Well, this is fucking twice in the last few weeks /. has put my comment on completely the wrong post.

When I posted this, the comment I was replying to was Casandro.

The fucking post you attached it to didn't even exist yet.

Seriously, this site is where I could get real time posts from people on site for 9/11 (the whole fucking thing happened while I was on my morning commute).

Now you have problems serializing a conversation thread.

Turn in your geek card dudes. You appear to be incapable of performing basic shit that even I wouldn't fuck up.

THIS is why us old fuckers laugh at you.

You've turned into vibecoding tards.

You have.

Prove me wrong.

You forgot the sarcasm tag.

I hope.

Yep. It's for security.... but not YOUR security. It's to let others be secure from the user. The "trust" part of the TPM isn't there to let you trust the computer, it's so others can trust it. Or, in this case, build up a database of who not to trust.

Cool. Cool cool cool.

So cancel every contract Flock has with any government organization, and remove them from government / public property, and this problem is solved.

It's so great we can be in agreement.

I can't recall the last time I ate a burger at McDonald's that tasted better than the wrapper it was served in. A while ago I tried the McRib as well and was left wishing it had stayed in the 90s.

Uh, huh, sure.

It's possible that this article is less than honest on the matter, but it certainly appears that Trump had a license in NY issued at least as recently as 2012 .

What a garbage argument. They sell it to the government. The government is partaking of these services. THE GOVERNMENT IS VIOLATING THE 4TH AMENDMENT!!!! ....using Flock cameras.

Was this really so hard to extrapolate? Now, if Flock wants to set up cameras on THEIR property and record things and NOT GIVE IT TO THE GOVERNMENT! Then, hey, sure, THEN you have an argument. But the moment that any form of US government made any sort of contract, Flock started performing actions for the government and the 4th amendment is being violated.

Agreed. That at least is a good take. And yet it doesn't change the fact that this citizen is very fucking pissed at the illegal programs being paid for with my tax dollars. So you can suck this relevant fact in this democracy.

Oh SO YOU KNOW IT'S A FUCKING PROBLEM! Because guess what the damn contracts with Flock or Axon allow them to do!?

I can't believe you explicitly wrote such a garbage turd and tried to float it on Slashdot.

I got down this far.

Three Wambaugh plots so far, can't wait to read the rest. /s

He would only ask it for things that result in an improved situation for him, personally. There is nothing at all for him to gain by seeing lower gas prices. He hasn't bought gas himself in many years - and will never have a reason to buy gas again for the rest of his life - so the price is completely irrelevant to him. If the price fell and the MAGA party lost part of congress he would still blame it on other people. If the price stays the same and the MAGA party loses part of congress he'll blame that on other people as well.

ADORABLE.

Now, quick question: Do they sell to the government? Is the government partaking of these services? IS THE GOVERNMENT THEN VIOLATING THE 4TH AMENDMENT (using Flock cameras)? Then we have a problem here.

Seriously, do you also think the CIA murdering people is hunky dory just because a non-government corporation made the gun and the bullet?

I am a US citizen and shall be secure in my person and papers. If they have a dragnet of everyone's personal information (their location at all times) and have to search through it, they need a specific warrant signed by a judge.

But there's a simple test: Is your senator okay with someone following them around with a camera every moment they're observable from public land? No? Then applying this sort of scrutiny to the citizens is obviously bullshit.

Won't someone PLEASE think about the poor corporate overlords?

They're only violating the constitution so that they can hire more employees!

And frankly, all the hate goes does for the next Flock company. Axon? They KNOW how much people hare their rights being violated and they're doubling down on it?

It's easy to reach that conclusion if you have never been active in a party. The democratic party does have a good local ground game that is run by volunteers who actually have beliefs and principles. The problem is that at the end of the day the candidate who wins in the one who can pull in the most money, and that's true no matter what. Where do you see a situation where an independent candidate can pull in enough money to win an election? The message is important, but getting the message out is what brings in votes. Just as the democrats need a more coherent message than just "we're not Trump", an independent needs a better message than just "I'm not a democrat or a republican" - and they need backing in order to get that message out.

There have been some democratic candidates who have been able to get some local traction without taking special interest money, but that's only possible if they had a large war chest of money ready before they announced their candidacy. An independent would face the same challenge.

And what does the language matter anyway when you can now type in pseudocode into Copilot and ask it to form perfect equivalent code in any language?

Peak programming is Visual C++ 6.0a. It even has it's own test suite, they were called "debuggers". You could even step through code line by line and watch variables!