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They're human beings, not numbers or statistics.

Or would you have us believe that a certain number of these kinds of murders are OK, because they're just "rounding errors" or "edge cases?"

What's the over/under number?


Of course they're human beings. I think the point is, should you, statistically, live a life of fear based on possibly negligible odds of death or assault?

You just need a nuclear-powered Big Bus.

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w1066_and_h600_bestv2/l5n4h4gmRtj...

https://imcdb.org/i065460.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bus

"Cyclops has a passenger capacity of 110 and is equipped with a bowling alley, Asian-style cocktail lounge with a piano bar, swimming pool, Bicentennial dining room, private marble-and-gold bathroom with sunken tub, and chef's kitchen."


This was the first thing I thought of when I read the article. I remember making my own nuclear-powered big bus out of legos after watching that movie.

> You just need a nuclear-powered Big Bus

Ah, so there is a chance!


What privacy from vendors?

One of the big promises when the Apple Card launched is that, unlike most other cards, your purchase information isn't sold.

That's the big question mark from me with the Chase takeover. If that privacy goes away, I'll stop using the Apple Card.


Then, unless you use a different card each time you go

Or use one of the pool phone numbers. NPA-867-5309 is a common one.


What is the NPA for?

Jenny left her number in your neighborhood too?

I largely thought this wouldn’t work, but having tried it at several grocery store chains while traveling with a 100% success rate so far I’m not complaining. (Nothing worse then being told you can’t sign up because customer service is closed, and you have to sign up to get the pricing, and there’s no generic store card they can scan as a curtesy ).

- this has worked for me in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Virginia, West Virginia, Michigan, and Wisconsin.


I meant bank card

I'll share this here now that I only drive EVs, but I suppose cashiers and random people at King Soopers(major grocer in Colorado, associated with Kroger's) would enter 555-555-5555 as their phone number for their rewards, and every time I would pump gas at their stations I would get $1/gallon off.

That number also works at Walgreens (at least in Arizona and New York).

Can you upload code to be executed on a stock 1541/1571?

Yes. There were disk duplicators that ran entirely on the drives.

You'd upload the program to a pair of daisy-chained drives, put the source disk in one, and the destination disk in the other and they'd go about their business.

You could then disconnect the computer and do other things with it while making all the disk copies you wanted.

I've always wanted a modern equivalent. I thought FireWire might make it happen, but it didn't. And it's my understanding is that USB doesn't allow this kind of independent device linking.

The closest thing I've seen in modern times was a small box I got from B&H that would burn the contents of a CF card onto a DVD-RW.


You can even skip the investigator in a lot of places, thanks to Flock. Dystopian.

Flock is an ALPR.


I see it more like when a restaurant doesn't pay the lease on their kitchen equipment and the kitchen equipment company comes and puts giant unremovable orange stickers on the restaurant windows letting the owner and the world know that the equipment inside is their property and must be surrendered or legal action will be taken.

In what world does someone have the right to put giant stickers over a business window because payment is late?

> that the equipment inside is their property and must be surrendered or legal action will be taken

You're going to deface a building before starting legal proceedings?

Are you trying to troll?


In what world does someone have the right to put giant stickers over a business window because payment is late?

In the real world. I've seen it dozens of times in cities from New York to Seattle to Dallas.

I suppose you've also never noticed those big orange or green "This vehicle is parked illegally" stickers that tow companies put on cars that, for whatever reason, they are unable to move. The building where I live uses them all the time.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71jxKVsTMgL._AC_.jpg

There's a whole real world of things out there that have apparently escaped your notice. You should check your indignity until you've seen more of it.


> I suppose you've also never noticed those big orange or green "This vehicle is parked illegally" stickers that tow companies put on cars that, for whatever reason, they are unable to move. The building where I live uses them all the time.

Cars are not buildings. I don't know if this escaped your notice or not...

I noticed you only used an example that didn't fit your first claim. Why is that?

> There's a whole real world of things out there that have apparently escaped your notice.

You were talking about buildings, not cars. Why are you changing the topic?

Do you find it's easier to be snarky if you respond to things nobody said?

> You should check your indignity until you've seen more of it.

Are cars and buildings the same thing?


Yeah, I’d be wary of hiring the developer even if he’s in the right.

If you pay him, you'll have no problems.

You were planning to pay, weren't you?


Why are you responding with superficial takes? Are you trolling?

It's not complicated... I don't trust the judgement of someone that behaves this way. I have no idea what the contract said, or who is in the right. All I know is I'm not going to take the chance that they don't agree with the contract and now I'm litigating on Facebook....


Yes, this was exactly my point.

Not supported by law where? I’m unaware of any legal proscription of this practice in the USA

Using facial recognition on people without their consent is illegal in a growing number of states.

Facebook lost a class-action lawsuit about this and I (and many other people) got a check for a little under $500.


It was a settlement, not a “loss” in any legal sense. It sets no legal precedent, and no future plaintiff can cite it.

> The settlement, announced Tuesday, does not act as an admission of guilt and Meta maintains no wrongdoing.

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/30/texas-meta-facebook-...

While you are correct that some states do regulate facial recognition, all they can do is regulate their own law enforcement and private entities doing business there. They cannot regulate the federal government (ICE and CBP are federal agencies).


The irony is that Tahoe ships with a new screen saver that celebrates the simplicity and elegance of the original Mac's user interface design.

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