Blackavar

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by Blackavar 12y ago
It looks like the miscommunication was _to_ him, not _from_ him. He was called in to collect his stuff, but then not fired once he got in with his boss. Personally, I had no trouble following the article.
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by Blackavar 13y ago
If you disagree, can you provide a desired end point that you believe actually protects privacy, and a roadmap to get to this point? I personally don't see a path to an end point where there is no collection and aggregation of personal
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by Blackavar 13y ago
How do you propose actually preventing the collection, particularly that by private citizens? Note, I'm explicitly not talking about making it illegal or other feel-good measures. I'm talking about actually preventing the actions.
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by Blackavar 13y ago
I don't personally think it's a great outcome - in fact I think it's a pretty bad one. However, I do think that that the outcome of universal access to surveillance is the best one that has any slim likelihood at all of comin
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by Blackavar 13y ago
So, we all see the problem already. Do you have a plan that will actually solve the issue? Data will continue to be collected, be it by state entities, corporations, or private citizens. It will keep happening whether it's declared ill
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by Blackavar 13y ago
'No one gets access' has never been an option, though. It was impossible once ALPR/ANPR, or even the base technologies - OCR, large databases, and networking - were developed.
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by Blackavar 13y ago
That's pretty much the business model. Copy ideas and execute faster than the original developers because they have more resources.
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by Blackavar 14y ago
As long as you're on a *nix, yes. RubyGems works cross-platform, not just cross-POSIX.
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by Blackavar 14y ago
The title deserves fixing, IMO. It's not just CoH, NCSoft is closing Paragon Studios. I can certainly speculate that it's fallout from some other bad decisions on NCSoft's part, since they reported a $6 Million loss for Q2.
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by Blackavar 14y ago
No TSA, which is almost worth it by itself.