You don't monitor all the ALPR in the nation live - you set up a system where every ALPR installation has a 'wanted' database and reports hits. Typically the list would be updated daily and be built from a mix of local, state/province, and federal records. The systems have a mandatory retention policy to only keep hits against the wanted list.

But then you get somebody who catches on to the great idea that it should be retroactive. Force all those endpoints to hold their plate data for as long as the storage holds out - so you can search for where a plate has gone over the course of the last few weeks, or months... hell, maybe years. And you don't just watch for hits against the wanted list, you want to be able to send out queries like, "select all plates in common between these sites and dates" so you can find what vehicle was at every similar crime you've just figured out is probably the work of the same person or crew.

Then they want to throw the retention idea out the window and put cameras at every intersection and highway on or off ramp, and nobody involved worries about how that's absolutely going to be abused by everyone who has access to it.

Phonics-based teaching was coming into vogue when I was learning to read. My parents objected because that's not really how English works, and they weren't wrong; my cohort generally has shitty spelling abilities.

Rote memorization of the basics is about the best you can do, because English is too recently cobbled together from too many different languages to have a consistent spelling system. You need to learn Latin, Greek, French, and German at a minimum if you want to be able to reliably deduce spelling from sounds once you're past the elementary level.

Europeans are probably in better shape on that front than Americans or Canadians.

This is not how things work under kleptocracies. The US was never particularly strong on communal resources anyway, now it's just not even pretending.

Bond died and I've never liked the fan theory that the name comes with the number - for me it's always been the same guy portrayed by different actors and slightly adjusted for the times in which the movie was made.

Between Austin Powers and Jason Bourne, both ends of the Bond spectrum have been done, and done better.

The right holders may not want to hear it, but the Bond franchise needs a longer rest than it's had so far.

Every sales client I have... "You've secured my infrastructure... now give this CRM package I just found with Google full access to my mail, calendar, and file systems".

Sometimes you just want to give up on the world.

And what about the computer that was used to write to the floppies?

It's easy in the short term to cease development and switch to maintenance-only.

Then a few months later you start to discover why it's typically easy, but dumb.

The FPU on the Cyrix 6x86 chips was definitely their weak point. I had one and it struggled to play a MP3 while multitasking. On the other hand, the AMD K6-2/3 chips could play an MP3 in the background and it barely affected what I was doing. For non-FPU heavy tasks though the 6x86 was certainly competitive with the Pentium chips and was a good alternative for things like office work.

You can't attack education, non-whites, non-MAGA, all your allies, enact random tariffs, and then disrupt the world's flow of oil, all while building a kleptocracy and expect anything but a major long term downward trend.

You can no longer trust the government numbers. They're lying, and anyone who won't lie gets fired. Unemployment is probably higher than they're telling you.

The robot didn't 'pledge' anything - it mindlessly followed a script. A pledge requires self-awareness and will, neither of which this device has.

Honestly outside of people who do heavy 3d rendering, even a computer you use for your job just doesn't need to be that powerful.

As a programmer who sits at a screen for 8 hours a day, it took a lot of convincing for me to even give up my 10 year old workstation because it was pretty decent when it was purchased and as long as it had decent ram (it had 32GB) I was perfectly fine working on it. Having to reinstall was more of a headache that the benefit of getting a new system.

Hell my home/play machine is SIGNIFICANTLY more powerful than my work one.

I view my home computer like a Corvette and my work machine like a Corolla. At home I want fast - at work I just want dependable.

Democracy is for retards.

Government did this. All of this. Government regulated so much that only a rare few can afford to compete.

This is late stage statism. Retard voters are to blame.

Like you.

Given the Apple/Mac history with NeXT, I think the name he chose is more fitting.

It would be much less expensive to put some mice in a rotating orbital habitat to see what low g does to a mammal than to send humans on long term missions to the Moon or Mars, but other than one limited Japanese experiment nobody seems interested in doing so.

That tells me that nobody is yet serious about such missions.

Where I live, the rules are generally the same for e-bikes as regular bikes. Wear a helmet, stay off the sidewalks.

The additional rules are "max assist speed 32 km/h" and "counts as a motorized vehicle if your dumbass has been prohibited from driving by a judge"

If licensing rules come here, I want a speed increase.