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Soon Amazon will sell me a robot that buys things for itself off of Amazon...

Soon? They already do. It's called Echo and it already orders stuff when little kids make wishes in its presence. You have to go out of your way to add a confirmation code if you don't want it to just order stuff at the drop of a hat. It's just a "plugin" away from ordering whatever it determines you need.

Given the posts, it appears that many ./ members do not understand the difference between quality of service QOS (which uses port numbers) and other methods of traffic shaping by IP address, or by link. The ISPs do a good job conflating the two topics when interviewing with the media, thereby spreading even more confusion.

Using QOS, I can give priority to SIP (VOIP) packets on ports 5060 and 5061. When that occurs, web browsing, on ports 80 and 443, does not knock live telephone traffic offline. This is a good thing, especially during emergency calls. ISPs do this all the time.

Using bandwidth and clock rate restrictions, I can slow a peer's traffic down as it enters my network. I can also use access-lists or firewall rules to deny traffic from a particular address or set of addresses. This is what ISPs have been doing recently to cause poor performance with Netflix and Amazon Prime, or to make them pay extra fees.

Since Comcast promotes a competing Xfinity service, it could be argued that their dominance as an ISP is being abused in a monopolistic way to expand their content provider services. Except that Comcast is not a monopoly. In fact, they may have agreements with other large ISPs not to compete in the same service areas. This leads to other legal troubles, but I digress...

Netflix and Amazon pay their ISPs for a given bandwidth, and we pay our ISPs for a given bandwidth. These companies are peers who do not originate network traffic on either end. When Netflix sends us data, it is because we requested it through our ISPs. Therefore, it does not seem right for our ISPs - Comcast, Verizon, etc. to demand money from Netflix in order to permit the bandwidth that the consumers already paid for.

Evidence of this anti-competitive behavior has been released by Verizon. Comcast has also been caught throttling through VPN speed tests. In fact, after Comcast made a deal with Netflix speeds magically increased.

ISPs are now using various framing methods to force this bitter pill down everyone's throat. For instance, the original issue was called throttling. Then ISPs announced a fast lane and a slow lane. Finally ISPs came up with a fast lane and a faster lane. All the while, we pay extra for our Netflix subscription to pay off the bridge trolls.

Thank you Chairman Wheeler, for enforcing Net Neutrality, and shame on you Chairman Pai for trying to convince us that anti-competitive ISP behavior is somehow good for the U.S. public. Your actions may literally result in the forking of the Internet in this country.

And no, properly designed vacuum tubes 1) are not particularly prone to accidents (you want to try to make an "accidental" hole in inch-thick steel?)

Firstly, not particularly prone is still miles away from being good enough for a transit system that will be paralyzed by vacuum failure. Secondly, we don't have vacuum tubes of the size and scope proposed by Hyperloop & al in existence, anywhere, let alone above ground or with actual high speed traffic going through them on an hourly basis, so there is in fact no way of knowing the exact failure rate of such tubes. I remind everyone that the test track built by Hyperloop for their pod-design competition earlier this year was less than a mile long and still managed to be the 2nd largest vacuum chamber in existence after NASA's.

Secondly, even if it is true that the failure rate of such tubes is almost nil, that does not account for the fact that it's still possible for anyone with malicious intent to disable the system at any times with ease. As long as it's above ground it won't take much thinking from someone to find a way to puncture the tube, so security-wise it's a nightmare. Even if it's designed safely enough (as one would hope) that vacuum failure will not cause life-threatening danger to passengers, it will certainly cripple the entire route for an extended period of time.

2) do not suffer any form of "propagation" from accidents.

Even so that does not address the other issues. Some of the stuff Hyperloop has currently no answers or numbers for:

1) What is the estimated failure rate?
2) How much does the maintenance of the system cost? (the white paper on Hyperloop by SpaceX includes no maintenance cost estimates whatsoever and the actual building cost estimates themselves are pretty overly optimistic to put it mildly and are lacking on any hard data to back them up).
3) How will physical security of both the tube and the capsules be arranged?

When you consider the fact that without any kind of security the whole system is easily crippled by a single malicious actor, and that with security costs go up as does the travel time, the purported advantages when compared to flying don't seem too good.

I've quoted this article from 2 years ago before on /. when it comes to Hyperloop, but it is still relevant:

The biggest issues are speed and scale. The Hyperloop was pitched as faster and cheaper than alternatives like cars and trains, but even small shifts in those numbers can dramatically change how it stacks up. It's easy to imagine safety concerns limiting Hyperloop speeds to just a fraction of its theoretical top speed or right-of-way issues keeping stations far from urban centers. Would we still be excited about the Hyperloop if a 30-minute trek became a three-hour one? What if it cost $60 billion instead the promised $6 billion? After enough setbacks, it might not be worth developing the technology at all. Those deployment details are life-or-death issues for the Hyperloop, but as long as the tests are focused on small-scale loops, it's not clear we'll ever get answers to them.

SpaceX's latest round of tests doesn't seem likely to change that. The test track is only 5 miles, nowhere near the distance it would take to reach 700 miles per hour. Another test track built by Hyperloop Test Technologies will have the same problem, aiming at a 200mph top speed. For the same reason, these test tracks can’t address the unique safety issues that come with near-supersonic travel. The result is just a tube-powered version of conventional transportation tech like maglev and rail. That doesn't mean that useful work can't be done on this round of test tracks, but it means the central question of the

LG makes exactly what you're looking for: https://www.theverge.com/ces/2...

Yes, that's pretty much it! I guess they must have heard my occasional mention of desire for this type of product for the last 5 years. Now they can just not do the soundbar thing and instead put that stuff in a no speaker shelf module, and they've hit the target.

Thanks for the link.

As others have stated, either get a monitor, or get a Smart TV and just don't use the smart parts. In other words, don't connect it to your network.

Personally, the TCL 55P607 ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y... ) will likely be my next TV:

- it is 4K
- it has HDR (both HDR10 and Dolby Vision
- it has local dimming for better contrast
- it has built-in Roku (which you can just not use)

All for $650. It has pretty favorable reviews as well:

http://www.rtings.com/tv/revie...
https://www.cnet.com/products/...
https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

While I'd love to get an OLED from LG, they are just too expensive at the moment. Save for OLED, this TV checks off all of the boxes on my wishlist, and has a nice price to boot.

LG makes exactly what you're looking for: https://www.theverge.com/ces/2...

2PB in and of itself isn't that impressive anymore, you can fit it in half a rack or less with current densities.

Intel's new 'ruler' SSD form factor lets you put 1PB in a single 1U rack space: https://www.theverge.com/circu...

Back on PS2 Sony worked with Square to allow
cross platform play with PC for FFXI, 360 had the game too but MS refused to link up and stayed off by themselves.

Because of that FFXIV did not come to Xbox platforms

PS3 Sony partnered with Valve to bring cross platform multiplayer, chat, achievements, etc allowing Steam to work across PS3 and PC. Again MS refused.

Gearbox wanted Borderlands 2 to work across all platforms, and here is what MS had to say via Kotaku:

"Here's a Microsoft spokesperson saying "no," while promoting how awesome the Xbox 360's online service is: "Xbox Live delivers the best entertainment experience unmatched by anyone else, with 35 million actively engaged members. We have a high level of expectation for our game developers to ensure that all Live experiences remain top notch. Because we can't guarantee this level of quality, or control the player experience on other consoles or gaming networks, we currently do not open our network to games that allow this cross-over capability.""

Now this generation, Sony helped launch Rocket Cars as a free download on PSN and it had cross platform play with PC. Same with Street Fighter V

So is it really any wonder now that MS is playing runner up that Sony got fed up of this fair weather crap and gave MS the very same excuse that MS gave back in the day?

So why again is Sony getting shit for this?

Yep, I've been using that feature for 3 to 4 years. I did a search and it looks like it was launched in August 2013

https://www.theverge.com/2013/...

Remember Microsoft's racist AI? Or how about the racist algorithms being used in criminal sentencing?

The problem with developing an AI to detect "hate crimes" is "garbage in, garbage out": you can never create a race-free AI if you train it using bad data which may be racially biased. And because we cannot train AIs without input data, and because the input data is all bad--all we would be doing is hard-coding bad assumptions into inscrutable and unaccountable algorithms.

Netflix, Disney, Amazon Video, Apple, CBS (Star Trek) and other legacy networks seeking relevancy. https://www.theverge.com/2017/... All of your screens are belong to us..

As for reviews, let's go down the list. By all means, read the full reviews yourself.

Motor Trend:

What’s blanching, though, is the car’s ride and handling. If anybody was expecting a typical boring electric sedan here, nope. The ride is Alfa Giulia (maybe even Quadrifoglio)–firm, and quickly, I’m carving Stunt Road like a Sochi Olympics giant slalomer, micrometering my swipes at the apexes. I glance at Franz—this OK? “Go for it,” he nods. The Model 3 is so unexpected scalpel-like, I’m sputtering for adjectives. The steering ratio is quick, the effort is light (for me), but there’s enough light tremble against your fingers to hear the cornering negotiations between Stunt Road and these 235/40R19 tires (Continental ProContact RX m+s’s). And to mention body roll is to have already said too much about it. Sure, that battery is low, way down under the floor. But unlike the aluminum Model S, the Tesla Model 3 is composed of steel, too, and this car’s glass ceiling can’t be helping the center of gravity’s height. Nearly-nil body roll? Magic, I’m telling you. Magic. And this is the single-motor, rear-wheel-drive starting point. The already boggled mind boggles further at the mention of Dual Motor and Ludicrous.

Top Gear:

Gone are the Model S’s projecting doorhandles in favour of nicely crafted aluminium ones that project manually like those on an Aston when you poke one end. Open the door and slide in, and the interior is beautifully simple and uncluttered. The steering wheel features two buttons that adjust everything from the traditional (volume, radio frequency) to the more unique (door mirror adjustment and steering wheel positioning).
***
The car we drove was a Long Range model with all the options list ticked, including the Premium Upgrade Package, featuring leather seats (base models come with fabric), a wooden dash inlay panel that spans the width of the cockpit and the aforementioned glass roof that infuses the interior with a huge feeling of light and space. It’s all simple, elegant, uncluttered and nicely crafted. Before we set off, I jumped in the back and with the driver seat positioned for my 6ft frame, there was still plenty of room in the back for three adults.
***
Our short foray highlighted that the Model 3’s quoted 0–60mph time of 5.1 seconds in this Long Range spec might be underplaying its performance a bit: it’s rapid, and the acceleration is delivered with that lovely linearity and unwavering torque that EVs deliver. The overall feeling of peace and quiet is helped by the minimalist interior but by impressive sound deadening and insulation – the road noise is minimal.

The Verge:

I felt like I was driving in an Eames chair. That was my first impression as I climbed into the driver’s seat of the Tesla Model 3 at the Fremont Factory on Friday afternoon. It took a moment to orient myself — no gauges, no speedometer, no airplane cockpit cues. Instead, one continuous smooth line between myself and the road ahead, offset by natural, unfinished wood. The premium model of the Model 3 caught me off guard. After hearing so much hype about this car, I was surprised that my first reaction was a profound sense of delight. It wasn’t bland, nor sterile, nor cheap feeling. Here was something different. Here was an exercise in minimalism. Here was the car Elon Musk promised to make 14 years ago.

Then why not just make all apps "free" on grounds that an app's functionality is a "subscription service" as a software substitute, and require an IAP after installation to use it past 30 days? The only reason I can see is Apple's "stubborn refusal" to allow trial versions, which is killing the iPad Pro.

From the Verge article:

"Most recently, the company has rolled out the Surface Laptop — the line’s first traditional laptop PC — and an upgraded, more powerful Surface Pro. Neither of those products had yet been released at the end of the Consumer Reports survey period. Instead, Microsoft’s standing was likely hurt by bugs and crashes that affected past devices like the Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book."

https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

So, you don't own a smart phone... or a modern flat panel TV... or a.....

I'm not saying that you are wrong or that I don't respect your stance. I too prefer buying products that can be repaired. But there are very few modern electronics that are repairable today. We are only tricking ourselves with tear-down videos, etc., into thinking that it's worth doing. For the vast majority, it just isn't worth it.

Practically every time I repair a phone, tablet, laptop, etc. it ends up costing me more in parts and time then it would be to buy a new one, and that's when I am 100% successful the very first time. I accept this, but I do it anyway because I learn something new every time and there is a basic level of satisfaction at having fixed something. My last repair project was replacing the screen on my Nexus 7 2013.

I respect your position, but the reality is that practically nothing electronic is worth repairing anymore.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

Local municipality cannot build its own network, because the usual suspects hold a government mandated monopoly. Comcast sued a city trying to build high-speed internet.

No one is making a criminal accusation

Wrong. It is exactly that — a criminal accusation. People driving SUVs or eating beef are evil, because they are killing the planet . So, yeah, vast well-funded forces are making criminal accusations with punishment ranging from mandatory education for the ignorant to prison time for the worst offenders, who are committing the crimes against humanity.

rhetorical turd you have dropped has an intimidating perfection because people would rather step around it than sweep it up.

Ah, a fecal metaphor, nice. Too bad, it does not help your argument in the slightest. For all the SAT-words in your vocabulary, you are still wrong — the Western world really is on trial, a criminal one, the fact you attempted to deny. Remember to logout.

The abundant test drive reviews disagree with you.

Motor Trend - Exclusive: Tesla Model 3 First Drive Review - Motor Trend

Top Gear- Tesla Model 3 review: first drive of Elon Musk's affordable EV

The Verge - A closer look at Tesla Model 3's spartan interior

The Verge - Tesla Model 3 first drive: this is the car that Elon Musk promised

Bloomberg - Tesla’s Model 3 Arrives With a Surprise 310-Mile Range

Bloomberg[/COLOR] - Driving Tesla’s Model 3 Changes Everything

Car and Driver - 2018 Tesla Model 3: Everything We Know | Feature | Car and Driver

CNET - Tesla Model 3 is well worth the hype

Car Advice - Tesla Model 3 quick drive review | CarAdvice

Fortune - Here’s What Reviewers Think About Tesla’s Model 3 So Far

Ars Technica - All the things the Internet hates about the Tesla Model 3 have me excited

Mashable - Driving a Tesla Model 3 is pretty damn awesome

TechCrunch - Your smartphone is the key for the Tesla Model 3

But hey, feel free to live in your own little world and deny reality to your heart's content.

The abundant test drive reviews disagree with you.

Motor Trend - Exclusive: Tesla Model 3 First Drive Review - Motor Trend

Top Gear- Tesla Model 3 review: first drive of Elon Musk's affordable EV

The Verge - A closer look at Tesla Model 3's spartan interior

The Verge - Tesla Model 3 first drive: this is the car that Elon Musk promised

Bloomberg - Tesla’s Model 3 Arrives With a Surprise 310-Mile Range

Bloomberg[/COLOR] - Driving Tesla’s Model 3 Changes Everything

Car and Driver - 2018 Tesla Model 3: Everything We Know | Feature | Car and Driver

CNET - Tesla Model 3 is well worth the hype

Car Advice - Tesla Model 3 quick drive review | CarAdvice

Fortune - Here’s What Reviewers Think About Tesla’s Model 3 So Far

Ars Technica - All the things the Internet hates about the Tesla Model 3 have me excited

Mashable - Driving a Tesla Model 3 is pretty damn awesome

TechCrunch - Your smartphone is the key for the Tesla Model 3

But hey, feel free to live in your own little world and deny reality to your heart's content.

Aaaaannd he's gone. Utterly shocking, I know.

Remember kids, keep your harmful* opinions to yourself.

*The threshold for harmful opinion is subject to change. Google reserves the right to declare any idea, and the expression thereof, as harmful at any time, and will not tolerate employment or use of Google services by those expressing such ideas.

No, it isn't. You are flat out lying.

Here is an earlier article from the EFF that was carried on Slashdot titled More Than 40 ISPs Across the Country Tell Chairman Pai to NOT Repeal Network Neutrality

Here's one showing who is really supporting the repeal of net neutrality -- with the bulk of all lobbying money ($572 million) being spent by just four companies: AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, and the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA).

The simple truth is the big telecom companies want to have the benefits of common carrier legal protection, without the limitations. They ALREADY have the rights, and abilities, to provide quality of service based on type of traffic. There is NOTHING stopping them from prioritizing VoIP traffic over e-mail because of the real-time nature of the service.

That is what they try and claim they can't do, but that isn't what they really want.

What they want is the ability to shape traffic based on DESTINATION. That is, Comcast will prioritize *THEIR* VoIP traffic but not competitors, like Vonage, unless they pay a premium for it.

That immediately sets up a protection-like racket where major ISPs can force non-ISP content providers to pay extra or their traffic gets degraded.

They've already tried to do this with Netflix and Vonage, to name a couple.

Net neutrality requires that any QoS or throttling that is done for bandwidth management be done UNIFORMLY, and not selectively.

What the hell, more links just because it is so easy:

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21376597/ns/technology_and_science-internet/t/comcast-blocks-some-internet-traffic/

https://www.wired.com/2014/05/google-fiber-netflix/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/netflix-agrees-to-pay-comcast-to-improve-its-streaming-1393175346

https://www.theverge.com/2014/4/28/5662580/netflix-signs-traffic-deal-with-verizon

How about Comcast astroturfing the FCC with bot-generated comments attacking net neutrality?

Comcast injecting packets to slow or disable traffic? Sure!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Comcast#Net_neutrality

Hey, how about Municipal Broadband? Guess who opposes it tooth-and-nail even in areas they have no presence in? That's right, the Big ISPs.

Net Neutrality is by far and away in the best interests of both consumers and small ISPs.

workstation and server jobs

I am of the opinion, that eventually both are going to be impacted. Specifically, that with both, you can get a General Purpose Intel chip, or an ARM with or without custom bits added. The custom bits being application specific enhancements that Intel cannot offer. Here are a few ARM Server articles.

https://www.nextplatform.com/2...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

http://www.cavium.com/ThunderX...

As for Desktops, they are now in our hands, and called Smartphones, and they are all using ARM. Intel may be left owning the dying Windows PC Market soon.

It is all a matter of perspective, but I see it as the needs of the market are shifting away from WinTel.

Eh, takes a lot to top this: https://www.theverge.com/2014/...

It appears that United Airlines posted a statement retracting the ban before the Slashdot article was posted.

From United Airlines spokesperson earlier this afternoon:
“While TSA is recommending that customers keep their comic books in their carry-on bags, there are no restrictions on packing them in checked luggage,” reads the statement. “We misunderstood TSA’s instructions and regret any inconvenience this may have caused our customers.”

At 4:55 PM:
https://consumerist.com/2017/0...
At 5:15 PM:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

Floating, falling
Sweet intoxication
Touch me, trust me
Savor each sensation
Let the dream begin
Let your darker side give in
To the power of the music that I write
The power of the music of the night

Interesting. This is the same Steve Pearlman who invented QuickTime and WebTV.

OnLive Inc. was a cloud-based gaming platform around 2009, that users could play full versions of games, but required dedicated hardware per users on the server side. They never got the costs down before it folded.

Apparently the "declared it bankrupt" involved a legal loophole calld Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors that absolved Perlman of any debt responsibilities by transferring ownership to Lauder Partners. Employees were essentially terminated without pay, with some rehired by the new firm headed by Gary Lauder. Lauder would soon fire Perlman, who would return to his incubator company Rearden Labs to invent DIDO/pCell (under the name Artemis).

So, if one could prove that MOVA was truly an asset of OnLive, then Rearden's argument falls apart, since that asset would have been transferred in the bankruptcy assignment. I assume the courts could not prove this.

Interesting. This is the same Steve Pearlman who invented QuickTime and WebTV.

OnLive Inc. was a cloud-based gaming platform around 2009, that users could play full versions of games, but required dedicated hardware per users on the server side. They never got the costs down before it folded.

Apparently the "declared it bankrupt" involved a legal loophole calld Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors that absolved Perlman of any debt responsibilities by transferring ownership to Lauder Partners. Employees were essentially terminated without pay, with some rehired by the new firm headed by Gary Lauder. Lauder would soon fire Perlman, who would return to his incubator company Rearden Labs to invent DIDO/pCell (under the name Artemis).

So, if one could prove that MOVA was truly an asset of OnLive, then Rearden's argument falls apart, since that asset would have been transferred in the bankruptcy assignment. I assume the courts could not prove this.

You mean this whole idea of spending billions on a flashy project with absolutely zero profit potential was all publicity-generating bullshit designed to boost Elon Musk's cult of personality?? No way!

I think he has just got bored with his space toys, and decided to play with the digging toys for a bit.

Still. Designed by Apple.

Before Apple, Google would have copy Blackberry, designed in Canada, Ontario.

https://www.theverge.com/2012/...

I have two Androids, but my blackberry 10 phone is still better.

Still. Designed by Apple. Before Apple, Google would have copy Blackberry, designed in Canada, Ontario. https://www.theverge.com/2012/...

Is it illegal to wear glasses, hats or other technology that interferes with facial recognition systems in public/airports?

https://www.theverge.com/2016/...

Right now, Visa, Mastercard, Discover and Amex all compete users. From a consumer's standpoint, processing fees can never be too low, but rest assured they'd be even higher if it weren't for the forementioned competition.

If credit cards were nationalized, watch costs go through the roof. Not only would all competition disappear; any incentive to operate efficiently would disappear. A nationalized credit card system would be the SLS of credit card systems. (Falcon Heavy "can can get more into space than the SLS for a fraction of the cost.")

Which ISPs are wronging their customer? How are they doing it? I have yet to see any evidence of ISPs actually doing things like slowing connections and blocking sites, just a lot of talk about what they could do.

I would say you don't read the news or are lying about it.

Would you say Comcast suing Chattanooga to prevent it from offering fiber more than talk?
If we stick to just his alone, there are more examples

At download speeds of 3 megabits per second (Mbps), which is the Federal Communications Commission’s current approximate standard for basic broadband service,

The FCC defines broadband as 25 Mbps down and 3Mbps up: https://www.theverge.com/2015/...

3 Mbps down is no longer considered broadband.

you:
"Google Home cannot yet make phone calls."

vs

"Googleâ(TM)s Home speaker can now make phone calls"

https://www.theverge.com/circu...

Which is right?

" I'd like to see some proof that this was a Google Home at work."

It wasn't. TFA was updated to say it was 'something else'.

"Isn't anyone at all skeptical anymore about news stories?"

Sure. But in this case, it was fairly reasonable; given google did announce the feature a couple months ago. You were right this time, but that was mostly luck, seeing as you discounted the story based on outdated facts that are no longer true. That's hardly something to brag about. ;)

1) Apple makes their own hardware. They do not force other manufacturers into agreements.

2) Apple's market share is falling.

3) Apple and Microsoft are likely behind all of this anti-trust business.

The only winning move is not to play. Seriously, I've never had a Facebook account and I pity those millions who do.

You're probably playing to some extent, whether you realize it or not. I run No Script and an ad blocker, and I also don't have a Facebook account, so I'm probably better off than Joe Average when it comes to being tracked. I also do my best to make sure that friends and acquaintances don't post my name or picture. Even at that, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that FB knows a lot about me. If you think your abstinence from social media means you're not being tracked and commoditized, you're being naive.

You would think that the exploding batteries would have reduced Samsung's headcount sooner. Bad enough that the Galaxy Note Fan Edition is a refurbished Note 7 (presumably without exploding battery). If you're carrying spare batteries on the airplane, don't forget to carry them in an explosion-proof bag.

Smartphones and their apps track and trace peoples purchases, movements, social groups, etc. Apple itself is but a small portion of it but they created a surveillance ecosystem.

Google (Hint: the maker of Android) reads your mail, tracks your browser history, your shopping habits and your movements among other things. I'm pretty sure Apple is an amateur convention compared to Google when it comes to monitoring every single thing their customers do.

Actually, Apple has, and continues to, take great steps to NOT track you.

Even when they want anonymized statistical data, they have instituted cutting-edge techniques to separate the data from the user's, or device's, IDs. Here's some examples:

https://www.wired.com/2016/06/...

https://www.theverge.com/2016/...

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.c...

It still sucks. I'm using one right now.

Sucks is relative though. They keyboard on the MBP is HORRIBLE even in comparison to this keyboard. The trackpad on this is...not the worst thing I've used but I've also had laptops that were 2+" thick and had the 'upgraded' 800x600 LCD. It's pretty bad.

Hmmm. The reviews on the 2016 MBP keyboard have been generally quite favorable. And as far as Trackpads go, no one comes even close to Apple.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/...

One might almost infer that the EU is anti business, or ...anti non-EU business, or...(if one really has the tinfoil hat) anti-US-business.

The Verge has an article about this decision: https://www.theverge.com/2017/...
And that article contains an important piece of information: 'The EU denies it is biased against the US, and there’s data to support this. Examining past antitrust decisions made by the commission between 2010 and 2017, 15 percent have hit US companies, while nearly two-thirds have targeted European firms.'

And the EU is not anti-business, but pro-consumer and pro-competition.

Just leaving what I already wrote on Gizmodo's post here:

Yeeeaaahh.... unfortunately, and specially because of the comments on the matter, I don’t think Wagner has a chance here.

Well, not that I know a whole lot on law, but afaik, fair use only has a chance if she didn’t admit that she was turning a profit on it (directly or indirectly). And even so, photography can be pretty tricky on those matters.... fair use usually won’t stick in cases like this one.

Very rare exceptions for very famous artists with a huge legal team to defend that there was substantial difference in the usage versus the original work... see here: https://www.theverge.com/2015/...

It’s even more damning if MacMansion Hell was making predominant use of Zillow content. Say, if you had a humour website with occasional Zillow content that did not focus solely on satire of their content but more on overall criticism of general architecture found throughout the web, things could be a bit more in the grey... or more accurately, perhaps Zillow going after the blog wouldn’t translate to taking everything down.

But here’s a quote:

Somebody infringed my copyright. What can I do?

A party may seek to protect his or her copyrights against unauthorized use by filing a civil lawsuit in federal district court. If you believe that your copyright has been infringed, consult an attorney. In cases of willful infringement for profit, the U.S. Attorney may initiate a criminal investigation.
https://www.copyright.gov/help...

The “willful” part is key, but not in the way most people think of. Claiming ignorance on the law, specifically about copyright, usually does not absolve you. It has more to do with getting bogus licenses, works with unclear status, and chain of command (as in I did this for my publication because they told me they had the rights).

And the thing is... for parodies and satire in fair use, the content infringed must be the direct target of it. Subtle difference, but Wagner wasn’t making satire or parody of the photographers’ work, Zillow’s service, or something in the effect of a criticism of cultural tendency. She was using the work done by others to make... architectural criticism, was it?

Nothing against the blog or Wagner, just my understanding of it. Sounds like it’s best for her to abandon the idea and go for something else, or negotiate with Zillow and/or photographers if they are even willing...

Preach.

Today, President Obama, appearing with Chinese President Xi Jinping, announced that the United States and China had reached an agreement to curb "cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property" between the two countries. Obama, at the announcement, said he had "indicated it has to stop," and that the two had come to a "common understanding."

https://www.theverge.com/2015/9/25/9399187/obama-china-cyber-security-agreement

Yep. The headline is wrong. Saying 'the government wants' kind of implies there is a substantial portion of elected representatives who wish to pass a law. This is one part of the government suggesting something that has a snowball's chance in hell of getting passed under the current administration. Keep in mind, these are the same assholes who already sold us out for, in some cases, as little as a few thousand dollars.

This is just dripping with FUD. Several big players in the server market have already announced they'll be shipping products with AMD's CPUs. If you couldn't find any server CPUs from AMD in the recent past its because they didn't bother making any after a point because their Bulldozer architecture was so much of a failure that they left that part of the market. Just look at the Wikipedia article that lists their server chips and notice that the pretty much stopped after 2012 outside of a few ARM or Jaguar-based parts that were for micro-servers.

Also, the last time AMD put a dent into Intel, Intel started fighting back in a large number of ways that were later found to be illegal. Celebrate and relax, indeed.

Top google hits, try it next time.

"This is one of the difficulties of using the term artificial intelligence: it's just so tricky to define. In fact, it's axiomatic within the industry that as soon as machines have conquered a task that previously only humans could do - whether that's playing chess or recognizing faces - then it's no longer considered to be a mark of intelligence. As computer scientists Larry Tesler put it: "Intelligence is whatever machines haven't done yet." And even with tasks computers can beat, they aren't doing it by replicating human intelligence."
https://www.theverge.com/2016/...

"Artificial Intelligence is the broader concept of machines being able to carry out tasks in a way that we would consider "smart".
Machine Learning is a current application of AI based around the idea that we should really just be able to give machines access to data and let them learn for themselves."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/b...

"Machine learning is a particular approach to artificial intelligence. It is true that it is proving to me the most successful approach to AI. But, I disagree with Monica Anderson's answer: it is NOT the "only" approach.
For example, you'd be surprised to hear that some of the self-driving cars that currently describing themselves as using AI, use very little machine learning and are mostly using rule-based systems."
https://www.quora.com/What-are...

About the problems of marrying concepts whose relationships are not well understood:
https://www.technologyreview.c...

If that's a requirement, why didn't the car just pull over and shut off?

Because the car isn't smart enough to do that. It can keep you between the lines on the road; it can't take you out of the lanes and park you up. That's actually a harder thing to do.

Isn't this the car that can park itself and then come fetch you when prompted remotely. Oh! Yes, it is! (Note: article predates this accident)

Magic Leap created such a convincing tech demo video that every CEO got sold on it and now wants to build it. Apple's Tim Cook got caught up in it too.

It kind of reminds me of 3D desktops environments: cool in principle, lame in practice. Maybe someone will figure out a way to make it non-lame.

Oh damn....thanks for pointing out that patent they approved. I didn't think of that. That's twisted. https://www.theverge.com/2017/...