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ToothlessJake

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    Comment #6180425

    But you did.

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    Comment #6177176

    Good thing that no one in this thread or on this site in general poses that POV.

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    Comment #6176919

    Prisons are privatized, helped managed by the likes of SAIC[1]. FBI databases get shared amongst all the alphabet boys, including local law enforcement and private entities[2]. SAI…

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    Comment #6176788

    Where are the users that come in to say "I disagree with this, but consider it's validity because.." I would love to hear a thoughtful argument for how hiding the source of an inve…

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    Comment #6176758

    They are not supposed to know, the government is attempting to cover up it's crimes again[1] until it can work out immunity and monetary compensation for the actors involved[2]. [1…

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    Comment #6170024

    "The remotely operated MQ-9 Reapers have already been flying over a large swath of northern New York since October 2011. The Federal Aviation Administration has recently expanded t…

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    Comment #6169816

    That 'logic' was how the US telcom wiretapping and their subsequent granted retro-active immunity[1] issue played out. It was not snide, but a historical reference. Sorry if you di…

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    Comment #6169403

    A clean bill of health will be given[1]. All parties involved with be granted immunity, possibly retroactive, even though no wrong doing was found[2]. More payments to data provide…

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    Comment #6168727

    What are you on about? What does it produce if not computer-readable characters? Computer illegible characters? Are you saying it cannot read from the dictionary it creates? Or fro…

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    Comment #6168593

    I would wager JBIG2 is the problem when Xerox couldn't implement it properly. "Normal" is an overly aggressive compression setting? Is that an overly aggressive setting for the end…

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    Comment #6168579

    OK down-voter. Read the JBIG2 wiki[1]. "Textual regions are compressed as follows: the foreground pixels in the regions are grouped into symbols. A dictionary of symbols is then cr…

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    Comment #6168383

    O-SubC-R then perhaps. Still is recognizing shapes/symbols which is the very basis of OCR. This seems a bit hair splitty when the end result is the same as invalid OCR dictionaries…

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    Comment #6168295

    Thats OCR...

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    Comment #6165431

    Why is ft.com allowed here? Most users will not have ready access to the article contents therefore will be commenting mostly on the title itself. This sways the discussion towards…

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    Comment #6162383

    Someone in a previous thread about ex-NSA Russell Tice asked "Say what you like about Snowden, but at least some of his claims have been backed up by evidence. What have these guys…

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    Comment #6156835

    I must yet again point to a company like Endgame Systems[1] as being a likely contractor for this service rendered for the FBI. Some of Endgame's products used by the likes of the …

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    Comment #6156706

    "the US isn't likely to be too intimidated by the large blustering egos of amateur militias and their (largely) civilian firearms" Why on earth has the US issued a global terror al…

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    Comment #6155180

    Pardon the esoteric* nature of the commentary, hard to avoid given the highly focused niche of actors involved. *Esoteric content may trigger filtering depending on jurisdiction an…

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    Comment #6155158

    Compare information (metadata) collected on criminal scofflaws working under the cloak of US government contract against the acts the government finds reason to prosecute others of…

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    Comment #6155060

    Who is relevant then? FBI, who happens to work as a conduit for the NSA, along with any number of the other acronym boys? Or the corporations they hire while handing out legal immu…

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    Comment #6154905

    In the thread on the apparent code injection portion of this topic[1], I heavily suggested governments with the US at the least being responsible for the deed[2]. With a corporatio…