Is this some kind of toothless threat? Either you have the power to block a deal now, or you don't. The likelihood any court will let you call 'takebacksies' on a multibillion deal that affects tens of thousands of employees is... unlikely.

If they're being honest (fat chance of that) about it being random then the only input is repeated refreshing until you get a lower price.

If it's tied to anything external all you can do is try to hide your identity or pretend to be whatever gets the lowest prices. Really good tracking or detailed profiles might be hard to get around, but I suspect most approaches are still rather naive. This isn't anything new. Some years ago there was a big story about airfare prices being different depending on what browser someone was using and even before that I recall reading about how customers using a iPhone were charged more than Android users on some website under the presumption that they were more wealthy on average because they had bought a more expensive phone.

I doubt that the companies doing this would allow you to identify as Filipino for the purpose of getting eggs for $.07 cheaper. That rather defeats the point of what they're trying to do. Even if companies could implement this perfectly it's still pointless as any significant price disparity just creates room for a middleman to engage in arbitrage. The store will only sell bread to the blind Cuban woman with gout who gets the best price and then resells all of the bread she buys to everyone else at a rate lower than what the store would have charged those other customers. So even if there were money to be made using this kind of technology, the store won't be the ones making any of the money once other people catch on to what they're doing.

>"I don't recognize that name, but I retired a few years ago and haven't really kept up with changes in the industry."

They have been around for many years. Parent is Samsung, I think. They also market under the name Wizenet, I think

>"Question out of random curiosity, do they have a tool for managing very large numbers of cameras?"

Yes

>"How long do they support their cameras?"

Seems like many years. They use security screws, metal enclosures, have alarm contacts, good documentation, full line of every kind of mount you would need, all the stuff a professional would expect. And they are NDAA approved, of course.

Dump useless departments, anything that ends in the word Studies. Dump the administration that has bloated to 15x its size since 1970. Dump the stupid amenities that drive up costs. That would be a great start.

Oh and, honorable mention:

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Giving children a solid gambling addiction by age 16 via the sports card industry pimping "1 of 1" golden tickets to parents spending the mortgage chasing a cardboard dragon, with that effort only being financially worth it with the drunken gamble of spending hundreds of dollars to submit it for professional grading in which only a dice roll of a perfect PSA10 will avoid bankruptcy in a viral market begging for a recession that has fucking ruined card collecting.

Credit cards, weren't being marketed and sold to children before. BIG difference. This makes candy cigarette imprinting look like a fart in church by comparison.

Believe the "influencer"?

Oh yeah. I'm always worried about the impact on my axe throwing plans when I'm considering an anti-inflammatory to take after a skydive.

A North Korean soap opera about who won World War 3, has more authenticity.

I only need you to understand what I'm saying.

By far the biggest complaints levied against EVs come from the low energy density of the batteries (weight, size, distance.) This is going exactly in the opposite direction. It's also not cheap enough to make low end EVs competitive with petroleum cars, even in developing economies. Mach E and Model 3 and Model Y it was only ever sold in the budget, lower range version of each. R1T is a pretty big car, even for a truck. Yet rangewise it's barely competitive with the much smaller Model S. Unless you're going to pack a massive battery pack on an even more massive car, or you intend on making an even lower range Nissan Leaf, I don't see the benefit.

Just as above, you'd have a point for this if the topic was grid power storage.

A couple of things to unpack here:
- The energy density of this car's batteries is claimed to be 180Wh/kg. That's less than what people driving around in Teslas right now already have.
- This was already supposed to be shipping by now
- Another Chinese company already shipped what it advertised as a solid state battery. Only it isn't. But they're still allowed to do that in China anyway.

If the underlying tech does what it claims to do and comes next year rather than three years from now, then you're almost getting somewhere due to the other advantages of lithium polymer, though we've still not seen any improvement in energy density.

Even the best critical thinking skills are still ignorantly human. As AI marketing advances, you won't even know the bot on the other end scamming you, isn't real. Even when you're looking right at it.

30 years from now you won't be able to tell when it's walking right at you.

The real dipshits in society, are the ones who assume otherwise. PT Barnum would have been the first multi-trillionaire today.

Nope. Both actions were to diminish the enemy's capacity to fight. Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined were firecrackers compared to Tokyo. The main reason nuclear weapons are banned now is because of the after then known effects of nuclear fallout. Tokyo itself could only feasibly (but not necessarily) constitute a war crime now, simply because we have the capacity for guided munitions. Furthermore, napalm, like any incendiary weapon, is still legal to use. In those days, the only realistic way to bomb anything (aside from nuclear weapons) was carpet bombing. If you tried to fly anywhere near low enough to get any degree of accuracy, on say a building, you would just get knocked out by AA fire. This may come as a shock to you, but just because John Wayne could shoot the gun out of the bad guy's hands instead of aiming center mass doesn't mean that police and soldiers aren't expected to aim center mass.

To this day, bombing is still done even if it is known that there will likely be civilian casualties. Nobody (other than people who think every John Wayne movie is a documentary) has any expectation to the contrary. You guys typically think the Bradley Manning leak video depicts a war crime, though anybody who has any idea what constitutes a war crime and what doesn't could easily tell that it isn't simply by watching the video. Once you add the context behind it, then it becomes blatantly obvious that it doesn't even begin to meet the definition of a war crime. Well, blatantly obvious to any reasonable person at least.

Nope. The topic was Porsche. Somebody mentioned Porsche's behavior. I quipped that they were founded by Nazis (or at the very least, Nazi collaborators.) A few posts later he comes in with "butwhatabout..." completely pointless (and off-topic) virtue signaling. So I verbally flicked him in the ear for being stupid, baiting him to do more stupid shit, then here you came to combine forces in a virtue signaling carebear stare. Either that, or one or both of you just came here to argue that Porsche has some kind of moral high ground. Not that it matters because both constitute internet entertainment.

You're right, they belong in bubble wrap.

Which people often did when running pyramid schemes. I.e. send a dollar to the next 5 people on the list and repost, and you'll get rich! Was a thing on BBSs too, going way back. By 1995 basically nobody would put their real email address in their post header.

>"I've only seen two manufacturers who really understand that security cameras should actually be secure, Axis and Pelco."

I would add Hanwha to that list as well. Again, not cheap, but serious stuff.

They can discuss religion as well. Teachers can't.

But all of this only applies while they're at the school. Outside of school, they can do like my history teacher did and wear a "real men love Jesus" shirt. Which, as an atheist, I thought was hilarious.

Ultimately, what they can or can't do on the job comes down to their employment contract with the state. Just like any other job, really.

It's a good thing the only state with such rules has a voucher system, meaning private schools, where such restrictions don't exist, are a viable option for teachers there.

>"So this isn't at all what you asked for, but I'm going to throw it out there anyway: Ubiquiti. You'll pay more and they're all PoE rather than wireless, but if you spend the money and run the wires (hey, you have to run a wire for power anyway, might as well use it for data, too) you won't regret the results."

I second that. Have a system at work and was impressed and bought one for home. You can do everything with their gateway and also stream to other devices at will. Everything under your control and stored locally. And their stuff is constantly improving. At home using the Cloud Gateway Max, U6 Pro WiFi, G5 Turret Ultras which are not that expensive and have a great picture, basic AI that works well, look great, super easy to mount and aim. And Unifi WiFi stuff is near the best. So you can have a great gateway/firewall/console, plus WiFi, plus video up in no time, and manage it all via a web page.

WiFi should never be used for cameras. It is too unreliable, too easy to fail, too easy to jam, too frustrating in every way. Running that cable is a hell of a lot better in the long-run (pun intended).