Also try not to get your image into the image recognition software's database.
FACESNXT is fed from all Florida-issued photo IDs, including driver's licenses. So pretty much every Florida resident is in the database.
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office submitted the poor image to a statewide facial recognition database maintained by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office (PCSO), running a facial recognitio program called Face Analysis Comparison and Examination System (FACESNXT). This draws from a mix of sources including booking photos and all Florida state issued IDs and driver's licenses.
So good luck keeping your face out of that database if you live in Florida.
NRA is not the only US 2A rights organization, it's not even the most effective. GOA for example defending Pretti's "right to bear arms while protesting", as did the SAF and many others
People freak out if you threaten to take their guns away.
Do they? Because the last time the President suggested it, along with people from the DHS, the best the NRA could muster was a "it was a bad idea to bring a gun".
Odd, that's not what the NRA stated, nor what any media org reported them as saying. So where do you get that so-called "quote"?
Trump was the one who said "it was a bad idea to bring a gun", and here is the NRA's actual response to trump's suggestion: “The NRA unequivocally believes that all law-abiding citizens have a right to keep and bear arms anywhere they have a legal right to be,”.
Actually, I thought it was legal in the US to make your own firearm for personal use. You just can't sell it. So why would it be different if you 3D print it vs. fabricate it with some machine shop equipment?
You are correct -- under federal law, it is legal to make your own firearm for personal use (PMF), though manufacturing firearms with the intent to resell for profit requires a federal license (FFL). A few states are trying to pass their own local restrictions on firearms manufacture. Some of these proposed bills, such as in the states of Colorado and Washington, also include CNC machine tool fabrication in their bans.
This specific bill proposed in California is focused solely on 3D printing
Did you know all color photocopiers and printers sold have anti-counterfeiting technology? There are special patterns printed on bills that photocopiers and printers can detect and will refuse to print.
Most commercial printers, copiers, and print engines, but not "all"
So it was solved not by a law, and not by software that looks for anything resembling currency, but rather by placing a simple, easily software-detectable, pattern into all currency, and ensuring that anti-counterfeiting tools treat any currency lacking this pattern as fake money.
Okay, so now we just need to mandate the (mostly anonymous, decentralized) designers of printable gun CAD files to embed these special patterns into their open-source STEP and other CAD files, and then convince the open source printer and slicer software developers to include the detection code
This content restriction is already a thing on printers everywhere. Try printing a bank note and see what happens.
The currency detection pattern (The "EURion Constellation") was added to the design of banknotes and certain other documents to enable detection. Good luck getting the printable gun STEP/STL/GCODE people to embed a special small easily-detected feature into their files!
Also worth noting that currency detection isn't a law, and isn't in every printer. The few companies making high-quality color printer/copier internals caved to political pressure and "voluntarily" added detection for a very simple pattern to their firmware. Adobe also embedded this in their (closed source) photoshop software.
Reliable detection of anything that might possibly be a gun or a part of a gun, in any possible 3d rotation, is not a trivial problem, an effective solution would pretty much first depend on developing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
I have YouTube premium from back when they had an excellent music service in GooglePlay.
I got rid of it, but then resubscribed so that my cats can watch their bird and squirrel videos uninterrupted.
Seriously.
Having consulted at a lot of these big businesses, I can tell you that a lot of the staff classified as "engineers" by CEOs in their posts & stock holder messaging, are in fact "tool configurators" that these orgs are using to setup, update, and modify the configuration of their internal tools, and a lot of last mile "solutions" for making clunky enterprise tools work well enough or often report well enough for internal middle management needs. I have no doubt that AI can help with these jobs more reliably than it can with full on coding. That being said, even these tend to build up tremendous technical debt within orgs with tons of bespoke naming, duplicate and repetitive automation, and new ongoing costs.
Tl;DR; Most big orgs often like to message to Wallstreet that these jobs are "the expensive ones" vs the reality of what they're really covering workwise.
Back in the day, we used to run "tarpit" SMTP servers which looked like an open mail relay but ACK'd incoming packets only just barely fast enough to keep the remote client from timing out and giving up. The theory was that tying up spammer resources was a net good for the internet, as a sender busy trying to stuff messages through a tarpit was tied up waiting on your acknowledgement, reducing their impact on others.
Similarly, perhaps the right answer here is to limit the number of concurrent connections from any one network range, and use tarpit tactics to rate-limit the speed at which your server generate contents to feed the bot -- just keep ramping down until they drop off, then remember the last good rate to use for subsequent requests.
It would perhaps be interesting to randomly generate content and hyperlinks to ever deeper random URLs -- are these new crawlers more interested in some URLs or extensions than others? If you pull fresh keywords from the full URL the crawler requested, will it delve ever deeper into that "topic"? If their Accept-Encoding header supports gzip or deflate, what happens when you feed them a zip-bomb?
As a Fiver (not Fiverr), gotta love the folk bragging on having (or losing) 6-digit accounts. Way to make me feel old.
The company had 762 employees as of December last year.
Given their "self-service" business model, why did Fiverr need 762 employees to begin with?
Perhaps the best counterexample of your premise is the Unabomber. Yes, not on the Web--but I think that was half because of the timing and half because he understood the lack of real technology-based anonymity. But he tried quite hard to stay hidden. And died in prison..
Theodore Kaczynski was caught because of poor Operational Security (OPSEC). He let his ego get the better of him, delivering a 35,000 word manifesto and insisting that it be made public.
He was caught only because he thought he was smarter than everybody else, leaving clues with each bomb and in his manifesto. Ultimately the Washington Post's publication of his writings caught the eye of researchers, and more importantly, his younger brother David, who turned him in for the $1M reward.
Managing these products with separate OS's and requiring different software for use on both, helps insulate Apple from cannibalization of their own revenue by someone buying an ipad instead of a laptop or vice versa. Part of their pricing strategy with the keyboards & such for ipad is to help ensure price parity between these two platforms, and to disincentize as many as possible from thinking they can get away with just an ipad.
Their catalog is a work of art. Even if you don't buy anything (But you should! It's cheap! And good!) it's really fun to read.
Definitely! Similar vibes to (but pre-dating) Trader Joe's "Fearless Flyer", right down to the cheap paper and retro graphics.
Visiting their original storefront in Chicago was one of my favorite excursions when I was young and in need of science fair inspiration or just "stuff" for one of my personal projects.
Pretty much all the B&M and online surplus electronics stores I used to buy from have faded away or moved to a purely eBay existence.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (1) Gee, I wish we hadn't backed down on 'noalias'.
