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Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 33

Police actually listening to what citizens want.

Yes. In one city.

One battle.

But I'll believe they're actually listening when they start treating repeat violations as they should. Arrests would be made if a private citizen was caught putting cameras back up over and over again. And I mean Flock executive arrests. To drive the point home.

Flock-a-mole games, is not how we win this war. Neither is Axon whack-a-name games.

Comment And? And? And THEN what do you DO?!? (Score 1) 33

"But in other instances Flock's gone and reinstalled cameras without permission"..

If a private citizen just started slapping up cameras all over the place on property they do not own or control, they would be violating obvious laws and be facing fines at a minimum. Repeated offenses every day or week would be facing more than that.

That would be after the violating hardware is immediately removed by every means necessary by those enforcing the fucking law, at your expense.

Go ahead, law enforcers. Tell me WHY you are not doing that with this. You pretend to care about privacy, and yet you do not ENFORCE it.

Comment Speak up, Hypocrite (Score 3, Insightful) 23

So, social media execs want to be “whisper” quiet defending every reason to abuse minors with digital drug addiction?

Tell them to speak loudly and clearly into the microphone and describe exactly why they don’t dare let their own children eat their own dog food, flavored with hypocrisy.

Comment Re: Root out the Root Corruption First. (Score 1) 29

Of course, why would we ever want to the government to invest in public goods. FFS people, did none of you take a basic civics or econ class in high school?

Yeah. We did.

Those got replaced with Masters degrees in lesbian dance theory justified by the economics of girl math.

Still supporting those "public goods", or should we start looking to tax only those registered to a certain political party an additional 20% in order to help fund these "investments"..

Comment Re:Fashionable Outrage. (Score 1) 33

Put the glasses on a Kardashian face,

Yeah. I really hate the way Kim follows me around with those spy cameras.

No. You really hate that holiday sales of Kardashian spyware will enable plenty of other women in society to follow you around. For fashions sake. Privacy be damned.

Double Standard, is on the cover of Vogue here. Not exactly subtle.

Comment Re:Root out the Root Corruption First. (Score 1) 29

The problem is government should not be in the loan business. Ever since the government decided to give anyone a student loan, the price of college has shot up exponentially. Got to absorb all that money.

Audit the actual student part of that loan problem. You'll likely find a Phi Lotta Starfucks social sports apartment addiction about $30,000 deep by year two.

Ever since the government decided to lend grown-ass children with no credit history "school" funding dollars that have fuck all to do with the actual schooling, the education itself turned into a mere by-product of the price of paying for The College Experience.

Every irrelevant business surrounding a college campus, absorbed all that money. Including the businesses owned by the business pretending to still be in the business of selling education.

Comment Fashionable Outrage. (Score 0) 33

Put the glasses on an ICE agents face, and it's suddenly a product tailor-made for destroying citizen privacy to be demonized on sight.

Put the glasses on a CIS-males face, and he suddenly turns into a glasshole wearing a pervert prescription worthy of a restraining order.

Put the glasses on a womans face, and they're lauded and defended as pervert detectors (AI enhanced instant background checks). Fashionable digital defense-wear worthy of 27 styles and 457 colorways.

Put the glasses on a Kardashian face, and the hypocrisy is immeasurable.

The fuck is it, with every standard becoming a double-standard? Just hate them already and be done with it.

Comment Re:Might be good news for open source (Score 1) 86

There's no substitute for engaging with a problem with nothing but pencil, paper, and a willingness to slog through for as many days and weeks and months and years it takes to figure it out alone.

There’s also no substitute for wasted time. Theres no getting it back either, no matter how rich you are.

Forget artificial intelligence. Did you not just describe a perfect justification to use a computer? What do you think we do with them today? NOT save days and weeks and months and years of time, otherwise wasted with nothing but pencil and paper?

Which part of this slop is teaching the grads some experience in coding?

What exactly do coding graduates do for 4+ years? Is actually coding still part of it?

I get the obscure liberal artist struggling to find resume fodder, but what the hell is up with this zero-experience-degreed-moron assumption with graduates of technical degrees? It’s like implying a new barber grad has zero experience with scissors. If they’re still that technically retarded after graduating, then they didn’t actually graduate that skill. At all.

If On The Job (OJT) training is still a critical need today because education is that lacking, then perhaps we stop calling it an education. It clearly wasn’t.

Comment Root out the Root Corruption First. (Score 0) 29

If accepted, student aid is distributed first to schools to cover tuition and fees, but any leftover money is deposited into bank accounts controlled by the fraudsters..

When this funding manages to somehow politically override any 'fraudster' problem brought to light, you'll know how deep the corruption really goes.

Root cause, involves finding the actual fucking root.

Comment Re:... about to get fake IDs (Score 1) 62

Teens have worked around restrictions since parenting has existed. Fake IDs, virtual fake IDs, etc. It's not going to be hard to get around any of this shit. It never has been. It never will be.

The reason to get a fake ID today, involves crossing a moral and legal line most would not cross in order to get alcohol (which is clearly not popular among teens) and/or drugs (which they're already medicated. Have been since single-digit age.)

Yes. That is correct. The majority of teens, do NOT have an illegal fake ID.

It's stupid to assume most teens will go get an illegal fake ID simply because "social media" when the peer pressure to get a fake ID today isn't enough to convince the majority. You're going to have to go better than that.

Comment Re:Authoritarianism (Score 1) 62

Facebook is not the town square. Where is the town square then?

First of all (and I do mean FIRST), have you actually asked the local leaders of your Town where the Square is?

If you haven't, you've just discovered the first failure of your own hypocrisy. Yes. Town squares do still exist. Most in the exact same place they were 100 years ago. Just because they're museum artifacts now, doesn't mean they can't be used for their original purpose.

Comment Re: Oh no! (Score 1) 62

The problem is adults have to doxx themselves to not lose their accounts. And given the broad scope, you should expect just about all platforms to be covered eventually -- from YouTube to Slashdot.

(Society) I don't give a flying fuck, about 'accounts'. Because it ultimately means nothing to me.

When the level of effort to capitalize on capitalism exceeds the burden, NO ONE will give a fuck. And it's long past time social media greed feels the slippery slope social media greed created.

No. I haven't been asked about my Slashdot contributions in any interview. Neither has anyone else. Yes. That does define the true value of it.

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