I 100% guarantee that "deactivated" cameras are still operational. It's just not the City getting the data.
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there doesn't seem to be anything here
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Fun fact the panel, inverter, and battery set up in these do not have any tracking features, that's all in the internals for the camera controller. It's enough to charge any smart phone or tablet if someone you know is living outside and should have a need of that. You do not need anything more than a Philips head screwdriver for most versions, and a security bit for others, both of which you can have for pennies at any hardware store.
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Makes them more easily identifiable so they can be properly disposed of.
One step away from being relocated to their actual destination: the bin.
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This is why you don't sign contracts without an obvious out.
You can 100% remove them with a baseball bat.
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Why aren't they just... Removing them?
Oh. Its probably because removing them is unnecessarily complicated so they need the company to come do it for them.
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Do also the other thing, where you brake it apart. Same thing, but it's permanently.
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the city was sharing Flock camera data for immigration enforcement
Ah, these are in American cities.
apparently on accident,
Oh yes, definitely American.
(Yes I know I skipped over the part about Ohio)
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This is an better idea. I was going to shoot them with a paintball gun.
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Good. That’s where they belong.
Cool Hand Luke has a tutorial
I'd like to think that the bag is step 1. Step 2 is to balance an old car tire on top, and set it on fire.
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Trash bags just do that sometimes...
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Isn't this a problem that a can of spray paint can solve?
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Article reminded me that some people say "by accident" (me) and some say "on accident" (my cousins).
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I'm surprised Dayton is doing even that. It's a low bar, sure, but it's also Dayton.
Dayton represent.
hee hee!
I wonder how safe the poles are, compared to well tested road signs that are up. Those easily break off when hit. Will you end up with a solar panel through your windshield in an accident? I feel like one good lawsuit could make Flock have to replace every one of them if a lawyer can convince 12 people that they are a physical danger.
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Just read the headline. Good
News to me. I wonder when, if ever, I will see this in real life.
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If it’s already paid for might as well use them, what a waste of tax dollars. Or at least hit them with a bat and break them if you actually plan on not using them anymore. Covering them with plastic bags allows them to walk it back whenever they feel like it.
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So tired of local officials that are so disdainful of protests against their corrupt actions that they’ve willingly and gleefully gone into the ridiculously cartoonish fascism part of capitalism that all the books warned us about. Sorry you don’t like the people who show up to your town halls and city planning meetings, but your job is to listen and if you don’t like it, go be corrupt somewhere else, there’s obviously plenty of options.
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