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You can still buy battery-powered angle grinders for $130 at your local hardware store with cash. All of these fancy AI systems rely on the sensors on the grou
by bob1029 3y ago
You can still buy battery-powered angle grinders for $130 at your local hardware store with cash.
All of these fancy AI systems rely on the sensors on the ground in your community (aka those solar panel + webcam pole combos randomly scattered about). It would take some teenagers on bikes one weekend to cripple a municipal minority report network. Sensors on major roadways are more difficult to tamper with, but not a whole lot of our land is a major roadway so that's not a huge deal.
Some even argue all of our modern infrastructure will fail on its own despite our best efforts. Complexity is a hell of a thing. A tiny bit of brute force applied might be all it takes in the end.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y agoWhat I really want, is a small electronic device that can fool the gunshot detectors. I realize that the easiest way would be some kind of hopped up firecracker, but the use (even minute amounts) of explosives would probably be bad. This device might only get 1 or 2 uses without recharge, that'd be ok. But I'd like for it to be light enough to be carried by drone. And if somehow they could be programmable to sound like different calibers, even better. They could just go out on night missions, running the cops ragged.
- jacquesm 3y agoThere is a Gaston La Gaffe episode along those lines, where parking meters are equipped with fireworks when they expire they launch a rocket. This drives the local policemen bonkers because they are running from one end of the city to the other to try to keep up.
- fragmede 3y ago> Sensors on major roadways are more difficult to tamper with The second amendment says no, not really.
- lobf 3y agoIf you’re suggesting people fire at small targets on the freeway with guns, then it has absolutely nothing to do with the 2nd amendment.