Annotations should be turned off my default. They can be extremely useful in some cases, there's no sensible reason to throw out a useful feature when it can easily be prevented from annoying anyone just by having it require a click to enable it. Unfortunately, killing useful things because they've gotten a little less popular is google's standard method of operation.
The warrant is for the specified data, not for people. They cannot go search the homes of everybody who did a google image search for the name, until they get another warrant for the person whose home they wish to search.
Email will always have a place precisely because it's slow and clunky and allows you to delay people. It's where we send people we don't want to have to deal with right away.
Back here in the real world, the ACA resulted in tens of millions more people getting health insurance than before... because the working poor get it cheap or free and the middle class and wealthy who pretend to be poor only threaten to drop it and pay penalties, they don't actually do it in measurable numbers.
And that's it in a nutshell. We all need to pay in ahead of time to avoid much, much higher costs (and worse outcomes) later.
We can do this in a proper free market capitalist way, though. At birth, each baby should be presented with a bill for $316,600 (the average lifetime cost of health insurance). If the baby or its parents cannot promptly pay this bill in advance, it gets aborted for financial irresponsibility. This plan could get conservative support because it'd instantly solve the long-lamented problem of non-wealthy people reproducing.
Both parties murder people all around the world, but republicans are consistently the ones who want to spend more to do it -- even under Obama they were calling for bigger military spending increases than Obama wanted, and now that they have control they're pushing huge new military spending. Likewise, both parties like having the world's highest incarceration rate but republicans consistently try to spend more on militarizing the police and building more prisons and privatizing prisons to add more expensive corruption and perverse incentives.
However the biggest problem I see from my chair is keeping a relatively fragile tube stretching hundreds of kilometers airtight, undamaged and secure from pissed farmers, drunk idiots, gun fans, vandals and other similar factors.
Is that problem different from, say, oil pipelines?
If nothing else, victims have a right to privacy. The subjects of child porn are not consenting to distribution of images/videos of their abuse. If you were raped, would you think it should be legal for the internet to share and proliferate the video of your rape for the personal pleasure of millions? Or might you think there should be a law against sharing that video?
Scaled Composites did a suborbital flight, which involves basically none of the same technology as orbital flight which is an order of magnitude more difficult. It's no surprise that a suborbital company didn't become orbital. And that's why there's so much reason to doubt Blue Origin -- they're still just a suborbital country, they do at least have an orbital rocket in the works but nobody knows if it'll fly.
It is different, though. I don't know why it's different, but every time somebody dies in space it means nobody else can fly for years. Perhaps Everest is allowed to kill because people feel there's nothing you can do about nature, while they expect perfection from tech?
The ACA was a tax based on the belief that everybody has a right to life. Thanks to your higher premiums, I was able to get free coverage after so many years without insurance. Thank you for involuntarily saving my life. Sorry you had to drive a slightly worse car because of it.
There is no likely scenario within the next billion years where it wouldn't make more sense to build an underground habitat than a space habitat, if survival of the species if your only concern. Space exploration and yes even colonization should be pursued in the name of adventure and inspiration, not by pretending it's the most logical way to save the species.
Mormons are a very different group from the rest of the religious right. They don't like Trump because they're a historically persecuted religious minority. The rest of the religious right voted for him because they're the dominant religious group.
Slashdot has always published press release stories, because that's who's going to submit the most... but they aren't smart enough to get paid for them.
I think you would find that it'd take you 10x longer to go through all the VR interfaces for each item than it'd take you to shop at the store. One of the reasons I don't get my groceries delivered often (even though Safeway keeps offering me free delivery + free item bribes to try to get me to) is that it actually takes me a lot longer to browse through their clunky interface than it does for me to cover every aisle in the store on foot. As far as I can see, delivery is only really useful for people who want to keep re-ordering the same things all the time.
Current grocery delivery reduces traffic, because everybody orders a day ahead of time. If everybody's expecting a delivery 30 minutes after they order, then it will increase traffic.
If 97.4% of households own a buggy whip, that's news to me. I got rid of my TV around 2006, but I don't see many people doing that. More likely TVs will decline as baby boomers die off and are replaced by a generation with more pirates.
It's more like when there was no competition in the browser space they looked good by default. They were competing against an IE6 browser that'd been out of development for years. Now they're competing against weekly updates of Chrome, Edge, Safari and others.
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Annotations should be turned off my default. They can be extremely useful in some cases, there's no sensible reason to throw out a useful feature when it can easily be prevented from annoying anyone just by having it require a click to enable it. Unfortunately, killing useful things because they've gotten a little less popular is google's standard method of operation.
The warrant is for the specified data, not for people. They cannot go search the homes of everybody who did a google image search for the name, until they get another warrant for the person whose home they wish to search.
Unfortunately things have never worked that way -- even going back to the early days of newspapers, you'd pay for a paper and still get ads in it.
Email will always have a place precisely because it's slow and clunky and allows you to delay people. It's where we send people we don't want to have to deal with right away.
KDE Connect has been working on the SMS desktop problem, though it's far from ideal.
Back here in the real world, the ACA resulted in tens of millions more people getting health insurance than before... because the working poor get it cheap or free and the middle class and wealthy who pretend to be poor only threaten to drop it and pay penalties, they don't actually do it in measurable numbers.
A few people is actually a healthy supply of astronauts, considering there are never more than a handful of Americans in space at a time.
We can do this in a proper free market capitalist way, though. At birth, each baby should be presented with a bill for $316,600 (the average lifetime cost of health insurance). If the baby or its parents cannot promptly pay this bill in advance, it gets aborted for financial irresponsibility. This plan could get conservative support because it'd instantly solve the long-lamented problem of non-wealthy people reproducing.
Both parties murder people all around the world, but republicans are consistently the ones who want to spend more to do it -- even under Obama they were calling for bigger military spending increases than Obama wanted, and now that they have control they're pushing huge new military spending. Likewise, both parties like having the world's highest incarceration rate but republicans consistently try to spend more on militarizing the police and building more prisons and privatizing prisons to add more expensive corruption and perverse incentives.
Is that problem different from, say, oil pipelines?
If nothing else, victims have a right to privacy. The subjects of child porn are not consenting to distribution of images/videos of their abuse. If you were raped, would you think it should be legal for the internet to share and proliferate the video of your rape for the personal pleasure of millions? Or might you think there should be a law against sharing that video?
Scaled Composites did a suborbital flight, which involves basically none of the same technology as orbital flight which is an order of magnitude more difficult. It's no surprise that a suborbital company didn't become orbital. And that's why there's so much reason to doubt Blue Origin -- they're still just a suborbital country, they do at least have an orbital rocket in the works but nobody knows if it'll fly.
It is different, though. I don't know why it's different, but every time somebody dies in space it means nobody else can fly for years. Perhaps Everest is allowed to kill because people feel there's nothing you can do about nature, while they expect perfection from tech?
The ACA was a tax based on the belief that everybody has a right to life. Thanks to your higher premiums, I was able to get free coverage after so many years without insurance. Thank you for involuntarily saving my life. Sorry you had to drive a slightly worse car because of it.
Common spambots that submit contact forms are easy to catch. Advanced registration bots targeting major websites, not so easy.
The amount of paid human spam is minuscule compared to the automated kind, so it's much easier to handle manually.
People are inspired by astronauts and dream of becoming one. That's a big point. You might as well say art is pointless.
There is no likely scenario within the next billion years where it wouldn't make more sense to build an underground habitat than a space habitat, if survival of the species if your only concern. Space exploration and yes even colonization should be pursued in the name of adventure and inspiration, not by pretending it's the most logical way to save the species.
Mormons are a very different group from the rest of the religious right. They don't like Trump because they're a historically persecuted religious minority. The rest of the religious right voted for him because they're the dominant religious group.
Slashdot has always published press release stories, because that's who's going to submit the most... but they aren't smart enough to get paid for them.
I think you would find that it'd take you 10x longer to go through all the VR interfaces for each item than it'd take you to shop at the store. One of the reasons I don't get my groceries delivered often (even though Safeway keeps offering me free delivery + free item bribes to try to get me to) is that it actually takes me a lot longer to browse through their clunky interface than it does for me to cover every aisle in the store on foot. As far as I can see, delivery is only really useful for people who want to keep re-ordering the same things all the time.
Current grocery delivery reduces traffic, because everybody orders a day ahead of time. If everybody's expecting a delivery 30 minutes after they order, then it will increase traffic.
If 97.4% of households own a buggy whip, that's news to me. I got rid of my TV around 2006, but I don't see many people doing that. More likely TVs will decline as baby boomers die off and are replaced by a generation with more pirates.
It's more like when there was no competition in the browser space they looked good by default. They were competing against an IE6 browser that'd been out of development for years. Now they're competing against weekly updates of Chrome, Edge, Safari and others.
We could launch a toilet and a wide assortment of urine samples to the moon for a fraction of the cost of a manned mission.
How can we take an estimate seriously which says that a space elevator will be an order of magnitude cheaper than California's high speed rail?