CCTV cameras as crime prevention. They rarely work, as folks desperate enough to commit regular street crime simply aren’t deterred.
Combine that with the reality that identifying people from surveillance footage can easily be defeated be employing advanced counter technologies such as “generic black/grey hoodie”
Since there has been people, there have been people trying to steal stuff from other people.
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. /s
Haven’t there been countless sci-fi movies and novels warning us about the many ways this approach can go horribly wrong?
What wording would you have them use?
That is good news, assuming numbers being reported by a US government agency are accurate, which is no longer a certainty.
Linux isn’t an OS.
Pedantically true, but practically irrelevant statement.
Neither sell their phones in (or ship to) my country.
If my daughter wants more Lego, I’ll just buy it second hand
That’s where most of the sets my kids had came from.
It’s a durable product that is easy to clean. Buying used is very low risk.
The wizard lego is very disappointing, and goes completely against their other inclusive language.
To be fair, they started making those sets long before anyone knew the author was a TERF.
And the march towards making the dead internet theory a reality continues moving forward.
You may think it’s crazy talk, but the concept has already been patented.
The way they want it to operate is not monitoring them, presumably.
Or pushing ads on the device idle screen, or inserted into other things you are trying to watch. (pre-rolls on HDMI sources…)
Is there a ful list anywhere of brands and models that lock non-network features behind a network connection requirement?
I’ve heard people complaining about some that don’t let you select HDMI input without first connecting to the internet and “activating” the TV, but the model is usually not specified in those complaints.
Now we just need a way to do that
I have some ideas.
that isn’t vigilante violence.
Oh. Nevermind…
There is no simple solution to most of society’s issues.
Don’t let perfect stand in the way of better.
Threats to the bottom line is the thing that motivates companies faster than anything else.
Until this abomination of a law
The “patriot” act would like to have a word with you…
Microsoft exec admits it ‘cannot guarantee’ data sovereignty
Then you don’t get to touch my data (to the extent that I can control who already has my data without my permission…)
A simpler layout and usually a more lightweight page in general because mobile data was slow and expensive back then.
If someone wanted people to actually use their site on the go, they had to make it load quickly and not cost $5 worth of data doing it.