Microsoft should be broken up by DoJ again in an antitrust action. Maybe their functionaries will stop being so uppity and yipp-yapping about things that don't concern them.
The more exposure something like a show or movie gets, the more people will tell others about it. Some of those others won't be broke and will pay for the movie or show. It's free advertising, basically.
The issue isn't an update that removed features. The issue is Microsoft turning off a cloud server that provides this data to Windows 7/8/8.1 versions of WiMP. You'd need to patch WiMP to get the data from somewhere else if you need it.
Except that phones are a common product these days, and standard screws exist for assembling them. Besides, we're not talking about a phone or smartwatch, but about a desktop computer (Mac Pro).
Try screws that look like a Star of David. Standard Torx, less prone to stripping than (+) or (-) screws, yet a set of bits can be bought cheaply. i.e. not "tamperproof" shit.
Couldn't they have just ordered the custom screws air-shipped from a Chinese factory or redesigned the thing to use a more ordinary screw? I wonder what's so special about that particular screw. Is it a "tamper proof head" like Apple's 5-point "Torx" security screws to keep mere plebs from opening the hardware?
It sounds like gender is used as a proxy for matching effectiveness (i.e. "it can't even recognize gender correctly"). I'm guessing that authorities want to use those systems to match passers by against a database of wanted people's faces.
Why is this a good think for Black women? It seems like they'd be falsely arrested at a higher rate than other people, assuming the tech is seeking matches for wanted criminals or terrorists.
Would you like to be mis-identified as a criminal, arrested, jailed, stuck with an arrest record, have your mugshot posted online, and have to pay thousands in lawyer fees to keep the system from fucking you or bullying you into a plea bargain (cops and DAs tend not to want to admit that they're wrong)? Start thinking of dark-skinned people as humans, show some empathy, and maybe you'll understand.
Many jobs are stressful. Most of them don't get the same free pass for killing/harming people as American cops and military do. Nope, not feeling sorry for the cop or empathy for him.
Manslaughter is very much a jailable offense under US law. Of course, the stinking cop won't go to prison, because Americans have a fetish for people who wear uniforms (cop or military, same trash basket).
And the scumbag cop who actually did the shooting walks away scot-free. Ah well, one can hope that he'll get hit by a drunk driver during a traffic stop and end up quadriplegic for life.
The US is a litigious society. If it's for the cheeeeeeldreen, parks will start doing it just to avoid liability. The idea of a law or court judgement is that, if they're actively forbidden from doing so, violating people's privacy won't become an "industry best practice," and they can't be sued for failing to fingerprint.
Highly unlikely: I don't think they have a direct line to the FBI fingerprint database, and their fingerprint hash doesn't allow for reconstruction of the print. For this to work, they'd have to use the same hashing system that the FBI uses to make their prints searchable.
Besides, people can still buy a day pass without being fingerprinted, so this doesn't actually help in this respect. Even if they were doing this, privacy should trump absolute safety -- the worst things are often done for the cheeeeeldren.
But an RFID badge can be used by someone with a similar face; fingerprints make this more difficult. I see Six Flags' point, but it's also a stupid way go about things -- they might gain a bit of revenue from people not sharing badges, but they'll lose on public goodwill. Not to mention that people who share season badges might otherwise not go. Even if they don't pay for their visit, they'll probably still buy food, drinks, and whatever else isn't included in a badge.
Working hours: 50+ hours a week in white-collar jobs is now the norm. No vacay time to catch up.
Electronic connectivity: workers are expected to respond to emails outside of working hours. Yeah, 50 years ago, people had home phones, but calling someone outside of work was seen as more intrusive, and there had to be a damned good reason.
Overscheduling: if you're running around with your sprogeny in the evening, taking them to extracurricular bullshit activities, you still need time for yourself and to make love to your spouse. Sleep suffers.
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Microsoft should be broken up by DoJ again in an antitrust action. Maybe their functionaries will stop being so uppity and yipp-yapping about things that don't concern them.
The more exposure something like a show or movie gets, the more people will tell others about it. Some of those others won't be broke and will pay for the movie or show. It's free advertising, basically.
The issue isn't an update that removed features. The issue is Microsoft turning off a cloud server that provides this data to Windows 7/8/8.1 versions of WiMP. You'd need to patch WiMP to get the data from somewhere else if you need it.
Why use something with an acronym of "WiMP" when VLC and other good options exist?
Except that phones are a common product these days, and standard screws exist for assembling them. Besides, we're not talking about a phone or smartwatch, but about a desktop computer (Mac Pro).
Try screws that look like a Star of David. Standard Torx, less prone to stripping than (+) or (-) screws, yet a set of bits can be bought cheaply. i.e. not "tamperproof" shit.
Couldn't they have just ordered the custom screws air-shipped from a Chinese factory or redesigned the thing to use a more ordinary screw? I wonder what's so special about that particular screw. Is it a "tamper proof head" like Apple's 5-point "Torx" security screws to keep mere plebs from opening the hardware?
It sounds like gender is used as a proxy for matching effectiveness (i.e. "it can't even recognize gender correctly"). I'm guessing that authorities want to use those systems to match passers by against a database of wanted people's faces.
Why is this a good think for Black women? It seems like they'd be falsely arrested at a higher rate than other people, assuming the tech is seeking matches for wanted criminals or terrorists.
Would you like to be mis-identified as a criminal, arrested, jailed, stuck with an arrest record, have your mugshot posted online, and have to pay thousands in lawyer fees to keep the system from fucking you or bullying you into a plea bargain (cops and DAs tend not to want to admit that they're wrong)? Start thinking of dark-skinned people as humans, show some empathy, and maybe you'll understand.
Many jobs are stressful. Most of them don't get the same free pass for killing/harming people as American cops and military do. Nope, not feeling sorry for the cop or empathy for him.
Manslaughter is very much a jailable offense under US law. Of course, the stinking cop won't go to prison, because Americans have a fetish for people who wear uniforms (cop or military, same trash basket).
No, I'm not "better than this." The cop who shot deserves to rot in prison or get the gas chamber.
I'd call an ambulance -- cops hurt people, EMTs save lives.
And the scumbag cop who actually did the shooting walks away scot-free. Ah well, one can hope that he'll get hit by a drunk driver during a traffic stop and end up quadriplegic for life.
I'd suspect that most "sharing" happens between family members. I also suspect that it's not permitted unless you pay up for a family pass.
The US is a litigious society. If it's for the cheeeeeeldreen, parks will start doing it just to avoid liability. The idea of a law or court judgement is that, if they're actively forbidden from doing so, violating people's privacy won't become an "industry best practice," and they can't be sued for failing to fingerprint.
You'd presumably "borrow" both the ID and the badge to get in, especially if it's shared among family.
Highly unlikely: I don't think they have a direct line to the FBI fingerprint database, and their fingerprint hash doesn't allow for reconstruction of the print. For this to work, they'd have to use the same hashing system that the FBI uses to make their prints searchable.
Besides, people can still buy a day pass without being fingerprinted, so this doesn't actually help in this respect. Even if they were doing this, privacy should trump absolute safety -- the worst things are often done for the cheeeeeldren.
But an RFID badge can be used by someone with a similar face; fingerprints make this more difficult. I see Six Flags' point, but it's also a stupid way go about things -- they might gain a bit of revenue from people not sharing badges, but they'll lose on public goodwill. Not to mention that people who share season badges might otherwise not go. Even if they don't pay for their visit, they'll probably still buy food, drinks, and whatever else isn't included in a badge.
The point of the Six Flags thing isn't high security, it's to make sharing season passes marginally more difficult.
1942 poll was probably based on 1941 hours, before US was involved in WW2.
Working hours: 50+ hours a week in white-collar jobs is now the norm. No vacay time to catch up.
Electronic connectivity: workers are expected to respond to emails outside of working hours. Yeah, 50 years ago, people had home phones, but calling someone outside of work was seen as more intrusive, and there had to be a damned good reason.
Overscheduling: if you're running around with your sprogeny in the evening, taking them to extracurricular bullshit activities, you still need time for yourself and to make love to your spouse. Sleep suffers.
Pirate the movie, watch it at whatever time you want.
All the more reason to run the thing in a VM, its own nice little padded cell.