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Don't worry. The camera was just malfunctioning!

Did you read the parent comment? What does tamper-proof mean to you?

It's digitally signed and then the officer's recording system uploads it securely to the police servers when back at the station. This is all to maintain a complete chain-of-custody, so when used as evidence in court it can't be easily dismissed or disregarded by the criminal's attorney.

It can't be edited because there wouldn't be a digital signature!!!?

Cameras will malfunction but not like you're saying they will.

Relax, he made an joke!

In case someone takes his comment seriously, there's mine. In case someone takes my comment seriously they'd agree with the grandparent so no harm done.

There's the chance someone would agree with the grand/parent ('malfunction...', secure, etc.), read my comment, and think... well that's ridiculous.

Case study for "'/s' considered harmful"; Would-be PhDs take note.

This joke has spawned a large monitor's worth of discussion, none of which is really contributing to the conversation.

Relax. This situation has me riled up too. But s/he was trying to be humorously sarcastic. Not exactly condoned HN comment behavior, and a bit flip given the seriousness of the topic, but not what you thought s/he was saying.

Also the parent says "There are some evidence recording systems..." We don't know if this police department's system is one of those.

I apologise for the misinterpretation. HN is not the best place for my sarcasm.

I appreciated your contribution of sarcasm and I'm sorry if my playing off your sarcasm caused you grief. It's stupid that people downvoted (what's the HN euphemism for this?) your comment. It was appropriate.

Keep commenting. Moderate yourself; Fuck karma... just stay positive, I don't know what happens to the people <0. I heard they burn the bodies for fuel to run the server.

I didn't know you can downvote here...

You need I think around 500 karma to be able to do it. That's what's up with the grey and nearly-invisible comments are--they have been downvoted

...my playing off your sarcasm...

Oh no, you attempted two-level sarcasm? That simply won't work here. b^)

"Gen-Y places a high value on authenticity. Sarcasm can be seen as 'inauthentic' and diminish the immediately perceived value of a piece. Satire, however, is a goodthing. Sarcasm is cheap; Satire is art. ... Sarcasm is more easily absorbed by the digestive tract of Gen-Y due to the short chains it forms. ... Society, long having moved from prechewed, tasteless meat into pre-prechewed, more tasteless meat substitute, the majority of Gen-Y simply can't process more than 140 characters at a time. ... Somewhere in every great satire post-2000 must be sarcasm, how ever much it cheapens the 'experience'."[1]

You'd think I wouldn't be getting killed here. Everything is falling flat. Bah humbug.

1. "The Truth About Satire" -- Faye Weather, 2001, http://thereisnopunchlinehere.com.us/books/weather,faye%20th...

Hmm.

>Sarcasm can be seen as 'inauthentic' and diminish the immediately perceived value of a piece.

I'd rewrite this as such:

"Sarcasm is seen as 'inauthentic' and diminishes the perceived value of the piece."

>the majority of Gen-Y simply can't process more than 140 characters at a time.

I'd strike 'simply'. It's unnecessarily condescending.

>post-2000

Didn't like it when I wrote^H^H^H^H^Hread it and don't like it now. Clumsy. More forced than I'm comfortable with.

It can be edited for public use. And for good propaganda of course. ;-) But when in court, I hope they have the digitally signed version. If that one gets lost somehow, that would be bad.

I haven't read or seen anything to indicate that Tx DPS uses any sort of technology to protect chain-of-custody from tampering by troopers or other parties within DPS. This isn't a problem for state prosecutions because a DPS trooper is a sworn officer and is usually considered a reliable witness.

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