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every bouncer and doorman in bars and concert venue

Uhh, and?

Thought you conservative types thought the right of a business to refuse service was sacrosanct? Reality is “to refuse service to people I also dislike, not to me”.

some illegal … emergency’

Other person is correct, you sound deranged. And racist.

How would you have any idea about their immigration status?

Speaking as a former paramedic, ERs are pretty good at least triaging acuity. They still have to at least assess everybody, but if they were being seen before your daughter, sorry, she was doing better than them.

Nor did they care about establishing vaccine card check points throughout civil society.

And yet the Biden Administration explicitly said it would not require vaccine passports from businesses and never built any national vaccination database or app, so this was just the usual conservative fearmongering.

There was also never an instance whereby vaccine status was required for any kind of travel between states or in daily life outside specific covered venues (for example, restaurants and gyms in NYC, where people would be in very close proximity to others with no other prophylaxis being used).

Meanwhile, conservative NPs are getting jailed and losing their licenses for forging vaccine cards for $7,000 a pop. As they should.

Imagine if we got to do citizenship checks at bars and restaurants and doctor's offices.

In the last three days, ICE has pulled someone over for a "traffic violation" (which they have zero authority to do) and then said "Your taillights are out. Your papers please."

Do continue with the strawman.

Last century, a year in jail ended after the year. Now it is still there for every job application, lease, and loan you might take out in life.

My state touts that some felonies are eligible for vacation. One of the criteria is "The person has reached 120 years of age."

Wow, this thread really is a cesspool.

Well, if you're solving the -root- problem, then Moonshot would have had nothing to "steal" if Anthropic didn't "steal" it first.

Did [someone from the Working Group] ever back down from their implied threat to blacklist Bitwarden for allowing for the sharing/export of passkeys?

That really rubbed me the wrong way, and smacked very heavily of "the big players (MSFT, AAPL, GOOG) can do this - you can't".

Admittedly this is on the "real" audit side and not the advisory/consulting side, which would be the ones to handle SOC I imagine, but nonetheless a position I find a bit absurd.

I mean, it's not like the supposed "Chinese wall" at the Big 4 has ever been accused of being "illusory" on multiple occasions.

You can get married with parental or a judge consent at any age in Mississippi, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.

You can get married at 15 in Hawaii and Kansas.

You are "grandfathered" into sexual consent (not as in "marital rape" but "no longer statutory rape") when you do so.

So we may not want to be lording it too much on "international norms", particularly given that most of the marriages that happen at those ages are not "young couple got pregnant" but "older man in conservative/religious community".

The very right wing Heritage Foundation spent millions looking for voter fraud, and found that, at -most-, 1 in 700,000 votes was fraudulent, in Wisconsin (69 out of 45 million votes cast over 20 years). Generally the number is higher than 1 in a million, up to 1 in 3 million.

You'd think, if anything, a right wing organization would be trying to prop up Trump's claims... but yet...

They always neglect to mention that you can't (unless something changed recently) upgrade the firmware. It's carefully crouched in wording, but to read the site you'd say "Oh, so I just upgrade". No, you buy a new version of the device. And hopefully it's not like the last vulnerability when at least for a while they kept selling the vulnerable devices to deplete their stock unless you knew enough to ask for one specifically with the new firmware.

Maybe they can give it in the form of expiring Fable credits.

Meanwhile they run around pulling people over for "traffic violations" and then pulling a "Your taillights are out, and papers, please."

Yeah, power utilities in the DMV area have $20B of projects to try to bring in 3GW of capacity.

I still also totally don't get their policy.

Trying to avoid false positives by not firing until a threshold was hit (was it 20 images?) seemed insane from a PR position... rightly or wrongly, all it would take would be the wrong court case and you can see the headlines:

"Apple says users can have up to 20 CSAM images on their phone before they'll tell police"

Re ICE having access to data: "Flock said that they did not, when they did, but that it was not their problem".

Just like it's "not their problem" that in a state where certain types of data sharing is not permitted. There's nothing they'll change in the agency's account to prevent it. They'll even offer training on it. Because it's "not their problem".

When was the last confirmed cartel violence against any US LEA on US soil?

Cartel leadership have openly stated that any such thing would be the height of counterproductive stupidity on their part due to the overwhelming response that it would elicit.

The last confirmed incident was in the 90s. There was an incident in Texas a couple of days after Trump was inaugurated but this seems a little lacking in concrete details or threat: across the river, no video evidence, no injuries, no bullets recovered, no suspects, no identification, just a broad "description" of the shooters as "likely cartel members".

To be clear, I know that "pay once, lifetime updates" isn't a good fit for some things.

But the website isn't particularly clear on this - there's a subscription model, but then a Pay Once model that then says "one year of app updates".

Of App Updates only?

Of model updates?

Of both?

Looking at an info block below, it seems like if you buy once, you get "new features and improvements" to the app for one year. But are you model locked?

No.

My father worked as what would be (roughly) equivalent to the US Marshal service in Australia.

One day in 2001 one of his coworkers was fired because he saw what he thought was a cute girl in a newspaper article who had won a car in a lottery, and her new license plate was visible. He looked her up.

He didn't interact with her, communicate with her, drive by her home, call her. He looked her up out of sheer bored curiosity, and within 2 months, auditing of the warrants he was working couldn't find a correlation as to why he'd queried this license plate, and he was asked to explain, and couldn't.

Please don't conflate Flock with responsible use of technology. The CEO is on record as saying he says a false positive is better than a false negative. And Flock itself won't turn off data sharing options that are illegal in a state to an agency of that state. They'll happily give training on how to use that data sharing to that agency. They've stated that it's not their policy to tell agencies how to abide by data sharing laws.

Each fancy radio can only be in one place at one time

5G mid-band (let's go with the charitable option) has an effective range of up to 2miles.

So no big deal, just all 5G communications within up to a 12sq mi circle surrounding the vehicle.

Don't think that's exactly "targeted".

Yes, the cartels have always been at war with the Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigation Division...

Hah, I had a background check company for a previous employer send me an email saying:

"Hi Firebeyond, we're doing a background check. Can you confirm the following info you entered into our portal?" then proceeds to list full SSN, drivers license, DOB, etc., etc., etc.

"... and can you also confirm that this is the correct email address we have on file?"

All the while they had reached out by FB Messenger to my partner (not that she was in any of the info I submitted, and this was just a standard BG check, not a security clearance) to ask her if she knew me...

Luckily, my new employer was as horrified as I was, apologized profusely, and fired the background check company.

No, but they did hold research sessions and they did draft the policy and the rules and all the updates and have them go through legal... they were planning to, until they saw public sentiment, or other influence. It'd be misleading to claim it was never a consideration.

Exactly. Over in Virginia 37 datacenters use close to 3GW of electricity. The power utilities and overarching transmitters are looking at projects to ship some of that electricity (which requires ~700kV transmission). Two projects in the works are at $18B between them.

$18B to provide redundancy and not have to require schools and local government to limit electricity use and provide a bit more slack in the powergrid is a burden that all the users get to share. Lucky them. Yes, all users benefit, but lucky break for those datacenters, getting all that redundancy for power, without a $500M/ea bill.

Garrett would acknowledge being inspired by Minority Report, ignoring the message of it as a cautionary tale. Hell, he's even said that to him, a false positive in Flock is better than a false negative, which is a hell of a hot take in our current climate.

If you're lucky, he might call you a domestic terrorist for questioning him and Flock's motives!

Meanwhile IG has hugely alienated -its- original target audience. My feed: "Reels. Suggested for you. Ad. Threads. Suggested for you. Ad. Followee. Ad. Threads." and 90% of it is short form video content, and even more annoying still content which is for some reason a 10s video.

And they often don't mind ads attached to their every post. Especially if they earn a little bit from each.

Nope, it's gone.

You don't get sorting options for that Feed. And depending on your luck that might be three clicks off the home page to even that (See More > Feeds > Friends).

But that's not always true -- porch pirates are still a huge problem in cities, for example.

I mean, a huge problem in suburbs and more quiet rural areas too, where porch pirates might in theory stand out more, but also have a lot less through traffic to observe their efforts.

Italy, and beyond... the lobbying that has been done to make identity theft and associated fraud primarily a crime against the institution/business and not you, and the associated implications that you somehow "lost" your identity or failed to protect it (versus the reality, one of those businesses that required that information failed to safeguard it properly) is one of the biggest scams of modern day consumerism.

When I was in the process of buying my home, with perfectly horrible timing something showed up on my credit report, a delinquency and charge off from Verizon of $1,800 or so.

I've never used Verizon. I've been with AT&T for nearly 20 years.

But after calling Verizon to dispute this as identity theft, this is what I learned - that "I" opened a Verizon account at a Walmart in El Paso, and ran up a huge bill calling numbers all around the world.

I live near Seattle. I've been to Texas twice in my life. I was even overseas during part of this alleged activity. I supplied (I shouldn't have to supply all of it, but I did - I needed this resolved because ... mortgage application) police report, travel documents and receipts, hotel overseas, utility bills, AT&T bills.

Verizon's first reply: based on our internal review, we remain satisfied that you are the one responsible for the debt, based on the documentation that was used to open the account.

Me: In that case, I would love to see and be reminded of the documentation I used to open the account, to see if it jogs my memory of some amnesia, apparently.

Verizon: due to customer privacy policy we are unable to show this to you.

Me: "So this documentation is simultaneously enough to prove it really was me, but not enough for you to be satisfied that it may not actually be me and you might be violating some fraudster's identity privacy?"

Basically.

I got it resolved, but it took far too much work.

And all the while, rather than "some company fucked up, and some other company's employee or process didn't catch it", I have to spend hours, and money, demonstrating to some other company that I didn't commit fraud against them, or they can make it impossible for me to buy a house without just paying them the charges someone else incurred.

See my sibling comment - Apple MDM is, or at least was fragile, and trivial to bypass.