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15155 commented on Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now [video] youtube.com/watch?v=qEllW... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys

xboxnolifes · 14 hours ago

Im not saying firing a weapon is emasculating. I'm saying you can reduce the toxic masculinity aspect of gun ownership through cultural enforcement. Safe gun use can be taught strictly with respect for the dangers of mishandling guns (even intentionally) enforced.

In other words, make gun ownership normal, understood, and uncool.

15155 · 13 hours ago

> toxic masculinity aspect of gun ownership through cultural enforcement

This presumes that this is actually the (an) issue.

> In other words, make gun ownership normal, understood, and uncool.

Normal is the issue: you can't subjugate a widely-armed population.

15155 commented on Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now [video] youtube.com/watch?v=qEllW... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys

xboxnolifes · a day ago

Which is somewhat odd to me. Why wouldn't they want to normalize and emasculate gun usage? That seems to be the general playbook of the US Left to change behavior. Of all of the big Democrat vs Republican wedge issues, gun rights seems like one that is being approached entirely wrong.

15155 · a day ago

> Why wouldn't they want to normalize and emasculate gun usage?

Because it isn't emasculating - it's very much empowering - and anyone who has ever fired a gun or read a history book written in the last 200 years can't be deluded into thinking otherwise.

15155 commented on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/fleahunter

abdullahkhalids · a day ago

What law is preventing Best Buy from telling TVManufacturer that a credit card with these last 4 digits bought the TV with this exact serial number?

And once the SIM connects near your house, what is preventing the phone company from telling TVManufacturer the rough location of the SIM, especially after that SIM is found to have used too much data?

Then use some commercially available ad database to figure out that the person typically near this location with these last four digits is 15155.

That's just a guess, but there is enough fingerprinting that they will know with pretty high certainty it is you. Whether all this is admissible in civil court, idk.

15155 · a day ago

> What law is preventing Best Buy from telling TVManufacturer

No law: reality and PCI standards prevent this. And of course, the manufacturer could get a subpoena after enough process. This also assumes the TV was purchased with a credit card and not cash.

> And once the SIM connects near your house

> what is preventing the phone company from telling

Again: reality and the fact that corporations aren't cooperative. A rough location doesn't help identify someone in any urban environment. Corporations are not the FBI or FCC on a fox hunt.

Can you cite a single case where this has happened on behalf of a corporation? These are public record, of course.

15155 commented on Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now [video] youtube.com/watch?v=qEllW... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys

rationalist · 2 days ago

Even if you don't like guns and don't want to own one, you should know how they work and how they are used properly.

Kids used to be taught gun safety in public school. Public schools used to have indoor ranges (I've seen one with my own eyes).

When someone learns gun safety, they are less likely to accidentally shoot themselves or someone else if they come across one.

15155 · 2 days ago

> Kids used to be taught gun safety in public school

The problem is that this normalizes the behavior, something that a specific political sect (coincidentally overlapping heavily with those employed in education) desperately wants to avoid.

15155 commented on Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now [video] youtube.com/watch?v=qEllW... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys

SamInTheShell · 2 days ago

Seem to recall license plates are required to be illuminated as well. What's stopping someone from just adding an additional IR light to those enclosures? Couldn't you just slap an additional bright enough IR light in that makes it impossible to even see the plate clearly through cameras?

Personally, if I cared enough to obfuscate my plate info from these devices, I would just taint their data by wrapping my car in a wrap with various different "plates" themed art. I like cars and the exterior has traditionally been treated like art. Tainting data is just as effective at making the core dataset useless as omitting data in the first place.

15155 · 2 days ago

> What's stopping someone from just adding an additional IR light to those enclosures

Nothing.

> Couldn't you just slap an additional bright enough IR light in that makes it impossible to even see the plate clearly through cameras?

You could: but it will only work at night (and even then, I don't know if the amount of light you could concentrate in that area would be enough to blow out letters), because all of these cameras have switchable IR cutoff filters.

15155 commented on Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now [video] youtube.com/watch?v=qEllW... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys

wingspar · 2 days ago

Those covers in FL are now fully illegal (Oct 1) along with most license plate frames.

Have a friend who got pulled over recently and given a warning for the clear cover on his plate. Apparently, they can be a felony in some cases.

I recall on an old Top Gear episode years ago, in the UK, people were selling mud in a spray can. You apparently sprayed the mud up the bumper and across the plate so it looks like it’s just slung mud, but it just so happens to block the plate. Plausible deniability in a can…

15155 · 2 days ago

> Apparently, they can be a felony in some cases.

Which statute is applicable here?

15155 commented on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/fleahunter

fn-mote · 2 days ago

They shipped it to you. They associated a machine UUID with you at that time, as well as the SIM card.

Now maybe you mean the TV? That’s not what this particular thread is about.

15155 · 2 days ago

> That’s not what this particular thread is about

This thread is about removing the SIM from a TV.

If I bought that TV in cash (or even credit card, sans subpoena) at a Best Buy and removed the SIM, how is any corporation identifying me?

15155 commented on Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/signa11

p_l · 2 days ago

Possibility of bit flips from cosmic radiation only really came to fore in 1990s, and some aircraft and parts predate that.

15155 · 2 days ago

Smaller semiconductor feature size greatly increases the likelihood of these types of errors.

15155 commented on Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/signa11

RachelF · 2 days ago

I would argue that designing avionics without EDAC is negligent design by Airbus.

Most modern servers at least implement ECC on their RAM. I would expect flight electronics to be designed to a higher standard.

15155 · 2 days ago

Multi-module consensus is a form of EDAC - it's exceptionally unlikely that multiple units will fail identically simultaneously.

15155 commented on He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over washingtonpost.com/lifest... · Posted by u/wallflower

guerrilla · 2 days ago

That depends on your values. I think it's bureaucratic BS in every country. The world hasn't been like this forever, and still isn't like this for other animals.

15155 · 2 days ago

> The world hasn't been like this forever

People didn't receive handouts from governments in centuries past for just showing up and performing no contributory function. Kill all entitlements and let's open em' back up!

> still isn't like this for other animals

What reality are you living in where countless animal species aren't territorial? This is common sense.