>It will never happen, but if a law was passed that when the video is unavailable, the citizen's report is presumed to be true and complete, I'll bet those cameras would suddenly get a lot more reliable.

Indeed. This is the missing key ingredient.

I once got pulled over for speeding while driving doing the speed limit. I saw the cop coming down the road toward me, and had slowed down by the time he'd u-turned and pulled up behind me to tail me. I'd been speeding before, but this wasn't what he claimed in court - he said I was doing 78 (written statement) 87 (oral statement) while tailing me on the I-5.

I'd requested the camera footage of the event, but it mysteriously wasn't available to me.

So it was just the cop's word against mine, and the court will side with a cop every time, even though there was a serious discrepancy between his written and oral statement, and his video footage wasn't provided to me.

If the law stated that the presumption would go the other way (favoring the citizen over the cop) when video evidence disappears, it would eliminate the easiest source of police abuse of these tools.

>... Can we keep it there forever? Stop changing it back and forth please.

Seriously. The first day after DST ends is depressing when it gets dark so early. The first day of DST is like a joy by comparison.

We only hate it because of the -1 hours of sleep we get.

>If that were so, why would it take the Supreme Court to rule on this?

This was a weird case where a guy denied them the search, but they came back later and a different person consented to the search.

As long as the police had a reasonable belief that the person could grant a search (a roommate, family member, etc. all count for this), then the consent is valid.

To put it another way, if the search hadn't originally been denied, then there would have been nothing novel about this case.

>It does matter, because it used to be that if police asked, and got denied, they had to go get a warrant. Now, they can play the mommy/daddy game.

Actually, it has always been the case that any person in a house could consent to a search.

Yeah, I was listening to C-SPAN a couple days ago, and the military was talking about the possibility of freeing up a lot of its reserved spectrum for emergency use that rarely gets used as long as the commercial applications using it could be shunted aside in the case of an actual emergency.

It was a pretty interesting talk, which dealt with the interaction of land, air, and space networks, and their different needs and adaptive capabilities.

Yeah, the brakes were rock hard. After I turned off the car to get it under control, it took quite a while to drift to a stop, even with both feet on the brake pedal.

I didn't get a ticket for it, and luckily I didn't hit anyone.

It was still a terrifying experience, though, as there were pedestrians everywhere.

It felt like the floor mat had ridden up on the accelerator, so I was trying to reach down to pull it off while it was accelerating out of control.

When that didn't work, I turned it off.

I used to drive an '84 Caprice Classic. When the accelerator cable got stuck, there was enough vacuum for exactly zero brakes.

Even riding the brake with both feet pushed firmly down, it still accelerated out of control around the campus loop.

>All they have to do is follow the law, file a counter-notification and this all goes away. The summary makes it look like YouTube is the bad guy when all they are doing is following the law and acting on the DMCA claims. It is up to the alleged infringer to counter-claim not the service provider.

YouTube *is* the bad guy. They don't even look at counter-claims most of the time, they just automatically side with the person filing the takedown notice. It's happened to me (when I had permission to use a song, and wrote that in the counter-claim) and there's a classical musician on Reddit who has had hostile DMCA claims filed against his own performances of Bach pieces that have been taken down.

It's only if you make a really big stink, or sue I suppose, that you'll get a human to actually look at it and correct the problem.

Google/YouTube is actually proud of the fact that 99% of the DMCA system is automated. This degenerate behavior is "Working As Intended".

>Explaining something does not justify it. They should not go rummaging through my computer. Period.

Do you understand how VAC and similar anti-cheat software looks? It will scan through your memory looking for certain DLLs loaded, look through your computer files for cheats, and so forth.

Other than you being ignorant of what is actually happening before, I don't see anything that has changed with this announcement.

It's not like they're recording all of your metadata, uploading all your facebook posts to a data center in Utah, and targeting people for drone strikes using cell phone records.

>"`(B) LIMITATION- The term `mobile communications device' does not include a phone installed on an aircraft.'." -- Bill Text

This rule is ridiculous then, and will just be feeding more money to the airlines.

>Do people want the NSA collecting a giant database about them?

No.

> Does it make the slightest difference if the giant database is nominally Verizon's giant database, that just so happens to respond to all queries from the NSA?

Yes. Because this, if nothing else, creates a paper trail and at least a properly worded query to the database, whereas currently (as Snowden demonstrated) anyone with a modicum of coding experience can download the whole thing and make off with it and no one's the wiser.

>Aside from the greater likelihood that the database will be used for marketing and surveillance, not a bit

You realize there is nothing stopping companies from using this for marketing right now, anyway, right?

I'll probably quit when they make it permanent.

I got a copy for the Xbox360, and it was basically unplayable.

I didn't buy it for the PC due to the bad experience I had on the console.

(And don't call people pirates unless you know for sure. Check my Steam profile, same username as here, to see how many id games I own.)

Yeah, good point. That was another reason why Quake 2 was a step back.

Still, I wish Carmack had build a few more sanity checks into his code. Overflowing silently was just a pain in the ass to deal with on CustomTF.