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Comment: Re:That will not happen. (Score 4, Insightful) 508

by egamma (#43558113) Attached to: NYC Police Comm'r: Privacy Is 'Off the Table' After Boston Bombs

I really hope they don't put up ever more cameras. We don't need them. Crime has been falling since 1988 and the US murder rate is around 5.4 / 100,000 people. And that is close to its all time low. And terrorism is rare and unlikely to kill or hurt anyone. When can we start rolling out policy based on data and evidence not on fear?

As far as cameras looking at police officers. We need a lot more of that. Police routinely 'beat people up' and conduct illegal searches. They need to be put on a short leash.

You provided the per-capita murder rate. Can you also provide the per-capita for people beat up by police and for illegal searches?

Comment: Re:not all that effective (Score 2) 211

by egamma (#43461227) Attached to: Boston Officials Did Not Shut Down Cell Network After Marathon Bombing

I would think that shutting down cell towers wouldn't be particularly effective, given that the same mechanism that would allow one to trigger a bomb with a cell phone is also present in other RF devices such as baby monitors and walkie-talkies.

They could also set the bomb to trigger if it loses reception.

Comment: Re:Not true. (Score 0) 984

by egamma (#43137989) Attached to: Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam

What if to brake safely you come to a stop over the line? (large truck behind you or someone riding your ass, speeding etc?)

If someone rear-ends you, then that's their fault. 100% of the time. They were following you too close or not paying attention. You can only control one thing when you are driving--yourself. Stop staring in your rearview mirror when you are driving. You only need to look into it when you are going to make a lane change, or if you hear sirens. I rearended someone myself--going 50mph--because I was looking in my rearview mirror too long while doing a lane change, and they were stopped dead on the highway.

On the other hand, stop lights should have the timing set correctly--that is, they should stay yellow long enough for someone going the speed limit to either make it through the intersection, or to stop prior to the intersection. But the article is not about red light cameras, it's about speed cameras.

Comment: Re:A link to Diaspora? (Score 1) 61

by egamma (#43115461) Attached to: Facebook Introduces a Mobile-Oriented Redesign

I want interoperability between Social network Providers!

It worked for network providers, it worked for email providers....

And you want all the inherent security advantages that SMTP provides, right?

HELO whitehouse.gov
MAIL FROM:president@whitehouse.gov
RCPT TO:raymabus@navy.mil
DATA
From: "Barak Obama"
To: "Ray Mabus" Subject: Attack North Korea
Hey Ray,
I want to make that Nobel Peace Prize committee look like an even bigger bunch of fools. And, I'm tired of the Democrat party being called 'weak' on national security. The North Korean missile threat is the last straw--let's send in the Marines!

Sincerely,
Barak Hussein Obama
.
QUIT

Comment: Re:Attacks on bandwidth caps are shortsighted (Score 1) 213

by egamma (#43097443) Attached to: ISP Trying Free (But Limited) Home Broadband Plan

I'm guessing people, like yourself, that download 208 GBs a month are not the target market. Any other products you'd like to declare dead just because you personally wouldn't use it?

Yes, I declare the following are dead: tampons, hang gliders, skirts, tofu, turkey burgers, yachts, and nuclear missiles.

Comment: join.me (Score 1) 418

by egamma (#43083879) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Best To Set Up a Parent's PC?
  1. Have your mom go to join.me
  2. Have her save the join.me application to her desktop, and then run it and give the code to you
  3. Log in and take control
  4. Create an admin account and make her account a normal user account
  5. use RUNAS (linux translation: sudo) from command line whenever you need to run something as an admin

Comment: Re:corporations are not people (Score 2) 357

by egamma (#43081115) Attached to: Don't Want a Phonebook? Give Up Your Privacy

A corporation is nothing more than an organized group of people. Since individuals have a right to free speech, then you can't remove their right to free speech simply because they want to use a different name (the corporate name) instead of their own.

Comment: Re:nice efficiency there (Score 3, Insightful) 491

by egamma (#43037371) Attached to: Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty To 10 Charges

"Lethargic"? Try "unconstitutional" or "illegal", per the Sixth Amendment:

"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial ..."

How are you certain that Bradley asked for to use that right? You are certain that the defendant (or his lawyer) wasn't the one who stalled in order to present a more vigorous defense, track down other witnesses, gather evidences of PTSD or insanity or brainwashing or wahtever?

And, how do you define speedy? He had 22 charges against him; that means the government had about 6 weeks to prepare to prosecute each of those charges. 6 weeks isn't a whole lot of time.

Comment: Re:Idiocy at the top...zzz... (Score 1) 65

by egamma (#42966101) Attached to: Notification of Server Breach Mistaken For Phishing Email

It has always been my experience that universities' IT departments are almost universally clueless. In fact, their level of cluelessness rivals and outstrips that of many banks. My (maybe just slightly cynical) assumption is that these colleges only employ their own graduates...

Then you haven't heard of PaulDotCom

Comment: Re:you are an idiot (Score 3, Informative) 173

by egamma (#42921715) Attached to: Windows 7 RTM Support Ending Soon

If you don't have service pack 1 installed you are an idiot anyway to run a non-updated system.

There was almost zero benefits in SP1 for the average home user. Users can install all the needed security updates separately; in fact, this is often recommended, to reduce the size of the service pack download. Win7 received SP1 because Server 2008R2 needed the contents of the service pack.Here's what's in it for Win7:
Additional support for communication with third-party federation services (those supporting the WS-Federation passive profile protocol)
Improved HDMI audio device performance
Corrected behavior when printing mixed-orientation XPS documents
Change to behavior of “Restore previous folders at logon” functionality
Enhanced support for additional identities in RRAS and IPsec
Support for Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
Improved Support for Advanced Format (512e) Storage Devices (devices with 4kb physical sectors)

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