So the two books that show both sides of the insanity back then are now public domain. I'm looking forward to seeing somebody combine the two, stories from Frank, justification from Hitler, that show the link between what he believed and how those beliefs got used to justify what happened.
  
  No, for the record, I've never read either book. But I don't remember ever seeing a better chance of the writings of two people from each end of the bell curve that was WW2 being publicly compared to each other.
  
  It's even more insane that both had to be dead for 70 years before it might happen.

• On the post: Russian Experiment Tried — And Failed — To Block Citizens' Access To The Rest Of Internet

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2015 @ 02:21pm

  Be a good neighbor and solve the IPv4 address shortage

  If Russia wants to disconnect from the rest of the planet, well, why not help them? Compile a list of every IP allocation going into Russia, block them from passing over the links into Russia, return the allocations to ARIN for reallocation.
  
  They get their own Intranet, the rest of the planet gets large IP allocations back for use.
  
  Win-Win :)

• On the post: Rightscorp Facing Another Lawsuit For Harassing Alleged Infringers

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2015 @ 03:36pm

  Has somebody created a form letter to send back to them, explaining that they've been caught violating federal law, but for a $20 payment (per violation) you'll consider not suing them? :)

• On the post: Sorry: AT&T & Verizon Can't Upgrade Or Repair Your Aging DSL Line Because Parts Are Too Hard To Find

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2015 @ 11:19am

  Don't leave out CenturyLink

  I just pulled their plug this last week and switched to wireless, after yet another outage where the estimated repair time was three days. The fact that the problem wasn't even at my home, but at their equipment office, didn't matter, I couldn't break the script reader out of their loop.

• On the post: Can Someone Please Tell Us How You Determine What's A 'Legal' Search Engine From An 'Illegal' One?

  

  UniKyrn ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2009 @ 10:58am

  A legal search engine is one where they have enough money and lawyers to tell you to go screw yourself when you mess with them. The illegal one returns the same results, but doesn't have any lawyers to defend their rights.