You realize these are features available in plain Linux, right? All of that can be done without ever leaving the LAN/WAN. The point is all of that data goes to a place YOU DONT CONTROL when there is no need to do that.
The 4th ALREADY covers electronic documents. 'Papers and EFFECTS'. Take your CP argument and shove it up your ass. I dont care how repugnant you find it, i am not willing to give the government a blank check in stopping it. NO AMENDMENT should list CP anywhere in it.
SO much effort has gone into this across the entire electronics industry. Lots of products removed the ability to exchange files with anyone, EVER. What the fuck happened to Ad-hoc wifi networking? Why did we remove it for bullshit like AirDrop? O thats right, so users cant exchange anything without going through the central office.
"Being connected meant there was less need for physical media and sneaker net."
No. There will ALWAYS be a need for sneakernet. At no point in the next 100 years will sneakernet be made unviable. The plain fact is WE DONT WANT an explosion of digital connection-only speakers and headphones. There is no benefit to anyone but Apple in doing this.
The Steam controller is an attempt to make some of the functions of a keyboard available on a controller. ITs not a keyboard killer by any stretch, its just an option. My hand-built Steam Machine has a Steam Controller, an Xbox One controller, a kb/m and a Flight Stick attached to it. You missed the point of the controller completely. I dont play games on my work computer, i dont do work on my gaming computer...
"Rationally speaking, there is no reason to pay more for something than you have to. If I can get someone from (or in) India to do something about 80% as well for 50% of the cost of an American worker, then why wouldn't I do it? The only reason not to is a moral argument; there's no financial reason to do it unless doing it results in a boycott of my company and products (it never does). And when you're a financial institution, that's what you follow."
This amoral bullshit only works when you forget that companies are supposed to be SYMBIOTIC with their communities. ITs not rational to promote a 'profit only' mentality, in the end it destroys the nation. We need to get back to the idea that workers and the business are one, and live and die together. You are dressing up sociopathy as business and calling it good. Companies are superposed to have a DUTY to their workers and community and you dont understand this AT ALL.
The FAA can issue 'unconstitutional' mandates all day long. Its up to the judiciary to find those actions unlawful, and the executive to enforce that finding. To bring suit, you have to prove you have suffered harm from these mandates(standing). The judiciary will not listen to you without you first proving standing.
Not granted to who? Congress? The FAA is a direct extension of Congress. They have absolute authority to pass laws that say 'do whatever the FAA says'.
But is weight a synonym for mass LEGALLY? That is the question. Lots of people think copyright infringement is theft, even though by the legal definition of theft its impossible to steal IP simply by copying it
"I am very much in favour of the government being allowed to access private communications in individual cases with due cause and a legally obtained warrant issued by a judge"
The problem is idiots try to use this idea to ignore enshrined rights. NO matter how badly you want into my computers, you have no right to tell me that i HAVE to give you a way to read my work. Thats not a power my government has. It should not be illegal to build a computer that cannot be read by anyone but me. Governments DO NOT need absolute control over this sort of thing, its a WANT, nothing more.
To a degree, yes. Like any other tool it has limitations.
When Siri came out, i suddenly realized how much i really did not want to 'converse' with computers. I want them to take commands quickly and the first time and thats about it. I literally had Siri the day it came out (Iphone 4s). After a few years of trying her and google's voice command, i found most of the time i prefer other input methods.
I have voice search on my Google TV Nexus Player,which i actually use, it voice indexes my Plex Library, down to the episode. I say 'Encounter at Farpoint' (Star Trek TNG Pilot Episode) and BAM I have Q in my face. However, if i say 'Joust like a Woman' (King of the Hill, Season 6, ep. 8), it looks for 'just like a woman' no matter how i pronounce it. Its that inconsistency and inability to make it understand me that will always keep voice search as a niche input method.
Siri is NOWHERE near understanding casual speech. It understands keywords and does some very clever context searching, but its not like talking to a person at all. Voice command is just one tool in the toolbox, nothing more. SIRI is a fancy voice command system, not a natural speech interpreter.
The only consistent context i could get Siri to understand was to set a timer or tell me the time. The rest of the time i found myself having to retrain my thoughts, instead of it working naturally. Siri is crap for casual use. If you train yourselfon it, then its better, but still not great and prone to a lot of input error. I want NATURAL speech recognition, not special keyphrases.
The Fermi Paradox has no bounded data to draw from. The data we have is nowhere near complete enough to make the statement you or even Fermi are making. The Fermi Paradox is an interesting idea, but its certainly not a fully accepted one. Its something to you can point to and go 'thats a neat thought' and thats about it. It is a minor philosophical exercise, always keep that in mind.
The Fermi Paradox is easily countered with one simple question: 'What if we are simply the first ones?' Even calling it a paradox really only lends it more credence than it deserves. Its not really a paradox at all. It is simply combining incomplete data and complaining that garbage comes out.
Probability includes the chance of ZERO. Dont ever ever forget that. There is a probability that we are the first race in the Cosmos with our capabilities. Dont wield probability without fully understanding it. It takes just as much as it gives.
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You realize these are features available in plain Linux, right? All of that can be done without ever leaving the LAN/WAN. The point is all of that data goes to a place YOU DONT CONTROL when there is no need to do that.
The 4th ALREADY covers electronic documents. 'Papers and EFFECTS'. Take your CP argument and shove it up your ass. I dont care how repugnant you find it, i am not willing to give the government a blank check in stopping it. NO AMENDMENT should list CP anywhere in it.
Amazon is ABSOLUTELY a tech company. What the fuck do you consider EC2 to be? NO ONE has a cloud as big or as powerful as Amazon...
That doesn't change his statement. Google was wrong in capitulating to Hollywood and they should have never done it.
SO much effort has gone into this across the entire electronics industry. Lots of products removed the ability to exchange files with anyone, EVER. What the fuck happened to Ad-hoc wifi networking? Why did we remove it for bullshit like AirDrop? O thats right, so users cant exchange anything without going through the central office.
"Being connected meant there was less need for physical media and sneaker net."
No. There will ALWAYS be a need for sneakernet. At no point in the next 100 years will sneakernet be made unviable. The plain fact is WE DONT WANT an explosion of digital connection-only speakers and headphones. There is no benefit to anyone but Apple in doing this.
Why not use them together? Seems like an easy/cheap way to add wifi to RaspZero.
Yeah, but now you can bolt a Pi onto an Arduino for almost nothing and get the best of both worlds.
The Steam controller is an attempt to make some of the functions of a keyboard available on a controller. ITs not a keyboard killer by any stretch, its just an option. My hand-built Steam Machine has a Steam Controller, an Xbox One controller, a kb/m and a Flight Stick attached to it. You missed the point of the controller completely. I dont play games on my work computer, i dont do work on my gaming computer...
" But if the ad-content is more than 50% of the bandwidth to load the page then it's time to block the ad's above that limit"
This is like saying 'we should price software per line of code'.
Yahoo charges a yearly fee to forward your emails out....
"Rationally speaking, there is no reason to pay more for something than you have to. If I can get someone from (or in) India to do something about 80% as well for 50% of the cost of an American worker, then why wouldn't I do it? The only reason not to is a moral argument; there's no financial reason to do it unless doing it results in a boycott of my company and products (it never does). And when you're a financial institution, that's what you follow."
This amoral bullshit only works when you forget that companies are supposed to be SYMBIOTIC with their communities. ITs not rational to promote a 'profit only' mentality, in the end it destroys the nation. We need to get back to the idea that workers and the business are one, and live and die together. You are dressing up sociopathy as business and calling it good. Companies are superposed to have a DUTY to their workers and community and you dont understand this AT ALL.
The FAA can issue 'unconstitutional' mandates all day long. Its up to the judiciary to find those actions unlawful, and the executive to enforce that finding. To bring suit, you have to prove you have suffered harm from these mandates(standing). The judiciary will not listen to you without you first proving standing.
Not granted to who? Congress? The FAA is a direct extension of Congress. They have absolute authority to pass laws that say 'do whatever the FAA says'.
NO. Its not my fault idiots exist. Liberty is not supposed to punish the innocent for the actions of the guilty. You have a shitty viewpoint.
But is weight a synonym for mass LEGALLY? That is the question. Lots of people think copyright infringement is theft, even though by the legal definition of theft its impossible to steal IP simply by copying it
Hold on. The FAA was created by and gets its mandates from CONGRESS. The EXECUTIVE branch makes sure the FAA's mandates are carried out.
Did you take over your daddy's Slashdot account?
Stop calling people while in the car. If you need to make a call, pull over...
"I am very much in favour of the government being allowed to access private communications in individual cases with due cause and a legally obtained warrant issued by a judge"
The problem is idiots try to use this idea to ignore enshrined rights. NO matter how badly you want into my computers, you have no right to tell me that i HAVE to give you a way to read my work. Thats not a power my government has. It should not be illegal to build a computer that cannot be read by anyone but me. Governments DO NOT need absolute control over this sort of thing, its a WANT, nothing more.
To a degree, yes. Like any other tool it has limitations.
,which i actually use, it voice indexes my Plex Library, down to the episode. I say 'Encounter at Farpoint' (Star Trek TNG Pilot Episode) and BAM I have Q in my face. However, if i say 'Joust like a Woman' (King of the Hill, Season 6, ep. 8), it looks for 'just like a woman' no matter how i pronounce it. Its that inconsistency and inability to make it understand me that will always keep voice search as a niche input method.
When Siri came out, i suddenly realized how much i really did not want to 'converse' with computers. I want them to take commands quickly and the first time and thats about it. I literally had Siri the day it came out (Iphone 4s). After a few years of trying her and google's voice command, i found most of the time i prefer other input methods.
I have voice search on my Google TV Nexus Player
Siri is NOWHERE near understanding casual speech. It understands keywords and does some very clever context searching, but its not like talking to a person at all. Voice command is just one tool in the toolbox, nothing more. SIRI is a fancy voice command system, not a natural speech interpreter.
The only consistent context i could get Siri to understand was to set a timer or tell me the time. The rest of the time i found myself having to retrain my thoughts, instead of it working naturally. Siri is crap for casual use. If you train yourselfon it, then its better, but still not great and prone to a lot of input error. I want NATURAL speech recognition, not special keyphrases.
The Fermi Paradox has no bounded data to draw from. The data we have is nowhere near complete enough to make the statement you or even Fermi are making. The Fermi Paradox is an interesting idea, but its certainly not a fully accepted one. Its something to you can point to and go 'thats a neat thought' and thats about it. It is a minor philosophical exercise, always keep that in mind.
The Fermi Paradox is easily countered with one simple question: 'What if we are simply the first ones?' Even calling it a paradox really only lends it more credence than it deserves. Its not really a paradox at all. It is simply combining incomplete data and complaining that garbage comes out.
Probability includes the chance of ZERO. Dont ever ever forget that. There is a probability that we are the first race in the Cosmos with our capabilities. Dont wield probability without fully understanding it. It takes just as much as it gives.