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Comment Re:If you want surveillance (Score 1) 34

Just FYI to everyone, home alarm systems are the very bottom of the priority list for police dispatchers, because over 95% of them are false alarms. Kids smoking weed in the park are literally a higher priority. If you want anyone to pay attention to your home alarm either 1) pay for guards to come check out alarms, or 2) get an outdoor alarm sounder so loud and obnoxious that the neighbors call the police to complain.

Comment Re:What could go wrong? (Score 1) 34

map layout for anyone else who wants to pay for it,

Amazon does not sell customer data, ever. When I worked there we had to take a test every year about data security policies, I could literally access Jeff Bezos' personnel file with a lower access than customer PID (personally identifying data).

Comment Re:Big Brother Drone (Score 1) 34

aw enforcement officers will access this for their own personal use

No, cops will ***NOT*** be accessing any of this without a valid search warrant submitted through their ALERT system. More info, including the 'Ring Law Enforcement Guidelines', in my post just above yours https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
 

Comment Re:Big Brother Drone (Score 1) 34

Just so that hopefully in the future you won't continue talking out your ass, here are the 'Ring Law Enforcement Guidelines'. They don't say anything at all similar to what you claim.

https://ring.com/support/artic...

Ring distinguishes between content and non-content information. We do not produce content information in response to subpoenas. We may produce non-content and content information in response to valid and binding search warrants. Requests must be submitted through the Amazon Law Enforcement Request Tracker (ALERT). . .

Ring does not accept service of subpoenas, search warrants, or other legal process except through ALERT. An individual account can be created here. Legal process must be served by uploading the appropriate documentation through ALERT. . .

Notification:Unless Ring is prohibited from doing so or has clear indication of illegal conduct in connection with the use of Ring products or services, Ring notifies an account owner before disclosing user information in response to a valid and binding legal demand.

Comment Re: Not terrible, which is too bad (Score 2) 49

Map of agricultural production changes in the nuclear winter following a minor nuclear exchange, posted for no particular reason.

(For a full-scale exchange...)

Also, for no particular reason, a map of Russia's population distribution, alongside a reminder of Russia's nuclear missile failure rate, particularly booster failures. And that nuclear warheads have been commonly lost disturbingly often even during peacetime, with at least seven weapons from four incidents lost in flight landing in a way that left them fully intact and easily reparable, just from the US alone. And that Ukraine is rich in nuclear engineers, including still some retirees who worked in the Soviet nuclear weapons programme.

There's also this myth that "if you just use a nuclear weapon, you automatically win the war". Nuclear weapons are immensely effective terror weapons, but their effectiveness on the front is a lot weaker than most people think. People on frontlines tend to be in trenches, bunkers, basements, armoured vehicles, etc, and can be surprisingly close to a tactical nuclear blast while still surviving. They're effective against hard points but struggle against a broad, diffuse front (aka, today's front, which is a sparsely populated, deep, amorphous zone, thanks to drones). Amortizing Russia's estimated budget for tactical nuclear weapons comes up with ~$15-25M per weapon (not counting the delivery system), so they're hardly a dime a dozen either.

IF, via terror bombing or threats of terror bombing, you can convince your enemy to surrender, then congratulations, you have won (enjoy your nuclear waste heap and restive population who wants nothing more than to kill you). If they do not, however, their only goal remaining will be to focus 100% on using their extensive nuclear waste supplies rich in plutonium, their extensive long-range strike weapon supplies, and their extensive metallurgical experience, to render your major cities to ash in the same way that you did theirs.

(I also just assume herein that Ukraine doesn't actually have a secret nuclear weapons programme already, which is certainly an assumption).

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