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Comment No, they don't... (Score 1) 34

The article includes this statement from the woman's attorney. "Coloradans pass Flock's cameras on the way to work, church, the doctor, a protest, and a friend's house, and Flock keeps a detailed record of their every movement. It knows where you went, when you went there, and how often you go back, and it gives that information to a police officer with no limits."

No, Flock doesn't know where you're going, it knows when you pass in front of one of their cameras, it's the police that take those discrete points and interpolates a a starting, ending point, and then the police guess as to motive/intent/reason.

If a city has 150 Flock cameras, then Flock only knows when, how many times, and what direction you were heading as you passed one of their 150 cameras - that's it.

Comment Re: Aux port - how could it even technically pause (Score 1) 47

Exactly.

users can no longer ask Alexa to play or pause audio coming through the wired connection

That line is clearly considering the 3.5mm jack as an "input" rather than an output - "...audio coming through the wired connection"

There were various Amazon devices with 3.55mm jacks - some were output only, some were input only, others could have their port either be an input or an output.

Source: https://www.amazonforum.com/s/...

Comment Re: And if we had a spine we'd have voted for (Score 0) 51

Kamala Harris because she would sure have enforced antitrust laws to save us all from the evil billionaires.

Exactly who do you think donated to her (literal) billion-dollar plus campaign? Oh, right, it was the retired teachers and widowers that donated hundreds of times a day they Act Blue, purely grass-roots, bottom-up campaign financing, no billionaires... LOL

Comment Re: So in the end it's all because of the boomers (Score 1) 51

You keep seeing kids wandering on to somebody's property playing hide and seek and getting blown away in broad daylight. Usually black kids in the south. And usually the boomer gets away with it.

No, you don't "keep seeing it". I've never seen it and I suspect neither have you.

I've never seen any kid get "blown away in broad daylight", not "black kids" or any other kids, and it follows I've also never seen anyone "(get) away with it", boomer or other, because it never happens.

I'd appreciate three different examples of small "black kids" that are "blown away" in "broad daylight" for merely trespassing on someone's property, if you can't find at least three examples, can you really claim it happens "all the time"?

Comment Re: Its just not working out (Score 1) 51

Single-payer healthcare will not drive down healthcare costs, no more than federally-backed student loans have made college more affordable.

The last time politicians tried to "fix" (or, if I'm feeling generous, "improve") healthcare in America, they took a blank piece of paper, had the healthcare industry lobbyists craft a solution that required every uninsured American to buy "affordable" healthcare coverage from a private insurer (the folks paying the lobbyists) using federal money, then passed the bill into law without understanding what it was ("we have to pass the bill to find out what's in it", and the bills sponsors got angry when reporters asked them what was in the bill, remember "what good is reading the bill if I don't have lawyers with me to explain it to me"?).

So excuse me, but I'm a little reluctant to look to these folks for a solution to our so-called healthcare crisis...

Comment Re: Fuck you Larry Ellison (Score 0) 51

mostly because of the money people like the ellisons and the fat nazi threw at the elections, distorting the democracy from its traditional meaning of one person having one vote

So, money in politics is the issue?

Didn't his Democrat opponent outspend Trump by a YUGE margin, like, I don't know, 100% more? The democrats burned thru over a Billion dollars in 107 days and wound up $22M in the hole when the votes were counted and Harris/Walz lost in 2024?

Is that the money you want to keep out of presidential politics?

Comment Re: Its a trap! (Score 1) 41

I don't understand this contradiction:

require employers to send written notices to workers if AI is responsible for mass layoffs and ban employers from relying on AI to decide to fire someone...

So you can't use AI to decide to fire someone ("ban employers from relying on AI to decide to fire someone") BUT, if AI is responsible for MASS layoffs (fire lots lots and lots of 'someone's'), you have to give the (terminated?) employees "written notices"?

You can't do it, but if you do do it, you need to use written notices?

Comment Re: Of course (Score 3, Insightful) 109

I don't think so. The publisher likely told the original gamer that their cheating marked that CPU banned on their game servers, then the gamer sold it to the buyer without telling buyer about the claim.

The buyers claim is likely limited to a refund from the gamer for not disclosing the ban/restriction, not the publisher.

Comment Re: The Ban Wasn't in the Packets (Score 1) 109

MS Windows used to record MAC address, HD serial number and, I thought, a CPU serial number, any one could change, but changing two or all three required acre-activation of Windows. I think this was Window 7 era, but not sure.

I'm pretty sure CPUs have some sort of serial number, found this:

Every AMD processor has a unique serial number used for identification and tracking purposes.

So I guess it's trivial to block a specific AMD CPU, it does not seem possible to find an Intel CPU serial number via software (its marked on the outside of the processor chip)

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