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Are you also arguing it's "dangerous" for Michael Hall (aka notorious serial killer Dexter Morgan) to walk through an airport?

by dpifke 5y ago

javajosh 5y ago
It's the unknown people who say or do unusual things that risk running afoul of the authorities. Hall is famous enough and what he does is "usual" enough he's probably okay. But writing a public website that declares you're a bike thief in the headline? I'm thinking that a lot of LEOs aren't going to bother reading the rest of it, call it probable cause and grind up another person's life in the pre-trial torture machine that is American justice. And their supervisor is going to say, "Job well done. Too bad this one got away." Sorry to be cynical like this, but it's not without reason.
- Talanes 5y ago
  Law enforcement isn't reading random cycling blogs looking for admissions of crime. It's hard enough to get their attention with a call of "Hey, there's this crime happening right in front of me and it's causing a pretty big scene."
  - bryanrasmussen 5y ago
    Our new product - The Inditer Pro - uses state of the art machine learning to crawl the web and identify travelers coming into your country as criminals! You will be able to proactively lock up potential threats and keep the population safe, all thanks to the expertise of the Inditer Pro. All the world's bad guys under your thumb! (Rolling Stones 'Under my thumb' starts playing as a border guard presses Inditer Pro search button - identifying tourist as BIKE THIEF!) on edit: yes, it should be Indicter, but ours is a web 4.0 company.
    - jaclaz 5y ago
      >on edit: yes, it should be Indicter, but ours is a web 4.0 company. I thought that to qualify for web 4.0 you needed Indite*ly.
      - bryanrasmussen 5y ago
        No, but if you are arrested through the high quality solutions Indite Pro provides you can use our partner app Paroll-io to bail yourself out with our hot new cryptocurrency $ukka$ which has end to end $.
        javajosh 5y ago
        Now the interesting question is this: if your government did something like this - what would you, could you, do about it? That's the scary question, because the answer is "almost nothing". That's especially true if "Inditer Pro" had, say, a 90% success rate. (Success is defined as "% convicted". To solve this you offer a choice: plea bargain or indefinite detention until a trial. It would be more correct to accuse people of random crimes, cuff them and put them in a cruiser for a few hours, strip them and put them in jail clothes, jail them for a day or two, put them in shackles for hours before a "hearing", and then see how many plea deals you get. I suspect your "clearance rate" would be over 90%, too)
        jaclaz 5y ago
        Oww, come on, be realistic. IF Inditer Pro had 90% success rate, it would actually substantially solve (wrongly) a problem, and that would again disqualify it from being web 4.0. The actual success rate would probably be - by design - around 59-62%, high enough to be better than flipping a coin in preliminary controlled studies and allowing yearly improvements (I beg your pardon, I meant OTA updates) of 1-2%, so that the company would have guaranteed income for the next 20 years or so.
bryanrasmussen 5y ago
probably not dangerous, but I do remember reading an article maybe 20 years ago where some lady playing a villain in a soap opera complained about being accosted at the supermarket and yelled at for their onscreen shenanigans.

Are you also arguing it's "dangerous" for Michael Hall (aka notorious serial killer Dexter Morgan) to walk through an airport?

by dpifke 5y ago

Are you also arguing it's "dangerous" for Michael Hall (aka notorious serial killer Dexter Morgan) to walk through an airport?

javajosh 5y ago

It's the unknown people who say or do unusual things that risk running afoul of the authorities. Hall is famous enough and what he does is "usual" enough he's probably okay. But writing a public website that declares you're a bike thief in the headline? I'm thinking that a lot of LEOs aren't going to bother reading the rest of it, call it probable cause and grind up another person's life in the pre-trial torture machine that is American justice. And their supervisor is going to say, "Job well done. Too bad this one got away." Sorry to be cynical like this, but it's not without reason.

Talanes 5y ago
Law enforcement isn't reading random cycling blogs looking for admissions of crime. It's hard enough to get their attention with a call of "Hey, there's this crime happening right in front of me and it's causing a pretty big scene."
- bryanrasmussen 5y ago
  Our new product - The Inditer Pro - uses state of the art machine learning to crawl the web and identify travelers coming into your country as criminals! You will be able to proactively lock up potential threats and keep the population safe, all thanks to the expertise of the Inditer Pro. All the world's bad guys under your thumb! (Rolling Stones 'Under my thumb' starts playing as a border guard presses Inditer Pro search button - identifying tourist as BIKE THIEF!) on edit: yes, it should be Indicter, but ours is a web 4.0 company.
  - jaclaz 5y ago
    >on edit: yes, it should be Indicter, but ours is a web 4.0 company. I thought that to qualify for web 4.0 you needed Indite*ly.
    - bryanrasmussen 5y ago
      No, but if you are arrested through the high quality solutions Indite Pro provides you can use our partner app Paroll-io to bail yourself out with our hot new cryptocurrency $ukka$ which has end to end $.
      - javajosh 5y ago
        Now the interesting question is this: if your government did something like this - what would you, could you, do about it? That's the scary question, because the answer is "almost nothing". That's especially true if "Inditer Pro" had, say, a 90% success rate. (Success is defined as "% convicted". To solve this you offer a choice: plea bargain or indefinite detention until a trial. It would be more correct to accuse people of random crimes, cuff them and put them in a cruiser for a few hours, strip them and put them in jail clothes, jail them for a day or two, put them in shackles for hours before a "hearing", and then see how many plea deals you get. I suspect your "clearance rate" would be over 90%, too)
        jaclaz 5y ago
        Oww, come on, be realistic. IF Inditer Pro had 90% success rate, it would actually substantially solve (wrongly) a problem, and that would again disqualify it from being web 4.0. The actual success rate would probably be - by design - around 59-62%, high enough to be better than flipping a coin in preliminary controlled studies and allowing yearly improvements (I beg your pardon, I meant OTA updates) of 1-2%, so that the company would have guaranteed income for the next 20 years or so.

bryanrasmussen 5y ago

probably not dangerous, but I do remember reading an article maybe 20 years ago where some lady playing a villain in a soap opera complained about being accosted at the supermarket and yelled at for their onscreen shenanigans.