Duzzy Funlop posted:

I simply couldn't get through the first two episode. (that were supposed to be the pilot?)

Maybe I'll try again sometime.

quote:

NY Newsday
"Surveillance Camera Activist Charged in Harassment"
Samuel Bruchey, Newsday
23 Jan 2004

For a recent newspaper article on the potential ills of surveillance cameras in public places, Bill Brown led a reporter on a walking tour of Manhattan, deploring the mechanical eyes disguised as street signs or affixed to buildings that infringe -- "like mushrooms in a forest" -- on personal freedoms.

"This is warping human beings," said Brown, 44, at one point, narrowing his eyes to a "conspiratorial squint," according to the Jan. 17 New York Times article.

What the self-styled social activist did not mention was that two weeks before the article was published, he was the one caught on camera, then arrested for making hundreds of obscene phone calls from inside a Manhattan law office where he had a temporary job, investigators said.

On Jan. 8, Brown, of 20 Fairview Place, Brooklyn, was charged with misdemeanor aggravated harassment after being taken into custody by Suffolk County district attorney investigators. He is scheduled to be arraigned March 11 in First District Court in Central Islip. If convicted, Brown faces up to a year in prison.

"I was absolutely appalled when I saw the article," said a Huntington man whose 9-year-old daughter answered the phone and allegedly was subjected to one of Brown's sexually explicit screeds. "If you were doing a story, wouldn't you at least do a basic background check?"

Catherine Mathis, a spokeswoman for The New York Times said Friday, "We are not aware of any past criminal activity on the part of Mr. Brown." Brown could not be reached for comment.

Brown, who was an assistant professor at the Rhode Island School of Design between 1990 and 1994, was arrested six times in Rhode Island for calling random telephone numbers in hopes that a young girl would answer the phone, investigators and school officials said.

The Huntington girl's father, who asked that his family not be identified, said Brown must have coaxed his daughter's name from her when he made the Dec. 28 call. When the girl answered, Brown allegedly threatened to rape her and her mother, investigators said. Investigators say Brown had repeated his earlier Rhode Island pattern of making random calls, threatening young girls who answered the phone, in the hundreds of calls he made.

The Huntington call was traced to Debevoise & Plimpton, a prominent midtown law firm where Brown had occasionally worked as a temporary proofreader, investigators and firm officials said.

Investigators pulled phone records and discovered that more than 700 random calls had been made over several hours that evening. They also used employee access cards to trace movements inside the firm, which occupies 15 floors. But it was a surveillance camera inside the lobby that nailed him, investigators said.

Brown, who -- according to the newspaper article -- has mapped out surveillance cameras in parts of several cities, knew the location of most cameras inside the office. He deliberately covered his face or averted his glance as he walked by, investigators said.

But one camera in the lobby he didn't notice.

It recorded Brown entering the firm that night in the same blue knit cap and scarf he would be pictured wearing in the Times article.

Brown was arrested on Jan. 8, outside a temporary employment agency and later admitted to making the calls, authorities said.

"If he's leading people around on tours like he's some sort of patron of human rights," the Huntington girl's father said, "they should at least know who they're standing beside."

Nuclear Tourist posted:

I have one Windows 10 update that my computer has been wanting to install for about a month now. It installs it, restarts, and then never boots up again. Just sits there with a black screen with nothing discernable happening. At least Win 10 scraps the update and goes back to the last build if it fails to install it three times in a row.

NoNostalgia4Grover posted:

Go to the Privacy Tab in Windows 10 & disable away, and also uninstall whatever Win10 store apps you can.

SHIM Shimazu SHIM and maybe Zeris if he wants to repost the below to the NYTimes sucking rear end thread in CSPAM.
I found it again.

A 2002 profile on a privacy rights guru who gave NYC surveillance camera tours.
http://www.notbored.org/van-dusen.html

Then a 2004 NYTimes article about that same guy doing the NYC surveillance camera tours (skip to editors note for instant payoff)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/17/nyregion/watching-big-brother-on-this-tour-hidden-cameras-are-hidden-no-more.html

Zeris posted:

What

NoNostalgia4Grover posted:

Don't personally use an adblocker, feel that ad presences is a tradeoff internet tax.

NoNostalgia4Grover posted:

Don't personally use an adblocker, feel that ad presences is a tradeoff internet tax.

Plus it's kinda fun seeing what sites you visit sell access-data via the magic of targeted ads.

Richard Bong posted:

If sites stuck to non intrusive advertising I’d have no problem with it.

Right now they can’t even guarantee that it’s not malicious ads.

Soulex posted:

Give an inch. They take a mile.

blue squares posted:

I finally figured out what turn on your monitor means. I thought it meant that your post was just so dumb you must be typing with the screen off and unable to see how dumb you are being. Then I remembered that a long long time ago monitors were reflective when turned off

what an aged joke

Zeris posted:

https://twitter.com/vandroidhelsing/status/954410959887507456

UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

adblock plus sold out a few years ago and whitelisted a bunch of ad companies

Nostalgia4Dogges posted:

I always thought it was funny how every program like that (utorrent also comes to mind) eventually sells out and simply includes spyware or the poo poo it was originally against

I mean yeah money talks but it’s still lol

Richard Bong posted:

I mean with half of those programs it’s based on people not wanting to pay for things. So as slimy as it seems I can’t completely hate a guy for wanting to be set for life financially instead of catering to a bunch of dumb nerds who won’t pay for stuff.

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

boop the snoot posted:

Des Moines, Iowa

Kansas City, Missouri

Shreveport, Louisiana

Give me ideas of fun things to do in these armpits since I will be spending a couple of weeks at each this summer.

boop the snoot posted:

Des Moines, Iowa

Kansas City, Missouri

Shreveport, Louisiana

Give me ideas of fun things to do in these armpits since I will be spending a couple of weeks at each this summer.

Vasudus posted:

gently caress a fat chick

Stultus Maximus posted:

boop the snoot posted:

Des Moines, Iowa

Kansas City, Missouri

Shreveport, Louisiana

Give me ideas of fun things to do in these armpits since I will be spending a couple of weeks at each this summer.

Richard Bong posted:

If sites stuck to non intrusive advertising I’d have no problem with it.

Right now they can’t even guarantee that it’s not malicious ads.

Stultus Maximus posted:

(except Youtube. gently caress sitting through a three minute ad before a one minute video)

Vasudus posted:

I use uBlock Origin. It works.