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Oh sure, bring their attention to more people and make the prices go up.

Typical planned obsolescence.

Yes exactly. I loved that when i opened up the app to go some where the first thing I saw before I even put in where I'm going, was how long until ill be picked up. the cars don't care about the trips, not trying to tip/ride max.

The new X2c just came out. Consider buying a used X1c someone is selling to upgrade.


Lot of Flock Defenders in here.


Not Flock defenders, just people explaining how this is not a CCPA violation. I could set up 100 cameras around town (with property owners permission) and record cars driving by, birds, etc all day. Then I could sell access to that footage to whoever I want. If they want to scrape license plates that's up to the customer and their problem. Or if they want to track birds, cool, that could be in the frame too.


It gets a little weird when you explicitly market them for a purpose, though. Flock doesn't advertise a fleet of cameras suitable for birdwatching or other random activities. They market them specifically for the collection and processing of PII.

By analogy, Google Docs isn't marketed for healthcare use. If you wanted, you could put a bunch of PHI in a Google doc and it wouldn't be their responsibility. They certainly didn't tell you to do that. However, if they marketed Google Docs as a great place to store PHI, yeah, then suddenly they're on the hook for complying with the relevant laws like HIPAA.

(Although in this case Google will sign a HIPAA business associate agreement with you and voluntarily agree to comply. They still don't market it that way, or at least don't predominantly do so.)


So how long till your just greeted with a page telling you the archive has it, but you can't download it because of DMCA.


Programming also used to be simple.


Bro is 81. Computers have been ubiquitous for at least 20 years now. hes had plenty of time to learn how to use one. I get the feeling hes the kind of guy that just retired instead of having to learn how to use the new fangled thing they sat in front of him.


Ah, so screw the Amish, too. And anyone who doesn't want 24/7 tracking or to be permanently connected and available. Those people suck and shouldn't be able to enjoy baseball.

The audacity of the guy, depriving all those scammers the opportunity to dupe him into gift card scams.


It would be fun to use this to build something like the old capdiv firewire hdd recorder I have. then you can just capture direct to disk and not worry about the 1:1 transfer time later.


You mean the ones on amazon that are just random ends on a cable? Yeah, don't plug that in to your computer or camera.


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