There is little in the way of resources on the state or federal level to assist local government in establishing and managing an effective IT and SecOps department.
A persistent global threat should not be shuffled off onto the responsibility of city councils and county boards of supervisors.
Huge loss in productivity because everything is moved around. No Linux or Mac required in order to have a bad time!
I don't mean ISO 26262 specifically, but a formalize standard that actually covers processes is what is needed. Not simply some laws that have painfully obvious loopholes that were fodder for several of Asimov's books. The path you took to get to the result is as important as the result, which is how ISO 9001 and 26262 and others standards work in the real world. And there are a bunch of them because there is no universal set of standards that cuts through every possible industry and situation. One for AI agents and autonomous robots will necessarily be horribly complex compared to my relatively thin examples.
A mistake was still made
Yep, it happens. And it was not even a mistake by Flock, apparently — not that it matters. Mistakes will continue to be made — they don't mean, Flock is doing anything wrong, or that police has to be "defunded", or Capitalism overthrown. But Slashdot is running multiple anti-Flock articles every day, it seems — like they did against Walmart some 15-20 years ago.
Can't shake off the feeling, this is a part of a propaganda campaign...
We should fund the police better so they can get more training!
Given the bit I know of real world safety standards like ISO 26262. I would imagine a real world framework to use as a law of robotics is not going to be 3 or 4 rules. It is going to be 100's of them. Organized in a hierarchy, a binary tree of 255 laws perhaps?
The police are absolutely going to use any tool they have access to. The legislators need to be the ones who fix/limit/remove the cameras.
They will, they won't. Start blaming the fucking tool already because you're stuck with it.
I've worked with monitoring and alerting software of different stripes long enough to see the same pattern, the tool is somehow blameless for data quality issues when we all know damn well the data quality problems can be traced back to UX design of the tool. We're stuck with it anyway and that's the go-to defense. I've seen too many people give software, the tool, a pass because getting accurate data in and maintaining it, owning it, is the hard part. Well no, fucking, shit, the tool's developers know that, and bad software design is always the user's fault, we're always holding it wrong.
Who owned that data entry, for a suspected murderer, with what, plates and no description of the car or driver? That's like setting a bear trap in a busy campground. Don't worry, it's for the bear! I'll just mark a X on this bubblegum wrapper with some squiggly lines, and forget about it. Were they watching it, does the tool enable that, does it enable the level of ownership that is required for anything that dangerous? Were they aware of the first police response? Was the second team of responders days later aware of the first team's response? Was the owner of the alert? Bad data entry?
The argument against it was in the summary.
The argument, that participants can influence the outcome — if financially motivated by the betting — is but a tertiary afterthought. That may have some merits, but it is not new — regular financial markets have learned to deal with insider trading, and we have criminal laws against such activity. It is not a reason to ban the betting outright.
But the original journalist, the submitter, and BeauHD obviously emphasise the "ghastly" aspect... And this appeal to emotion is, what I find contemptible.
I'm 99% sure somebody has already been killed because of Flock
But you don't have evidence, do you? Just like those January 6th "insurrectionists". Only they don't get any "Insightful" moderation for some reason...
Flock does not pull any triggers — it only informs police, that a suspect (or, more likely, the suspect license plate) has been spotted in a certain location. That's all. The actual reaction is than up to the officers.
If anything, it is only more certain, multiple murders — and other crimes — have been prevented by the timely(ier) detention of the criminals. And, additionally, by successful prosecution of them thanks to the video-evidence. But Grok could not find any comprehensive stats for me, so I'm not including any evidence either.
Fuck Trump Musk AOC Sanders far right n' left tech bros ICE Islamophobes antisemites mullahs pedopriests nationalists
Some libido you've got there!!
still fine ?
Fine? No, I'd be devastated by the death. But why would somebody else's making money — not "out of it", but by predicting it — affect me at all? They didn't kill the child. They didn't contribute to his dying.
Yeah, going home from a funeral — of anyone close to you — and watching people carelessly enjoying their lives unaware of your tragedy is annoying. But you don't get mad at them. Or, maybe, you do — because you're a fool controlled by emotions, rather than rational thought.
the lack of megastructures or evidence of the massive easily available energy being used
We could easily spend a few million more years living in houses made of sticks and stones and do other cool things but not do any of that. It feels like a very bad extrapolation.
Bettors should not be rooting for an experimental medicine to fail just to earn a buck
Why not? If that is one's way to pursue happiness and it does not hurt anyone, what argument is there against it?
"It's quite ghastly."
That's not a reason...
The first law of science fiction writing is for it to be an entertaining story. It is not a rigorous essay of a scientific or philosophical subject.
decline happened in the 1980's if you want to get technical. Peak was in the 1970's. Bottomed out in the 2010's and leveled off by 2018.
The Great Depression is the peak era for suicides in the US (up to 22 in 100k)
"Nuclear war can ruin your whole compile." -- Karl Lehenbauer
