The money men are the only ones who want this shit.

Better not drive near any normal cctv cameras or ring doorbells then without covering your plates first.

IPVM said that Flock subsequently blocked it from purchasing its cameras for testing.

That sounds so familiar. Just stop them from purchasing and you won't have to worry about them testing and finding flaws in your cameras.

The whole point of plates IS to identify a vehicle and where and when it was. Whether thats done by eye or by machine doesn't make a huge amount of difference so long as in the latter case the data isn't stored if the plate isn't flagged in some way.

Visiting the US and canada I always felt their plates were fairly useless even for human eyes never mind AI beyond a fairly snort distance. The characters are too small and the varying colours and designs of the plates doesn't help either.

Microsoft has done a pretty thorough job of locking companies in like this, particularly through authentication and authorization systems (Active Directory) and the locked-down IT management infrastructure around them.

Add to this that all of the applications I use on macOS or Windows are either open source or at least cross-platform anyway. As long as the apps don't change, neither does the way I work; not really.

Fuck that. You want a lawsuit. Sue the police departments, sue flock, sue the state. Where is the ACLU?

Unfortunately the word "life" is a rather catch all term for what in reality is a range of processes and "what is life" is more a venn diagram than a hard definition. Maybe life requires A, B, C or B,C,D or A,D,E but doesn't need all of them at any one time to consider "alive".

A chemical system that can reproduce via a stored code and copy that code is the hard part of life , wrapping it inside some sort of bubble its probably relatively simple, and given how small cells are and how large the earth is I wouldn't be surprised if once genetics got going it happened multiple times but only 2 lineages made it through.

9 years is an eternity in car tech. I doubt it even has digital instruments.

Turning it off isnt the problem. Stopping it switching on every time i start the car is.

Yours is probably an older model with a proper radio, not just an app built into the ice.

which are?

Nothing in particular. Just the inability to move, muscle pain or stiffness, joint pain, and swollen, painful, or tender lymph glands in the armpit to name just a few. And that's just for dosage given under supervision of a doctor. If someone decides to use the horse version, they can have seizures or go blind. This is in addition to other neurologal or gastrointestinal issues. Or death.

So now that you have been factually informed, go ahead and make excuses and/or move the goalposts.

Thank god europe is a whole different world to the US where you don't have to get out a credit card before someone hauls you into an ambulance.