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Submission + - Alabama State Sup. Ct: Police CAN Demand Physical ID If THEY Deem It Necessary (msn.com) 2

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: The ruling states that officers are allowed to demand physical identification if they feel an individual gives an unsatisfactory oral answer. AL.com reported how the decision ruled against a local pastor, who sued an Alabama town and its law enforcement office after a police encounter.

The incident occurred in 2022, in which police arrested Pastor Michael Jennings after he watered his neighbor's flowers. Another neighbor called the police on Jennings, citing that a "younger Black male" was on the property.

While officers pressed the church leader about his identity, he told them he was "Pastor Jennings" and lived across the street. The answer, however, did not please the officers.

After the man refused to give them his ID, law enforcement arrested him on charges of obstructing government operations, which were later dismissed. The woman who initially called 911 also confirmed Jennings as a neighbor.

Feeling wronged, Jennings sued the town of Childersburg and the officers for false arrest, leading to a long legal battle. Although a district judge dismissed his case in 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed the decision the next year.

The case then proceeded to the Alabama Supreme Court, while several civil rights organizations, such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center, filed briefs in support of Jennings. However, the court ruled 6-3 that officers may arrest someone who refuses to provide sufficient identification.

Justice Terry Sellers cited that getting correct identification is a "crucial part" of the stop-and-identify law, also known as a Terry stop. Sellers defended the officers' actions, stating that officers can request or demand physical identification if they deem a person's oral answer as unsatisfactory.

According to WVTM13, Sellers wrote that the law "does not exclude from its purview a request for physical identification when a suspect provides an incomplete or unsatisfactory response to an officer's demand to provide his or her name and address and an explanation of his or her action."

The judgment now sets a legal precedent that officers can not only request physical proof of one's identity but also arrest individuals if they fail to provide such evidence. Legal rights advocates condemned the decision, with Matthew Cavedon, director of the Cato Institute's Project on Criminal Justice, calling the ruling a "significant expansion of government power over people."

Now, an Alabamian under suspicion by a police officer must stay prepared to show proof of identity or face arrest.

Cavendon added, "The significance now for Alabamians is if an officer's not satisfied with whatever answer you give, I sure hope you've got your driver's license or passport on you."

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Comment Re:multi-day? (Score 1) 163

by Gravis Zero (#66055846) Attached to: Tesla's Upcoming Electric Big Rig Is Already a Hit with Truckers

That's fine, you go ahead and completely restructure the US freight distribution market. I'll wait.

This is the purpose of regulation, to provide incentives and disincentives that reshape markets to reduce harms being done to people.

Your reaction is funny one because you pretend as if it's never happened before. Give it some thought and you'll realize your mistake.

Comment I love it! (Score 4, Insightful) 136

by Gravis Zero (#66055822) Attached to: Will AI Force Source Code to Evolve - Or Make it Extinct?

I love everything about this but don't get me wrong, it's not because I think it's a good idea. On the surface this seems like it's the future but really it's the single dumbest proposal to come out about AI-based programming. Assuming you make a language that avoids the possibility of creating syntax/structural flaws, it's the inability to scrutinize the underlying code that will bite you, The result is a lower ability to debug code and will end up obscuring security flaws which will make the jobs of criminals easier.

I love this idea because I know the second a company using this crap gets bitten it's going to be an extremely expensive problem the fix, more costly than if they had just paid normal programmers to write the code originally and may actually force entire programs to be rewritten. This basically ensures that if it gets off the ground that it's going to self-destruct and every company who invested in this idiocy will suffer financial losses.

What's not to love about idiots getting their just deserts?

Comment Re:multi-day? (Score 3, Interesting) 163

by Gravis Zero (#66054108) Attached to: Tesla's Upcoming Electric Big Rig Is Already a Hit with Truckers

or less than a day for OTR long haul. 12+ hour days are not common, most of it spent driving.

Long hauls need to stop being a thing. There are multiple issues but the biggest is that pollution compared to freight trains is much higher because the energy efficiency is much lower. If reducing the amount of deaths in the "far off" future is too abstract for you then consider the number of collisions with big rigs that kill people annually. If you're just a jerk, then consider that it will significantly reduce the number of highway repairs needed and thus save a lot of money while reducing traffic.

I'm guessing these will be for close-to-terminal local delivery only

That's how big rigs should be used. If it has to go a long distance then it should be by train. Freight trains are no utopia but perfect is the enemy of good.

Comment Agreed. Is it bad? (Score 2) 41

I 100% agree with your point but I also have to wonder, is it a bad thing? This strikes me as a way to make the browser able to fund itself while actually doing some good for people.

The answer lies in what they do next: squander the funds (seems likely) or make real improvements.

Comment Re:Delaying the inevitable. (Score 1) 31

QEmu is the end-all be-all of emulated systems. It's basically, the Linux of emulation.

While I use it mostly by command line, there are many GUI frontends for QEmu. "Aqemu" is the one I know off the top of my head which is decent. I don't think it has the ability to use the snapshot API, so if you need that then you may need to find another GUI or modify it yourself.

Comment Not really. (Score 2) 33

But the initial wave of enthusiasm could still peter out, especially as token costs accumulate and regulators warn of security vulnerabilities. Zhipu this week raised token prices on its new OpenClaw-optimised AI model by 20%.

"Output is extremely low: ordinary people spend tens or hundreds of yuan, burning through a bunch of tokens and in the end, they might only get a pile of useless data," read one post on Rednote, a social media platform, titled "Goodbye OpenClaw."

It would appear that people are personally finding out that AI is overhyped.

Comment Monoculture (Score 1) 31

True enough but the migration cost is immense

The real problem here is that businesses are overly focused on profits which leads to homogeneous environments that rely on specific products and product-specific integration. It's much wiser to hedge your bets with a more diverse environment in preparation for a product to be unavailable, be it discontinued, "upgraded", or bought. Being forward-thinking isn't free which is why profit-centric businesses won't do it.

TL;DR: Monoculture results in bad outcomes like this "death sentence"; invest in diversity.

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