It's tough to differentiate correlation from causation, as one of those 3 low crime NE states (Vermont) has allowed permitless carry since before the nation was founded.
A few years back, New Hampshire (the second of the 3, with one of the oldest of the 28 no-permit for open carry state laws) tallied up a lower annual violent crime rate than Canada.
So much forthe claim that allowing more citizens to carry will increase violence.
Except it wasn't Apple wanting this. It was someone who wanted a coveted permit so badly he bribed a few people for it. And that person just so happened to work for Apple as security chief..
Wrong.
The indictment and articles specifically state the permits were for four Apple security staffers:
In the case of four CCW licenses withheld from Apple employees, Undersheriff Sung and Cpt. Jensen managed to extract from Thomas Moyer a promise that Apple would donate iPads to the Sheriff's Office. The promised donation of 200 iPads worth close to $70,000 was scuttled at the eleventh hour just after August 2, 2019, when Sung and Moyer learned of the search warrant that the District Attorney's Office executed at the Sheriff's Office seizing all its CCW license records.
My coworker in Seattle sure doesn't feel she is "beyond needing handguns" this year.
I started my career 'working in high tech" installing and maintaining networking gear in some really sketchy neighborhoods, including doing late-night repairs at telco exchanges, Now I don't work those hours anymore, but some of our sites are still in those same, or worse, locations.
This is the heart of the issue. Many others here are reacting to concealed carry, which is legal via permit is most of the country. I'm focused on the bribes.
Heck, concealed carry is legal without a permit in sixteen states, including the three states (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire) with the lowest violent crime rates in the nation.
The problem here is that by granting the sheriff discretion (without oversight or review) to choose whether or not to issue, CA law all but encourages the sheriff to take bribes in return for permit issuance, or just use the "coveted" permits to reward his or her political supporters and punish rivals
Most of the USA has straightforward rules for concealed carry, with a few states not having any provisions, and others, including California, leaving issuance to the discretion of local law enforcement. Just like previous scandals in NYC, this discretionary power translates to pay-for-play in many California counties, with sheriffs using their control over who receives a new/renewal permit to reward or punish individuals (or in this case, businesses) in their jurisdiction.
Several states have gone from discretionary "may issue" to "shall issue" or even all the way to "constitutional carry" in part because of backlash against real and perceived abuse of discretion by local law enforcement
Do you need a concealed carry permit for that?
In fact can you explain why this person might want one? Could be not open carry instead?
California is one of just 3 states with a general ban on open carry, however the state does offer a "Permit for Exposed Firearm" . One might assume that Apple didn't like the optics of their security guards being visibly armed?
California sheriffs have discretion over whether to issue either type of permit, and Santa Clara county sheriff is well known for abusing this power
Companies that cross me politically end up on my shit list.
I'd get a little more sophisticated about that. It's a divisive tactic socially, and while I'm sure your time for research is limited as is mine, there are probably better proxies for confining your business to responsible entities. Business relationships between politically opposed people are a bridge that keeps us together and just might even end up in some constructive dialogue.
I don't have a problem doing business with people who have different beliefs than I do, and am happy to do business with companies that shut up and stay out of politics. But when politically opposed people bring their politics into business, or like this guy, spam business contact email addresses with political messages, they end up on my shit list.'
For example, I was aware Bill Penzey Jr. was a lefty, but I liked their spices and so I still ordered from Penzey's -- then he spammed his customer mailing list with anti-Trump rants back in 2016, and lost my business forever.
Amusingly, the company I switched to, The Spice House, is run by his sister, who stated “Politics does not have any place in my business
The FBI is tasked with investigating possible threats against high value targets. People with sensitive security clearances. I asked an agent if that box at the end of the street contained their camera. "It's a plate reader. We build a list of people who cruise the neighborhood for no apparent reason." Most of the entries will amount to nothing. But I suspect that a few people might lose out on certain jobs or rental background checks if their name comes up in an active investigation list.
What kind of corporate job, much less rental background check, has access to query any databases of "active investigation lists"?
I went through the full process for a security clearance, and, probably half my neighbors have "sensitive security clearances", and we didn't get a box at the end of our street, and the official clearance investigator didn't go around asking every law enforcement organization in the state about active investigation lists.
And rental background checks? Even more cursory.
It's not like Amazon/Smile is directing unknowing user's funds to this entity -- you choose where the money goes when you enroll in smile. Amazon relies on the listings at GuideStar to determine charity status, pretty much only blacklists groups on the naughty lists maintained by OFAC and SPLC.
There are many questionable groups among the "over one million eligible 501(c)(3) public charitable organizations" enrolled in the program.
Three exceptions to the rule are Z-Wave, Zigbee, and Insteon. Each of these has multiple options for an on-premise controller which in many cases can run entirely independent of the cloud.
Zigbee is an open standard, and Z-Wave recently announced that they're moving that direction; previously companies wanting to implement the protocol bought their interface chips from the sole supplier,
Insteon was one of the first "smart home" standards, and still has the best support for tying controls and sensors to controlled devices without even having a controller in the path introducing delays -- for example, you can have a motion sensor directly operate multiple controlled lights, and this relationship is entirely within the devices, will work as long as the sensor and the lights have power, instead of being relayed through a controller.
I remember an article from a few years back where certain complex images would result in a crash and reboot of low-end consumer IP cameras, I think due to a flow in the MJPEG encoder? (Citation would be appreciated)
With computer vision being deployed at the edge in many cameras, I can see BLIT-like attacks against surveillance being feasible. Shades of comp.basilisk!
Tenants of rent stabilized apartments are allowed to sublet their apartment, but this incurs a 10% surchage, so there's an incentive to sublet without notification.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
