This is Microsoft so it's more like Suxxxmaxxxing.

How about copyright strikes on neighbours and car drivers that play music loud enough for me to hear it? I'd be happy with that, and the necessary technology has been around for much longer (a couple of decades for musical pattern recognition).

so we are only optimizing for economic output consumption - f*** the planet

thanks for being honest Archie.

Half the stuff shipped in that packaging is destine to be waste in a short time horizon if it isn't before it is even delivered.

The real problem is we have to much disposable crap and the economics of that are ultimately driven by materials being cheap relative to labor to do things like invest in maintenance, upgrades, and repairs.

but tariffs are bad I am told ...

The best solution is to fire all blind police officers and hire police officers who can read and verify license plates before pulling anyone over.

Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?

I am not writing in support of flock cameras. You and Compact Disk Reader are are deeply stupid. I don't even know where to start. You all can call me whatever names you want and brigade with your disagree mods but it does not change the fact that everything you support hands dangerous people more power.

You fools can run around going derp derp derp "flock" all you like but at the end of the day. Even if you get them taken down, big if, Target corporation and friends will just put them up. Someone will buy and aggregate the data. The police will have it again, and this time with LESS accountability.

I am trying to help you, by pointing out the problem is the unique identifiers, and people having 'to much freedom' to photo anyone and everything because it happens to be outdoors and do whatever they like with it.

But sure call me names or whatever. Don't worry I usually dismiss everything you two dipshits have to say too. At least drinkypoo says something smart every now and again. You two on the other hand never contribute anything useful.

So to be clear the issue isn't really about privacy at all. That is just noise. People trying to make it about privacy are liars.

The issues are:
1) A lot of people are intentionally commiting crimes of various severity and they don't actually want police to have a more effective enforcement tool

2) Some fear about false positives. Which I think is also over blown. Sure one woman was pulled from her car, and yes laziness and lack of understanding about how the system works lead to that. So sure the incident involved Flock but really policy have pulling people over or doing things like stop and frisk and getting overly aggressive for stupid reasons as long as we have had police. Flock isn't new here and really does not change anything.

The real problem is license plates at all. THAT should have never been accepted. Nobody plated up their horse or their horse cart. You can't in 2026 go around with a unique identifier being displayed or transmitted and NOT expect to be tracked everyone. You won't prevent government from collecting that data and using for things you both do and do not support. You certainly won't prevent other private parties from acquiring it and doing abusive things with it.

Flock is the symptom not the disease. People either need to demand anonymity and insist we stop displaying things like plates at all, and actually limit public photography, or just accept we will be tracked everywhere. There is no middle ground to be had.

Whatever they're doing on the Neo front, it's been successful. I picked up several for my kids while they were at the $599 price point. They're plenty "good enough" and at least I know Apple will support them for a few years with OS updates/patches.

The real problem is that the companies soaking up the resources are doing it with OPM. Dry up the easy money and the egregiously high leverage and the RAM hoovering will subside.

Though I have to say the schadenfreude when Larry Ellison blows through most of his capital chasing this business by the tail is going to be somewhat satisfying to see. One good market correction and the street is going to aggressively make margin calls and investors are going to be so pre-occupied avoiding being the next Leopold Aschenbrenner that the "easy money" will dry up.

Stock up on popcorn.

It is a hash of the actual file.

To be fair, I don't see Brian saying it is free.

The freeness claim appears to have been added by Slashdot editors.

Never beam it aboard the ship.

There are other energy companies in Virginia with Dominion being the largest of the bunch. Dominion itself already operates in multiple other states including North and South Carolina and produces a substantial amount of "carbon free" energy in New England.

I don't think Spamburgler has any real standing to meddle in the deal and is looking for a way to relevance after getting politically shellacked in the courts repeatedly since taking office.

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.