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> Court records show Faheem Akram, 33, of Khanewal, Pakistan, operated LabelsBank.com, a website that allegedly sold counterfeit USPS postage at a fixed rate, typically charging $2 per label

Wow! How did these pass through the USPS system so easily?

Back in 1999, Apple ran ads that said "Our PowerPCs are so powerful, the government has classified them as munitions!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb7EhYy-2RE

It the same marketing gimmick.

That’s because, unlike .gitignore, they are not committed.

Same vibes as ‘Tell your parents “I want to go to Mt. Splashmore”’

This is a fantastic story.

> On a chilly day in March, a twice-deported Romanian national walked into a 7-Eleven in Toledo, Ohio, and secretly affixed a device called a skimmer to a credit card machine, prosecutors say. The man was allegedly part of a California-based criminal crew led by a fellow Romanian nicknamed Piranha.

> The gang’s aim, according to criminal charges, was to steal food-stamp benefits from customers who swiped their government-issued debit cards at the convenience store

The amount of sophistication that these international crime rings have. And that fact that our Government seems to be very sloppy with taxpayer money and prosecuting foreigners commiting crime on our soil.

Like this:

> Last year, a Romanian national was arrested when he tried to re-enter the U.S. in a Mexican ambulance pretending to be an injured American, court records show. Agents suspected he had fake blood on his face. He was charged after federal agents determined the man, who had an economics degree, was part of a group of thieves who used fake cards to withdraw $105,000 in Los Angeles from New York EBT cardholders’ accounts.

I read the article and he's requesting that people follow these guidelines, and asked the State Legislature to enact laws. I won't ask if you read the article.

Restricting private use of ALPR cameras? I don't like that. I like the protection our ALPR cameras give us. I moved to Missouri recently because I got sick of the crime and corruption in California. I think these "guardrails" go too far.

Because there isn't an infrastructure, as there is with AM radio, to have a radiation hardered transmitter and backup power in every geographic area.

Emergency communication.

This is _great_ news. I actually wrote my Congressman (Rep. Robert F. Onder Jr.) about this.

What a great idea! How about, a kid behind kicking your chair, the person in front of you abruptly putting his seat back all the way, and a person of size next to you spilling into your seat.

I'd pay $1 to upgrade to first class. $2 if I get a hot towel, a pre-departure beverage, and warm nuts.

When I was in grade school in the 60s (I'm old) they showed us this film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHe2hx1JL7U

For some reason, the lessons learned stuck with me.

When I took the two day Disney "Walk in Walt's Footsteps" executive employee training 25+ years ago, the training that takes you to his secret apartment above the firehouse, and makes you spend an afternoon as a costumed (minor) character, at the end the woman leading us said "Ok! Now it's time for all of you to kiss Walt's frozen head."

Fortunately, she was kidding.

But they were! My college student ID from 1980 has my SS number right on it. I have here an employee badge from the Walt Disney Company from 2000 and my SS number is in a bar code right on the bottom. Even in 2000, it would be trivial to take a photo of someone wearing the ID badge and decode the 1D bar code on it.

I think so. I subscribe, but this was a "gift link". You may have to play along, allow JavaScript, etc, for it to work.

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Yes, a person who is unbanked wouldn't need or be able to use this product, as well as 90% of any other product talked about on Hacker News, or in the Wall Street Journal, or in the New York Times. Does every piece need a statement lamenting the plight of the unbanked?

I dropped an image that was color corrected with AI, but otherwise a proper image of myself. I use my own face because it's very easy to see if AI has altered it in a subtle way when dealing with a very familiar subject.

It found the "AI Generated" signature embedded in it by the creator (whatever image model Perplexity decided to use.)

But I wouldn't have called this image AI. So images that have merely been color corrected or other very minor changes may come up as "AI Generated" even if they're essentially real images.

This is The Atlantic. A very long-established magazine.

Since I'm a "retro computing" guy, I look forward to buying one of these on eBay or at a Vintage Computing Fair for a few hundred bucks 5 years from now.