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BrokenEnsoon How American Fans Pirated Japanese Cartoons into Careers

If you want to hear a good English dub check out AnimEigo's dub's of You're Under Arrest OVA or Oh My Goddess OVA. They are both crazy good. AnimEigo lost the distribution license so you'd have to hunt a little for an old copy, but it's worth it.

Edit: looks like I'm mistaken about the You're Under Arrest distribution license [1]

[1] http://www.animeigo.com/products/anime/youre-under-arrest

BrokenEnsoon “Anthem was the target of a very sophisticated external cyber attack”

Just filled out the Trans Union site with dummy data to check, and none of the transaction is over SSL. So, to kind out if my child's identity has been stolen I have to expose them to identity theft....

BrokenEnsoon If money doesn't make you happy, you probably aren't spending it right (2010) [pdf]

"if you aren't able to meet a certain reasonable minimum standard of living, you will be absolutely miserable."

For some people their minimum standard of living dose not require money. Buddhist monks[1] come to mind. There are also people that simply want to live away from society and thus have no real need for money.

[1] http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhistworld/layguide.h...

BrokenEnsoon US plans to require inter-vehicle communication technology in new cars

I'm not sure that's true. Auto manufactures are a really big target for liability in accidents (I'd likely get more from GM then an individual in a won law suit), and a quick search [1] seems to back my feeling that there is sizable law and case law that define this area of liability. I'm not saying that it's simple to win against any sufficiently funded entity, but it's not impossible that anyone has immunity.

[1] http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/automotive.html#.U_Jd_2...

BrokenEnsoon US plans to require inter-vehicle communication technology in new cars

"Yes, you could solve that problem with complex, interdependent systems that will fail in unpredictable ways."

Isn't that what you have now by depending on people?

BrokenEnsoon How I won a domain at auction and now it's been stolen back from me

Looks like NameJet is based in Washington state based on their About Us page. So give what happened and the low value involved, I'd suggest two things (I'm not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice) look at contacting Washington State's consumer protection board[1] and the Better Business Bureau [2] for the state. They might not take up the issue, but this does seem like something that would likely violate some state bases consumer protection law.

[1] http://www.atg.wa.gov/Divisions/ConsumerProtection.aspx#.U-O... [2] http://www.bbb.org/alaskaoregonwesternwashington/

BrokenEnsoon UK judge says ‘freedom of information’ means choice of digital file format

Would there be anything to prevent someone from creating a one off file format that requires a license fee and just start making FOIA requests in that format. If not, this seems like something that could be exploited for profit.

BrokenEnsoon North Texas citizens organize to monitor police with video cameras

Very good point. There is an NIH study [1] that drills into Law Enforcement Officers (LOEs). The number in the NIH study can be contrasted with the right side of slide 14. The mortality rate does raise a but from the Government rate, from 2/100k to 5.6 when you are talking homicide and 11.8 when considering all causes of fatalities; still puts it 3rd compared to other industries.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20564516

BrokenEnsoon North Texas citizens organize to monitor police with video cameras

Not really, no. It's just not that dangerous. We imagine it must be dangerous, and so do cops themselves. But you're a lot more likely to be killed as a garbage collector or airline pilot, or a construction worker, or plenty of other jobs.

Adding a bit of objective support to that statement is a report [1] from BLS that lists Mortality Rates by industry, where law enforcement is grouped with Government.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/cfch0011.pdf

BrokenEnsoon UN: Nations hide rise in private digital snooping

"The notion that one has a right to collect data from users of a service is the same notion that says the service provider has ownership of that data."

Last year my family went to have a family portrait taken by a professional (service provider or portraits) photographer. The photos (data) that were produced from the photo shoot belonged to the photographer. That photographer was more than happen to sell me family portrait, but the law is fairly clear that he in fact owns the data (all photos that were taken), i.e. he has copyright over the data.

BrokenEnsoon Google Co-Founders on Healthcare: “Thanks, But No Thanks”

It wouldn't be that much more different then paper medical records. Sure it would enable some interesting attack vectors, but I don't see that to be a compelling reason to not do it. It also wouldn't have to be a mandatory thing. People that are comfortable with it can use it, and those that aren't don't have to. Much like banks, there were (are) lots of people that don't trust back and choose not to use them. The same would be true for something like this.

BrokenEnsoon Google Co-Founders on Healthcare: “Thanks, But No Thanks”

I'd like for that database to be something that I control. This is, something that I carry with with me, like a usb stick; and that I have the software/tools to view it. Then I could actually take read though any notes and maybe take a more active role in my health.

BrokenEnsoon Brand engagement is plummeting on Facebook

>>> So Facebook knows I like Bob's Burgers but not The Family Guy.

I see how they would know that you like Bob's Burgers, but how would they know that you dislike The Family Guy? Or, were you saying that they know you haven't declared you like Family Guy at this point in time? I ask is cause I was missing a way they could track the former, and also because I think Facebook is missing the boat by not having a way to dislike something.

If I were looking to by Brand A and saw a lot of my negative sentiment for that brand Brand B would need less positive sentiment for me to be sawed to it. In that scenario they start to displace services like Yelp.

BrokenEnsoon Zuckerberg, Nadella and Other Executives Ask Senate to Restrain NSA Spying

I'd imagine a banner at the top of Facebook for eveyone geoloc in US say to vote for reps that don't support an unchecked US intel would get noticed by everyone on the hill.

BrokenEnsoon A "Not on Facebook" font icon for your website

The world that exists outside of TV is a fairly vast topic area.

BrokenEnsoon .NET Fiddle adds F#

Linux install instruxtions are at the F# website[1]. As for what you can use it for... anything you can use C#/mono for?

[1] http://fsharp.org/use/linux/

BrokenEnsoon Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car

I agree, but I also understand why it happens. For a lot of people the only thing better then money is more money. That you paid a value for a product doesn't mean they don't want to make more money from that sale.

BrokenEnsoon Gmail blows up e-mail marketing by caching all images on Google servers

Sounds like a great way to verify an email address to me. Send an email with a tracking image and if you get a hit, presuming they pre-fetch, you know it's a valid email.

BrokenEnsoon Why being a thinker takes quiet time

File it under Analysis; which is exactly what you are doing.

BrokenEnsoon The Government Shutdown on the Web

From my understanding most if not all federal agencies had to weigh the Anti-Deficiency Act with there decision. There is also what qualifies as essential vs. non-essential and how contracts that support those services are structured with a dash of Solicitor and management interpretation of those things. And all that had to be done for all IT, not just web sites, in a given Department in about a week. So, my guess is everyone did a mad-dash-scramble do something they couldn't believe would happen.

BrokenEnsoon Going to work from home today – our office is too loud

It might surprise you what OSHA protect workers from[1].

[1] https://www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA3074/osha3074.html

BrokenEnsoon A New Approach to Databases — Simulating 10Ks of Spaceships on my laptop

The RedMonk ranking from September 2012 [1] seems to contradict your statement about Haskell prevalence. Note, it edges out Erlang on both metrics.

[1] http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2012/09/12/language-rankings-9-12...

BrokenEnsoon Mapping the Census: A Dot for Every Person

From my understanding in a lot (at least a few) National Parks not all of the land is owned by the park. There are spots of land in the parks that are privately owned; and, some people have decided to build homes on that private land in the National Parks.

CBS Sunday morning had a piece [1] on the whole deal with people building homes in national parks.

[1]http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57530300/national-par...

BrokenEnsoon Command & Conquer in HTML5 with multiplayer

I've heard that argument many times, and I really find it hard to believe. Would the landscape of the market change? Absolutely, but saying that it would disappear seems like fiction.

So, my question for against your statement is, if IP laws changed, why do you think that drug regulations (and everything else that drives up cost-to-market) would remain the same?

BrokenEnsoon Federal Register API

The goal was to use an Auth framework that would be strong enough in case clearance was given to make more sensitive transactions possible. The hope is that at some point developers would be able to do more then simply consume data, but there are lots of policy hurtles to overcome for that to happen.