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Comment Re:Flock refers to all of them (Score 1) 67

You gave a true but irrelevant answer.

When someone says they are not making contracts with Flock that is ALWAYS bullshit. It is an executive telling you what they did yesterday, not what they are doing tomorrow. You are looking at the middlemen who always lie, not the top dog.

Getting them to say things is worthless, not matter what they say.

The top dog are judges and legislatures that interpret makes laws not local councils talking about their current contracts.

When they speak, they talk about what is legal and illegal, not specific businesses. When they outlaw Flock, they outlaw all of their competitors.

As for RING, that is an entirely different business than Flock. The far majority of people that object to "FLOCK" will not put in RING cameras.

Comment Flock refers to all of them (Score 1) 67

When we complain about Flock we are really complaining about all of the surveillance business, not just Flock.

It's like saying I ran out of Kleenex instead of tissues. Kleenex has come to mean any tissue product designed for the nose and it is easier to say kleenex rather tissue for the nose.

Comment Keep suing (Score 2) 125

I like that she is suing the police, but she needs to sue flock as well. Pain and suffering, libel, whatever you can find to make it stick. I think libel may fit very well here, "falsely accusing someone of criminal conduct is one of the classic categories of defamation per se, where reputational harm can be presumed rather than requiring the plaintiff to prove every dollar of resulting damage".

Claiming that I was the perp in a hit and run and placing me in jail has real harm and they published it to the police force.

Sure: "This plate was observed near a location under investigation." isprobably not defamatory by itself if it is factually true. However, "Registered owner is wanted for burglary." feels very defamatory with real reputatinal and potentially monetary damages. I'd want my lawyer to investigate defamation/libel along with negligence and potentially other constitutional or statutory claims depending on who supplied the data.

Comment Multiple methods vs 1. (Score 2) 86

Humans use multiple methods of thought.
Faith: (Appeal to Authority)
Science: (Scientific Method)
Formal Logic (If x then y)
Bias: (Appeal to previous examples)

While AI is built on Formal Logic, it does not use it. Instead it uses Bias entirely. It has no faith and does not understand or use the scientific method.

Submission + - Pneumonic plague outbreak hits Siberia as lab worker, 28, dies (hotair.com)

schwit1 writes: A suspected plague outbreak has erupted in Russia — killing a young lab worker, forcing nearly 200 people into isolation and triggering accusations that Vladimir Putin’s regime is trying to keep the infection’s possible spread under wraps.

The alarm was raised in Siberia after a worker at an anti-plague laboratory died of the disease, which killed tens of millions in the medieval Black Death, according to a report from The Moscow Times.

Anna Popova, who heads Russia’s public-health watchdog, then rushed 2,600 miles from Moscow to the Irkutsk region as authorities quarantined a hospital and placed scores of people who had come into contact with the victim under medical observation.

"FSB units accompanying ambulances transporting people who had been in contact with [lab tech] Shipilova for medical examination," as per local news. This is significant. FSB is Russia's domestic security / counterintelligence service, tasked w/implementing the national security of Russia." (Its predecessor was the KGB). This suggests quarantine was not voluntary.

It also means Russian authorities are treating the lab accident and plague outbreak as a national security issue, involving a lot more than routine public health.

https://x.com/AnnieJacobsen/st...

Comment Re:Fascinating... (Score 2) 40

I own a Stratego board and play it regularly with my son. We also play it with close family from time to time. It's one of my favorite games. It allows for the right balance of strategy, skill, and adaptation, with just the right amount of luck mixed in. Additionally, even as one may be on the verge of losing, there still exist opportunities to win the game. And because arrangement of pieces can be different every game, and because your pieces are largely unknown to the other player until an attack is made, the element of surprise allows for every game to feel unique and special.

If you haven't played it, I'd encourage you to try it again sometime.

Comment Re:Not enough (Score 1) 189

1) I have no children.
2) I was very specific about Asia being a very different culture.
3) I have seen several studies that indicate most abusers come from entitled families and were not themselves abused as a child.
4) You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are NOT entitled to call other's opinion's "nonsense"

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