Yeah, but this the UK. Healthcare is free(ish) and when people are short of time and money they tend to make short term decisions.

But then the cost would go up, and there is a cost of living crisis, and a housing crisis, and a climate crisis, and a student debt crisis already.

It's part of a long term trend towards making life for ordinary people are marginal as possible. Fine tuning the system to keep us alive and healthy enough to work, at the lowest possible cost and highest possible profit margin.

It doesn't matter what your hobby is they fuck it up. These are the same fuckers we have to thank for video game prices shooting through the roof thanks to ram.

you're an old and bitter man, and you've only yourself to blame

and I'm old too and a loooong time c++ professional dev (and still am) and somehow the idea of change or the word 'Rust' doesn't make me shit my pants

I feel bad for you

Throughput Vs latency. Hardware RAID tends to be fast for processing large volumes of data, but the overhead increases the latency.

It's a bit different with DRAM though because the controller is complex and built into the CPU. AMD, for example, already transparently encrypts data in RAM with no performance loss, all in hardware.

One I was referring to was the incorrectly entered license plate what got a woman pulled over for suspected homicide - twice. A database error. After teh second time, they advised her to not drive that vehicle until they cleared the system and propagated the correct information.

This was not a bad cop, it was an error in the flock system. An error that can get people killed

Are their bad police? Sure. But your claims would appear to say that every single flock problem is by definition the result of criminal police. That's 100 percent the wrong approach. What is needed is logged interactions with data provided, such as the reason someone is maybe stalking someone. If Officer Joe Jones is stalking his ex wife Cynthia Jones, flock should be able to flag it. There are protections that Flock has none of at this time.

Problem is, if something can exist, it in fact will exist, Trying to make all license plate readers illegal is quixotic, honorable in intent, but doomed to fail.

Better to understand that, and implement enough safeguards to keep the bad guys and gals from doing bad things.

It'll be all fun and games until MAGAs get nabbed. Remind me to cry for them.

Just keeping it out of their hands will do for now. And remember, this too shall pass.

Mangione'd Well played sir!

The specific camera, and database of the wanted is nothing new. What is not good is a couple things.

Incorrect data entry leading to persistent errors, and being almost incorrectable until the wrong person getting nabbed for something they did not do. Even then it isn't always corrected.

Treating the data as infallable, like DNA evidence. It is not. As shown, it isn't even reliable. This case of telling a woman her evidence can be shown at her trial apparently seems like discovery is off the table.

The ability for police to electronically stalk people. It has been used to track exes, which seems a bit scary, becaus stalking is something that can lead to much worse.

The way it should be used is with warrants, logging police use for inappropriate use like stalking, Flock has shown to be an un-trustable system, with great potential and actual abuse, and innocent people are getting into completely undeserved trouble.

Whatever else, Flock is very imprecise, prone to bad errors, and we're seeing a pattern of innocent people being arrested. Police should look at evidence rather than clog up court time. And apparently under Flock Law, one must prove they are innocent, because the Flock system is looked at as infallible.

Flock needs to be stopped, because people will eventually be terminated for a flock mistake,

Meanwhile, The CEO of Flock is online demanding his picture not be posted. The irony. However it appears the internet is doing what it does,

All global changes have. Part of the reason that very few of the oldest are still among us today.

Greenhouse and Icehouse Earth are real, and at each turn, species went extinct.

Sometimes I think people believe I support AGW. Not at all. I just loath both the fear and denial. We have a problem. What good is using fear, and nothing is good about using denial.

There will be tears in America for one or both sides. They wider world outside of the US will be scratching their heads how we possibly could run a country this way.

Staying out of the public view is how surveillance startups will weather the storm. Once the public becomes complacent again then it is back to usual business.

Very true. At the end of the Pennsylvanian, the last age of the carboniferous, so much carbon had been sequestered that the temperatures dropped, and much of the fauna couldn't handle it. Even Oxygen has killed off a lot of life. As things like stromatolites oxygenated water and the atmosphere, the so called "great rusting"event happened. Happened in cycles. and as the oceans started turning blue from green, iron precipitated and sunk to the seafloor, and created the banded formations , which is where we get most of our iron today. And the giant insects, needed a high oxygen content because of the way they respired, at the time when it dropped, so did they. Which is too bad - I'l love to see giant dragonflies!

I was using the term "we" in reference to everything on earth. You have to have known that.

You are not even wrong. Humans have been through such things - although it was rapid cooling for the most part. But even then, there is at least one known historical warming event.

The Medieval warm period or the Medieval Climatic Anomaly, that lasted from about 950 CE to about 1250 CE. or the so called "little ice age" that followed and continued off and on until around 1850.

And one of the biggest rapid cooling events, happening in 536 CE a volcanic winter ensued, extended by another in 540 CE then another 547CE , that extended the rapid cooling. At it's worst, the temps were 2.7 C (4.9 F) below normal.

There are greenhouse gases, and there are anti-greenhouse gases. In addition to the particulate matter when volcanoes erupt, huge amounts of sulfur aerosols are injected, into the atmosphere.

So there ya have it homie, not only did you go pedantic on my colloquial use of the word "we", while I was easily and discernibly referring to all the part and parcel of Earth, you were 100 percent wrong in your assertion that humans were never involved in rapid temperature changes based on what was in the atmosphere.

We most definitely were, attested to by historical, geographic and biological (think tree rings and other corresponding evidence)

Global warming, and global cooling is a thing, all part of the energy retention characteristics of an atmosphere based on its constituent gases and their relative percentages is a fact. Gases like Carbon Dioxide and Methane are gases that retain energy, and Sulfur dioxide which attracts atmospheric water to become an aerosol, rejects energy, all facts.

I post toward three separate audiences. Toward those who cannot comprehend that there is a well proven fact - at least as close to one as a scientist will admit - that the energy retention or rejection of an atmosphere is controlled by its gaseous composition. I always ask them how something that can be proven by grade school students and is in use every day to grow plants, utterly fails on a global level.

The second audience is those who appear to believe that we are dead unless we inject Aerosols into the atmosphere for thousands of years, which has to continue for thousands of years, because the acid rain that is a side effect will rain out and acidify the oceans, kill forests, destroy buildings and infrastructure, do significant harm to wildlife and humans. A cure worse than the problem.

I'm probably not going to convince either of the first two groups. The first is either stupid or simply doesn't care. The second appears to have something else going on, acknowledging the problem as real, but needing a panic situation. Those two groups even feed off each other, taking it political, and having a group to dehumanize. Problem is, we aren't going to have votes on the laws of physics.

The group I'm actually interested in reaching is those that might be uncommitted. People who can handle a bit of science. People who might eventually be the ones to act as the adults in the room, maybe make good solutions.

Finally, my own thesis on the matter is that while a lot of scientists speak of avoiding "tipping points" at some future time, I'm inclined to believe teh tipping point has already happened, probably in the mid 1980's.

My solution is based on doing what we can and should do. We need to accept that we have a pretty big problem. We need to stop de-sequestering, and ramp it down as quickly and in a method that doesn't cause global social collapse. We need to research crops that will handle the increased CO2. We need to research re-sequestering a good bit of what we dug up and released its CO2. All that said, we need to slow the transition, and not perform actions that make it worse, or introduce new actions that just bring new problems. We have problems that will not likely respond to denial or panic.