With all the real problems we have here in California, why did you bother making up a few fake ones. To serve some narrative?

Same here. All Linux, all the time. At home and work.
So we'll establish this as the baseline and everyone else as the outlier. ;-)

You didn't get it. This is speeding tickets issued by fully automated systems. No court has ever seen this.

The solution is to stop treating it as a money-printing system. Punish people who speed in front of kindergardens, and leave people alone who at the city edge in the industrial zone on a Sunday evening didn't decelerate quite fast enough coming in from the highway.

I literally have no clue why you're saying that or who you think you're talking to.

Not at all. Because COMFORT is the key word here, not processing.

If being denied from posting on a forum with a decades old account isn't news here, then I don't know what this site is even for anymore man.

I come here for the dupes. Repetition is the key to retention!

Kessler syndrome will end GPS within a generation or two.

Alzheimer's disease is not related to people who have trouble paying attention or who are "easily confused". Alzheimer's is not a personality flaw that somehow leads to dementia, it is a neurological condition that is physically visible in brain tissue.

Which is often intentional.

We live in 2026. You can order an artillery or drone strike in Ukraine from a tablet and it'll be delivered within minutes. Data processing speeds are essentially instant for data sets not on LLM sizes. We have automation everywhere when it suits the right people. e.g. that speeding ticket you received for going 12 km/h over the limit? No human ever so much as saw that. Full automated process. Takes 6-12 weeks. Why? Because otherwise you might still remember how fast you were actually going or that you weren't even in that street on that day, and fight it. Same principle here: The slower the bureaucracy, the more people will just give up and go away. It's a self-regulating system to reduce the number of inquiries to the amount that the public servants can comfortably process.

The question it raise is: why are we so incompetent?

I think the West should stop preparing for war when it's questionable we could win one ever again.

that's a per-character stat.

If your average license plate has, say, 6 characters, you get a 78% total probability that it reads them right.

If you have 8 Flock cameras in your town of let's say 100,000 people, sitting at busy roads or intersections, 10 to 20 thousand cars per day is a reasonable estimate, which means you get 62,400 to 124,800 mis-read license plates. Per day. Every day. Under optimal conditions.

That's more false readings than you have people.

I wonder if just randomly assigning traffic tickets to license plates in your register wouldn't get you a lower false positive rate.

Roku's AI channel proves that you can make an endless stream of AI-generated slop.
I don't think any adults will watch it, but young children will land there and harmed by it.

liquid chalk marker tied to an extendable pole. just a little dab and nobody has to climb a ladder or buy a bunch of dufflebags and locks.
even cheaper would be cornstarch and water like to paint on a car windshield (for sale, just married, etc), but applying it is a little less obvious than above.

There is little in the way of resources on the state or federal level to assist local government in establishing and managing an effective IT and SecOps department.

A persistent global threat should not be shuffled off onto the responsibility of city councils and county boards of supervisors.

Huge loss in productivity because everything is moved around. No Linux or Mac required in order to have a bad time!