or maybe that's the sort of education they need?

it's a very popular feature on Macintosh computers. I worked for years as a service tech, and did hundreds of migrations. Apple has always made it very easy... I can remember plugging two computers together with a SCSI cable and running the migration assistant! I can still remember the days when windows users had to buy one of our "pc migration kits", that was a box with software and a special cable - USB-A on BOTH ends, and a plastic box in the middle. We sold quite a few of those.

Firewire on the mac was a breeze. Just launch the (included) migration assistant on the new computer, boot up the old computer in "firewire target disk mode" (would do that even if unbootable), connect computers with a firewire cable, and ALL your user data/account migrate, along with most or all of your fully installed apps. Apps with twitchy anti-piracy measures often needed to be reinstalled but not always. (and sometimes just required re-activating)

Apple did upgrade the hardware to do USB-target-disk-mode for awhile, but unfortunately Apple has dropped target disk mode in the newest systems. That's a shame, it was an INCREDIBLY useful tool for the technicians. I could plug in a hard drive that wouldn't even boot to another computer for remote repair or data recovery, never needed to pull a hard drive unless it was physically damaged. Nowadays you have the same migration assistant but it must be launched on both ends and you use an ethernet cable, so you can't just browse the other computer's hard drive if it won't boot.

they're going to declare it a "critical" material.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health...

another brilliant move.

ResiP apps are highly problematic. While the premise of having easy access to a nearly infinite number of residential IPs for super cheap is appealing for all sorts of reasons and may even have some legitimate uses such as for anti-circumvention campaigns that would route traffic from activists in democracy challenged environments through residential IP exit points thus mitigating the abuse penalty incurred by commercial or Tor gateways, abuse of ResiP systems is rife, likely dominant.

Servers used to see script kiddies attack via abuse tolerant VPNs or colo/virtual host tenant farms and so were easily managed by detecting a pattern of malicious attacks coming from a finite number of IPs or C-classes or domains and against this reactive intrusion detection tools and IPBLs have been useful. Someone attempting credential stuffing might get a few guesses down the most common password/account list combos before being locked out and then move on to the next target in their list. Now logs are filled with the same sort of attacks: password:toor@server.com, pasSSword:toor@... etc but each sequential try comes from a different IP, often a different country. Dynamic block lists exploded from dozens (my Fail2Ban list ran 50-200 or so IPs) to thousands of IPs (today 8,065 IPs and 514 C-classes, most listed for one obviously malicious connection attempt).

Tor exit nodes do carry some of the same issues and running one will result in reputational consequences for your IP, just as running a ResIP app will for every connection you pair with.

A difference in practical implementations that matters is that setting up a Tor exit node isn't trivial and the consequences are well documented; the people capable of doing so generally also competent to comprehend those consequences. ResiP apps require no particular competence and are often marketed in deceptive ways. Further, the "exit point" moves with the user-device. Everywhere they go, they spew malicious traffic and criminal activities over whatever end point they connect with: home, friends, LTE, coffee shops. Every hotspot the device pairs with becomes a victim of the crimes enabled by the app.

ISPs need to look for indicators of ResiP exit nodes (if you block the command and control domains, you'll see traffic move to direct DNS across all commercial DNS providers, block those and traffic moves to DoT and then DoH, at which point the ISP should blacklist the client until they clean up their proxyware infection.

If I were, perhaps it's because I'm not seeing any of the real stuff here.

As Eric Raymond (ESR) says, AI is a force multiplier. My elaboration: If you are good at what you do, it will let you do accomplish more good stuff faster. If you are not very bright, AI will let you be not bright more efficiently, but it won't make you bright. It's just a tool. It needs to be utilized correctly. There is no shortage of things in this world that can do tremendous damage if not used properly. AI is nothing new in that regard.

"AI slop" is so 2024. That argument isn't valid any more.

I'm surprised you didn't use the word "slop". Spewing a bunch of slogans that would have to be more clever to make it on to bumper stickers makes you look like the people you are complaining about. There are legitimate criticisms to make about AI, and ways to support and defend those arguments. You are not doing that.

so does this make the bananas taste crispr?

Sounds like you're not defending Access so much as ODBC.

It's mighty convenient for you that your claim makes it impossible for you to provide evidence of this outrageous claim.

... is not let AI get into the hands of people like Bill Gates. That, however, is impossible.

This seems like a very obvious and straightforward requirement, force the officer to select an active case to tie the inquiry to.

And at the same time display a warning that selecting an unrelated case "will result in disciplinary action, up to and including termination".

Make them just as accountable as any other security system in the pirvate sector.

so Keefe also returned to his car and followed several cars behind, hoping to document the next stop."

Yeah that was a stupid thing to do. I don't care which side of the fence you're on regarding Flock cameras, police, or government surveillance, following someone is the wrong response. They're merely an employee doing their job, and you've just escalated it into something very personal.

If that'd have been me, I'd have driven to the cop shop and flagged down an officer, pointed out the car following me, and asked them to go have a word with my tail and ask them to leave me alone.

Taking pictures and filming me out doing my job in public? Sure, fine, go ahead. But if I get tired of it I might leave. Don't follow me, don't harass me. How'd you like it if my buddy with the flock camera mounted on his roof starts following you around? Oh that's different is it? is it really?

"we demand our sovereignty, and also demand you relinquish yours!"