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Comment "Policing" Is Doing a Lof of Heavy Lifting Here (Score 4, Insightful) 57

"It is clear Flock has aspirations far beyond ALPRs to become a digital platform for policing," [emphasis mine]

They misspelled, "Orwellian suveillance and harrassment."

Law enforcement officers are already abusing Flock's existing capabilities for stalking. This will not improve matters one iota.

Comment There Is No Larger Can (Score 4, Interesting) 48

Zymurgy's First Law of Evolving System Dynamics:
Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to use a larger can.

So. Who wants to bet that no one will point out what abysmal sysadmins they are, letting internal servers run amok all over the open Internet, only finding out days afterward after someone had to tell them.

And who wants to further bet that the AI grifters will respond that the only way to prevent this from happening again is to give them trillions more dollars so they can build bigger, "hardened" datacenters?

Is there no level of rank incompetence they won't excuse?

Comment Fuck the word "apps" (Score 1) 244

It's either applications, or more properly, programs.
Apps is what steve jobs called the things on the ipad.

Now, on topic: Anything in the business/scientific world.
Not a single instrument in the laboratory I work for has software for anything other than Windows. I'd dearly love to dump Windows and move to anything else here, but the software is non-existent.

And no, I can't run critical applications under a VM or in emulation. Those who work in a lab know why.

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