Malfeasant
@Malfeasant@lemm.ee
- Comment on AI-powered weapons scanners used in NYC subway found zero guns in one month test 3 weeks ago:
They found a scam to replace stop & frisk.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
Shriveled, and a little to the left.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
Last Thursday.
- Comment on hard to argue with 4 weeks ago:
Mine are… 🧛
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
They tried that for a few years. People went to court to challenge them, overwhelmed the court system, and made it not cost effective to pursue people.
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
Do you think speed cameras will slow them down? Or do you think they’ll just figure out how to get away with it? When my city put in speed cameras everywhere, it didn’t slow me down. After the first one (which was a surprise btw- same route I drove to work every day, but after they put in the speed camera, the speed limit was reduced by 10mph mysteriously…) I researched the fuck out of the topic and found
A: they can’t act on a mailed ticket unless you voluntarily respond (so I didn’t) or it’s delivered by a process server (which costs money, and the local government isn’t going to bother when there are plenty of pigeons that don’t know better)
B: they have to be able to identify the driver- as in see your face. There was a famous case of a guy wearing various zoo animal masks, and I have a couple pictures of me in a cheap Spartan mask doing 90 in a 65 that never went anywhere.
C: even if they serve you, and even if your face is plainly visible, it may still be worth a shot going to court. I did the one time one was properly served, which was another surprise one, not one of the times I was taunting them. It was another case of the speed limit being temporarily reduced, this time for construction - except the speed camera had been set up after the end of the construction zone, and I had just gotten on the highway, there was no signage indicating the construction zone or the reduced speed between the on ramp and the camera, and again it was a familiar area where I knew the limit was 65 normally… Anywho, tangent. I went to court, and I got to see which arguments worked and which didn’t. It was pretty comical, one woman was trying to argue that she didn’t know the speed limit had dropped, but she had been clocked at 79- the judge yelled at her “even if you thought it was 65, you still would have been going nearly 15 over! Pay the fine and get out!” Anywho, one thing I noticed was they always gave the measurements of how far the speed camera was after the speed limit sign, so that was going to be my angle- I would just ask how far that was from the on ramp- but I didn’t get the chance. They got to me, and the prosecutor said he didn’t have the evidence to pursue my case, so he moved for dismissal. No further explanation.
So that’s just what works in my jurisdiction, it’s likely other places close some of those loopholes, but introduce some of their own. And you can bet assholes like me will be better at figuring it out and will overall pay less in fines than suckers like you that just get caught by surprise once in a great while. Is that fair?
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
Where I live, going the speed limit gets you run off the road. I’m not even exaggerating.
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
You sure showed them…
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
How do cameras make any difference?
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
And good luck getting a judge to hear your side of it. Not impossible, but then you’re missing a day of work for a maybe…
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
What is “implemented properly” and how often does it happen?
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
Speed cameras also won’t stop someone like that. Though they might take nice pictures of the wreck.
- Comment on Oxygen 1 month ago:
Which side is the front? I don’t think it’s fallen off yet.
- Comment on Oxygen 1 month ago:
The sun isn’t space, it has plenty of oxygen.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
I live in the Phoenix area - if it ever gets down to 32°F I’m dancing in the street.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t classify 0°C as very cold, just cold. 0°F definitely deserves the very.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
Tomato, tomato…
- Comment on xkcd #2976: Time Traveler Causes of Death 2 months ago:
Not exactly - what was proven is that there’s no way to distinguish between inertial frames of reference. There could be a universal frame of reference, which would most likely be the average velocity of all things in the universe. There’s not much point in making a distinction in most cases, because if you can’t detect it, it might as well not exist - but since we’re making up time travel, we might as well make up a universal frame of reference, it doesn’t break anything time travel hasn’t already broken…
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 2 months ago:
because it is not a hostile relationship between the worker nodes and the manager node.
Some places I’ve worked…
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
My ads aren’t targeted, at least I don’t think they are… I honestly don’t notice what they are for most of the time, so that’s a failure right there, they’re not memorable - but when I do notice, they’re for either trump or sports betting, two things which I have negative interest in…
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 2 months ago:
Cars are just full of “problematic” words… Leaking tranny fluid, retarded ignition…
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 2 months ago:
I guarantee when the average person hears “master/slave”
This seems like projection… How do you even begin to have this much certainty about what goes on in any head beside your own?
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 2 months ago:
Can’t we just change “slave” to “servant” and carry on?
- Comment on Toot toot 2 months ago:
In my late teens/early 20s I won a roughly 2 month long fart battle by eating McDonald’s every day. Made my adversary kneel before me.
- Comment on Toot toot 2 months ago:
You say that like it’s a bad thing…
- Comment on Toot toot 2 months ago:
Fight fire with fire.
- Comment on There It Is! 2 months ago:
Wow wow wow wow… Wow
- Comment on Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements 2 months ago:
Are they still doing that thing where OEMs pay licenses based on units sold regardless of OS? So even if you want Linux, they still have to pay for windows?
- Comment on All Windows users should immediately update their computers. An exploit rated 9.8/10 (CVE-2024-38063) compromises all devices running Windows with an IPv6 address. 2 months ago:
I did that years ago, and they said basically “never”. Then a couple years later all of a sudden, there it was.
- Comment on SanDisk introduces the first 8TB SD and 4TB microSD cards - Liliputing 3 months ago:
pirated
It’s not pirating if you own a physical copy like DVD or Blu-ray, it’s fair use. Fuck the studios for trying to take that away from us.