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Comment Re:Always the wrong answer (Score 2) 88

Define "working society". Are you including the people who shoplift/steal items and make their living selling them at popup flea markets?

Boosters are risking their freedom and even their lives. If it was easier for them to find work then they'd do legitimate work instead of boosting. Selling at flea markets is a job itself, so they're clearly willing to work.

Comment Re:Cops were actually well behaved, shockingly. (Score 1) 130

I just watched the bodycam footage from this, and to my surprise these cops were very well behaved. They never cuffed the guy, or in any way escalated the situation. They figured out very quickly it was a mistake and let him on his way.

Well, of course. It was a white couple driving an expensive car.

But, on the other hand, they failed to check that the license plate matched the plate they were looking for. The stolen plate was reported as either "34 DTM" or "34 03 DTM" (the article isn't too clear on this point: the report to Flock was "34 DTM", but it's not clear if the original police report was for that plate or "34 03 DTM"). In any case, these plates did not match the plates of the car that the author was driving.

One would think that checking the plate would be the first thing the police would do before apprehending someone, but apparently not.

So, well behaved, but incompetent. I am not sure that such incompetence qualifies as well-behaved.

Comment Re:Solar fricken roadways all over again (Score 1) 100

It's a trade off: you get abundant free energy to run the server, with extreme constraints on cooling because your server is running in the most perfect Thermos bottle ever.

Others are taking the opposite tack: undersea data centers for abundant free cooling at the expense of having to get the power down to your servers.

If had to bet on which one is more practial, I'd go with undersea servers. Build them off the coast of Chile, run cables out from batery-backed solar plants in the Atacama desert.

Comment Re: The difference between blue collar and white c (Score 1) 50

haha good one, the boys down at the maga rally will get a real kick out of it as you stroke eachother off

You have it exactly right. I can see why you didn't post with an identity, you'd get punished by the reich wingers. Wage theft exceeds all other theft combined but maggots are still crying about shoplifters

Comment Re:Barely enough for..dual-use? (Score 1) 76

The military implications are obvious. Think Ukraine. If you suspect the enemy is trying to infiltrate on a dark night along several kilometers of frontline, you light up the scene while launching a bunch of low-cost FPV drones, and those infiltrators are about to have a bad day.

You *can* spot infiltrators in the dark with IR cameras, but it requires much more expensive drones and isn't usually as effective, hence the preference for night operations. Plus, there's IR camouflage, with varying degrees of success. But it usually makes you stand out like a sore thumb under illumination (you're basically wearing a tent).

Comment Good thing his name was not "Buttle" (Brazil) (Score 4, Insightful) 130

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"One day, shortly before Christmas, an insect becomes jammed in a teleprinter, which misprints a copy of an arrest warrant it was receiving. This leads to the arrest and death during interrogation of cobbler Archibald Buttle instead of suspected terrorist Archibald Tuttle. ..."

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