I’m certainly not advocating in favour of serial killers, but I can’t help thinking that George Orwell apparently never envisaged that people would not only welcome Big Brother into their homes, but actually pay for the privilege.
The telescreens and their usage was a tool in the arsenal of the state, but it wasn't why it functioned, nor how it came into existence.
The ration increased from 200 units from 15p units without mention that last years ration was 250. You couldn’t trust anyone including friends or family members etc.
But what’s so masterfully done was the realization that the revolution had become a tool for the state.
There are many unsolved homicides even today, even though family and friends know who could be behind. It is just that cops can't pin down suspects.
Probably the only thing that we truly know at the end is that Winston really did love Big Brother.
And I obviously know phones continuously ping cell towers.
So that means somewhere out there, there's a database of all cell phones and their locations for all time, with fine-grained resolution? They don't ever delete it, at least not in the last 10 years?
Or it's 1 database per cell provider ? I guess phones ping towers that are not owned by the company that provided the phone
I'd be curious if anyone has a link to a good summary of how this works, and the location tracking implications. Do they have to do a subpoena, or is it just a big database everyone's doing joins against? What's the resolution of the data?
I knew that people obviously get caught due to cell phone tracking -- it comes up in every one of these cases, like the Idaho killer recently. But I'm slightly surprised they reached back 10 years and did it
AT&T in particular keeps records forever. I suspect all the other carriers do as well despite their claims.
1. https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_nbcnews-ux...
Instant gratification culture man… even the killers don’t have any attention span or patience anymore.
https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/search...
Bombcar, my good HN buddy, it'd be great if you included the link rather than a few keywords. I've never heard of any of these people before. Additionally, lots of people won't bother to search and won't ever see the cool, interesting thing. Unless that's your intent.. ;)
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If this surprises you, what do you think the carriers did with all their SMS traffic?
I know when the mail arrives even though I can't see the mailbox from where I'm sitting. The number of recognizable bluetooth and wifi beacons is large enough that you can draw all kinds of very privacy invasive conclusions from them. Occupancy is one thing, but also patterns of behavior, and more. Very, very scary stuff and really easy to abuse.
Like yours? (And this one...)
58 Karma users shouldn't be telling others how to behave. (See: karma is good for something...).
Federal LE, telecoms, and "the intelligence community" have always worked closely together.
In reality, we invite the surveillance home, and give it breakfast.
2) The number of karma I have doesn't affect the correctness of my statement.
“I didn’t see them” is not the “get-out-of-jail-free” card when it comes to manslaughter.
We only kept messages for about 2 weeks.
Long term storage would have been crazy expensive and I'm pretty it's illegal to mine that data.
One big difference, though, is that people in our society generally accept the set of forbidden things.
Later research showed a (I believe even stronger) link between leaded gasoline being phased out and reduced crime later. Environmental lead is well known to have psychological effects, including an increased propensity for violence.
I think the general belief is that environmental lead had the stronger effect, but legalized abortion can’t entirely be counted out, but I’m hardly an expert and I suspect it is all still under debate.
It also drives home how you should not deviate from planned travel and always try to back track, but I digress.
I don't think you understand the utility of having children. Neoliberals love this position because it effectively supports importing as many immigrants as possible for megacorps to pay bottom dollar to. There's an entire industry (industrial farming) that loves this.
> Less stress means better childrearing.
The context of this statement is not supported by the unmitigated economic disaster we are currently in, and have been in, since at least the great financial crisis.
> Abortion is an unmitigated good for most women who choose it.
Have you ever wondered why you can almost predict the location of abortion clinics by the number of pawn shops and pay day loan centers? When you break down those locations by race it may become more clear. Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist and racist [0][1] who wished abortion to be used to clean out the mental defectives. Her own words: “the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective,” [0]. What's funny is I could've swapped her name out with any 19th and 20th century dictator and you'd believe me.
It would be wonderful if activists stopped hiding behind the banner of freedom and acknowledge the roots of their alleged "unmitigated good".
[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2020/07/21/pl...
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20221104040930/https://www.pbs.o...
Ok, I’m calling bullshit. There were 27 mass shooting events with >= 4 dead in the US in 2018:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_th...
(I used 4 dead as the cutoff, since it is close to the mean in the article’s data set.)
If you count people that managed to shoot at least 4 others, then there were 323 attempted serial murders, “resulting in 387 deaths and 1,283 injuries, for a total of 1,670 victims.”
The article may as well be titled “Serial murders can mow be performed in under an hour, thanks to improved technology”
Legalise abortion and the number of those children brought up with such a defining childhood fall, not completely, but statistically serial killers are rare anyway.
Having said that, you are right - technology might be better at finding and stopping serial killers, but doesn't really do much at all for finding and stopping parallel killers. Mass killing is way up, so the article's conclusion is not really all that reassuring.
Before times, you had propaganda of the deed, serial killers, political violence etc. keeping elites on their toes. Now the Columbine meta has solidified and that has turned Wal*Marts and public schools into shooting galleries for these rage-filled losers to maximize their KDR by shooting in high-density and low-defense areas.
If an abuser can hustle a pregnant mother in for a quickie abortion, the clinic is happy to accomodate him, and then Mom is back on the streets or back into the brothel and making the big bucks. Turning one or two tricks will pay for that abortion, easily. But of course it's preferable that the child didn't live, because we can accurately predict that they'd have a sort of unhappy life, after all.
Abortionists are state-sponsored serial murderers, by any definition, and of course a couple of them have been caught in the act, such as Kermit Gosnell.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20090206141746/http://www.ycombi...
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<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_detail_record>
<http://epic.org/privacy/nsa/Section-215-Order-to-Verizon.pdf>
<https://www.cyberdefinitions.com/definitions/KDR.html>
Kills are by the shooter, death is of the shooter.
When a so-called medical professional is trained and skilled in decapitating a human, snipping her delicate, half-developed spine with scissors, dismembering her with long-handled forceps and scalpels, and then suctioning out every last trace of the "clump of cells", that sort of takes a moral toll on them.
For Kermit Gosnell, it was only a logical progression for him. He routinely performed "late-term abortions", that is, children who were capable of surviving, and living well, outside the womb. So Gosnell once in a while had a dilemma where a child would be delivered, still alive, still breathing and begging to live. Gosnell's impeccable medical training took charge of the situation, and he snipped her spine and tossed her into the Biohazard Bin all the same.
Kermit Gosnell benefited immensely from technology. He had ultrasound to guide him so he could perform a "safe abortion", that is, not harm the mother physically while he ripped the infant out of her belly. He had sterile tools and an autoclave where he and his staff could easily clean the blood and gore off the instruments so that they would not infect the next mother, or Gosnell himself. Isn't technology wonderful? That big ol' Biohazard Bin and the Stericycle Van that came to pick up barrels full of human remains, they have good technology too; their supply chains are down to a science, and they will clean up any serial killer evidence that Gosnell might have left behind. If only Gosnell would've done something about the adult witnesses.
[1] https://www.murderdata.org/2015/01/how-many-unsolved-murders...
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/31/1191096086/cyclist-magnus-whi...
(I'd meant to include that in my own prior comment.)
Not really, an SMS is probably only 200-500bytes to store with metadata so let’s say 1kb just for simplicity.
This site estimates 8.4 trillion SMS per year, globally [0].
So that’s only 8.4trillion kb or 8.4 petabytes.
That’s big, but that’s the whole world.
For comparison, google stores about 2,500 petabytes per day. [1]
So I would guess that not only do they store this forever. There’s also lots of copies and that there’s probably LE firms mining texts for all sorts of pattern recognition, AI stuff.
[0] https://www.sellcell.com/blog/how-many-text-messages-are-sen...
[1] https://skill-lync.com/blogs/how-google-handles-over-40000-p...
