It was is all lazy lego stick together. Which I am not even sure is wrong entirely except for the lazy part.

I have looks a number of larger drone systems land, sea, and air. The state of the art is mostly off the self components, especially where it comes to scientific equipment and sensors because redesign of that stuff would blow the budget out and modification would risk function and invalidation of a tested tool.

So what you get is a drone with an Ethernet lan aboard along with the usual NAT router and some kinda of wan link, usually satellite but often mobile/cellular. Depending on the level of actual sophistication / development that router might sweep up and store the sensor data (or have partner server that does) and republish it or the router might just expose the individual components to some VPN.

When I first was asked to start looking at some of these 'platforms' I really expected more automotive-like engineering, thought I'd see CAN bus and body-module like patterns and you do but it is typically restricted to motor/servo controls, and navigational equipment that actually drive/fly/sail the things around.

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 ...

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.

So OpenAI "accidentally" lets their internal agents under test hack some third parties, and not to be out done Anthropic rushes out to say ours too!

I mean nothing says invest-able business like 'hi our products are dangerous and despite positioning ourselves as a leading tech firms we can't competently implement internet access controls'

We really are living in the dumbest universe

dude just hurl the abuse back at them. It is way more fun

He probably sees perfectly clearly unlike you, who can't see thru the constant tears.

What a sad sack

You sounds like an obese bitch

That is certainly true. However I also don't think this lawsuit should be entertained. Nothing here rises to the level real harassment, except in the head of this former employer, if even there as it just as like they are suing some with deep pockets because they can.

Cases like this need to be tossed, quickly and loudly to cut the bullshit.

at common law it was 'the putting in of fear'

So are you are precious snow flake afraid of backed goods? This is stupid, this Olympic level vitcimhood.

Notice how the Kamala cuckolds are the ones crying!

You and Fred and Losers, that is why you're both so upset. You know you'd be on the pie end of things because you're always on the pie end of things arn't you. Fucking cucks
 

FUCK YOU TO Fred!

There are to of sales jobs where there literally is nothing separating the good performers from the great ones on than hustle. How many calls did you make. How much time did you spend checking back with people who said "I'll think about it."

You frequently have sales teams where there is nobody that is performing badly. You might very well have a case where everyone had a 500k in revenue goal and all of them hit. Still someone will have done 650k and someone will have done 515k. There will still be a top and bottom. Making it a little 'good natured' internal competition is perfectly fine!

Unless you're a FUCKING KAREN

Calm down Karen.

This entire thing is stupid. Nobody can have any fun anymore. It is only assault and its only sadistic if people feel force. Nothing wrong with announcing a little contest to the effect of top closer gets throw a pie at lowest closer during the company picnic.

If that is your team dynamic fine. Now if someone says "Boss, I don't want throw a pie anyone and I don't why a pie thrown at me" than yeah you need to drop the idea immediately and say something like "ok it was probably not best thing I ever came up with, alright instead top closer gets $100 gift cert to Baker Square"

People just need to be adults.

Remember Weev, yeah if you or so much as increment and ID in a URL string, we can get dragged into court and find ourselves with 3.5 month prison sentence.

OpenAi on the other hand can run what is at the end of the stay still a program, that some person chose to run and allow to go around the web throwing malicious payloads at other people's systems and .... NOTHING.