BrandonMarc

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by BrandonMarc 13y ago
Dash cams have been around for a long time, but their utility has chiefly been to record what's happening right in front of the vehicle, at minimal resolution. The result is not a comprehensive data feed of everything happening, but me
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by BrandonMarc 13y ago
You have a point. I wasn't thinking corporate access (the "private" part of the parent article) ... and more about the "public" (government) access. After all, the license-plate scanners may be operated by local pol
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by BrandonMarc 13y ago
I'm more fearful of the government-media complex. NBC doctors a 911 tape, and sways a nation. Hmm. Does Facebook / Google count as a "media" company, if you define it loosely enough?
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by BrandonMarc 13y ago
Sadly, you can add to that list: - drive on a road near a police car, a bridge, or many buildings ... since all of the above, often have license-plate scanners attached, compiling a comprehensive history of individual driving patterns.
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by BrandonMarc 13y ago
The "umwelt" comic was even more complicated than that. It had different versions based on: * location (getting surprisingly specific sometimes) * browser * what plugins work/don't work in your browser * referrer (what y
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by BrandonMarc 13y ago
So if it's so difficult to change all of these products - from soap to toothpaste - why not attempt changing how water-treatment plants work so that they do screen out floating matter?
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by BrandonMarc 13y ago
Speaking of What-if, it now makes sense that he did the questions about what it would be like if the oceans of Earth were drained [0], and what it would look like on Mars if suddenly water were added and oceans (an ocean) formed [1]. ------
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by BrandonMarc 13y ago
Not to mention, free in many ways, protected in many ways, and with a whole lot more leisure than our ancestors ever got. Though these things seem to be dwindling ...
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by BrandonMarc 13y ago
Not a dam. Or, it's a natural dam. I suspect a big piece of the phenomena is sea levels massively shrinking, and then expanding ... massively, but slowly. 11000 years is plenty of time for, say, an ice age cycle (even a minor one). Aft
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by BrandonMarc 13y ago
Yep. Reminds me of the time WalMart paid a couple to blog about their RV trip across the US, without the couple disclosing the entire trip and blog was a WalMart marketing experiment: http://kevin.lexblog.com/2006/10&#x
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by BrandonMarc 13y ago
> ... but it could conceivably take over a year. I see what you did there. 8-)
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by BrandonMarc 13y ago
Good. The bill will likely not pass, but it will force the current representatives to go on record as either for or against these. At the moment, they can pretend to be one or the other.
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by BrandonMarc 13y ago
Maybe not hire the cake-baker, but interview them ... which is required to lead to the former.
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by BrandonMarc 13y ago
A matter of time? It's already happened. See how documents submitted to the IRS magically appear in the hands of political opponents. See how political opposition was thoroughly disrupted (tea party groups' tax-exempt purgatory +
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by BrandonMarc 13y ago
Agreed. A few hundred kids at one atypical college does not a full pattern make. Also, does it bug nobody else that this "news" is from research done a dozen years ago?
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by BrandonMarc 13y ago
Agreed. I would ask where you found, but then I don't want to jinx it.
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by BrandonMarc 13y ago
Sounds to me like your opportunity for comment on the bill was simply a ceremonial formality, and those assembled already had their minds made up (or their votes bought and paid for) ... and your insightful, useful, and knowledgeable commen
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Does Skype-bombing a witness count as Contempt of Court?
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by BrandonMarc 13y ago
> It's simply unfeasible. The NSA loves when people think this thought.
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by BrandonMarc 13y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/politics/20submarine.html?... I've seen it on the History channel once or twice. Divers leave the sub with a device about the size of a volkswagen, and place it nea
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by BrandonMarc 13y ago
Probably because owning a car means you can go anywhere your wallet ($ for gas) and time will allow you to go. Anywhere, any time, with very little hassle. Taxis come close to this, but only in and for (geographically) small areas/trip
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by BrandonMarc 13y ago
I believe this may be very helpful. If enough Europeans stop / limit using Google services, then Google's stock price on Wall Street will see the consequences. Google has powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill, and they will use their
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by BrandonMarc 13y ago
Exactly. The NSA's purpose for existence is to intercept communications of non USA citizens outside USA borders. Right or wrong, it's simply why they exist in the first place. The current scandal is due to how much they do it to
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by BrandonMarc 13y ago
Which blows my mind, since I live in Texas where you can drive 10 hours in the same direction on the same road at freeway speeds, and still be an hour or two from reaching another state.
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by BrandonMarc 13y ago
The question that keeps coming up is whether being a journalist means you get special privileges. It's hilarious that David Gregory suggests Glen Greenwald be charged with a crime, seeing as Gregory, it will be further recalled, illust