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Comment Re: Not Flock (Score 1) 122

Bear in mind, though, that in many big cities the schools are teaching that police are the enemy. They fail, however, to follow that up with 0) know your rights, and 1) STAY OUT OF TROUBLE. But to make big city school systems are cheating students out of a future. It's criminal.

Citation needed. Since there are "many" you can surely cite a few, with evidence links.

Comment Re:Not Flock (Score 1) 122

The journalism outfit Invisible Institute conducted a data analysis of all public police records in Chicago. What they found was that a small part of the force (oh, say, 3%) were real bad apples, criminals in uniform really, many citizen complains for abuse, theft, etc. And another 1/3 of the force systematically covered for these guys. Would just happen to be in places miles outside of their patrol areas, or far from their homes or usual haunts, yet witnessed alleged events to exonerate the officer. And the other 2/3 did not appear to do anything about it.

Comment True Story from Last Year (Score 2) 51

I have a FB account that I only use to access content (club activities for example) not available from elsewhere. So I have never posted on it.

Last year my medical care provider set me up with an outside care provider, who sent me a link to a HIPAA compliant confidential on-line appointment via text message. So the only connections I had with this person where in my medical care providers data bases, the text message link on my iPhone, and my actual video appointment.

The next day I logged on to FB to check on something and it suggested my outside care provider as a "friend" to connect to.

Somehow FB is penetrating HIPAA protected medical information.

Comment There is a Technical Fix but Requires Legislation (Score 0) 98

Because although the smart glass makers could build it in themselves, they won't unless forced to.

Have the light send a coded pulse that is based on time and a unique key, like with authenticator apps. Before the glass will record anything you have to look at a mirror. If the camera detected the coded signal it will record, otherwise it won't (so no light blocking). During the day anytime it gets an image of the wearer in a reflection if the coded light is not detected it turns off (think random glass surfaces -- windows, pictures, etc.).

Comment Re:Make that 50 years or longer (Score 1) 157

In November he updated the rocket roadster to a flying roadster that we would see demoed by the end of the year. That created a distraction for a few weeks.

I read a few accounts of this meeting to get a good picture of what happened and it is a whole lot of nothing. Musk was just gassing to investors in a meeting with his trademark vague "visionary" BS.

Rest assured, he will bring Mars up again in the not too distant future when he needs another distraction.

Comment Re:FUCKKK YOUUUU!!!!!!! (Score 4, Informative) 47

In The Jetsons the aerocars are antigravity devices that operate effectively like cars only moving through the air. Notice for example a cop on a hover thing "pulling them over" stationary in midair while a ticket is being written. A conceit and premise in The Jetsons is that they live in the sky (for unspecified reasons) but has all of the properties of living on the ground for practical purposes.

Appealing to a fantasy antigravity vehicle that does function like a car is not a strong case in favor there.

Comment Re:Scientists continue to test their beliefs ... (Score 1) 72

I agree completely. One should always *prefer* to use Occam's Razor. But that's a matter of engineering or efficiency, not of truth. NASA gets along quite well by almost always ignoring Einstein's theories, and preferring those of Newton. (But not when they're using GPS.)

Deep space navigation also requires taking relativity into account. They use Parameterized Post-Newtonian (PPN) which adds relativity terms to Newtonian calculations for the level of precision required (easier than doing a full solution). PPN works when gravity fields are weak and speeds slow.

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