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Comment Re:Go ahead (Score 0) 26

Maybe a shirt with a load of random face-like markings? A hat with IR LEDs? The point is not just to screw with their system, it's to make them react so they reveal the use of the system.

I was about to ask and ponder the3 IR LED thing.....does that still work?

If so, I'd like to get some kind of wearable rig together to wear all the time to mess with all cameras around me....and my car!!!

Comment Re:What congress already does (Score 1) 48

... if President Trump would sign ...

Of course the king of fraud won't sign but that's not the problem. Who has the power to seize e-mails and trace the payment of moneys? Without that, it's a "been a very naughty boy" posture: If you don't get caught red-handed, it's easy money. In other words, what US congress already does.

A better solution is to do the same thing that should be done with stock trading: Require government officials (and their family members) who might have access to insider information to publish their trades in advance. The advance notice wouldn't even have to be large if the information was published electronically in a feed that could easily be monitored by other investors and the press. A couple of business days, maybe less. This should apply to all securities, real-estate purchases, predictions, etc., anything people speculate on. Not only would this highlight possible insider trading, it would erase most of the potential benefit of trading on inside information. It wouldn't harm government officials' legitimate investment opportunities.

It would still be possible for officials to pass tips to friends who are outside the group required to disclose their trades in advance, of course. It's ultimately very hard to stop that sort of thing, assuming the friends stay loyal, but that's a risky bet. Especially since the sort of friend who would engage in such illicit trading is probably the sort who might end up in some other sort of trouble with the law, and might find it convenient to flip on their buddy.

Comment Re:This isn't an article, it's an Opinion piece (Score 0) 90

There are already common work-sheets to compute recommended loan level based on wage and employment statistics in various fields. If somebody is foolish enough to ignore such warnings, then the problem is on them. I don't believe low-wage degree earners are necessarily more egotistical or greedy than high ones, barring solid evidence.

We obviously can't depend on people to make informed decisions here...so, rather than warn....lets just STOP giving loans out for worthless degrees, period.

Comment Re:flock cameras (Score 1) 40

no. What is scary is that some company gets to see everyone in real time, following them wherever they go, use AI to infer information that cannot be easily obtained otherwise. It is constant surveillance that is scary.

As to whoever being caught with cameras, certainly they will be. Also there will be people completely abused by the system, there will be political prosecution, there will be destruction of business, there will be rape and theft and destruction of property rights all based on the compiled information that is easily accessible by your local corrupt cops, by the corrupt FBI agents, by the corrupt IRS agents, by the corrupt judges and by the POTUS, whoever it is at the time. That's what is scary, that's why it shouldn't be allowed.

Comment flock cameras (Score 2, Insightful) 40

once again, will Californians be able to demand that flock and other types of cameras delete and do not record everyone's personal information?
https://youtu.be/uB0gr7Fh6lY?s...

https://youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo?s...
with AI they DO have your personal data. They can see you and follow you in real time, they know where you live, they know what you drive, they know who you are, they know everything about you because you cannot escape 80,000 + cameras everywhere, ALPR (Automatic License Plate Readers) and PTZ (Pan to Zoom) cameras.

There is no more 4th amendment in the USA with this technology available to the state.

Comment Re:Fuck "Eat the Rich" (Score 1) 106

And here's why that study was meaningless - "We are not going to consider the impact of the principle being decided. Rather, we just want to know who got the money in the case in question." That is, they ignore the single most important factor and focus only on the least relevant - the private fiscal implications of the ruling.

There may be something of interest in the findings, but in regards to the nature of cases being heard, not the relative finances of the claimants.

If it's the principle that's driving the decisions, not the affluence of the beneficiaries, across a sufficiently-large set of cases we'd expect to find no correlation between the political leanings of the justices and their votes benefiting wealthy vs poor people. Which is what the article said happened for many decades.

Unless, of course, the principle being applied is "Who benefits?"

It's worth pointing out that although gtall framed it as the Republicans siding with the wealthy, it's equally true that the Democrats are siding with the poor. Both sides are inordinately focused on who benefits.

Comment Re:now do putin (Score 1) 180

again, what war did it prevent? Korea? Vietnam? Iraq/Iran? USSR Afghanistan? Serbia? USA/ Afghanustan? USA / Iraq? USA / Panama thing? ruzzia (permanent UN security council member) Ukraine in 2014? in 2022? Constant attacks on Israel by every mofo piece of shit islamist state out there, pkus hamas, hezbollah?

World war 3 (nucleat kind?) is prevented not by the antisemites in UN but by the promise of MAD. Everything else is happening all the time. It is a pathetic joke and needs to be abolished.

Comment Re:I mean (Score 1) 152

I don't doubt that HP-UX was capable but it's exactly the situation that the guy in the article is describing -- it was 100% an enterprise product sold to banks and similar customers with zero effort made to make it sexy or accessible to even broader commercial customers.

I used HP/UX as a development platform in the mid-90s, cross-compiling to m68k boards running pSOS and VxWorks. It was a little weird, but rock solid, utterly reliable, as were the HP workstations it ran on.

Comment Re:likely to fail (Score 1) 43

We can hope it will work. We will see just how far the long arm of California law reaches. The Do Not Call list really became a verified list to abuse.

BFD. With all of the notices I've gotten about hacked systems releasing all of my info, it seems everyone has everything already anyway. This can't make it any worse, at least for the abusers that wouldn't be following the rules anyway.

Comment Re:This isn't an article, it's an Opinion piece (Score 0) 90

We shouldn't just presume careers that pay less are the biggest source of loan problems.

Why not?

If you take on debt to learn skills we KNOW will not allow you to earn enough money to pay off once in practice...that by definition leads to loan payment problems.

We need to STOP loans, scholarships and grants for any field that has no realistic promise of having the student make enough money to pay back plus extra.....let's only target fields we need that make money.

If you want to take the other crap...then feel free to pay for it yourself.

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