I mean, being anti-authority is fine, but even if you achieve your stateless society, don’t you still want your stateless society to still have traffic co-ordination somehow?
Stateless =/= rule-less
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It’s showtime
Ea Nasir is a really interesting case study of how one piece of information can be interpreted in two completely different ways.
One interpretation, and the one most people know, is that the authors of the clay tablets complaints are legitimate.
The other is that Ea Nasir kept them as a record of people attempting to harm his reputation. So he could remember who to avoid doing business with in the future.
So it’s like the Lemmy modlog. Maybe it’s a log of mods calling out bad users, maybe it’s a log of mods lying and power tripping.
I would give this merchant zero stars if I could
Awful copper
Worst trade experiemce of my life. I will not be returning
And flock cameras are apparently easily rooted and repurposed.
I heard the ones in school zones actually have 10lb of copper and a chocolate bar inside
We should also state how much that is in dollar bucks.
Just about $23 per camera where I’m at
how much cameras until i can buy 1 portiom of black tar heroine?
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Bright shiny copper is just under $4/lb where I am. It varies by location and what your recyclers will pay.
Wait until they find out about the gold-plated interconnects.
Taking out speedtrap so driver can self regulate is like taking out
CDCFDA so big pharma can self regulate.These aren’t about speed anymore, they’re all turning into auto license plate readers run by private corporations for an infinite surveillance dragnet
You don’t have a speedtrap issue, you have private vulture issue. Signing the enforcement right to private company is a recipe for disaster.
Sure, yeah if they were only used to snap pictures of people speeding I wouldn’t have a problem but that’s not what they’re limited to.
Fine by me. Cars suck. I have no sympathy at all for people who drive.
Yes, cars obviously suck. But If you don’t care about privacy for everyone, you don’t care about privacy and are therefore compliant in a surveillance state
Edit: For everyone downvoting me, please read my follow-up responses. I’m not advocating for surveillance, I’m advocating for privacy-preserving systems that simply send a ticket if you speed, without recording your location every single time you pass any camera, rather than a system that does, because that’s actually a surveillance network.
As much as it’s true that a lot of these cameras are just becoming other ways to engage in surveillance, it’s also true that they do a lot to manage speeding. For example, NYC had a 94% reduction in speeding in areas with the cameras. It’s also true that most existing speed cameras simply aren’t equipped to be converted into ALPR systems. Most ALPR deployments are done via the installation of brand-new hardware, which many places simply can’t justify the additional, new costs of.
This can be done with minimal surveillance capabilities, and often is in many places. (local compute board identifies license plates, calculates speeds, sends them to an isolated cloud service, and only forwards data to the police department if it was actually a speeding infraction, otherwise the data is wiped) The ALPR cameras are primarily being installed in specific areas, but aren’t always across-the-board implementations, and sometimes avoid entire cities.
For example, ALPRs are becoming popular around Washington, but the Seattle police department only has a few ALPRs solely mounted on vehicles, but zero mounted in stationary locations. (“SPD’s ALPR cameras are not fixed in location”) These aren’t even used for speeding cases, but are used for missing vehicle cases, and the speeding cameras are entirely separate.
It doesn’t make sense to eliminate all cameras, even the speeding ones, just because other cameras can be ALPRs. We should simply advocate for removing ALPRs, not speeding cameras. This is why organizations like the EFF, dedicated to protecting people’s privacy, have previously argued against these cameras broadly not because speeding cameras are also bad, but because the way those speeding camera systems were designed allowed them to also be used as ALPRs. However, I haven’t seen a single case of them arguing against cameras that are solely speeding cameras with limited capacity for surveillance, because it’s just not a very big issue.
Sorry, long rant 😅
damn that sucks bro, I’m cutting down the camera anyway because we live under the beginning fourth reich and surveillance must be fought.
Maybe police should go back to being visible on the street to control driver behavior and city road design be built around calming traffic patterns, instead of using completely undercover normal looking vehicles for traffic enforcement and then raking in millions of dollars by sitting on their ass and letting the camera do all the work?
Maybe police should go back to being visible on the street to control driver behavior
I’d rather avoid inflating police budgets if I can help it. Especially since such a system then lends itself to those same cops advocating for increased surveillance measures because it makes their job easier. They’re the people who wanted the built-in ALPR systems, after all.
city road design be built around calming traffic patterns
100% agree. Yet while I want these to be more widespread, they take money, time, and lots of urban planning. In the meantime, I see traffic cameras (specifically those NOT integrated with ALPR systems that store locations in a central database) as a good stopgap solution for areas that don’t yet/can’t build out those measures in a reasonable timeframe.
instead of using completely undercover normal looking vehicles for traffic enforcement and then raking in millions of dollars by sitting on their ass and letting the camera do all the work?
Also agreed. The pigs don’t need more money for doing less work, hence why I think the prior idea of having them be visible is still a bad idea, because they can simply sit there and… also do nothing.
And if they set quotas, then the measure becomes a goal, and it ceases to be a good measure, as cops will just pull more people over because it “seemed like they were going fast”, and everyone’s days get just a little bit worse.
Fuck your spy cameras. If speeding was really an issue they have the technology to prevent it. Every day I hear dumber and dumber ideas and thoughts and I just want to move out of this country.
There are obviously alternatives, I don’t deny that. But as good as infrastructure and cultural improvements can be, it doesn’t change the fact that speeding cameras have proven themselves to be immensely effective, and don’t require massive infrastructure projects, much more costly spending, and long-time cultural shifts. That’s just the unfortunate reality of the situation.
I’m a big digital rights and privacy advocate, and I don’t advocate for “spy cameras.” I advocate for privacy-preserving systems that improve society when they can exist in such a way.
A camera that only sends your plate to a police system when you speed, and automatically sends you a ticket for endangering other people is not a surveillance system. It’s a public safety measure, with justifiable, minimum data transmission requirements to operate effectively. A system that tracks every location your plate was seen is a surveillance system. That is not what non-“smart” traffic cameras are.
Speeding cameras are the first system, unless integrated with an ALPR system, in which case they become a surveillance system. I am advocating for the former, not the latter.
Or, why not just build roads that inhibit speeding? It’s safer, or doesn’t allow anyone to track people, and you’re not advocating for a surveillance state.
Whether you like it or not, the second that “Speeding Camera” goes online, it becomes a surveillance device. The only thing stopping bad actors are laws which like speeding, are constantly broken. You’re fucked if your government is the bad actor.
Advocate for designing streets that reduce speed, not adding surveillance cameras and pretending that the safety reduction is worth the invasion of your privacy.
Anybody can hack a camera, no one can hack an already built road. You’re pretending like these cameras aren’t easy as fuck to access.
You can build infrastructure that encourages reasonable people to drive slower (an example I’m thinking of - you can remove priority rules at a junction and force drivers to negotiate it on a more ad hoc basis, which requires a lower speed to see what everyone is doing). You can’t build infrastructure which does this for everyone. Joe Twatface will just speed through that junction and let everyone else slam their brakes on.
A lot of features that discourage dangerous driving also prevent emergency vehicles from going at high speed.
On faster roads, these traffic-calming measures are generally undesirable also.
So: the methods are limited and have disadvantages. Traffic cameras can fill in the gaps.
If your traffic cameras are accessible to private companies who can misuse that data, that’s a problem that needs to be addressed in legislation. If your traffic cameras are accessible to police who are fundamentally compromised as part of a proto-fascist state apparatus, it’d be good to link your protests against cameras (which exist all around the world) to their use by proto-fascists (which haven’t co-opted the government all around the world, yet). And there are probably more effective ways of disrupting them.
Or, why not just build roads that inhibit speeding
As I already stated, doing that is not quick, easy, or cheap. Mounting a camera to a pole is much more cost effective, and quick to set up in the short term, even if it’s not the ideal long-term solution.
They’ve been proven to reduce speed, injuries, and deaths, and there’s vanishingly few cases in which regular, non-“smart” traffic cameras operating under the technological standards I mentioned have ever been utilized for any form of surveillance that produced a measurable harm for any individual, that I could find. That is why I advocate for those, not for “smart” ones like Flock’s.
I don’t think it should be a permanent solution, but I’d rather have speed cameras now, with road improvements later, over zero measures to prevent speeding now, with the hope that traffic calming infrastructure will be feasible and actually get done later down the line. Infrastructure isn’t free, and cameras aren’t either, but cameras are a hell of a lot cheaper.
A camera is a camera, and there are no lightpole cameras that are SD Card read only with no access to the internet.
You know what that means right? That anybody can access them if they’re smart enough? You keep reiterating the same thing while fundamentally not understanding, or choosing not to care that a camera is a camera. Don’t give up your privacy just because it’s the cheaper option.
You clearly are fine being surveiled though so this conversation is pointless.
If speeding was really an issue they have the technology to prevent it
Like building alternatives to cars so not every dipshit, 15 year old, and elderly person, are forced to share the road
FDA, but yeah.
Such a naive view how does a tax on speed regulate anything? You must be to poor to afford lawyers to get rid of your tickets, probably don’t even own a car that can accelerate faster than the limit.
how does a tax on speed regulate anything?
So what’s your alternative? Non-hidden speedtrap at least slow people down to desirable speed in the area while allow emergency vehicle to speed through, having no speed trap and people will just speed through the area with no friction.
You must be to poor to afford lawyers to get rid of your tickets
How many people in your country can afford to hire a lawyer for a ticket write off?
probably don’t even own a car that can accelerate faster than the limit.
Are the speed limit in front of the school or in the city in your country 90mph?
No bamboozle?
This is brilliant.
Dangerous roads are brilliant?
