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Comment: Re:sigh (Score 4, Insightful) 620

by ChipMonk (#42535665) Attached to: Man Charged With HIPAA Violations For Video Taping Police

Their job can be dangerous, and they're only human.

Which is all the more reason to allow citizen recording. When some flaming asshole decides he's going to accuse the police of excessive force, brutality, what have you, third-party record of the incident will be the police officer's best friend.

Comment: Re:What about threats to conservatives? (Score 3, Informative) 423

by ChipMonk (#42004349) Attached to: Website Calls Out Authors of Racist Anti-Obama Posts
You only need to do a Google search for "new civility" (include the quotes) to see the hypocrisy behind HelloThereRacists. But don't expect to see Diane Sawyer, Brian Williams, or Scott Pelley saying anything about the threats of violence and murder against Romney and Ryan. The "objective" news sources were silent this time around, just like they were four years ago.

Comment: Re:WTF woudl Apple Do? (Score 1) 322

by ChipMonk (#40284427) Attached to: Raunchy Dance Routine a PR Nightmare For Microsoft
Another possibility is that the store had seen "incidents" recently, and a bit of stepped-up security was in order (more than the mall rent-a-cop could provide). Four years ago, a local grocery store had a couple customer assaults in less than a week, and there was a city cop there from sundown to close for the next week, on the city's dime. I'm a city taxpayer, and I have no problem with that.

Comment: Re:Different markets (Score 3, Informative) 241

by ChipMonk (#40205185) Attached to: First Steps With the Raspberry Pi
I would like to build a custom-soldered board with LED's. I know that I may do something wrong, and overload the GPIO pins on the Pi. Who knows, I might hack up something on the display to go with it, although 1080p might be a bit beyond my needs. ;-)

So, you ask "what kind of project do you need a cheap system and 1080p video for?" Believe me, if I fry the hardware, I'll be glad it's built cheap. I'd rather fry a Pi than an Arduino. That's the whole point of the Raspberry Pi: a system that won't set back an experimenter (or a kid's parents) big money if somebody's voltage calculations were wrong.

As someone below points out, it also makes better sense for schools: for a student taking an electronics course, having parents pay a $35 deposit on an RPi (refunded at the end of the year) makes for a lower entry barrier than a >$150 deposit on (name your other device).

Comment: oh the hypocrisy (Score 3, Insightful) 126

by ChipMonk (#40074965) Attached to: Judge Orders Verizon Subscriber Identities Sealed
Someone was (accused of) making a bunch of copies of something, without permission.

The accuser's lackey hands over information, before the Court decides if it's appropriate to enter it into evidence. The Court decides it isn't (yet) appropriate, and orders all copies of the evidence destroyed.

IOW, the accuser is now accused of making a bunch of copies of something, without permission. They just got a taste of their own medicine, at the hands of an unhappy judge.

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