Andrew Pam’s Comments

• Feb 2nd, 2022 @ 12:06am

  grammatical error

  on Chicago Cops Love Them Some Facebook Sharing, According To Internal Facial Recognition Presentation

  "it would be disingenuous to acknowledge this presentation at least tries to steer investigators away from rights violations" - disingenuous NOT to, surely?

• Sep 8th, 2021 @ 6:59pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  on Will COVID Become Australia's 9/11?

  Constitutions are just words. How they're interpreted and enforced is everything. For example, the Chinese constitution claims to guarantee freedom of speech.

• Mar 3rd, 2021 @ 4:28pm

  Also Diaspora*

  on Content Moderation Case Study: Decentralized Social Media Platform Mastodon Deals With An Influx Of Gab Users (2019)

  Similar issues have arisen with Diaspora* pods, also part of the Fediverse.

  Plus there have been individual toxic users who have repeatedly signed up for new accounts on multiple different pods, several per day, in order to get around moderation. The most toxic individual frequently fakes the identity of people he dislikes when signing up at new pods. This makes open registration problematic and raises difficult questions about cross-pod reputation management.

• Dec 8th, 2020 @ 5:01pm

  Re: Officer-involved brutalty

  on ICE Sends Subpoena To BuzzFeed, Hoping To Force It To Turn Over Its Sources

  "involved" is still an evasion, though. If you mean "officer instigated", say that instead of sidestepping with "involved".

• Dec 8th, 2020 @ 4:59pm

  Re: Officer-involved brutalty

  on ICE Sends Subpoena To BuzzFeed, Hoping To Force It To Turn Over Its Sources

  Simple: "shootings by police". "Brutality of police". Just add a single short preposition.

• Aug 24th, 2020 @ 8:47pm

  (untitled comment)

  on Brew Dog, Aldi Get Into Brand Battle With Good Nature, Not Cease And Desists

  The Aldi beer is Anti-Establishment. Check the small "Anti" at the top of the can.

• Oct 6th, 2019 @ 12:47am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Not available in Australia

  on Working Futures: The Future Of Work Is Likely To Be Complicated

  Yeah I have accounts on amazon.com amazon.com.au amazon.co.uk amazon.co.jp and amazon.de because I want to order things from those countries, and nowadays they notice that you're not using the site from your own country when you go to pay and forcibly redirect you, which loses the thing you're trying to buy. It's not always obvious how to find it again.

• Oct 5th, 2019 @ 6:15pm

  Re: Re: Not available in Australia

  on Working Futures: The Future Of Work Is Likely To Be Complicated

  ARGH!! I just successfully ordered the eBook via amazon.com.au (eventually). I hate their system so much. Please delete all these posts if possible.

• Oct 5th, 2019 @ 6:11pm

  Re: Not available in Australia

  on Working Futures: The Future Of Work Is Likely To Be Complicated

  My mistake - the paperback is apparently available for shipping to Australia, it's only the eBook that is not. Mike, will the eBook be available in other formats and/or through other vendors?

• Oct 5th, 2019 @ 6:07pm

  Not available in Australia

  on Working Futures: The Future Of Work Is Likely To Be Complicated

  Amazon says the book is not available (even for Kindle) in Australia. Mike, when will you make the book available in Australia?

• Feb 22nd, 2018 @ 6:59pm

  Good one

  on Report On Device Encryption Suggests A Few Ways Forward For Law Enforcement
  "rehashes the history of encryption" - that gave me a good chuckle.
• Dec 11th, 2016 @ 10:31pm

  Re: Re: Special Edition

  on Russia Accuses EA Of LGBT Propaganda Over Including Rainbow Shoelaces Soccer Players Wore In Real Life
  Oh look, an anonymous poster who thinks that "objective science" only includes two genders. Apparently they never got much past primary school science and have never heard of the various chromosomal, hormonal and other variations that exist. Or they refuse to believe in them, because it doesn't fit with their existing worldview. That's the opposite of science.
• Oct 12th, 2016 @ 8:30pm

  Inversion of meaning

  on Study Says Body Cameras Can Reduce Force Usage... But Only If Officers Turn Them On
  "Law enforcement's history with older forms of recording technology is exactly spotless."
  
  That seems a surprising thing to write. Did you perhaps mean to write that it *isn't* exactly spotless?
• Apr 19th, 2016 @ 8:07pm

  On the other hand

  on Sevens Marry Sevens: Is Online Dating Making Mixed-Attractiveness Couples More Rare?
  A countervailing force is that people who meet online other than via dating sites can develop long-term friendships well before physically meeting, so in cases where those evolve into romantic relationships they are presumably correspondingly less likely to be impacted by physical appearance.
• Sep 27th, 2015 @ 5:28pm

  Open Source alternative

  on Awesome Stuff: Everything On One Display
  It might be worth looking into the Numato Opsis instead:
  
  https://www.crowdsupply.com/numato-lab/opsis
• Feb 6th, 2007 @ 9:55pm

  Weird Al

  on Now The RIAA Wants You To Believe That You Should Be Paying Much, Much More For CDs
  What do you mean "where is Weird Al?" He's already released a satirical song "Don't Download This Song", complete with wonderful Bill Plympton animation. And of course he made the song available for download:
  
  http://www.dontdownloadthissong.com/