Just because the police are interested in someone, does not mean their reasons are just. We have lots of stupid laws, there's no reason to help the police enforce drug laws, or (here in texas) abortion laws. There's no reason an APB should be out on some girl trying to flee the state to get an abortion after she got a positive test and some stupid religious fuckwit nurse broke all kinds of laws to report her. Definitely no reason your ring camera should be used to help identify her going to the person who lives across the street from you who offered to drive her to New Mexico, and then that person is tracked by every flock camera between Austin and the border.

Or perhaps you were suspected of being a protestor in No More Kings day, and the ring reported on your whereabouts, We're calling such people domestic terrrorists these days. You personally could never be forced to testify against yourself, but your ring camera could.

And that's just official law enforcement. Flock is a Peter Thiel gamble, part of his ever expanding private global espionage platform. Maybe you told one too many pooh bear jokes on the internet and Xi decided to have you offed. For a price he can know where you are and what your routine is.

The only time you should be giving Ring data to anyone but yourself is if you need to report a crime to your property or the people within. You should be in a position to volunteer it, or at the very least require a court order.

This is the single dumbest thing I've read on slashdot in 20 years.

It would be great if they fixed bugs, rather than introducing new ones. They introduced one that blocked my garage door opener icon when I was in reverse, it took like 6 months for that to get fixed.

I've lost count of how many updates in the past 8 years have occsionally made my car firmware unstable and had me sitting there doing the vehicular equivalent of ctrl-alt-del.

But yeah, it's great, the updates are easy to schedule and use.

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This isnâ(TM)t new, itâ(TM)s in the sales material and on the dash warnings. The average daily commute is 42 miles (66 for me). I have never needed to drive gas because the temp dropped for my daily commute, ever.

Sure, you might need to take occasional road trips of over 200 miles and want gas, but then you make the rent vs buy decision based on your situation.

We went 2 years working from home, did the same work, hit the same deadlines, delivered the same products. If they're measuring a decline in productivity WFH vs. WFW, they're clearly making a mistake.

No, it really doesn't. I cancelled a few weeks ago.

if they want to charge more and make better content, or expand their library, and offer their current release movies, I'll think about it. But right now it's shit at any price.

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One gets the feeling that Seattle is taking away tax benefits to companies that aren't dragging enough employees into the city.

No mention of private wealth and private equity markets being able to pump significantly more money into private companies and reduce their need to go public, as well as being able to manipulate public markets to ensure that no strong competitors can emerge.

If it goes that far I only need to one gun and one bullet.

We're busy all the time, and a lot of that time is with things that make us really fucking angry or stressed: work, traffic, the infinite social obligations that are probably bullshit but we feel we need to do to survive (business networking, our fucking gym memberships, that friend who always wants to do something stupid), and for those not single, don't even get me started on all the things we're pressured to do for our kids.

We get home and we're angry and have 10 minutes before it's time to go to bed and repeat it all, and we choose not to take out our frustrations on our partner and ditract ourselves with scrolling or tv or something. Is it really a surprise that we don't fuck as much? It's not that we don't want to, it's just that in the time-slot dedicated to sexy time, we're probably not feeling like sexy time.

I don't think our society is worth saving enough to figure out how to unwind all of this, although the obvious solution is so obvious.

Windows wants into this club, soonest, just install that TPM and windows 11, i bet macos and windows lock down the same day.

A torrent app will put government will to the test. I have no doubt citizens will want this, but governments are bought and paid for by many corporate interests, and those interests dislike torrent apps, whether they're used for things that aren't yet owned, but especially for things that are.

This is slashdot, there's no room for nuance on AI. Obviuosly the AI did what it was supposed to do, the person in question had made up his mind. End of sad story.

A kid around the corner did this just last week, I'm told that he'd been telling actual humans he was going to do it for a while, and they didn't believe him. But he did, and we're not able to sue Texas government for its abuse of trans-kids, even though arguably they're more deliberately motivating suicides than AI.

Mom and dad should be more focused on helping get mental health access for teens than worrying about Scam Altman.