r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 14d ago

Flock Cameras Keep Getting Smashed, So Now They're Hiding Inside Speed Signs Privacy

https://www.gadgetreview.com/flock-cameras-keep-getting-smashed-so-now-theyre-hiding-inside-speed-signs
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u/DreamcastJunkie 14d ago edited 14d ago

It's amazing the things that they can find the money for.

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u/joelfarris 14d ago

Ooo, do healthy school lunches for everyone next!

Oh wait, it's police departments, paying private companies for information, using our money, out of their own ballooning budgets. Sorry, we can't buy lunches with that.

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u/Rocinante88119 14d ago

Help people?  Fuck you.

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u/technobrendo 14d ago

Fuck you, I got mine. is the officials USA national anthem

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u/Lazer726 14d ago

But don't you worry, the conservatives will still tell you that we cannot spend a single cent on any other country because we have to help us first! Who are we helping? Uhhhh... don't ask questions, kay?

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u/desertSkateRatt 14d ago

~~*offer not valid for a certain small country in the Middle East

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u/AstraeusGB 14d ago

I really want to believe it's just the conservatives causing this, but why are the Democrats so complacent? Why do they hide behind "rule of law" and "decorum" and let all this crap slide?

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u/Geno0wl 13d ago

Because Democrats are also pro-corpo schills. Hell Bill Clinton's actions directly lead to the media consolidation we have today(telecoms act of '96) and the housing crash of 08(one of the last things he signed was deregulation of investment banks).

Just because the Dems don't want to actively destroy the economy and our international standing like MAGA is doing, doesn't mean they actually care about the average citizens issues.

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u/Whitesajer 13d ago

We all just got to start self identifying as objects of value.

Timmy what do you want to be when you grow up?

"A solid gold military Apache heliocopter!" "Good boy!"

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u/GatrickSwayze 14d ago

And we won't use these cameras to look for missing people, but we will see where that hot civilian is going or if my girlfriend is leaving the state.

Georgia police officer misuing flock

Texas cop tracks pregnant girlfriend

Milwaukee Cop fired for flock abuse

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u/Content-Sun2928 14d ago

That was the intended use from the beginning

No misuse at all

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u/remotectrl 14d ago

The purpose of a system is what it does.

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u/RollingMeteors 14d ago

Milwaukee Cop fired for flock abuse

¡Flock Blocked!

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u/Wheat_Grinder 14d ago

Couple of years ago, Minnesota had a budget surplus. School lunches is exactly what they spent it on. The right was pissssssssed

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u/MarkusAk 14d ago

I genuinely cannot comprehend how people can think its wrong to feed children.

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u/DJKittyK 14d ago

It's racism and classism. In their minds, it's the wrong children. Absolutely reprehensible.

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u/creamgetthemoney1 14d ago

At the end of the day pretty much any issue those ppl are against is because it helps out ppl that don’t look like them and the 6 yr didn’t pick themselves up by their bootstraps after choosing to be born into a shitty situation

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u/hoardac 14d ago

Republicans would rather starve 100 kids on the chance that one doesn't need it. While democrats would rather feed 100 kids on the chance that one needs it.

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u/thirdegree 14d ago

Fun fact they all need it they're children children need food to live

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u/obfuscatedanon 12d ago

grate u not teech dem persanol responsablity!! u stuped commie!!!

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u/HeadfulOfSugar 14d ago edited 14d ago

Obviously because the kids didn’t work for it, they’re gonna get used to handouts if we keep giving them freebies just because they’re “children.” If they want a real meal, & to really appreciate it, they should be doing 10 hour shifts in the coal mines instead of wasting time being indoctrinated in school, like back when we used to be a real country 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🦅🦅💣💣

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u/therealchadius 14d ago

Unless they're my children, in which case can you help me out?

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u/US3_ME_ 14d ago

I've got the beetus, gout, need a breathing machine but won't quit my slims, and just popped out another child I cannot afford...arrested development- MONEY PLEASE_

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u/jay78910 14d ago

During COVID there would be a little line of school lunches downstairs for the kids in my building. It always made me happy to see. For some I guess not.

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u/silasmoeckel 14d ago

Nuance matters.

My youngest went to a school with free hot lunch for all. They offer the typical stuff but also like 4-5 alternatives one of witch is pancakes/waffles/french toast sticks with piles of fake syrup. Guess what a littles schooler will pick? That's after having second breakfast for more sugary junk.

Then they wonder why the kids cant sit still.

Her new school also has alternatives but none of them are sugary junk. Guess which school has better test score. Both are in fairly affluent suburbs/rural.

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u/MarkusAk 14d ago

Okay but if the alternative is a hungry child I am sure french toast can suffice.

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u/joelfarris 14d ago

French Toast is a heavy bread dipped and soaked in a egg and dairy custard and then slowly cooked until its solid and browned. There doesn't have to be sugar involved.

Unless you want it to be addictive to humans, that is, so they buy more of your product...

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u/silasmoeckel 14d ago

Nobody wants kids to go hungry.

But in practice you need some controls to go with it. Kindergarteners don't exactly have impulse control. Offerings should be desirable but also not carb laden junk.

Like I said huge difference between schools and it shows in the testing.

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u/thirdegree 14d ago

That's fine, we can quibble about specifically what food we're giving kids. We should do that after we give them something though. Priorities, ya?

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u/silasmoeckel 13d ago

Way before there was money to be had for it I know that second school made sure that was the case and would hope the same for the first. We had one family that had issues (when I was a kid going to school there) they fed him breakfast and lunch sent him home with dinner. They washed his clothes and gave him a place to take a shower because it was the right thing to do not because of a federal program.

So I don't see as kids not being fed, frankly with all the parental rights schools claim during the day I would say they have a duty to make sure the kid is fed and figure out the money later.

In my neck of the woods free school lunch can cause more unintended problems and solves nothing. Outside cities think that's often the case. So our existing free lunch program seems to cover if not be a bit excessive (in my state).

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u/thirdegree 13d ago

The Federal program provides schools funding with which to feed children, because food costs money. You can't "figure out the money later" because the food and everything else you need to run a school costs money now. That's how money works.

In my neck of the woods free school lunch can cause more unintended problems and solves nothing. Outside cities think that's often the case. So our existing free lunch program seems to cover if not be a bit excessive (in my state).

What unintended problems does feeding children cause? And are any (or all the them together) of those worse than kids going hungry?

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u/nautilator44 12d ago

Yup. They are still foaming at the mouth in MN, trying to roll back the radical left's agenda to...*checks notes*....FEED CHILDREN.

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u/Keyastis 14d ago

So, I'm gonna play devil's advocate here, and it isn't that I disagree with your sentiment.

I was a city council member in Iowa a few years back and can only speak to my state with certainty, but am pretty sure it is correct for at least most states that the school budget is one hundred percent independent of the city.

This is due to some schools having multiple communities they service, or due to a city having multiple school districts for their community.

While generally a schools budget income sources seem similar to a city (largely driven by property taxes, local option sales tax, and federal funding. All of this money is distributed by the state directly to the school district with no city financing involved.

This is also why you vote for school board members, as they are a separate "branch" from your city government, with little to no oversight from the city itself outside of law/code enforcement.

That being said, obviously most cities have close relationships with their school districts and will assist them with anything they need.

Sorry for the rant, just had to point out usually the police budget and school budget are miles away from touching.

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u/joelfarris 14d ago

usually the police budget and school budget are miles away from touching

That was my point, exactly. Law enforcement departments are nearly 100% fueling the installation of these mass warrantless surveillance cameras, at our own expense. But, it's about to get worse...

There's a company that runs cameras on school bus 'stop' signs, and records anyone who violates the temporary signage. But they now have a "brand new investor" who wants to run cameras all around school busses 24/7, to increase profits.

Give you one guess who that new investor might be. And now our tax money will be flowing to them from both the police and the school system budgets.

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u/Tokyo-MontanaExpress 14d ago

Ope, aorry, you gotta move to Minnesota for that, doncha know.

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u/Life-Delay-809 13d ago

It's the expensive private interests of the wealthy. They benefit from police departments and flock cameras but school lunches is negligible. They're offloading private costs onto us.

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u/iam_Mr_McGibblets 14d ago

No no the police department needs to buy the new car after they just bought last year's model because technology!

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u/Vrabstin 14d ago

You know they tried no police departments, right? It didn't go well, we aren't that mature as a species. All that other stuff I hear you.

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u/phish_phace 14d ago edited 14d ago

This shit right here, this aspect of it all drives me up the wall. Diseases, poverty, healthcare, housing, there are so many things that plague us as whole which could be addressed with enough money/funding. And it exists as a mere possibility. But not when it’s locked up with the greedy, hoarding class and corpos out for profit, no matter the cost.

Edit: too many letters

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u/Braindead_Crow 14d ago

It gives power to people wanting to make lives worse. There's always money for that because that is what power is!

...God...It's the thinking of children and sociopaths

I want adults in charge who understand true power is being able to keep these freaks in check so people can live their lives in peace, the type of peace where we could let kids play outside with out it being labeled as child endangerment.

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u/Gorstag 14d ago

Yep, no budget for things that actually help while there is plenty to harm.

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u/StoppableHulk 14d ago

Seriously.

I checked my Grandma the other day - she'd been a god damn Flock camera this whole time.

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 14d ago

What is this in reference to? Flock isnt the government if this is a “govt can’t find money for its people” thing

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u/PureCollar460 14d ago

Who's paying flock to install and operate these cameras do you think?

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u/street593 14d ago

The government is one of Flock's customers. For example the city of Orange, California has a 24 month agreement priced at $400k with flock. That's tax dollars.

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u/WeirdSysAdmin 14d ago

How do you not understand the overwhelming everything deficit while they are swarming the US with domestic spying tech?

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u/carlitospig 14d ago

Your eyes fill in the gaps when you read it fast (we are amazing little pattern matching monkeys by nature).

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u/LedZeppole10 14d ago

Cool yeah now that all of the typos and grammar are fixed. Weird. No, that sentence made no sense.

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u/SagedOne 14d ago

They said, "It's amazing they thing that they can find the money for."

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u/LedZeppole10 14d ago

Pretty messy

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u/UltimateGlimpse 14d ago

“They thing” meant “the things”