If the officers “turned it into” a tool for stalking, that means officers were stalking people with it. Stalking people is a crime. If these are truly “rogue” officers, that means they weren’t supposed to be stalking people, so they should be charged with the crime of stalking.

But they weren’t. And they won’t be.

This is exactly what the cameras are for, this is exactly what all cops are doing with them, and they will continue to be allowed to do it.

New York is suing an illegal gambling operation, calling is an illegal gambling operation

As if the nationwide camera network wasn’t purpose-built exactly for this.

“Gosh, someone came in here and turned our perfectly innocent, nationwide array of facial and vehicle recognition cameras that we programmed to recognize and log everything and turned it into something nefarious while we weren’t looking! Imagine that! It’s those damn dirty no-good rogue officers that are the problem, not our panopticon no one asked for.”

Called it

Oscillating saw with a semicircle blade and a piece of paneling behind the pipe in case you get squirrelly with it

Schools in Chicago finna go plum wild

Steam machine sales numbers are nowhere near high enough for that

Yeah, something is fucky with these numbers. Is there a corresponding drop in Windows/Mac numbers? Or is this due to a large number of new machines appearing out of nowhere?

I don’t know exactly what’s going on. But I do know that 3.5% to 10.5% in a few months is so beyond anything ever observed before, the notion that this is users adopting Linux over Windows/Mac cleanly and organically severely strains my credulity.

Kids don’t say “kickback”. They call it “the function”

Precisely. I make calculated decisions all the time. But I suck at math. Even “highly calculated” decisions can be very stupid. In fact, some levels of stupidity are only possible with some level of higher education.

He dove head-first into the so-called metaverse and even renamed his company for it.

Not quite. He changed the name because “Facebook” was in the news too often with privacy controversies and he thought the name change would distance his company from that reputation. Seems it worked.

Continue using Wikipedia. They don’t run ads so traffic doesn’t translate to revenue for them. Just don’t donate and their server costs will become unsustainable once they run out of cash in about 20 years

they wanted to have an official vote on the matter, and didn’t want to be pressured into a decision on the spot

If workers want to unionize, that’s their business. Workers don’t need anyone’s permission to organize. Unionization means conditions are bad and individual efforts to correct them have failed. The company wanting an “official vote” is just an excuse to add friction to a process that requires none.

It would be a terrible thing for this organization to die

If an organization won’t respect the fact that it exists ONLY because of its workers, it would be a great thing if it died and made way for one that will. There are enough backups, we can survive the transition period. I have two, currently; one that gets updated, another from the pre-LLM era.

Double check you don’t need a different driver for a wired connection. Double check it’s not using the default 360 controller or default USB controller driver. Confirm Bluetooth will solve the problem by testing with a USB dongle before committing to a card. Save your receipt so you can return it or keep it as a backup solution.

This isn’t new. It’s always been this way. He’s just finally saying the quiet part out loud.

The FCC has always asserted governance over the airwaves on the basis that only so many frequencies are available so regulations are required to ensure their limited availability goes toward the advancement of the public good.

Because the airwaves are freely available to anyone with an antenna, one of the ways the FCC “ensures the advancement of the public good” is regulating what’s allowed to be shown and said on television under the basis that children are watching at home.

The FCC has a long and varied history of enforcing censorship on the airwaves. It used to be that women’s periods couldn’t be mentioned, it used to be that actors had to keep one foot on the floor so they didn’t show “a man and woman in bed together.”

Violators have always been subject to fines and revocation of their license. Corrective action has always been at the sole discretion of the FCC. The only thing that’s changed is how openly aggressive the FCC has been wielding their authority.

Historically, the FCC has always been regarded as having too much power, but they’ve always managed to avoid regulation by wielding it responsibly and conservatively and generally not pissing off the public to much. The current administration is highlighting why this has been a mistake.

Yeah, but if you’ve ever been involved in a big project at work, you know that 80% of the progress comes from 20% of the effort.

Neckussy

Oh yeah well I have a skidoo in my peeble joiner using a flimflam from doop