Comment False choice fallacy (Score 1) 59
Youtube exists to mine data. If they convert to subscription-only they lose considerable product.
Comment Re:Picking on Cuba (Score 1, Insightful) 65
As with most bullies, Trump only picks fights with countries (and people, companies, institutions, etc...) he thinks he can easily push around (or will bribe him to go away) -- he miscalculated, and/or was lead astray by Netanyahu, with Iran. He also doesn't respect those who cave easily.
Comment LAPD, and others, ending agreement with Flock (Score 2) 125
LAPD ending deal with company operating license plate-reading cameras (July 11,2026).
The Los Angeles Police Department is ending its agreement with Flock Safety, a company that operates surveillance cameras throughout the city.
LAPD announced that it will allow its agreement with the company to expire Saturday, ending the department's three-year relationship with the security firm - at least for now.
"This contract is not being renewed because of serious concerns around civil liberties and civil rights issues, particularly around privacy and the data that is being collected from these cameras," said Dean Gialamas, LAPD's chief information officer. "The LAPD had to make a difficult decision, in this case discontinuing using Flock services until we can get those data, privacy, security and sharing concerns ironed out through a contractual relationship."
LAPD says the department does not use Flock's cameras to help U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
And in Michigan, Flock cameras coming down in Westland; councilmember says contract not renewed
"We have received confirmation from the Westland Police Chief that he has decided not to bring the Flock camera contract before City Council for a vote," she said in her post. "It was clear Council was deeply divided on the issue."
She added that the current Flock cameras placed around the city will remain so, until the contract expires within the next month, before coming down afterward.
Sampey said that it is an example of city officials listening to residents, many of whom voiced concern about the cameras.
Comment Not always a competition. (Score 1) 74
The FCC approved the satellite,
I hate how this Administration always frames things like this. At least they didn't throw in "freedom" or "patriot".
Comment Re:3 points (Score 2) 125
Why on earth would you need to shoot someone for... driving away???
Are you a psychopath. Evading arrest doesn't carry the death penalty in law.
Well... If you're an ICE agent it's because the driver, "weaponized his vehicle" (said w/o any body cam footage) -- or, as Uncle Jimbo on South Park would say, "My God! It's coming right for us!"
Comment Re:"Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory" (Score 1) 102
Also, this is not about a Brown professor, it's about Brown students.
This can only get unintentionally funnier.
Someone will report this story to Stephen Miller and the Trump administration, but spell it "brown" and the whole school gets deported.
Submission + - China Recovers Orbital Rocket with Net Capturing System (spacenews.com)
hackingbear writes: The first Long March 10B rocket lifted off at 12:15 a.m. Eastern (0415 UTC) July 10 from Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site on the southern island province of Hainan. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) confirmed the successful recovery of the rocket’s first stage 11 minutes later, using a sea platform equipped with a net capture system, a world first. Videos emerging in the minutes following showed a controlled, powered descent with black smoke billowing from the top of the first stage, followed by capture by the Linghang Zhe (“navigator”) sea recovery vessel, with hooks deployed from the booster caught by a tensioned net. The recovery occurred six minutes after separation of the first and second stages. The full success of the flight with insertion of an unnamed satellite into orbit was confirmed by CASC more than 90 minutes after liftoff, representing a huge boost to both China’s desire to develop reusable rocket capabilities, and for its crewed lunar program. The five-meter-diameter, two-stage Long March 10B is 63 meters long, with a mass of 760,000 kilograms at liftoff and has a low Earth orbit payload capacity of 16,000 kg in reusable mode. The full, tri-core Long March 10 will be used to launch astronauts and a landing stack to the moon, with China committed to landing a pair of astronauts on the lunar surface before 2030.
Comment Easy answer. (Score 3, Funny) 107
Lawmakers Probe Growing Use of Chinese AI Models In US Companies
You use a Chinese AI Language Model and an hour later you want to use it again.
Comment Re:Half of the country voted for this (Score 4, Insightful) 123
It's a reason I have grown more and more favorable to some sort of compulsory voting like Australia does but I don't think it would fly over here.
I'd be in favor of that, but could easily see it challenged on 1st Amendment grounds - though I'd counter by proposing a "None" option on the ballot, so at least you participated. If voting was mandatory, it should also be a national holiday or people should otherwise be allowed time off from work to vote, as well as early in-person voting, and voting my mail would definitely have to be allowed, postmarked by election day. You have to provide various opportunities to vote if it's required...
I'll add that my personal feeling is that if you don't vote/participate, you don't get to complain.
Comment Re:Half of the country voted for this (Score 4, Informative) 123
And they will find some excuse to justify it.
The popular vote was 49.81% (77,303,568) for Trump and 48.34% (75,019,230) for Harris meaning Trump won by 1.47% -- or, as Trump and his minions call it, "a landslide". There were 90 million eligible voters who did *not* vote, meaning more people opted-out than voted for either.
Among all 245M eligible voters, the overall percentages were roughly: 31%, Harris: 30%, None: 36%
Comment Re:Government of the Corporation (Score 2) 123
A government of the corporation, and for the cooperation. Corporations are people too, my friend. It is just that some people are more equal that others. Citizen United has made sure of that.
It's not just that, they have more options and fewer responsibilities than regular (actual) people.
Comment Transparency (Score 4, Insightful) 123
Trump: "I was the most transparent, and am, transparent President in history." -- except
Comment You've been here since Slashdot was good. (Score 1) 55
I e-genuflect to thy digits.
The warnings then were of course unheeded by the public.
Comment Registration is de-facto optional. (Score 2) 55
MSFT self-evidently prefers free market chumming to locking down registration thus driving away legitimate users.
That makes sense as exemplified by early Windows and Office 97 which killed off competition by the choice not to seriously control activation.
Now that Windows pwns the market Redmond had to change hardware requirements to coerce users away from Windows 10 which for the vast majority of users needed no major changes. No need to make registration onerous when the goal is data mining and sales are so easy to coerce by breaking what works.
Comment Internet privacy is a contradiction in terms. (Score 3, Interesting) 55
Internet privacy is a contradiction in terms.
Do nothing on the web you'd greatly mind the world knowing.
Trust nothing and no one to be other than self-serving.
Have the least practical info on every networked device. If it's not airgapped it may as well be posted to 4chan.
