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Comment Re:"Accidentally" (Score 1) 455

One of the simple ways to deal with this is have backup cameras and let the officers know that if their camera is off they are not on duty (and not getting paid!) and do not have the authority of a police officer. Exemptions need to be made for events where the officer was engaged in a struggle, vehicle accident, etc. where failure of the camera is expected, of course.

Comment Re:Mandatory panic! (Score 1) 421

No kidding, they would have locked up my writing partner and me in high school and thrown away the key! Our english teacher lovingly referred to us as the Jeffery Dahmer society. ...and our papers were no longer read aloud in the class. But, we still got high grades on them for creativity so I had to give the teacher a lot of respect. Plus, he didn't do anything stupid like this idiot teacher did.

Comment Re:Fleeing abusive companies? (Score 1) 257

What's ironic about this is Stalinist "communism" and modern American "capitalism" are identical in this respect (only). The common people are allowed to vote but, they are only allowed to vote on options that do not challenge the currently accepted system. It's wrong no matter what label you put on it. If people are not allowed to vote at the polls for real change then eventually they'll vote for change with their weapons of choice.

Comment Just until the news cycle moves on... (Score 4, Informative) 274

This is just until the news cycle finds its next shinny bloodbath and moves on. Once that happens, then Verizon will slap the bandwidth cap on all the time in every place. They're just trying to find a way to annoy these people into changing plans or switching to another provider without it making front page news.

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 4, Insightful) 195

Though most, if not all of us, know what whitelisting is, I do prefer they explain it rather than assuming we know it. I've ran across too many articles in the past that assumed I knew some piece of information when I didn't. Sure, I can look it up but, that's annoying when your just trying to read "news." Though this is a site for "nerds", that is a broad term. There's computer nerds, science nerds, comic nerds, etc. Now, the passing it off as new... I've got nothing; that's just lame.

Comment Re:Do it in ROM (Score 3, Insightful) 195

Sadly, the worst problem for system security is humans. If you required the flipping of a physical switch then malware would simply tell the user to flip the switch to see your choice of free porn, music, movies, games, etc. and the human will flip the switch (or any other method that requires human action). Humans are stupid... sad but, true.

Comment Re: Wine (Score 1) 417

One half of the reason businesses use Windows is Outlook, which can't be ported. Even by Microsoft. The other half is Excel which isn't half as bad to port but no one's been willing to spend the $$$ to do it. All this leaves three options, leave these pacifier applications (which is hard to do for anyone), spend the money to upgrade (which if they haven't done already, they're not going to do until they have a gun to their head), or stick their fingers in their ears and go la-la-la until they see the gun. Now, if they're like my parents and don't use the internet, than they can use it until the hardware dies and there's no issue. But, if they're using IE 6 for in house web apps like a lot of these companies, than the gun is going to go off sooner than they think and they deserve anything they get because of it.

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