Although, hmm. I might potentially be persuaded to watch Encanto at some point, if the right other people are watching it and invite me to watch it with them. If so, it'll be the first Disney movie I've seen since Shrek.

Eh, you're preaching to the choir. I haven't watched a Hollywood movie made in the last fifteen years. The last one I saw in a theatre was LOTR:ROTK. I've seen a couple of movies more recently than that, but they were old ones.

When the thirty-second trailer looks boring and heavily derivative, it's pretty difficult to imagine that the actual movie could hold my interest for over an hour. Sorry, not interested. Do you know how long it's been since I saw a movie trailer or advertisement, that made me want to watch the movie?

"Available enforcement options may vary by jurisdiction."

So instead of a night in jail after the 10th time getting caught, the shoplifter turned terrorist gets 25 years, and you get 10 years? Sounds like a really good plan you've got!

What do teenage shoplifters get in the UK? A letter to their parents? (Spoiler: There's a big article about this in the BBC this week)

The police will love flying them around, but most of the stores that buy it will be disappointed and sales will drop over time.

So you're saying they'll be told sternly not to fly over 400', and the police will love them?

If you really want to explore the topic, why not The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson? Too many words for most slashdotters, I guess...

The problem with your AI drivel is that drones aren't people, they don't think, and there is absolutely no reason to program them to let a shoplifter go if they drop the (in this case, now destroyed) items. Nor would security personnel controlling a drone lose interest.

I thought this would be needless to say, but your comment reminds me how stupid the average person is.

There will be no point in buying this technology unless you're calling the police on the shoplifters, and you have local policing available.

The same company is installing mass-surveillance cameras, free (so far, pending lawsuits) of the restrictions placed on law enforcement, when the whole purpose of the cameras is that they give the data to police, who are paying them to do it.

That's the dystopian part people would be talking about in reference to Flock.

Do you live under a fucking rock or something?

I love it. I don't think it would scare the shoplifters, just entertain them. But it would be great PR in a world with a lot of drone anxiety.

In the past 20 years I've only been waved through I've never even had a receipt checked in that situation.

The purpose of the alarm at this point seems to actually be to get somebody in the security room to check the video. They should probably just turn the beepers off.

They didn't hire Oracle, they hired somebody to implement a COTS offering from Oracle, and it went badly wrong (and didn't even meet their needs) and they had to start over reimplmenting part of it.

This isn't work done by Oracle, the Council decided (on their own) to use an off-the-shelf solution from Oracle, hired people to implement it, found out midway through that it wouldn't work, and then tasked somebody with re-implementing part. And that is not yet working.

If they had hired Oracle the initial cost would have been higher but it would have been an easy implementation, because Oracle has a lot of experience and this client wouldn't be likely to have anything novel. It would be copy/paste. (Or more likely, they already have generator code that would output the whole thing, working)

I don't like Oracle but this isn't the type of thing they're likely to mess up. It's just an "income management system," an ERP.

They didn't hire Oracle to do the implementation, and the extra money isn't going to Oracle. It's going to the consultants they hired.

They thought they could use an off-the-shelf deployment. And it didn't actually meet their needs. Which they discovered after spending a big chunk of the money at question.