I'm not saying anything you -- the TD reader -- don't already know. Sadly we are in the minority. The majority (LEOs, Congress, "law makers" etc.) don't believe that ALPRs are a problem.
In the scientific world, we
define the problem (what is that exactly in ALPR cases?)
figure out how to best quantify a solution (let's go with 'track moar carz')
measure the before and the after to see improvement in numbers
measure crime to see if we solved moar or stopped moar or what
I'll leave my bias out of this... because ... like you... I read TD and I'm a skeptic about LEOs saying anything.
Brian Laundrie is alive. His parents know where he is. ALPRs don't help solve crimes. Put the two together and watch failure occur.
While we're at it, Brian Laundrie was charged with using Gabby's credit card (debit card in some stories) without her permission. She's dead. She never testified he stole her card or used it without permission. LEOs lie. So do ALPR companies.
Sorry, Paul T, sometimes you just have to accept reality. LEOs lie.
Besides, SLC was always out of the way for me everywhere I wanted to go, but right in the middle of everywhere Delta wanted to take me. Damn sour grapes.
Re: Re: Wait... I get billed and the line item is "because we sa
I get where you're coming from... so here's an analogy in another direction:
You want to open up a gas station. You put in one tank, and two pumps. Your price is market friendly so your real advantage is
your location is ideal, easy in/out, and if someone hits the "Service"
button someone comes right out and pumps fuel and runs their card (useful for disabled drivers).
As you continue word gets out, and now the pumps are full most of the day. You even see people slow down and signal -- only to see no available pumps -- and drive away.
You buy another tank, and more pumps. The second tank is for #2 Diesel, and it goes to the second nozzle on the new pumps. So now not only can you serve more people, but contractor/construction vehicles as well.
Do you raise the prices because you had to pay for pumps, the tank, and related permitting and shipping? No, you don't.
Analogy #2: Same thing only with PaulT's Deli. You have one display cooler, a bunch of hard to find meats, cheeses, olives, etc. People come from all around.
But then you notice some turn away when they see the lack of parking, or the line inside.
So you make a deal with the business next door and now parking is available. You buy a second cooler, second PoS terminal (or use Square...) and more people are buying your deli stuff. That second person you hired to run the second terminal can also make sandwiches in between customers so premade sandwiches in the deli case makes for easy in/out inside, and quicker churn in the parking area.
You have to pay for the cooler, and then monthly for the parking and your new employee. Do you raise the rates? No.
Back to bandwidth. You have a large pipe to your upstream and either a fixed cost fixed bandwidth or burstable service. You sell service to residential (inbound b/w) and businesses with web and media servers (outbound b/w) such that your in/out balance is such that nobody in his right mind would penalize you -- you can just go elsewhere.
People love your service and more and more sign up. You buy a bigger router with a redundant backbone, a bigger UPS, and even a fully-automatic standby generator. All this costs you money. Do you raise the customers' rates -- no. If they went elsewhere you're still stuck with the payments.
Enter the duopoly in the US of Telco+CableCo. Can your customers REALLY leave you? Yes, they'll go to one of your business customers and subsidize that business connection with their monthly payment.
When dealing with expenses not directly attributable to the new customers, it's difficult to justify without lying charging them more...
Quick question: I looked but may have missed it. Do any of the instruction/tools cover post-production (selection, editing, effects, CC/ST, etc.) and if so do they require a particular OS (Win32, MacOS, Linux, *BSD)?
If it has post and supports Linux, that's one Christmas gift I'm dying to bestow on an aspiring VBlogger.
Those foreign ATM transactions actually cost your bank in transaction fees...
Classic example of begging the question, assuming that facts not proven are true.
NO, those "foreign" transactions do not cost my bank anything. That it is accepted as a given and the hand is waved as if to say "Well, this fee is ok, because it costs them" is a failure to inquire, comprehend, and refuse the fees.
I use several banks. Here are the ones off the top of my head:
NASA Federal Credit Union doesn't charge foreign fees.
Pentagon Federal Credit Union doesn't charge foreign fees.
It's not "normal" it's just that suckers are used to bending over for it so they think everyone else should. Worse, they call out people who disagree because they are so used to bending over they thing it's natural. BUT ISPs shouldn't.
ISPs shouldn't bill for BOTH connectivity and bandwidth. ISPs shouldn't bill for "upstream" and "downstream" (colloquially "blow" and "suck"). ISPs should bill for what they pay for - infrastructure, installation, support, etc. Whether your connection is 1Mbps or 1Gbps or more... those costs are generally (except for port type on switch during installation) the same.
If they can't, those ISPs should close up shop. ISPs are not cable companies or phone companies -- those are telecommunication carriers. They do have a corporate (or company) division that provides Internet Service on their infrastructure. It stands to reason they want to pile on whatever fees they can. That doesn't make it right, fair, just, or equitable. Also this is purely a US thing. When comparing "rates" with Denmark, England, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, etc. these "fees" only exist in the United States. Sucks to be US.
Imagine if your local supermarket said "Oh, we also charge an additional fee by the bag. You used 6 bags, and 2 were double bagged, so here's your fee." Would you just accept that and wave your hand and pretend "that's just how things are"?
There's a sucker born every minute. Try not to be one.
Wait... I get billed and the line item is "because we say so"?
When my bank tells me that after 10 "foreign" ATM transactions per month all the rest have a surcharge, I understand that's part of the contract that other people sign.
Still they send me a lit of dates, times, locations, and transactions. That should convince me [or others who have signed said agreement] that the charges are legitimate.
Cox, Comcast, TW, AT&T, etc. don't provide ANY proof of the bandwidth overage. It's not difficult. They could use free and open source software (https://www.google.com/search?q=foss+bandwidth+monitoring) and send the resulting information to the person unfortunate enough to be their customer.
You don't really get to "charge the client whatever we say without any proof they used the service beyond the first high-water mark."
I can't wait for my current provider (it's in the list above) to charge me for an overage without providing said data.
Probably this is a factor in why I recently was told I AM over my limit but I get a freebie... so no charges this month.
What are the legalities in claiming someone "took" or "used" or "stole" something, billing them for it, but providing no information to substantiate it? We'll find out when they actually do it.
Ehud
Tucson AZ US
(CenturyLink, Comcast, Cox territory)
The UAE rulers (emirs) are no different than the brilliant people we have here in the white world.
The Big Lie?
Stolen Election?
Do you think Team Trump isn't spying on people's cellphones?
Everybody in power is corrupt. The tools to help them are beside
the point. It is less important that "They used software from the NSO group" and much more important that "They used every available means to spy on, steal information from, deny access to, and harass" otherwise nonguilty parties.
THAT is what they do. THAT is unlawful in most western jurisdictions. THAT is still what they do.
How about that election being stolen from Captain Cheeto?
Which is why people who don't know what the point of VPNs is should just pipe down.
Traffic can be traced back to you? Great. Moron.
Traffic can be decrypted? You did it 100% wrong.
Now go post your "opinions" online. You'll help confuse other stupid people, help nobody, and generally just provide noise when people are looking for signal.
I do security consulting. I'm no idiot (sorry, Paul and Karl, you guys own that domain) and things work for a long long time without issue.
If you think you need a VPN you're already talking "methods" and not "problems" and "solutions." So ... likely you don't "need a VPN."
Step 1:
Identify the problem you want to resolve.
Step 2:
Identify methods to resolve that problem.
Step 3:
Identify best practices to accomplish #2 to solve #1 without introducing additional issues.
4: (Not really a step)
Identify the costs if you are unable to do this right. It can in the worst case lead to loss of life and in the best case ... loss of some small funds. This becomes the priority of the whole project. Don't lose sight of that. If the potential loss is $5/yr then put your CC#,EXP,CVV2 on the web and by the time you die your loss will have been insignificant compared to the cost of implementing a security solution... Give a little ... save a lot.
If you are unable to articulate any of 1,2, and 3, you are the wrong person to be selecting, designing, or implementing anything that will lead to success.
Remember, not every person who is in a position to do something is the person who SHOULD do something. Delegating to experts who know what they are doing is a good thing.
"experts" opining on things in which they have no expertise
It's funny that the headline says "Experts now advise"...
There are experts on whether people (9 billion or so of us) "need" or "don't need" a VPN? No. There are not.
That pretty much covers the article. Know-it-alls who pretend to speak for 9B people say we don't "need" something.
I am happy to consult to those who want the protections that VPNs provide. It's neither free, nor insulting to clients who want something.
Lying to the client is wrong. At least it's FREE stupid consulting, not the real kind.
Get a VPN or two or three. Use them. Just go search YT for all those people who say "I'm ok with cops searching my car because I dint do nuffin wrong." You can be that idiot, or you can decline unlawful searches. The same is true of VPNs.
Tesla made a deal: we'll give you FSD to beta... you don't talk about it publicly.
It's a fair deal.
FSD isn't there yet. We all know this. What's the big deal when the beta testers want to say "Hi this beta-test isn't working right?"
None. Don't sign it, or if you do, live by the contract you signed.
Hitting 5 cops -- definite no no. But was it FSD or a DUI in progress. The cops hate releasing any exculptory information ever, so we won't find out until it hits a courthouse...
They can tilt at windmills all they want.
Shampagne includes CSW.
Kleenex includes what Kimberly Clark Makes
Xerox is what I do with my Brother MFC to paperwork.
Spam is the email I get all day offering me drugs or pimp jobs.
Intellectual Property has never been about anything other than
a shakedown.
Hopefully Prosek will prevail. Hopefully in time IP maximalists
(Marvel comes to mind today, but genrally Dsney, Nintendo, etc.
are the culprits) will lose.
TD is big on calling for a US Federal anti-SLAPP suit. I'm beginning
to think we need the same quick method to dispose of alleged and
yet non-IP-infringing suits/claims.
Reality is that the Judge should solve the problem by forcing the two organizations to merge ...
Not in any reality in these United States. Judges don't "force" organizations to "merge". In contrast, organizations that are in violation of the law may be forced to divest, break apart, form subsidiaries, etc. but that requires legal basis.
Seriously "...some women that want to be men..." You really ought to join the current century of thinking.
The truth is probably that nobody should have a trademark on the term "scouting". It's entirely descriptive of what the organization is and does
You might want to look up the word "scouting". It's nothing like what the pedophiles running the BSA do and nothing like the baking events and cookie sales the GSA do.
Neither organization does "scouting" and neither has either a claim to the word or a legitimacy to being the "only" organization that allows kids of either sex (wait, are we back to only two sexes now?) to do.
There may have been a time -- but this isn't it. Whether or not parents were "confused" into signing up young women for the BSA or young men for the GSA isn't as irrelevant as the two leech organizations themselves.
Concert performance artists claim a copyright on their performance and don't allow recordings. To me this is an affront to the rule that says that if my eyes can see it in public, then I can record it. The artists say by playing in a private venue and requiring me to sign T&Cs to get my ticket I waived that right.
Fair enough.
Out on the street, street performers don't have any of these conditions. It is in public, and requires no adhesion to any contract. I have the right to record them, and to play back that recording.
The same SHOULD BE equally true if the performance artist is an abusive LEO and his phone playing whatever HE chose to play.
The whole /8 is the loopback interface (lo0 on some systems). It doesn't have to end in 0.0.1... just start with 127.
Trivia (arcana?):
1973 was a very different year than 2021. People did not have personal computers, phones did not communicate with towers, and IPv4 addresses would "never run out." Assigning a /8 to ARPA (Net-10), MILNET (Net-26), loopback (Net-127), and even MIT made a mint selling part of their "assigned and necessary" /8 of IPv4 addresses. https://www.networkworld.com/article/3191503/mit-selling-8-million-coveted-ipv4-addresses -amazon-a-buyer.html
On the post: License Plate Reader Company Continues Expansion Into Private Neighborhoods With The Help Of Some Useful Cops
Re:
Difficult concept. One is a corporation. It has stocks, stockholders (nvestors) and a management and a Board.
The other is a guy.
Learn the difference and stop conflating the two.
Same goes for Elon Musk and SpaceX or Tesla. If you conflate corporations for management, Board, or stockholders, you're missing the point.
E
P.S. I own stock in various public companies. Try holding me responsible for their management decisions. Hint: not going to happen.
On the post: License Plate Reader Company Continues Expansion Into Private Neighborhoods With The Help Of Some Useful Cops
ALPRs have not decreased crime
I'm not saying anything you -- the TD reader -- don't already know. Sadly we are in the minority. The majority (LEOs, Congress, "law makers" etc.) don't believe that ALPRs are a problem.
In the scientific world, we
I'll leave my bias out of this... because ... like you... I read TD and I'm a skeptic about LEOs saying anything.
Brian Laundrie is alive. His parents know where he is. ALPRs don't help solve crimes. Put the two together and watch failure occur.
While we're at it, Brian Laundrie was charged with using Gabby's credit card (debit card in some stories) without her permission. She's dead. She never testified he stole her card or used it without permission. LEOs lie. So do ALPR companies.
Sorry, Paul T, sometimes you just have to accept reality. LEOs lie.
E
On the post: Delta Proudly Announces Its Participation In The DHS's Expanded Biometric Collection Program
Re: don't forget the racial element
If facial recognition worked on POC LEOs would turn it off immediately.
Delta can go... well you know. I'll just go where my miles pile up. Hopefully I can experience something like this:
https://onemileatatime.com/reviews/lufthansa-first-class-747/
Besides, SLC was always out of the way for me everywhere I wanted to go, but right in the middle of everywhere Delta wanted to take me. Damn sour grapes.
E
On the post: Broadband Data Caps Mysteriously Disappear When Competition Comes Knocking
Re: Re: Wait... I get billed and the line item is "because we sa
I get where you're coming from... so here's an analogy in another direction:
You want to open up a gas station. You put in one tank, and two pumps. Your price is market friendly so your real advantage is
your location is ideal, easy in/out, and if someone hits the "Service"
button someone comes right out and pumps fuel and runs their card (useful for disabled drivers).
As you continue word gets out, and now the pumps are full most of the day. You even see people slow down and signal -- only to see no available pumps -- and drive away.
You buy another tank, and more pumps. The second tank is for #2 Diesel, and it goes to the second nozzle on the new pumps. So now not only can you serve more people, but contractor/construction vehicles as well.
Do you raise the prices because you had to pay for pumps, the tank, and related permitting and shipping? No, you don't.
Analogy #2: Same thing only with PaulT's Deli. You have one display cooler, a bunch of hard to find meats, cheeses, olives, etc. People come from all around.
But then you notice some turn away when they see the lack of parking, or the line inside.
So you make a deal with the business next door and now parking is available. You buy a second cooler, second PoS terminal (or use Square...) and more people are buying your deli stuff. That second person you hired to run the second terminal can also make sandwiches in between customers so premade sandwiches in the deli case makes for easy in/out inside, and quicker churn in the parking area.
You have to pay for the cooler, and then monthly for the parking and your new employee. Do you raise the rates? No.
Back to bandwidth. You have a large pipe to your upstream and either a fixed cost fixed bandwidth or burstable service. You sell service to residential (inbound b/w) and businesses with web and media servers (outbound b/w) such that your in/out balance is such that nobody in his right mind would penalize you -- you can just go elsewhere.
People love your service and more and more sign up. You buy a bigger router with a redundant backbone, a bigger UPS, and even a fully-automatic standby generator. All this costs you money. Do you raise the customers' rates -- no. If they went elsewhere you're still stuck with the payments.
Enter the duopoly in the US of Telco+CableCo. Can your customers REALLY leave you? Yes, they'll go to one of your business customers and subsidize that business connection with their monthly payment.
When dealing with expenses not directly attributable to the new customers, it's difficult to justify without lying charging them more...
E
On the post: Daily Deal: The 2021 Complete Video Production Super Bundle
Post production?
Quick question: I looked but may have missed it. Do any of the instruction/tools cover post-production (selection, editing, effects, CC/ST, etc.) and if so do they require a particular OS (Win32, MacOS, Linux, *BSD)?
If it has post and supports Linux, that's one Christmas gift I'm dying to bestow on an aspiring VBlogger.
E
On the post: Broadband Data Caps Mysteriously Disappear When Competition Comes Knocking
"Foreign fees"
Classic example of begging the question, assuming that facts not proven are true.
NO, those "foreign" transactions do not cost my bank anything. That it is accepted as a given and the hand is waved as if to say "Well, this fee is ok, because it costs them" is a failure to inquire, comprehend, and refuse the fees.
I use several banks. Here are the ones off the top of my head:
NASA Federal Credit Union doesn't charge foreign fees.
Pentagon Federal Credit Union doesn't charge foreign fees.
It's not "normal" it's just that suckers are used to bending over for it so they think everyone else should. Worse, they call out people who disagree because they are so used to bending over they thing it's natural. BUT ISPs shouldn't.
ISPs shouldn't bill for BOTH connectivity and bandwidth. ISPs shouldn't bill for "upstream" and "downstream" (colloquially "blow" and "suck"). ISPs should bill for what they pay for - infrastructure, installation, support, etc. Whether your connection is 1Mbps or 1Gbps or more... those costs are generally (except for port type on switch during installation) the same.
If they can't, those ISPs should close up shop. ISPs are not cable companies or phone companies -- those are telecommunication carriers. They do have a corporate (or company) division that provides Internet Service on their infrastructure. It stands to reason they want to pile on whatever fees they can. That doesn't make it right, fair, just, or equitable. Also this is purely a US thing. When comparing "rates" with Denmark, England, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, etc. these "fees" only exist in the United States. Sucks to be US.
Imagine if your local supermarket said "Oh, we also charge an additional fee by the bag. You used 6 bags, and 2 were double bagged, so here's your fee." Would you just accept that and wave your hand and pretend "that's just how things are"?
There's a sucker born every minute. Try not to be one.
E
On the post: Broadband Data Caps Mysteriously Disappear When Competition Comes Knocking
Wait... I get billed and the line item is "because we say so"?
When my bank tells me that after 10 "foreign" ATM transactions per month all the rest have a surcharge, I understand that's part of the contract that other people sign.
Still they send me a lit of dates, times, locations, and transactions. That should convince me [or others who have signed said agreement] that the charges are legitimate.
Cox, Comcast, TW, AT&T, etc. don't provide ANY proof of the bandwidth overage. It's not difficult. They could use free and open source software (https://www.google.com/search?q=foss+bandwidth+monitoring) and send the resulting information to the person unfortunate enough to be their customer.
You don't really get to "charge the client whatever we say without any proof they used the service beyond the first high-water mark."
I can't wait for my current provider (it's in the list above) to charge me for an overage without providing said data.
Probably this is a factor in why I recently was told I AM over my limit but I get a freebie... so no charges this month.
What are the legalities in claiming someone "took" or "used" or "stole" something, billing them for it, but providing no information to substantiate it? We'll find out when they actually do it.
Ehud
Tucson AZ US
(CenturyLink, Comcast, Cox territory)
On the post: In Latest Black Eye For NSO Group, Dubai's King Found To Have Used NSO Spyware To Hack His Ex-Wife's Phone
With absolute power comes... no responsibility.
The UAE rulers (emirs) are no different than the brilliant people we have here in the white world.
The Big Lie?
Stolen Election?
Do you think Team Trump isn't spying on people's cellphones?
Everybody in power is corrupt. The tools to help them are beside
the point. It is less important that "They used software from the NSO group" and much more important that "They used every available means to spy on, steal information from, deny access to, and harass" otherwise nonguilty parties.
THAT is what they do. THAT is unlawful in most western jurisdictions. THAT is still what they do.
How about that election being stolen from Captain Cheeto?
E
On the post: Most People Probably Don't Need A VPN, Experts Now Advise
Re: Re: Re: Re: How to trust?
Which is why people who don't know what the point of VPNs is should just pipe down.
Traffic can be traced back to you? Great. Moron.
Traffic can be decrypted? You did it 100% wrong.
Now go post your "opinions" online. You'll help confuse other stupid people, help nobody, and generally just provide noise when people are looking for signal.
E
On the post: Report: TSA Is Spending $1 Billon On Bag Scanners That 'May Never Meet Operational Needs'
"The entire rollout is slated to cost around $1.28 over the next ten years."
I think that's the most cost-effective US government program budget I've ever seen.
Let's see... $1.28 over ten years, assume fixed dollar cost that's... $0.13 (rounding up) per year.
Wow. That would be the only thing the TSA did right!
E
On the post: Most People Probably Don't Need A VPN, Experts Now Advise
Secure VPN
I do security consulting. I'm no idiot (sorry, Paul and Karl, you guys own that domain) and things work for a long long time without issue.
If you think you need a VPN you're already talking "methods" and not "problems" and "solutions." So ... likely you don't "need a VPN."
Step 1:
Identify the problem you want to resolve.
Step 2:
Identify methods to resolve that problem.
Step 3:
Identify best practices to accomplish #2 to solve #1 without introducing additional issues.
4: (Not really a step)
Identify the costs if you are unable to do this right. It can in the worst case lead to loss of life and in the best case ... loss of some small funds. This becomes the priority of the whole project. Don't lose sight of that. If the potential loss is $5/yr then put your CC#,EXP,CVV2 on the web and by the time you die your loss will have been insignificant compared to the cost of implementing a security solution... Give a little ... save a lot.
If you are unable to articulate any of 1,2, and 3, you are the wrong person to be selecting, designing, or implementing anything that will lead to success.
Remember, not every person who is in a position to do something is the person who SHOULD do something. Delegating to experts who know what they are doing is a good thing.
E
On the post: Most People Probably Don't Need A VPN, Experts Now Advise
"experts" opining on things in which they have no expertise
It's funny that the headline says "Experts now advise"...
There are experts on whether people (9 billion or so of us) "need" or "don't need" a VPN? No. There are not.
That pretty much covers the article. Know-it-alls who pretend to speak for 9B people say we don't "need" something.
I am happy to consult to those who want the protections that VPNs provide. It's neither free, nor insulting to clients who want something.
Lying to the client is wrong. At least it's FREE stupid consulting, not the real kind.
Get a VPN or two or three. Use them. Just go search YT for all those people who say "I'm ok with cops searching my car because I dint do nuffin wrong." You can be that idiot, or you can decline unlawful searches. The same is true of VPNs.
E
On the post: Tesla 'Self-Driving' NDA Hopes To Hide The Reality Of An Unfinished Product
Re: Bovine excrement
While you were out , you missed out on the day in school during math class when it was explained what "orders of magnitude" meant.
5 is not "orders of magnitude beyond" anything Tesla has released.
Google search is that way --> GO educate yourself and the people you are mis-educating.
On the post: Tesla 'Self-Driving' NDA Hopes To Hide The Reality Of An Unfinished Product
Re: Re:
"Thanks for admitting negligence!" <-- perhaps there was a "to" missing there.
In the race car, the first thing we do after starting is turn of TCS, ABS, and other "helpful computer bits" that mess with track driving.
In the street cars we turn off TCS when four-wheeling or going through deep areas of water or loose sand.
Negligence (failure to use reasonable care) is not "letting the AI drive." It would be failing to consider whether the AI should drive or not.
Sorry, your weird assertion that using FSD is negligent... fails.
E
On the post: Tesla 'Self-Driving' NDA Hopes To Hide The Reality Of An Unfinished Product
Your right to talk
Tesla made a deal: we'll give you FSD to beta... you don't talk about it publicly.
It's a fair deal.
FSD isn't there yet. We all know this. What's the big deal when the beta testers want to say "Hi this beta-test isn't working right?"
None. Don't sign it, or if you do, live by the contract you signed.
Hitting 5 cops -- definite no no. But was it FSD or a DUI in progress. The cops hate releasing any exculptory information ever, so we won't find out until it hits a courthouse...
E
On the post: Italy Vows To Bring Entire Government To Bear To Oppose Croatian 'Prosek' Trademark
Appelation fascination
They can tilt at windmills all they want.
Shampagne includes CSW.
Kleenex includes what Kimberly Clark Makes
Xerox is what I do with my Brother MFC to paperwork.
Spam is the email I get all day offering me drugs or pimp jobs.
Intellectual Property has never been about anything other than
a shakedown.
Hopefully Prosek will prevail. Hopefully in time IP maximalists
(Marvel comes to mind today, but genrally Dsney, Nintendo, etc.
are the culprits) will lose.
TD is big on calling for a US Federal anti-SLAPP suit. I'm beginning
to think we need the same quick method to dispose of alleged and
yet non-IP-infringing suits/claims.
On the post: Judge In Scouts BSA Trademark Case Says He's Going To Rule In Scouts BSA's Favor On Summary Judgement
Forced Mergers
Not in any reality in these United States. Judges don't "force" organizations to "merge". In contrast, organizations that are in violation of the law may be forced to divest, break apart, form subsidiaries, etc. but that requires legal basis.
Seriously "...some women that want to be men..." You really ought to join the current century of thinking.
On the post: Judge In Scouts BSA Trademark Case Says He's Going To Rule In Scouts BSA's Favor On Summary Judgement
"Scouting"
You might want to look up the word "scouting". It's nothing like what the pedophiles running the BSA do and nothing like the baking events and cookie sales the GSA do.
Neither organization does "scouting" and neither has either a claim to the word or a legitimacy to being the "only" organization that allows kids of either sex (wait, are we back to only two sexes now?) to do.
There may have been a time -- but this isn't it. Whether or not parents were "confused" into signing up young women for the BSA or young men for the GSA isn't as irrelevant as the two leech organizations themselves.
E
On the post: Officer Claims Sheriff's Office Told Him To Play Copyrighted Music To Shut Down Citizens' Recordings
Recording live events
Concert performance artists claim a copyright on their performance and don't allow recordings. To me this is an affront to the rule that says that if my eyes can see it in public, then I can record it. The artists say by playing in a private venue and requiring me to sign T&Cs to get my ticket I waived that right.
Fair enough.
Out on the street, street performers don't have any of these conditions. It is in public, and requires no adhesion to any contract. I have the right to record them, and to play back that recording.
The same SHOULD BE equally true if the performance artist is an abusive LEO and his phone playing whatever HE chose to play.
On the post: Sony Music Says DNS Service Is Implicated In Copyright Infringement At The Domains It Resolves
127/8
The whole /8 is the loopback interface (lo0 on some systems). It doesn't have to end in 0.0.1... just start with 127.
Trivia (arcana?):
1973 was a very different year than 2021. People did not have personal computers, phones did not communicate with towers, and IPv4 addresses would "never run out." Assigning a /8 to ARPA (Net-10), MILNET (Net-26), loopback (Net-127), and even MIT made a mint selling part of their "assigned and necessary" /8 of IPv4 addresses.
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3191503/mit-selling-8-million-coveted-ipv4-addresses -amazon-a-buyer.html
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