God, Comcast is the friggin' worst. I escalated a security risk to Comcast a few months back. Exposed passwords, ssh keys, infrastructure scripts (.exp, .sh, .awk), logs, etc. Pretty deep shit. It took a few hours to get ahold of someone to fix it, but they actually fixed it really surprisingly quickly afterwards and held a meeting later in the day. They brought up potentially starting up a bug bounty and starting me as a pilot of it, kind of. Welp, I eventually got in contact with their CISO and asked her about it. "It's not a bug bounty program, so we're not going to pay you." Very clear what their intentions are with privacy, security, etc.

I was invited to Fioretti's office to talk about a non-trivial number illegal parking tickets I found. Their campaign manager said that it would be "golden" for the campaign. Yet, a week later, they completely stopped contact with me by not returning my calls/texts/emails. They even stopped contact with the person that introduced me to their campaign team. My first thought was that they're busy, but Fioretti keeps bringing up ticketing, so they're obviously interested in the idea..

The only reason that I could think of is that Fioretti's team found a bunch of illegal tickets in their ward for one of my search criteria. Out of the 50 wards or so, his ward tended to pop up more than others...

Also, why in the hell do I still need to insert HTML into a fucking comment?! This should have been fixed years ago, FFS.

*Open data can create a new kind of digital divide, between those who have the ability and skill to use such data and those who don’t, putting the latter at a disadvantage.

What the ever living fuck? Did the author think this through? Don't have the ability and skill to fix your broken toilet?! Just cry disadvantage!

The author of this article has obviously never worked with open data or knows anybody who has. There are an incredible number of benefits to having access to open data. For example, groups like Chicago's Open Gov Hack Night have done some pretty amazing things: http://opencityapps.org/

FUD.

Thanks for this. I think I'm going to try it.

As true as that may be.... holy shit. A potential of 100ms difference between lights? How the hell does that happen?

Why doesn't their automated ticketing system have a check for that? It should be a couple lines of code in their reporting software.

Instead, people have to go to court to contest these. That never works, though, since tickets are pretty uncontestable AND they don't allow appeals.

Funny thing, they actually did very similar recently:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

"It was a fraction of a second that no driver really noticed. But the difference between a 2.9 second yellow light and a 3.0 second yellow light meant about 77,000 tickets for Chicago motorists, and a $7.7 million windfall for the city’s coffers, according to the Chicago Tribune.:

Also, a shoutout to anybody who's interested in doing open data in Chicago to fight systems like this with data crunching: http://opengovhacknight.org/

More like, I should hand over my reading card. For some reason I misread something in there as tor. That's what I get for slashdotting at work. :)

Honest question, what makes you think that ssh sessions interfere with skype?

I really wish I had mod points to downvote this garbage post.

If tor promised X amount of bandwidth to all of its users, your point would be more valid. That's not the case. Comcast is a PAID service that promises X amount of bandwidth. Tor and Comcast should never, ever be compared in this way. It's a fucking shame that people even think your post is upvoteable.

The people who use tor for downloading movies/music/etc should be hanged. They're ruining it for those who use it for legit purposes.

So what you're saying...... is that we're basically still given the option of 1 or 5.

I work at a large exchange in Chicago.. We had about five Sun technicians who worked on our servers with any hardware issues. Great guys, all of them. Any issue we had, they'd almost guarantee to fix it. Then Sun let them go, and forced the software division to come out and work on our equipment. Now we have about 10 new guys, all software-side. They give us horrible support and have to call their helpdesk every ten minutes to fix any issue they haven't seen yet. It takes probably three times as long for any issue to fix itself nowadays.

Thanks, Sun.

The short answer is this:

No matter which direction we look into space, the expansion of the universe is always going to be the same. This sounds kind of obvious until you realize that 13.72 billion light years one way, and the same distance another way are incommunicable, and they've been incommunicable ever since the universe was created - light cannot travel from one point of our obvservable universe to another because it would then have to travel at twice the speed of c. Because these incommunicable points in space are the same in an infinite series of characteristics, then it's fair to assume that these physics are NOT local.