Comment Until the regulators Cox Block it (Score 1) 29
Until the regulators Cox Block it
Submission + - Sacramento Sheriff is sharing license plate reader data with anti-abortion state (yahoo.com)
j3x0n writes: In 2015, Democratic Elk Grove Assemblyman Jim Cooper voted for Senate Bill 34, which restricted law enforcement from sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data with out-of-state authorities. In 2023, now-Sacramento County Sheriff Cooper appears to be doing just that.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) a digital rights group, has sent Cooper a letter requesting that the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office cease sharing ALPR data with out-of-state agencies that could use it to prosecute someone for seeking an abortion.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) a digital rights group, has sent Cooper a letter requesting that the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office cease sharing ALPR data with out-of-state agencies that could use it to prosecute someone for seeking an abortion.
Submission + - 'It was an accident': the scientists who turned humid air into renewable power (theguardian.com)
j3x0n writes: In the early 20th century, Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla dreamed of pulling limitless free electricity from the air around us. Ever ambitious, Tesla was thinking on a vast scale, effectively looking at the Earth and upper atmosphere as two ends of an enormous battery. Needless to say, his dreams were never realized, but the promise of air-derived electricity – hygroelectricity – is now capturing researchers’ imaginations again. The difference: they’re not thinking big, but very, very small.
In May, a team at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst published a paper declaring they had successfully generated a small but continuous electric current from humidity in the air. It’s a claim that will probably raise a few eyebrows, and when the team made the discovery that inspired this new research in 2018, it did.
In May, a team at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst published a paper declaring they had successfully generated a small but continuous electric current from humidity in the air. It’s a claim that will probably raise a few eyebrows, and when the team made the discovery that inspired this new research in 2018, it did.
Comment Free for verizon customers (for 6 months) (Score 2) 62
Free for verizon customers (for 6 months)
Comment FCOJ (Score 1) 57
Waiting on that crop report so I can sell FCOJ
Comment Shortest slashdot text ever (Score 1) 235
Guess they were trying to save electricity by having such few characters in the text of the article
Comment so what... (Score 1) 25
What is the point of this article?
Why wouldn't Microsoft pitch its facial recognition to the government?
Comment Re:Apparently not in Indiana (Score 1) 269
Hopefully the defendant takes this to the US Supreme Court.
Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 269
Change #3 to #1...
Why No One Trusts Facebook To Power the Future 218
redletterdave (2493036) writes "Facebook owns virtually all the aspects of the social experience—photos (Instagram), status updates (Facebook), location services (Places)—but now, Facebook is transitioning from a simple social network to a full-fledged technology company that rivals Google, moonshot for moonshot. Yet, it's Facebook's corporate control of traffic that leads many to distrust the company. In a sense, people are stuck. When the time comes for someone to abandon Facebook, whether over privacy concerns or frustration with the company, Facebook intentionally makes it hard to leave. Even if you delete your account, your ghost remains—even when you die, Facebook can still make money off you. And that's not behavior fit for a company that's poised to take over the future."
Comment Really? On liberal slashdot? (Score 1) 676
I cant believe this is on such a liberal left wing site such as slashdot.
Dugh most of our tax dollars goes right back to other people.
