honorspren000
honorspren000 t1_j6jx4gm wrote
Reply to comment by ladebaha in Can I get CCTV footage from a public bus? by [deleted]
I don’t think he was fired, unfortunately. The video was shown to the cop and his lawyer/representative privately in a booth, and was not shown to his employer, the judge or anything.
honorspren000 t1_j6jwa2g wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Can I get CCTV footage from a public bus? by [deleted]
I don’t have the number anymore. Sorry. I think I just kept calling different metro numbers that I googled until someone FINALLY gave me the number for the metro footage guy. Forewarning though, several metro employees gave me bad information and told me it wasn’t possible to get the footage. Don’t believe them.
honorspren000 t1_j6jn0b1 wrote
Reply to Can I get CCTV footage from a public bus? by [deleted]
Is it a Metro bus? It’s quite possible. But you will likely need a subpoena from a lawyer.
About 10 years ago, a metro cop beat up my husband and arrested him and his buddy, then charged them with a federal offense for beating up a cop. The whole thing happened at a metro train station.
After the event, I talked to the MPDC police and they stood by the Metro cop’s testimony. They were absolutely useless.
So next, I called up Metro and got the run around quite a bit, but eventually we got a hold of the phone number to a Metro employee that maintains all Metro camera footage. He was a very agreeable, nice guy. He told us he would collect the footage in advance for us, but he can’t give it to us without a subpoena and paid some kind of fee to metro. So, we got a lawyer, got the subpoena, paid the fee, got the footage and showed up in court with it.
Before we went before the judge, the metro cop was allowed to see the pretty damning footage, and the guy decided to dropped all charges. The video showed that it was actually the cop that was beating up my husband, not the other way around. Our lawyer said we had a really good case against the cop if we wanted to sue, but sadly my husband decided to not pursue it further. He was pretty scarred by the whole thing and just wanted to put it behind him.
Anyways, it was 10 years ago, so I don’t know if the process has changed or if it’s different for WMATA buses. But hopefully this will help.
honorspren000 t1_jc7qc56 wrote
Reply to What can a ChatGPT developed by a well-funded intelligence agency such as the NSA be used for? Should we be concerned? by yoaviram
Don’t know about NSA, but I do know that Microsoft/CharltGPT has been soliciting NASA for research purposes. They did a presentation the other day to my husband’s department. I think they are looking ways to improve chatGPT’s science and code handling skills. They said they wanted to see how NASA uses AI.
My husband already uses ChatGPT for coding menial tasks, like unit tests, and minor scripts. NASA works with very proprietary hardware, because it has to survive being in space, so Microsoft might be curious what kind of hardware questions they ask to help other hardware companies.
Microsoft might also be soliciting NASA just to say, “we are so awesome that even NASA uses us!”
I’m any case, I wouldn’t be surprised if they haven’t already reached out to NSA. Much of NSA’s internal data is probably classified/restricted, so they won’t share that stuff with ChatGPT, but all the miscellaneous web data gathering could probably be handled by chatGPT.