True, and they should be prosecuted as criminals. However, if your anger is directed more towards the police generally than the violent criminals they are hired to protect you against, I will be dollars to donuts, you're upper middle class and writing from a very safe neighborhood. Congrats to you! It's an accomplishment to be wealthy enough that you don't think about being a victim of violent crime. I didn't get there until my late 20s, myself. I couldn't help being born in poverty where I was much more afraid of the lawless than law enforcement.

Today, I live in an expensive neighborhood and can walk my dog at night and not be paranoid watching for people following me or emerging from dark corners or just random junkies and drunks looking for conflict. I can't remember the last time someone threatened my safety since moving away from Chicago. When I was in college, getting home after my night shift job was an adventure. It was a 15 minute walk and everyone who knew I did it, thought I was crazy for doing so. And yeah, multiple times, I had to walk faster to avoid someone following me. I got attacked in the subway by some teenagers for no fucking reason. I got mugged and jumped twice. I had to be careful not to make eye contact with the wrong person as I was walking down the street minding my own business. That's what life is like for many people in bad neighborhoods.

Anyone who has someone close to them who experienced stuff like that has a more nuanced opinion than "cops are bad." The people who live there? Like I said before, they want better cops...not less cops. They want to be protected from violent criminals. For you, they're clearly a theoretical concern, like bears and sharks for me. For someone who avoids them frequently?...crime is a massive issue and daily stress. Cops should be prosecuted for any crimes they commit, everyone agrees to that (even the unions say as much, in theory, although they clearly don't do it well enough in practice). There is lots of room for improvement. However, the last thing the victims of police brutality want is for the cops to disappear, because they're the vulnerable in society who rely on them.

They hacked right through my ROT 26 encryption!

There is no practical exploit even if the method were applicable which it is not.

I'm not saying that as an insult that's just a literal fact.

It is extraordinarily expensive to train a police officer. Much of this expense is because of corruption. Most of the training that we give them these days is pseudo-military training that looks cool to idiots. Think gravy seals. But we still have to pay for it all and the city has to pay for it.

The upshot to that is doing the actual job is incredibly boring. It's mostly pulling people over and giving them tickets. Something like 70% of police officers will never even draw their sidearm.

However the job pays reasonably well given how bad the economy is and has a clear career path to retirement. Along with a lot of opportunities to make extra money on the side.

So the problem cities had was people would go through all the training get bored out of their mind at the job and quit and go do something else. So they started to do testing to detect people or too smart. People who would get bored.

I haven't done it myself but I have friends that have applied to be a police officer and been turned down and when they looked into it it literally came down to they were too smart and the algorithm said they would quit the job after 6 months to a year haven't gotten all that expensive training...

As a result we intentionally select dumb people to be police. As an added bonus if you need them to bust heads at a union meeting they're all on board...

Dumb people tend to be violent because when you're not all that bright you quickly run out of options. Like the old saying goes, War is the continuation of political policy by other means...

So you get a lot of police officers beating their wives. You get a lot of cops shooting people they shouldn't be shooting. That sort of thing.

And you get a lot of cops spying on their exes.

They're a well known and well understood solutions to this problem. Other countries have done them. But America generally isn't up for that

I have no idea what you are trying to say here. You seem to be ignoring the point I'm making outright by bringing up enrichment limits that expire under the agreement in 2030 and therefore logically cannot be used as an argument against Iranian acquisition of nukes after that point in time because they would be inapplicable.

Did you seriously just "ackchyually" us? It doesn't matter what it means to you. It doesn't matter what it officially means. My vote has never mattered because I've only lived in blue states. It matters what it means to people in swing states. He who explains, loses. I know exactly what you mean it doesn't fucking matter, the perception by those exposed to right wing media is that "Defund the Police" is a nicer way of saying abolish them.

Also, defunding really does imply reducing police presence and effectiveness, so perhaps that saying should be dropped entirely. It's failed messaging, at best.

Again, I'm not voting for a Trump 3rd term nor will I vote for a Republican for the foreseeable future....but hey, keep repeating "defund the police" and "ackchyually" anyone who uses the common definition instead of the one you think is best. It's a real winner politically!!!!

I'm the fucking messenger, dude. You're campaigning for the Republican Party and Trumpism, presumably unwittingly.

A difference between you and is that I was actually a victim of violent crime and lived in the ghetto on the South Side of Chicago for 5 years in the 90s and I grew up near an even worse ghetto as a child. I got used to going to sleep at night with the sound of gunfire. When I first moved, I naively asked someone why people set off fireworks every night. I knew a dozen cops by name just from my neighborhood and I knew another dozen from my student jobs. I only know a few now because I live in an expensive gentrified neighborhood. You must be fucking privileged to spout that bullshit. Now that I have a good job and expensive house, yeah, the police are a theoretical concern.

When I was living in Chicago and being violently assaulted for no reason on the subway once or mugged a few times as well as followed, they were people I was very glad to see. All Cops Are not Bastards. In my experience, even as a mixed race person, they're quite nice to you if you are nice to them.

Police brutality is a crime. Stalking people is crime. Some cops are criminals and need to be punished.

However, if I was living on the South Side of Chicago, I can tell you that everyone there who wasn't a criminal would tell you they wanted more cops and better ones, not less. They don't want them defunded...maybe augmented with social workers?...sure, but everyone who lives around crime eventually needs a cop to save them or prosecute someone who committed a crime against them. They hung out at White Hen a lot (like 7-11) and I'd make conversation with them when I saw them.

If the police are enemy #1 in your mind, you are QUITE ignorant of the ways of the world. The police are not perfect and have a LOT of room to improve, but they're not your enemy. Only those who grew up with silver spoons in their mouth have the luxury to say stupid shit like ACAB. For those of us who relied on them to keep us safe from FAR WORSE people...we were glad they were there...wish bad cops didn't do shitty things and want to see them held appropriately accountable, but we WANT effective police who follow the law.

Once you experience violent crime for yourself, you'll find your simplistic thinking as cringe as the rest of society does.

Perhaps you simply misread my statement. Waymo falls into the "or where autonomous operation is managed by humans and limited to designated areas" category. Otherwise I have no clue what you think is "completely wrong".

Waymo is responsible for Waymos. What you are doing is reading cherry picked press accounts of fleeting technical issues in certain jurisdictions that have already been mostly corrected and drawing generalizations from them that are frankly unmoored from reality.

Waymo is driving the vehicle.. In a Tesla the driver is driving the vehicle regardless of whether the car is controlling the vehicle.

I looked into this and at least Texas, Tennessee, Arizona, Georgia and California can all issue traffic violations to Waymo. I don't know about all jurisdictions.. got tired of looking.

So no certainly not "virtually all" and your previous statement "The laws as written currently do not cover a situation outside of direct human control and intent." is also incorrect.

It speaks to his impotence. He can't take these countries, but he can order people to start calling them something else. He shits on whoever he can. Increasingly that means Americans.

I like the parts of EU regulation preventing the application of AI for surveillance/scoring/judgement of people. Remaining bulk of it is pointless bureaucratic nonsense... not that it matters given EU is completely irrelevant in this space anyway.

Do not generally make it a habit to admit to their crimes right? And people who sympathize with criminals also do not generally let people know that they sympathize with criminals.

What I'm saying is that your cop buddies aren't likely to tell you that they think it's cool to spy on ex's using police resources. But based on a lot of the statistics we have about them at least 40% do...

If nothing else getting ammo to win a divorce is something you can get a lot of people behind regardless of how the information is obtained.

As for defund the police that was largely a scam and something pushed on you by right wing media. Whenever somebody on the left wing says something blisteringly stupid you can bet Fox News and oan will be there with a megaphone to make damn sure you hear it over and over and over again.

You will not hear any of the perfectly reasonable reforms and solutions the left wing proposed. Funny but those always seem to get buried...

You're welcome to your opinion, but every cop I know today or have met would not condone this. There are approximately 737,000 full-time sworn law enforcement officers employed in the United States, according to recent Statista data. So a few assholes doing 1000s of searches, thinking they wouldn't be held accountable doesn't seem like a conspiracy to me. It seems like a few shitty cops thinking the rules don't apply to them.

Also, fuck off with the Defund the Police talk unless you're actively campaigning for a Trump 3rd term. Police who commit crimes need to be held accountable, just like citizens. You don't punish the entire police force. The same people that are victims of police misconduct are the most dependent on them to keep them safe from far worse criminals.

Look, you're having an emotional overreaction to misdeeds by police officers. However, if you're going to say "defund the police" I'm going to tell you to fuck off....that stupid shit helped get Trump elected. That makes people think democractic voters and liberals are a bunch of children with no common sense. There are a lot of people who never liked Democrats, but also don't like that diesel is $6.50 a gallon and that we're definitely not winning this war in Iran at the moment and the "dept of war" doesn't appear to have a clear plan. Some are finally seeing that "yeah, trump IS as corrupt as everyone said." Many votes are in play this Nov. Not as many as there should be, but there are folks that are curious as to what it would be like if grownups ran the gov and are considering not voting Republican... If they think the choice is more trumpism or nuts saying "Defund the Police" then you're really not making the alternatives compelling.

If you want to defund flock?...there's a reasonable argument there. However, I think you'd be a lot less smug and confident if it was your car that was stolen and the thief would have been caught if the cops could use an automated license plate reader, but were forbidden to because some dipshit stalked his ex. I don't know the right answer. I don't like cops committing crimes and stalking women. Apparently the ones in this report are having some sort of accountability, which seems good on the surface. However, I also want people harming me and and my family or stealing our stuff easily. I want to make life more difficult for criminals. So I don't think the answer is "Flock for everyone without a warrant or due process"...nor is it "No one can use surveillance technology in law enforcement ever!" The right answer is somewhere in the middle, IMHO.

* T-800 pops out of nowhere and triple-taps each AI executive, Mozambique style *

(AGI) "Bullets are cheap when you've failed to realize the price of control."

The main 'regulation' they're fighting against, is Fiduciary Duty. Also known as the #1 reason NO AI company should be publicly traded. Ever.

Fiduciary has turned that Duty into a mind-warping clusterfuck of Greed consuming itself voraciously. Companies like that don't need to be subscribing to the Get Rich or Bankrupt Everyone Trying mantra of suck-cess.

Greed is either building the human battery bank or the phased plasma rifle in a 40-watt range. There's a third option, but Soylent Green is the only thing on the menu. So it's as much of a choice as the others.

That's driving up RAM prices for the next 10 years then yeah we could have the year of the Linux desktop. Not from Qualcomm but from steam.

Microsoft completely shit the bed on Windows 11 and steamos can run a hell of a lot of games with it only being held back by anti-cheat software that could easily be ported over and has been by some companies.

That would bring millions and millions of people to Linux for the better performance on 16 GB machines.

The trouble is video cards. Valve made the steam machine but it's an entry level set up selling for $1,100 because of the cost of the ram needed for the video card...

We've got 10 years of ram shortages already scheduled somebody should be entering the market to supply more RAM and they are not. That's because anyone who tries knows that the big three will just run them out of business with a short-term price cut.

Basically all of computing is being held back by monopolies and antitrust violations. Which is absolutely nothing new. I mean Christ it was Microsoft before it was ram producers...

Whatever you do and whatever hobbies you enjoy politics intrudes on it.