Maybe these days, but way back when, many of those freshman classes were to weed people out. I took one easy English class. The others were calc, physics, chem, CS. Many had high drop/flunk rates. I would agree it was a year of challenges for me. And it should be. I knew several who did not see 2nd semester.

As long as we keep fighting over each individual opportunity for surveillance instead of public surveillance itself,

Germany, similar to a lot of countries, seems to have general privacy laws that deal with photographing and publishing identifiable people.

In fact, that's in the first sentence of the summary.

Yep, the IRS upgrades and ATC ones allocated money always seems to get redirected. I just saw trump redirected almost a bil for WH renovations. Congress didn't fund it so the king opted to move other monies for some gold plating. https://www.yahoo.com/news/pol... Its almost like he thinks he is staying.

It's been pretty much continuous, on both counts. They're often linked too.

For example, written ten years prior to the pandemic:

https://sciencebasedmedicine.o...

or about the period after the 1918 pandemic:

https://www.cascadepbs.org/mos...

They just get louder after big events.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

They're way ahead of you. By more than a century.

There are a bunch of them. People were chasing after Mac minis, which are almost cubes, just a little squashed.

No idea what you're talking about.

I think the ugly reality is the AV's fitted with a myriad of cameras is the real worry. Those AV's are roving surveillance equipment. I don't think anyone could believe if Flock or some other org offered to pay even a buck a day for access to those camera feeds, the AV suppliers wouldn't nod yes immediately. There is no going back from the current availability of cheap cameras, cheap storage and cheap compute. The framers couldn't have envisioned this. Even I as a older techie still find the magnitude of the storage capabilities available today as a bit surreal. RAM sizes that dwarf persistent storage of just 2 decades ago.

I think this is the way. Give the CEO 24 hour "police security" which records every legal infraction he commits from spitting on the sidewalk to making any and I mean any traffic violation. Did he "California roll" a stop sign? is he impeding traffic in the left lane?, ... After awhile I expect the flock leader will get the idea that 24x7 surveillance is not a good thing after a few thousand citations in a week.

Yes of course. You can buy brand new computers today that use either DDR3 or 4. Lots of places recommend going with DDR4 because the premium for 5 isn't worth it.

RAM is cheaper today than it was in 2017. Even without correcting for inflation.

https://dam.stanford.edu/memor...

The Americans have made it illegal to possess more than 4 GB of RAM. They're setting up amnesty stations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It's not. The IGN article the summary quotes carelessly implies that, but it's not true.

The Internet tells me that memory manufacturing normally has a lead time of 12-18 months. Guess what's 16 months from now? 2028.

It must be getting pretty capable. OpenAI has decided that they should not test their hacking tool on the Internet.

For a second I thought your username was blackmagic. Would be appropriate.