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Comment Re:Everybody Panic! (Score 2) 421

No, I was talking about the CDC blaming the victim for breaking protocol, when it is clearly their own protocol that is at fault here.

Doctors without borders uses a much stricter protocol, with a buddy system for donning and doffing, and they have had
a much better record in keeping their people safe in absolutely horrible conditions.

Comment Re:Everybody Panic! (Score 2) 421

According to NBC, this is exactly what appears to have happened.

The NBC report is pure speculation. Nobody knows. It's just as likely aerosolized cough droplets, which is another thing the CDC insisted couldn't possibly happen.

Where are all those Slashdot posters who scream "Stop blaming the victim" now? Too scary to stand on principles?

When it comes to a choice if blaming the victim or admitting that their protocol is woefully inadequate, the CDC seems to take the low road.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 517

With a large enough grid, you can always find an outlet for excess power and you can always borrow power. As a utility, you might not want to do that, but we empower utilities to serve us, not the other way around.

A agree we need a sponge to sop up the excess power, but I suspect storage makes more sense than more industry to start and stop on a whim. That approach just moves the problem around, from the utility to some other industry. We can put it in batteries, pump water up-hill to reservoirs that we can quickly release into turbines. What ever, as long as it doesn't push the problem to some other industry.

Comment Re:Won't work (Score 4, Insightful) 326

I'm sure as hell not going to allow even MORE TRACKING just to support this hair brained scheme, Track everyone who ever rode in that car just to maker sure they aren't driving it?

Phones and car kits already offer to reply that the owner is driving, or to read it aloud, and take a reply verbally. There is no excuse t go all NSA on every passenger.

Comment Re:I like... (Score 3, Interesting) 643

Being able to prove that he was or was not lying would stop the riots.

Probably not, because when people riot they aren't looking for or likely to believe evidence.
Cops would have to release the entire video to the media, and the lawyers wouldn't let that happen.
The lawyers would still fuck this up.

Comment Re:I like... (Score 3, Insightful) 643

he camera itself might be a tiny, tiny fraction of the salary of a cop, but it would still require a massive database and supporting infrastructure to run/maintain the entire implementation. Nor would it change the fact that people would still bring (founded and unfounded) lawsuits against the police.

Don't be ridiculous
We already bear massive costs of litigation and document storage.
This saves money two ways, Cops know they are being watched, and criminals can't make bogus claims.
The cost for several years of operation would be offset by the absence of ONE riot or bogus lawsuit.

The whole thing can be automated.
You come in from your shift, put your cam in bin, it gets copied to bulk storage.
Key in your badge number, (maybe RFID) and machine dispenses an empty camera every morning.

(Hint: storage is dirt cheap the backup/storage/indexing etc deletion can be entirely automated. )

If all you did was patrol and never had a single arrest or confrontation it gets purged in 90 days.
Every day, there better be video on the camera, or Internal Affairs is going to want to know why.

By the way: for every ridiculous example you cite there are 33,000 arrests every day that are not convoluted contrived cases. And even in the situation you describe the police video would not be enough to convict anyone. Saying you should not have evidence because you can contrive a situation where it might not be the whole store is tantamount to shutting down all scientific research world wide. You, sir, are an idiot.

Comment Re:Yes it should ship! (Score 5, Insightful) 112

Just because there is a large competitor, you do not quit. Apple didn't and came from behind several times. Now if it is not profitable, let it go, but don't just give up and give it all to App/Goog(le) without a fight. Besides, 1% of a lot of people is still a lot of people.

You've totally been taken in by Samsung.
Tizen was never meant to ship. Tizen is a threat weapon that Samsung cranks up each time Google thinks of asserting some authority
over Android. Its simply a boogie man waiting in the wings in case Samsung doesn't get its way. It doesn't have to be viable, or even
cost effective. All they have to do is trot it out and demonstrate something, ANYTHING once in a while.

As long as Google plays along, Tizen will never launch.

Comment Re:1 or 1 million (Score 1) 274

Unlimited bandwidth is not possible. You can make it illegal all you want. It doesn't trump physics.

4 Gig is a long way from unlimited.

But even unlimited was always understood to be limited because there are only so many hours in a day you could conceivably pull data over an unlimited network.

Still 10Gig used to be what the carriers were bitching about. Now its the top 5%. Here's a clue Verizon: The top 5%, like the poor, will always be with us. And punishment on a sliding percentage based scale eventually even reaches average users as average is driven ever downward. After they kill of the 4 gig gobblers, the top 5% includes the 3gig people.

Its a stupid plan.

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