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Comment Re: You think we won something? (Score 1) 59

You realize they'll get your birthdate within a day or two as you transition into a new group. Maybe on a service or two it takes a couple of weeks to update, but it's still close enough.

Once a feature becomes available to you at an age change you're going to want to transition to that group as soon as possible.

Comment LPR (Score 1) 59

Let's use LPR for their purpose; reading and validating license plates. Strip the devices down to the minimum required and load lists of license plates to them. They can trigger in those and generate events. They can also be audited to make sure the plates listed are official stolen/bolo, etc, as required.

That's it. That's all they do. Leave the spy craft to spies.

Comment Re: Why?! (Score 1, Insightful) 58

If you're hitting something the size of a building you don't need an Nvidia chip.

My issue with it isn't that they're using a processor, it's that this class of processor is likely overkill. So, either it's so readily available they have a warehouse full of them, or somebody wants to stir up shit. I'm guessing it's effectively the latter. It's more politically with it to raise the concern that it is to bother sourcing this component for production.

Basic image recognition sufficient for mapping navigation can be done in significantly lesser hardware.

Comment Re: Why? (Score 3, Insightful) 51

The $100/yr for a developer doesn't come close to covering publishing costs.

Spotify doesn't charge for their app, they provide subscriptions, and have a large install base. Downloading a million apps when there is an update for instance isn't free for Apple.

I think they are very generous with the small developers. And the way to keep doing that is to have the successfully community pay its share of costs. We all benefit from it. (And it's Nicole and dimes for the big players)

Comment Re: 46USC2304 - Duty to provide assistance at sea (Score 3, Informative) 123

A call for aid is not inherently a distress call. Period.

Running out of fuel is not inherently a distress call, on calm seas with no immediate risk to life it is a call for aid. It would be escalated to a distress call if the situation changed, rough seas, drifting towards rocks, etc. would be valid for a distress call.

Is there an immediate risk to life and safety? No - call for aid.

There is a legal difference.

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