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To the human traffickers, I will appear in court and defend your innocence. You were pushed into an underworld without intending to yourself, and in most cases, likely had little or no choice in the matter. Life is hard, I understand, I am here for you too #DefendHumanity AllLifeIsSacred


I did... one data point!


Flower petals would make an amazing tactile controller


If they can get it to listen, they can theoretically have it dial a number


Or call for a fake SWAT raid to the same house, so that the owner is either being shot or imprisoned. If that can really be triggered from distance without breaking in, it would make it the perfect revenge weapon.


Why would you need this hack to Swat someone?


I surely don't want to swat anyone. My concern is that someone with the right technology might use (1) this vulnerability to call a raid to an "enemy" from its own assistant without breaking in or leaving digital traces: no fingerprints, no malware installed, essentially no smoking gun, therefore creating a scenario in which the home owner might either be shot during the raid or prosecuted for calling a false alarm.

(1) - and if successful then sell the "service"


My point is, you can swat someone by just calling the police pretending to be someone else. That's how everyone is doing it already. No need to do it from within the home.


Yes, but using that technology will make it appear the call originating from the victims home.


What is doing the choosing, your thalamus?


The person.


Right, will is a natural, deterministic feature


I discovered this on lsd. I could see exactly where it was random and where it wasn’t.


The capacity of parcel shops seems to be a lot more than 90k based on my unsubstantiated guesswork; more likely things aren’t bad enough to merit a change https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/nyregion/nyc-amazon-deliv... say 1.5M total deliveries per day. This means 6% of packages are stolen. So 94% of the time, it works, and that’s good enough for most. What can be done?


In my neighborhood we have a constant gradual uptick in crime until someone catches a criminal in the act and blows them away. Then crime goes back down until enough criminals forget the potential consequences. This might not be possible in a city as dense as NYC but increasing the severity of punishment could help


Costs are eaten by retailers who then pass the cost back to consumers transparently.


> What can be done?

Explosive decoy packages.


Just in case you haven't seen it yet...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoxhDk-hwuo


Psychedelic Information Theory: Shamanism in the Age of Reason


If the title ends in a ?, the answer is a definitive "No".


"Should women have a right to vote?"


Closest I could find to a recursive Betteridge's Law: ;) http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html


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