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Comment: Re:Despicable (Score 4, Informative) 544

by dex22 (#39068635) Attached to: School Sends Child's Lunch Home After Determining it Unhealthy

I presume the letter the school sent home with the child, explaining their reasoning and charging the parents $1.25 for the chicken nuggets - which was provided to the original reporter - was enough for the original and more reputable news source to go ahead and print the story.

Comment: Re:Strangely inspirational (Score 1) 373

by dex22 (#37870990) Attached to: The RMS Tour Rider

Journalists talk to a lot of people. If you are using a journalist as a proxy to speak to people on your behalf, it might be important to you that they use the same terminology and understand it to have the same meaning as you do. This way, you can minimize the possibility of being misunderstood by the journalist's audience.

Comment: Re:What is the privacy concern? (Score 2) 299

by dex22 (#34980354) Attached to: Domestic Use of Aerial Drones By Law Enforcement

Because they don't just operate n the visible spectrum. Using infrared, they know people are in specific locations in a house. In England, where this practice is common, it is a regular event for houses to be raided for drug "grow rooms" just because of an unusual heat signature. Often, it's just been a poor insulation job in winter, and you DON'T get any apology.

Worse, in the UK for example, if your electricity usage unexpectedly increases, you'll have the same raid and lack of apology.

It's the combining of this archived video data with other data sources that makes this an intrusion that goes INSIDE your home and crosses the line to being an unlawful search, if you hold the view that infrared is not "in plain sight" as many do.

Comment: Re:I'm Pretty Sure That's Illegal (Score 2, Informative) 266

by dex22 (#34257646) Attached to: Debt Collectors Using Facebook To Embarrass Those Who Owe

A collection agency is an "agent" working for the creditor. If they buy the debt, they are the new creditor, and can elect to be their own debt collector, but they are not the debt collection agency. These terms are defined by law, not the companies themselves.

Further, your "pay your bills on time" doesn't stop people getting into these situations. I have had scrapes with thee companies because of a person with the same name and different SSN - they have employed these dirty tactics against people with the same name living in nearby towns - even going to far as to file false paperwork to get judgments.

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