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Comment Re:Anthropometrics (Score 0) 819

It is why Cities have always struggled. To many people to close to each other. The wealthy always purchase enough space to make themselves comfortable. However the poor can not and once you get so many people pressed together they fight.

I think the fighting is because downtown areas heavily subsidize the suburbs (source 1, source 2, source 3, source 4) and so the inner city poor are getting fed up because their money is leaving their neighborhoods and is spent on subsidizing the middle and upper class lifestyles. And because the middle class prevents economic mobility by keeping the poor out of middle class neighborhoods.

Submission + - Recommend a service to digitize VHS home movies? (wikipedia.org)

An anonymous reader writes: Could someone recommend a service to convert old VHS home movies to a lossless archival format such as FFV1? The file format needs to be lossless so I can edit and convert the files with less generation loss, it needs 4:1:1 or better chroma subsampling in order to get the full color resolution from the source tapes, and preferably it should have more than 8 bits per channel of color in order to avoid banding while correcting things like color, brightness, and contrast.

So far, the best VHS archival services I've found use either the DV codec or QuickTime Pro-Res, both of which are lossy.

Submission + - Former NSA Chief says "Isis are using Snowden leaks to evade intellegence" (dailymail.co.uk) 2

bobbied writes: Former NSA Deputy Chief Chris Ingles claims that the information that Snowden leaked is being used by ISIS to evade intelligence gathering by the NSA. He also said "militants in Iraq and Syria are 'clearly' harder to track down since the rogue agent made freely available a wealth of top-secret information about how the U.S. government hunts its enemies online."

The Ex NSA Deputy Chief is claiming that what was leaked by Snowden goes way beyond what was necessary to expose Snowden's privacy concerns and has severely damaged the NSA's ability to collect intelligence by exposing their methods so they can be evaded.

Comment Re:Straight to the pointless debate (Score 1) 136

The ground station temperature data has been quite thoroughly manipulated, always "adjusted" in the direction of confirming the theories of the researcher making the adjustment

What would you expect to happen if there are correctable errors in the data and the theories are correct?

But now there's this new satellite data that must be "processed" to be understood.

The raw data should be open and verifiable against the original film so that anyone can double check the data and the conclusions. But somehow I don't think even that will be enough to convince the skeptics that the conclusions are correct.

Comment Re:Flywheel spin and political spin (Score 1) 245

if all your neighbors have solar, it will exceed consumption during times of bright sunlight.

That can only happen if the price of electricity during times of bright sunlight is above market equilibrium. Smart meters and smart appliances solve that problem, and it doesn't require energy storage.

Comment Re:yet if we did it (Score 1) 463

To be locked up over this is right.

I can't believe you got upvoted for advocating revenge (a.k.a. "retribution"). Revenge won't make the streets safer, so it won't really solve anything, and it makes a jury hesitant to convict.

No, the best way to deal with this is to permanently take away his driver's license, unless and until he proves, through a battery of psychological tests, that he no longer has a problem with distracted driving. What jury would say no to that?

United States

The Executive Order That Led To Mass Spying, As Told By NSA Alumni 180

An anonymous reader writes with this Ars piece about the executive order that is the legal basis for the U.S. government's mass spying on citizens. One thing sits at the heart of what many consider a surveillance state within the US today. The problem does not begin with political systems that discourage transparency or technologies that can intercept everyday communications without notice. Like everything else in Washington, there's a legal basis for what many believe is extreme government overreach—in this case, it's Executive Order 12333, issued in 1981. “12333 is used to target foreigners abroad, and collection happens outside the US," whistleblower John Tye, a former State Department official, told Ars recently. "My complaint is not that they’re using it to target Americans, my complaint is that the volume of incidental collection on US persons is unconstitutional.” The document, known in government circles as "twelve triple three," gives incredible leeway to intelligence agencies sweeping up vast quantities of Americans' data. That data ranges from e-mail content to Facebook messages, from Skype chats to practically anything that passes over the Internet on an incidental basis. In other words, EO 12333 protects the tangential collection of Americans' data even when Americans aren't specifically targeted—otherwise it would be forbidden under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978.
Businesses

When Customer Dissatisfaction Is a Tech Business Model 257

jammag writes: A new trend has emerged where tech companies have realized that abusing users pays big. Examples include the highly publicized Comcast harassing service call, Facebook "experiments," Twitter timeline tinkering, rude Korean telecoms — tech is an area where the term "customer service" has an Orwellian slant. Isn't it time customer starting fleeing abusive tech outfits?

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