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Comment Re:Use protection (Score -1) 37

Cops are some of the dumbest people I've ever worked with. Some of the tools they use are sophisticated but they'd fail pretty quick against even a modest effort to thwart them (and many times the tools outsmart the cops and they miss easy targets). I'd give "Police Forensic Expert" about as much credit as I do for "UX/UI Designer". FBI folks are much smarter, but they are also much more pressed for time and attention. It's like big angry drunk guys: they can fight unarmed and unskilled victims, but anyone with skills will beat them like a drum. However, "not using tech" is a much better strategy. You cannot make mistakes with tools you do not use. KISS definitely applies to criminals as much as systems engineering.

Comment Re:Profit motives and Sales (Score 1) 83

An AI kiosk won't be able to do that to anywhere near the same degree

What makes you say that? Especially right after all these tech companies lost court cases about making social media as addictive as possible. It might not be able to manipulate your social empathy on the spot, but the overall system, where AI kiosk is just a link in a long pressure sales chain, will absolutely be better at manipulating you.

Comment Re:That's just stupid (Score 1) 83

a kiosk that immediately looks up detailed financial information about me

Unless you have been consenting to everything left and right and now there is a lot of data on your profile, how would it do that without you agreeing to a credit check?

Comment Re:Neither (Score 1) 83

Right, and with fair pricing and disclosure. What is interesting here is that the solution to a terrible, exploitive buying experience is to make the seller even more sociopathic.

Comment Re:Here's an idea (Score -1, Flamebait) 219

We've already done that. Huge tax breaks. Free schools, with transport, meals, supplies, etc. Apparently you can't swing a cat without hitting a government subsided non-profit daycare in the US, even if half of them are fake.

It's life, generally. If you're not a helicopter parent, all the other parents sic the cops on you. The schools are operated by demented commies that have all sorts of plans for your kid(s). Both of you work, so your kid(s) get raised by the interwebs, being told they're not the gender the patriarchy told them they are. Then, every once in a while, someone shoots up the school.

Not surprising. Having a kid in the US is now a huge liability in multiple dimensions. Finances are just one piece of that.

Comment Re:More from the "never happened" department (Score 1) 256

After the fail of operation Epstein Fury, we'll be getting hundreds of "feel-good" bullshit stories.

I'll take 'Cover storied invented by the CIA" for $500, Ken.

I don't believe this for a second. It's even less plausible than that mining manganese nodules on the ocean floor was the real purpose of the Glomar Explorer.

I have no idea what they're hiding but really doubt anything like a quantum heartbeat detector exists. To make wild guess, we had some human assets in the country who told us where the officer was and we needed a story so we didn't compromise that person. Maybe we'll find out the truth over the next 30 years.

Comment How does this improve Right to Repair? (Score 3, Insightful) 47

Is there anything in a settlement that advances right to repair? That is, the key issue with Deere is that they lock out regular mechanical repairs with what is essentially DRM and force farmers to use only authorized repair facilities. That is, this is DMCA abused to subvert Magnusonâ"Moss.

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