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  1. unixwizzard

    See.. it's not just an American phenomenon

    That is, officials / juries clearing police officers of wrongdoing whenever they use excessive force for little or no reason. The officer in question even had two of his fellow officers testify against him and he was still let off...
  2. unixwizzard

    New police radars can "see" inside homes

    Just what we need.. :\ http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2015/01/19/police-radar-see-through-walls/22007615/ If the police are supposedly forbidden from flying overhead homes using infared cameras to find "grow" houses or other purposes (Kyllo v. United States), how is using this technology legal?
  3. unixwizzard

    Florida man decapitates his mother

    Flori-duh, of course.. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/article5296617.html A Florida man is charged with first-degree murder after his mother was found decapitated outside their home on New Year's Eve. According to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, Mario Gomez called 911 on Wednesday...
  4. unixwizzard

    Computer freezes with network traffic

    Here's the problem.. downloading any fairly large amount of data causes the computer to freeze.. no error message(s), no blue screen, no nothing.. it just locks up, needing to power off and restart.. It could be a download from the web using any browser (tried IE, FF and Iron) or it could be a...
  5. unixwizzard

    Phoenix officer guns down unarmed..

    seems to be a theme here.. if a (white) officer shoots a black suspect, it becomes national headline news.. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/phoenix-police-shooting-latest-ignite-outcry-27377999 from the article (emphasis mine):: the officer responded Tuesday to reports of someone selling...
  6. unixwizzard

    Odd issue with Netgear router.

    Setup: Netgear WNDR3700v3, firmware version V1.0.0.22_1.0.17, this connects to an Arris 722G EMTA for Comcast/Xfinity VOIP and HSI. Clients currently consist of three PC's connected directly via ethernet, a second router, a WNR3500L from SamKnows, connected via eithernet running in bridged...