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Submission + - Salt Lake City Police to wear cameras. (ksl.com)

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Psychotic_Wrath
Psychotic_Wrath writes: "Salt Lake Police department will be much more transparent with their law enforcement. A program is being rolled out to require officers wear glasses equipped with a camera to record what they see. Of course there are several officers that oppose this idea, and will resist the change. One of the biggest shockers to me is that the police chief is in strong support of this measure.

If Chief Burbank gets his way, these tiny, weightless cameras will soon be on every police officer in the state.

With all the opposition of police officers being recorded by citizens that we are seeing throughout the country it is quite a surprise that they would make a move like this. The officers would wear them when they are investigating crime scenes, serving warrants, and during patrols. Suddenly Utah isn't looking like such a bad place to be. Now we just need to hope other states and departments would follow suite. It sure will be nice when there is video evidence to show the real story.

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Stats

Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees 881

Posted by samzenpus from the popularity-contest dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The state-by-state election outcome probabilities today on Nate Silver's 538 imply a 97.7% probability for Obama to win 270 or more electoral college votes this coming Tuesday. A site that allows anyone but U.S. citizens vote seems to indicate that the rest of the world hopes these numbers are accurate. "

Comment Drug Patents (Score 3, Insightful) 315

by Psychotic_Wrath (#41503639) Attached to: Another Call For Abolishing Patents, This One From the St. Louis Fed
I would agree that the patent system in the US is severely handicapped. But abolishing it entirely would severely handicap drug development.

It takes years of testing to get a drug approved by the FDA, and that costs big big money to do. You get the drug approved by the FDA and then a chemist comes and makes the exact same thing, and your years of investment into research and development and clinical trials of that drug are going to not be paid off. Somebody would essentially walk the path that you made and they would reap the same benefits just simply by copying what you have done.

Comment Re:It happens...have a backup (Score 1) 85

by Psychotic_Wrath (#40779625) Attached to: Google Scrambles To Restore Google Talk From Outage
If you rely on VOIP for your calls then you would be lucky to have Google Talk for your provider. I run a call center and we use a VOIP service. I have worked with several VOIP providers and they would be lucky if they only went down once a year. I use Vocalocity and they go down once every 3-4 months. 8*8 (8 by 8) goes down probably about half that.

If Google talk has been up for a couple years and if this is their first outage, well then I would say that they are the most reliable.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft wins Novell antitrust battle (ksl.com)

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Psychotic_Wrath
Psychotic_Wrath writes: "After a long drawn out legal battle and a hung jury, a federal judge dismissed the antitrust case against Novell. The case involved allegations that Microsoft removed code from its Windows 95 operating system that caused further development to Word Perfect and thus delaying the release of their product giving Microsoft Word an unfair advantage."
Censorship

Submission + - The 28 Corporations that support CISPA

Submitted by bs0d3
bs0d3 writes: activepolitic has compiled a list of corporations that support CISPA. This list contains 28 large US companies (including At&t and IBM), and it can be viewed here.

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 299

by Psychotic_Wrath (#39398419) Attached to: Google Is Planning To Penalize Overly Optimized Sites
I think there are those that game the system, and there are those that do it right. I have seen several sites that have too many keywords. They have always been against keyword stuffing. Google tries to focus on getting good results that are relevant to the search. Spam is something that is difficult to filter out. The places that do SEO will still get their business on the first page of Google because they will just work inside of Google's new paramaters.

The places that get penalized, for the most part will get back up on Google simply by changing their tactic. Backlinks are always important, and they will probably just build more backlinks.

There is also a good chance that they will get more involved with social media, like facebook or twitter. Some will post youtube videos and optimize them for their business.

There is no way to keep spammers out but hopefully this reduces it.

Comment Re:alamo drafthouse (Score 1) 409

by Psychotic_Wrath (#39328875) Attached to: What Is Your Favorite Way of Watching a Movie

My personal favorite is streaming from my own media server..

I think you are right, I'm guessing that streaming means netflix, or something else. I used to do my streaming on ninjavideo, but they went down, and then came back up with a not as good as before service. Your streaming isn't exactly streaming, the poll probably refers to the first initial source where you obtained the video from. That would be what you should vote for to keep the poll as accurate as possible. not that it is intended to be accurate anyways...

Comment Google + (Score 1) 310

by Psychotic_Wrath (#39192051) Attached to: Users Spend More Time On Myspace Than Google+
Google is putting a lot of its weight behind Google plus I know that they are trying to push businesses to do it. I recently had to create a google+ for this website: Massage Therapy Longview, WA to help with placement. I don't know if google is trynig to get it to be more like linkedin, or what, but they sure are putting a lot of weight behind it.

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