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Comment Wait! What? (Score 1) 51

But Rust is pretty good. It's tedious at hell to write anything safely, but you can do it

I thought the whole selling point of Rust was that it's damned nigh impossible to write something unsafely. Because if the option is to avoid some tedium, there are developers that will find that way. And then you may as well have gone with C.

Comment Simple Solution (Score 1) 125

A law requiring anyone doing work in or on AI be subject to strict liability. Very strict. And that companies in that business name and publish a governing panel to internally regulate their AI work. And be subject to the aforementioned strict liability. Up to and including prison time. And no discharging liability through bankruptcy*.

The government can't regulate something that it does not understand. And maybe private enterprise doesn't either. But they need to shoulder the risk. This could be something like a mesothelioma trust fund, but set up before people start coofing.

*Hey. If it's good enough for student loans ...

Comment Re:Warrants (Score 1) 166

Which administration? The DOJ complaints/investigations/consent decree against the Seattle police department started during the Clinton administration (or before), generated findings during G.W. Bush's and was acted upon during Obama's.

Law enforcement in general and the DOJ in particular are less political than you think*. And it's not Flock they will be doing something about. It's the abuse by the local police departments.

*Every time I hear accusations of politicized law enforcement, I just envision the scene of the bank robber screaming, "Attica! Attica!" Get off that high horse. You're robbing a bank.

Comment Re:Warrants (Score 1) 166

That's a good start. Assuming that many of these searches aren't being used for personal reasons.

Imagine having a case go to court and the defense counsel asks, "What was your probable cause for detaining my client?" And the cop on the stand can only cite the Flock evidence with "LMAO" as justification. Thrown right out of court.

So many of these searches may never reach a courtroom. Fine. Until the DOJ gets a few complaints and they come in to investigate. And uncover this b.s. (see Seattle Police Department misconduct and consent decree). I have it on good authority that FBI undercover agents _do_not_like_ investigating dirty police departments*. And they take it out on those cops doubly hard. Not a position I'd want to be in as a city cop.

*I think they all want to work counter intelligence. Finding Chinese spies, wearing tuxedos and hanging out in casinos with martinis and Bond girls.

Comment Re:powerline fires (Score 1) 200

If they're smart, they'll put batteries near the loads. And then when the wind blows, they can de-energize lines and keep peoples lights on.

Except people aren't smart. I don't know about California, but here in Washington State, communities in the woods out on the fringes of the grid are fighting a battery installation. Because Teslas catch fire. Teslas have batteries. So everything with batteries will catch fire.

You can build a fire break around a battery substation. Not so much around a garage with an EV.

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