I don’t know if this incident involved Flock or a competing product, but John Oliver recently described an incident on his show that demonstrates one of the major issues with this technology.

Apparently an ALPR reported a “hit” on the license plate of an SUV in a shopping center parking lot. The vehicle was reported stolen. So a half dozen or so police performed a felony arrest of the woman in the car along with a number of family members, including small children.

The problem was that while the letters & numbers on the license plate matched, the actual stolen vehicle was a motorcycle from a completely different state. So if any of those half-dozen cops had bothered to confirm even one additional detail about the stolen vehicle then this wouldn’t have happened.

How will Flock improve their technology so that police actually do more than the bare minimum when being told of an ALPR “hit”?

Boston already has a very robust parking enforcement division that aggressively tickets things like expired meters, parking in resident-only areas without a current resident sticker, etc. They also regularly ticket & tow cars when street sweeping is scheduled. It would be trivial for them to add this to their enforcement activities.

Heck, if energy density is an issue the use this initially for grid storage, home solar, etc. where a larger size isn’t a huge deal. That would increase existing lithium ion supplies for EVs.

I bet he successfully grifted at least that much for himself & his family.

VPNs are too complex for non-technical people. I used to work in IT for a big university. When I managed the installation of a large research cluster they insisted it be publicly accessible so that traveling professors, etc. would have easy access to it. Long story short, I found it had been compromised by an IP address in China within hours of it being on-line.

Some marketing executive earned their paycheck for the month by coming up with this…

Years ago I worked with a guy who had a roughly 20 mile commute that was about 19 miles on a major highway that choked during rush hour. He worked from home in the early morning then drove in starting after 10:00. He’d then head home around 6:00 PM or later. He said traffic was almost always light.

He also never listened to traffic reports on TV or the radio. One day he got on the highway and was surprised to find traffic was virtually non-existent. He got about half way to the office to find the highway had been completely shut down due to a fuel tanker that was on fire…

My sofa isn’t all ripped up, and the reclining backs work.

What are they offering to buy the homes with, highly volatile shares of the AI companies stock, or millions of tokens they can use the AI with?

Back before HTTPS everywhere I considered setting up an Upside-down-ternet on an open WiFi. Never got around to it though.

Unfortunately it’s not terribly easy to un-family somebody.

I know somebody who works at Flock. Any chance you have a link to that video? I’d love to see what he says about the CEO comparing Antifa to terrorists…

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My employer uses Google for email, etc. There are email headers in the tests we get like X-PHISHTEST and X-SECURITY-TEST. I wrote a Google script that analyzes incoming emails for these headers and adds a “Phishing” tag to anything with one of these headers. So they show up highlighted in my inbox. I doubt I’m the only person who has done something like this.

Exactly. This way you know when one of them is bluffing or not. Leveraging an advantage like that is huge in poker.

A perfect response to the Russian “meat grinder” tactic.

None of that helps if you grant the LLM access to the production database and it decides to drop table user; to free up some space. That’s when you find out if your database recovery process actually works. You do have database backups, right? Or is that not a thing when vibe coding?

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Get ready to face DUI charges when you take cough medicine, eat some overripe fruit, or have some yogurt, among other things. Trace amounts of alcohol exist in a number of foods, so you could easily fail a 0.0 test by simply eating breakfast.

Bullshit. I work on a daily basis with Akamai, providing CDN, WAF, image optimization, and other services across roughly a dozen domains. Those services are all fully in-line with the domains in question. No need for a third party domain. We’ve also evaluated Cloudflare to see if the cost savings would justify migrating from Akamai.