[–] 1 point 5 hours ago

I saw something on tv about somethimh similar, but people used a clear coat or something, which is illegal to fuck with your plate. They showed pictures and it would show a blank, like in this video. People used it to avoid speeding tickets. They then asked the police about it, and they were aware of it, and showed the picture on tge speeding camera, which also showed a blank. But they literally turned a knob to make it visible again. This was like 15 years ago

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 child)

    Alite has very similarly styled reviews and a total of 30 of them, each one with a dash or em-dash in it. Seems legit!

    I don't think I'll be ordering from them.

    Also a bit of googling told me that is 'likely not very effective against modern ALPRs like Flock and is more effective against older speed cameras. So for privacy it may not really do much unfortunately.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago

    It's not as much a back room deal as it's an understanding. If the parking attendant gets into an altercation with a member of the public, thay will need to call for the cops. It would be couter productive to book a cops car only to have to get that same cop to come and help later. Like clamping a fire truck only for your house to burn down.

    The chef should be looking at getting rid of cops that can't follow the basic licence place and parking laws.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago

    Hmm yeah. If only there was some kind of a resource one can use to find out what an emulsion is.

    Now, if the definition of emulsion in that dictionary is, "The product of using an emulsifier," now that is lazy.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 hours ago* (1 child)

    A good cop would see the rules enforced evenly, instead of letting his buddy’s antics slide and then refusing to bust a vigilante. If he was a good cop, there wouldn’t be any need for the vigilante justice in the first place.

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  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago

    I feel yah. About one year after AI really started coming around, I got inundated with login attempt notifications and 2FA verification requests. I'm in IT and I've never seen anything like it. And now they're getting really good. Just a few years back I had a phishing mail I even almost fell for. It was really well made. Then I backed up and figured, and I went into a VM instance, downloaded the shit and monitored what it was trying to do, and I was like, fuck, I didn't fall for this, but ENOUGH PEOPLE will for sure.

    It's a brave new world, my friend.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

    Nope. I haven't used the account since like 2014. Between then and now, how many sites have been hacked? Probably had an old crappy password they got and used that to steal the account. Can't change the email address though.

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  • [–] 1 point 16 hours ago (3 children)

    Main result I'm getting is alitelabs. They don't explain what "nano" means, so I assume it just means a very fine grain reflector pattern to make sure it blends correctly.

    I'm more interested in the random dot pattern that somehow fools text recognition software. Just little artifacts around the plate. I don't trust not being hassled by cops with reflective letter decals because they'll be visible, I'm sure. It's not so obvious, but your headlights align with your eyesight and reflect off license plates because cars have license plate lights. It's really obvious when you have that knowledge, pull up behind a white/pale reflective plate, and have a mismatch of light color between your headlights and their plate lights - namely one with classic warm white incandescent, one with typical modern cool white LEDs.

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  • [–] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    They absolutely do their jobs very thoroughly - but only where it will have no repercussions for them. There probably isn’t even a shift assigned to this lot, thanks to some back room agreement with the cops.

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  • [–] 23 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

    While walking near a NY police station, I once saw a Charger (maybe?) parked partially blocking an intersection (or a driveway? This was years ago), next to a hydrant. Someone was using a white paint pen to write "COP CAR" on the side. Another cop in uniform came walking up, looked at what was happening, and then told the graffiti artist, "c'mon man... Finish it quickly and get out of here before I see anything."

    I was about to take a picture of the scene when the cop put his hand up and gave me the only good advice I've heard from a cop: Don't ever take a picture of something that isn't happening.

    As soon as the guy finished and capped his paint pen, the two stood near each other for a moment, and the cop said, "he shouldn't have parked there. Shame he didn't listen to any of us. Well, I guess I gotta report it; I just wish I'd gotten here in time to catch whoever did this."

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  • [–] 2 points 17 hours ago*

    I know nothing about your power utility and I already have lost all respect for them lol

    thats the great thing about monopolies, they don't care if you respect them.

    You're still gonna use them, and pay them, because the average person doesnt have the hundreds of thousands of dollars it would take to either go off grid or move.

    and the best part is, you could move to an entirely different state..and still end up with the same company as your power company.

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