I've gone through discovery. I know it's a pain in the ass. But at the end of the day it's part of the cost of doing business. Maybe they should buy fewer MRAPs? Or maybe they should stop circumventing the 4th amendment purely out of curiosity and convenience? Or, more realistic, maybe a national ban on the use of Flock (or similar systems) until they can figure out a way to prove they aren't abusing it that doesn't cost $2M?

While the cable lobby is correct and I hope they prevail, I also hope they are forced to pay a huge fine for being a bunch of hypocritical assholes. We don't need to criminalize it, just make hypocrisy financially painful.

Yes but obviously getting banned was very upsetting. Just look, she soon went on to kill 8 other people and then herself! ;)

It seems pretty negligent if a police department doesn't already have something like this in place.

Ouch. Solid burn, and on point. Well played.

FTFY. The issue at hand is that it's a hidden camera.

The interface is in natural written language which is the selling point of the whole thing. Additionally, it's not actually intelligent so it is not cognizant of anything much less the harm the information may cause.

Bottom line: it's just a machine.

We can't actually know if the scenario was a plan or a precautionary measure, you know, safety first.
However, what we know for sure is that she went on a mass shooting after her account was suddenly closed without explanation. This is exactly why they shouldn't shut down someone's account without providing them with a clear a rationale! ;)

FTFY.

It seems wiser to identify what could be possible before claiming what is impossible.

Because anything not at the whim of Trump and his gang of degenerate thugs will offer more national security then counting on the US.

It's already the case that European government are moving their physical gold reserves out of the US because they know that Trump might steal it. It's clear that besides looting the US Treasury for his personal gain, he's turned the entire country of Venezuela his personal piggy bank.

Are you stupid enough to think that just because Microsoft is a huge financial entity that he won't use it to get what he wants? We all know that anything that MS controls is riddled with back doors ans this administration has already used them for financially corrupt reasons.

This is a permanent change. Post Trump no county in the world can trust the United states on anything. We make China look honest.

I understand almost none of it, but sometimes I plow through things like this to try and get a bare glimpse of what's going on.

It's a theoretical study of the interactions of phonons, i.e. quantized vibration in condensed matter. If the phonons have handedness then pseudo-particles can form have eight fold symmetry. They suggest known physical system with these properties and how they might be detected.

That's all I've got. Sorry no pussy jokes. Maybe this time I'm the grownup in the room.

it's slow as hell.

Maybe it will be some sort of involuntary trade-in, where after they seize your Mac or (gasp) Linux system you will be handed a shiny new top of the line Windows machine. How can you complain with such an obvious trade up for Freeeeeeee!

BTW, is it legal to use Linux to do official business in Washington state? Asking for a friend.

I believe the issues is that for whatever reason they wrote this thing in typescript so it runs with Electron. Not only that, they are now merging the desktop client into their "web client" which mean it's a fucking web page.

With this in mind, I fully understand the nonconstructive criticisms.

I feel like these AI processes should be launched as a separate unprivileged user and group. Only when you change the file permissions should they be able to access your files. This avoids possible flaws in agent interfaces and hands off the responsibility to the OS. Why are simple solutions like this so hard to grasp?