How many people will be comfortable telling cops to go bugger off with their request and get a warrant like civilized humans?

I've heard this argument a few times - the whole "constant surveillance" worry, which I certainly understand. But Ring doesn't work that way. You're typically not going to be recorded on these cameras unless you walk up to a front door on private property. These cameras are designed with a fairly wide field of view, and recording is triggered by the built-in motion detector, which has an adjustable range.

It's the people where they are putting them. They are putting them in low wage areas where a lot of people do not care about following good citizen unwritten rules. This is, and probably does, help lower wage people get to and from work which is great. It's a shame a few deaths, which happen anyway with or without scooters, can stop this service. The Gov has to stop trying to be the public's nanny. If people want to risk riding a scooter let them. Good luck solving the trashing of the units and waterfall. People are shitheads especially now parents, if you even have two, are both working until late and barely have time to handle kids.

There might be plenty of reason to argue that we're buried in "corporatism" and some changes are sorely needed. But this whole Amazon/Ring situation just isn't one of those things I find hugely disturbing.

I mean, let's look at the facts here.

- Ring is just a piece of hardware that people VOLUNTARILY put on their home, primarily for such things as making sure they know when the FedEx or UPS guy tries to drop off a package, or serving as a "high tech" version of a door peep-hole. The camera is only looking at a relatively small sliver of your property, in range of your door.
- Just because they added the "neighbors" feature to share doorbell videos of interest doesn't really move us into a "1984 Big Brother" surveillance state. When I review the shared footage from people who live near me, the worst I saw was a drunk lady who kept trying to ring the bell and knock on the door of the wrong house. Most videos were just pet videos, or people saying, "Check this out... a deer walked through my back yard last night!"
- In some ways, I think Ring helps limit camera recording because it solves a specific need that might otherwise have been handled with a whole-house camera system, or one that captures a much wider area than a few feet around a door.
- If you don't pay Amazon for the subscription streaming/recording capabilities of Ring, it doesn't even save any video. It just allows a quick live peek at it, when it notifies you it detected movement or someone pressing the doorbell button.

There might be some slightly underhanded stuff going on where Amazon and police departments are conspiring to make sure the cops can view as much of this Ring footage as possible -- including crafting press releases to put it in the most positive light. But again, nobody's making anybody use one of these things in the first place, or even pay for the subscription. And if you're on a person's private property, presumably interacting with their door in the hopes that they answer it? How much privacy can you reasonably expect? I'd always do such a thing assuming the owner has the right to and might just be recording me there.

If a cop asks me something without requiring it, my answer will be a maybe-polite "NO."

We know for certain there is life elsewhere.

Assertion, not fact. Even if there is only one in however number of planets there are in the universe that there is only ours with life, that is still an odds and reality may have landed on it. You..do..not..know. 'great odds' != known.

Not backward compatible then it sucks.
Name it vacuum?

If it's a language that's sort of like Perl, but doesn't work then it's like the dike that's failing. The girl had to put her finger in the dike.

So name it dyke.

It's funny, laugh.

>"Considering the bangup job the free maerket has done regulating the health care industry, I can't help thinking there might be a better soluition that isn't based on anything so cattershot as a "price signal".

If you think healthcare in the USA is "free market", then you don't know much about healthcare. If it were, it would be cheap, fast, and plentiful, like, oh, everything in most free markets are now. Healthcare is extremely regulated, insurance can't cross state lines, companies are forbidden to build out where they want, and more government money is spent on it than anything else (Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare) in the country and with zillions of strings and additional regulations attached. Finally, "insurance" has isolated the consumer to the point of almost ZERO decision-making. They have no idea about prices, how it works, or their options for care, unlike free markets.

Healthcare is very, very complicated. Thinking it is a "free market" is laughable. Thinking it can be "fixed" with yet more government is even more laughable.

"None of this is what was supposed to happen."

That's BS. Scooters (in California at least) were as much in violation of laws as the sudden spurge of dockless bikes were a few months before they debuted. This was an intentional movement in the Uber manner: "break the law first and ask forgiveness later".

In addition to being public nuisances and storing commercial property on public thoroughfares, they enticed violation of law by encouraging use without a helmet (same for the bikes). Saying "you agree to use a helmet when riding this" is risible when the entire business model is based around people who obviously are not walking around with bicycle helmets. (The lack thereof is primarily the cause of the fatalities that have occurred.)

Scooter and bike companies (and the progressives cheering them on) shouldn't be claiming non-culpability here -- they wanted to do this and to get first-mover benefits, caring little about negative externalities.

Your comment linked to exactly two scientific papers, the ones by Mann you attack, and a lot of random links on the internet. Think a bit about this.

I consider them abandoned private property, and I throw them off of sidewalks whenever I encounter then. I was told by a police officer that that was the appropriate thing to do, as well.

I wish I had mod points today.

I very much doubt the projects are comparable at all.

Consider a transaction processing system for banks. There are so many components that must work together that you don't just start without carefully thinking through all the data flows and error modes. Requirement don't change often or easily and the system doesn't "work" at all until the last piece is in place.

Web pages, "apps" etc are different. Just build something basic that works and let the demand of the customers guide what you do next. Changes are often additive and with few side effects.

No wonder different methodologies are used and no wonder the projects have different failure rates.

I don't think scooters are a problem, there's a bunch of news articles saying they are a problem, but the majority of people surveyed seem to really like them. The fact that scooters are so dang popular, well, everywhere, is a testament to how effective they are. Yes people don't park them in good spots and yeah they can fall over but honestly I live in ground zero and don't see them laying about like you do in the pictures. Most problems with scooters stem from lack of non-car transport infrastructure in cities designed around cars.

It has none; that would be Holloman or Wright Pat. AFB. Lazar brought 51/S4 into public consciousness.

Actually, what we all probably need is a methodology that works for crappy teams. Because those are in the majority. I'll be honest, I don't know if I've ever worked on a team in 30+ years that wasn't crappy in some regard or that didn't have a couple of lead weights attached to the team that would offset the couple of geniuses. Some of the smartest developers I've known were terrible in a team environment, and some of the best developers were rather mediocre at programming.

Although it may not matter, in my experience the success of a product in my experience rarely correlates to the quality of the product.

You turned it into news by posting about it. If you completely ignored it it would be less newsworthy.

I am sure unicorn horn would work just as good as infinitely long cosmic strings.

Show me where I said I a have a mathematical proof I will show you fucktard. Every time you post your idiotic protests to what I say God kills a kitten. Now, go ahead ... show me your proof what I just wrote isn't true. Only a moron demands mathematical proof that in an infinite universe life doesn't exist in a localized singularity.