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Comment Re:Yeah, pretty much this. (Score 0) 193

This is a love tap, fists will be thrown later. One thing can and should be done, we need to start adding aerosols into the atmosphere, the higher the better. Adding Na compounds to jet fuels would introduce just enough aerosols in order to start reflecting a tiny amount more of solar radiation than what makes it to the surface of the planet. 1-2% reflection is all we need to start reducing the temperatures. Of-course we will have to keep doing it until we figure out a more permanent solution.

Comment sideloading control and 3rd party stores (Score 2) 38

Google is now adding more rules to make sideloading more difficult while Apple never provided a way to sideload an app in the first place. People need to be able to build and load their own apps without permission from the OS manufacturer, a phone is a computer with specialized hardware, we do have ability to build and run apps on our own hardware.

Comment Re:This didn't have to happen twice (Score 2) 162

It only applies to black men.

Per the statistics, police shoot and kill quite a few white men as well. Nobody gets worked up about those dudes.

OTOH, when you dig into the individual incidents, pretty much all of those dead white men were actively attacking the police, usually with a weapon (), so it's difficult to get to worked up about those deaths.

Comment Yes. (Score 1) 63

Flock is not a single police officer standing on a street corner. Flock is a network of continuous data collection from every perspective on every road and intersection. Flock is not a camera, it is an AI system that follows you precisely everywhere, it is a data dump without a court order. There is expectation that a police officer will NOT follow you everywhere without a court order just because he is paid from taxes and has nothing better to do, this is stalking.

Comment Re:So Flock too? (Score 1) 63

So the airwave spectrum is publicly allocated through taxes. Light is also in the electromagnetic spectrum. Your phone is broadcasting a MAC address(s) on that publicly allocated spectrum. Is that not the same fundamental thing? Or are you saying that because you have a phone or a licence plate, you are given consent to be surveilled?

I don't think having a visible licence plate or a broadcast MAC address gives the government the right to hoover up everything and put it in searchable databases just in case a crime might wander by... Consider this: your face reflects light, just like a license plate. How many cameras owned or "operated/controlled" by the government would it take to violate your privacy?

Here is what it says: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,[a] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

What does "secure in their persons" mean to you?

Comment So Flock too? (Score 4, Interesting) 63

"“Even so, law enforcement would also have access to the cellular records of countless individuals, the vast majority of whom were merely passing by a location at the ‘wrong’ time.”

“That is an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment,” the judge concluded."

So would not the same logic apply to Flock cameras?

Comment Just moved to Mint (Score 1) 93

Same coverage - 3 lines unlimited plus home internet went from $2100+ year to $975. I will give them a year and see what happens. Customer service was horrible on both ends porting in and out. I tried to play the "retention" game and was promised a call back as I "i was a valued customer for over 10 years" but it never happened. And, yes, I know T-Mobile bought Mint. Verizon wanted $2500 and could not even match T-Mobile. I hope starlink does something good because fuck these clowns!

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