There might be an actual downside: many new services require a new monthly charge. It's possible that if you want to get a wide array of content you'll end up paying as much or more as for cable. Personally, I'd rather take that chance than be forced to pay for a ton of channels that I definitely will never view.
Will it transcribe, "Diffused the situation," or "Defused the situation"? Every single TV closed-caption I've ever seen, and I've taken special note since I first became aware of this, has gone with the former. And those presumably have been humans making that error.
Trouble is, the new tactic seems to be to go after the domain registrars and hosting services and deny the offending folks a home. The "fun" stuff may all end up being driven to Tor.
Now that Google has established that it can and will exercise plenary authority in deciding who gets to speak, it will be under pressure, both internally and externally, to use that authority to exclude others. Why not deny a forum to climate "deniers", advocates for due process for those accused of campus rape, donors to initiatives to codify traditional marriage, or any other of a thousand causes that Google execs or various pressure groups deem unworthy of granting access? Selective enforcement of vague Terms Of Service can be the excuse to do whatever they feel like.
Trumpers keep giving interviews to news outlets known to be opposed to them down to the quarks in their component atoms, and then are astonished that the resulting stories don't cast them in a favorable light. There's naive and then there's downright stupid and incompetent.
After Google's stupidly-botched and poorly-justified handling of the Damore memo incident, I'm giving Bing more of my search traffic, along with DuckDuckGo. It's clear that viable alternatives have to be kept alive so that when we disagree with a giant's policies we have elsewhere to take our business.
I'm a very big user of amazon (>95% of all non food purchases) and have been for over a decade and have never used it.
Same here. I like to accumulate a number of items in the cart and think about them a while before committing. I frequently go back and postpone or substitute or ditch certain items. One click would be way too speedy. Likewise the "subscribe" option. I don't want a continuous supply of something showing up. With Prime, I can order it when needed and have it here in two days. If there's a crisis and I need it faster than that, there's always (gasp) going to the store, at least as long as stores still exist.
They have rules and any site that violates them are subject to them. Supporting violence should certainly get anyone booted.
The problem is, when you take a side once you are expected to take sides in the future, and you'll get pressure to do so. Take down Nazis today, tomorrow someone will want you to take down anti-abortion activists, pro-abortion activists, advocates for bombing North Korea, pizza parlors hypothetically refusing to cater hypothetical gay weddings, climate change "deniers", etc. You might even expose yourself to lawsuits if you don't take down a group and somebody does something bad because they read about it there.
There's a reason web hosters have generally avoided becoming embroiled in these controversies in the past: self interest.
For all we know, the universe is all chatting with each other via quantum entanglement or something even more advanced, and we're off in the corner thwacking our electromagnetic equipment on the side saying, "Is this thing on? Where is everybody?"
Is Google being harmed by its gender policies? Was he? At the end of the day, one presumes he was hired as a software developer or engineer, and not to write screeds against his employer's hiring practices.
Then what of other employees' calls for his punishment and declaring that they'd refuse to work with him? Were those people hired to issue screeds and ultimatums regarding personnel issues? Should they be canned too?
It just occurred to me today: will self-driving cars be smart enough to pull over for cops and fire trucks? If so, does that mean all you have to do to get them out of your way is flash some lights for a bit?
Of course. You wags always criticize automation by asking, if the corporations only employ robots and don't pay any human workers, who will have any money to buy their products? The corporations have an answer: automated robot consumers. Corporations will use robots to buy each others products and services, and the economy won't need humans anymore.
Once again, scifi comes to the rescue:
"'The Midas Plague' (originally published in Galaxy in 1954). In a world of cheap energy, robots are overproducing the commodities enjoyed by mankind. The lower-class "poor" must spend their lives in frantic consumption, trying to keep up with the robots' extravagant production, while the upper-class "rich" can live lives of simplicity. Property crime is nonexistent, and the government Ration Board enforces the use of ration stamps to ensure that everyone consumes their quotas. The story deals with Morey Fry, who marries a woman from a higher-class family. Raised in a home with only five rooms she is unused to a life of forced consumption in their mansion of 26 rooms, nine automobiles, and five robots, causing arguments. Trained as an engineer, Morey modifies his robots to enjoy helping to consume his family's quota. He fears punishment when his idea is discovered, but the Ration Board—which has been looking for a way to abolish itself—quickly implements Morey's idea across the world."
Once thing I've wondered: if autonomous technology is getting so close to fruition, how come transit systems like San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit and the Washington DC Metro can't be the first things piloted by it? If an automobile can operate autonomously in a chaotic and messy environment like the streets of a city, a light rail environment ought to be trivial by comparison. Fixed path, limited access, pretty static environment. I'd think you could get the humans out of light rail long before cars are road-worthy. I haven't heard anyone suggesting it, though.
Make no eye contact.
Rule 5: Under no circumstances touch Mr. Zuckerberg.
Rule 6: Do not speak unless Mr. Zuckerberg speaks to you first.
Rule 7: When dismissed, leave as quickly as possible.
How about we wait for a problem to show itself and THEN fix it? Which probably would include having the Federal Trade Commission apply existing laws against anti-competitive behavior. Letting the FCC, amoeba-like, envelop the entire internet in Title 2 just in anticipation that maybe there might be a problem somewhere down the line is nuts.
you get sued. When climate is in the control of God, there's nobody to blame when a hurricane kills thousands. Start deliberately monkeying with the climate and you'll be the attractive scapegoat for every weather calamity that befalls. Drought in California? Your fault. Flooding in Missouri? Your fault. Increased desertification in Africa? Your fault.
That's if you're even allowed to continue. It's more likely the UN will shut you down just because many countries will simply fear what will happen. The more paranoid ones like North Korea will probably accuse you of trying to alter the weather to attack them, and decide that you and your operation must be dealt with.
If the license plate readers retain the info they collect even after they've made their assessment of insurance, then the system becomes one big movement tracker. Anyone in government will have a handy record of where you went and when. We've already got something like that on a limited scale in my city, but a system like this would kick that into overdrive.
The subpoenas seek information on "miles and hours logged by drivers, incentives that encourage drivers to 'commute' from as far away as Fresno or Los Angeles, driver guidance and training, accessible vehicle information, and the services provided to residents of every San Francisco neighborhood,"
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Pretty evident that they hope to attack the companies on several fronts: wages paid, overwork, violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act, violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and discrimination.
Any time someone with a no bezel phone hands it to me, I have to treat it like I'm defusing a bomb. Almost inevitably a fraction of a finger touches the screen and there goes whatever I was supposed to look at. Leave enough of a bezel that the phone can be handed off to another person.
Has anyone bothered to do a check on a sample of pro-net neutrality comments to see if similar problems exist there, or are only anti-nn comments worth investigating?
The Amazon Echo was supposedly going to add push notifications last Fall, and they finally announced the feature yesterday. I have hopes of getting access to it via the API and making Alexa announce things like, "Mailbox opened," "basement flooded," and the like.
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The question is - Why does someone read the New York Post? Spending time talking about an article on the New York Post is a waste of time.
Just to aggravate the hell out of twerps like you is one good reason.
There might be an actual downside: many new services require a new monthly charge. It's possible that if you want to get a wide array of content you'll end up paying as much or more as for cable. Personally, I'd rather take that chance than be forced to pay for a ton of channels that I definitely will never view.
Will it transcribe, "Diffused the situation," or "Defused the situation"? Every single TV closed-caption I've ever seen, and I've taken special note since I first became aware of this, has gone with the former. And those presumably have been humans making that error.
Trouble is, the new tactic seems to be to go after the domain registrars and hosting services and deny the offending folks a home. The "fun" stuff may all end up being driven to Tor.
Now that Google has established that it can and will exercise plenary authority in deciding who gets to speak, it will be under pressure, both internally and externally, to use that authority to exclude others. Why not deny a forum to climate "deniers", advocates for due process for those accused of campus rape, donors to initiatives to codify traditional marriage, or any other of a thousand causes that Google execs or various pressure groups deem unworthy of granting access? Selective enforcement of vague Terms Of Service can be the excuse to do whatever they feel like.
Trumpers keep giving interviews to news outlets known to be opposed to them down to the quarks in their component atoms, and then are astonished that the resulting stories don't cast them in a favorable light. There's naive and then there's downright stupid and incompetent.
After Google's stupidly-botched and poorly-justified handling of the Damore memo incident, I'm giving Bing more of my search traffic, along with DuckDuckGo. It's clear that viable alternatives have to be kept alive so that when we disagree with a giant's policies we have elsewhere to take our business.
I'm a very big user of amazon (>95% of all non food purchases) and have been for over a decade and have never used it.
Same here. I like to accumulate a number of items in the cart and think about them a while before committing. I frequently go back and postpone or substitute or ditch certain items. One click would be way too speedy. Likewise the "subscribe" option. I don't want a continuous supply of something showing up. With Prime, I can order it when needed and have it here in two days. If there's a crisis and I need it faster than that, there's always (gasp) going to the store, at least as long as stores still exist.
They have rules and any site that violates them are subject to them. Supporting violence should certainly get anyone booted.
The problem is, when you take a side once you are expected to take sides in the future, and you'll get pressure to do so. Take down Nazis today, tomorrow someone will want you to take down anti-abortion activists, pro-abortion activists, advocates for bombing North Korea, pizza parlors hypothetically refusing to cater hypothetical gay weddings, climate change "deniers", etc. You might even expose yourself to lawsuits if you don't take down a group and somebody does something bad because they read about it there.
There's a reason web hosters have generally avoided becoming embroiled in these controversies in the past: self interest.
For all we know, the universe is all chatting with each other via quantum entanglement or something even more advanced, and we're off in the corner thwacking our electromagnetic equipment on the side saying, "Is this thing on? Where is everybody?"
Is Google being harmed by its gender policies? Was he? At the end of the day, one presumes he was hired as a software developer or engineer, and not to write screeds against his employer's hiring practices.
Then what of other employees' calls for his punishment and declaring that they'd refuse to work with him? Were those people hired to issue screeds and ultimatums regarding personnel issues? Should they be canned too?
... to have some of the men declare that they feel like and wish to be treated as women. Then they could be counted as such, right?
It just occurred to me today: will self-driving cars be smart enough to pull over for cops and fire trucks? If so, does that mean all you have to do to get them out of your way is flash some lights for a bit?
Of course. You wags always criticize automation by asking, if the corporations only employ robots and don't pay any human workers, who will have any money to buy their products? The corporations have an answer: automated robot consumers. Corporations will use robots to buy each others products and services, and the economy won't need humans anymore.
Once again, scifi comes to the rescue: "'The Midas Plague' (originally published in Galaxy in 1954). In a world of cheap energy, robots are overproducing the commodities enjoyed by mankind. The lower-class "poor" must spend their lives in frantic consumption, trying to keep up with the robots' extravagant production, while the upper-class "rich" can live lives of simplicity. Property crime is nonexistent, and the government Ration Board enforces the use of ration stamps to ensure that everyone consumes their quotas. The story deals with Morey Fry, who marries a woman from a higher-class family. Raised in a home with only five rooms she is unused to a life of forced consumption in their mansion of 26 rooms, nine automobiles, and five robots, causing arguments. Trained as an engineer, Morey modifies his robots to enjoy helping to consume his family's quota. He fears punishment when his idea is discovered, but the Ration Board—which has been looking for a way to abolish itself—quickly implements Morey's idea across the world."
Once thing I've wondered: if autonomous technology is getting so close to fruition, how come transit systems like San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit and the Washington DC Metro can't be the first things piloted by it? If an automobile can operate autonomously in a chaotic and messy environment like the streets of a city, a light rail environment ought to be trivial by comparison. Fixed path, limited access, pretty static environment. I'd think you could get the humans out of light rail long before cars are road-worthy. I haven't heard anyone suggesting it, though.
will we be hearing that Amazon is going to be selling our names and chat contents to third parties for advertising purposes?
Make no eye contact. Rule 5: Under no circumstances touch Mr. Zuckerberg. Rule 6: Do not speak unless Mr. Zuckerberg speaks to you first. Rule 7: When dismissed, leave as quickly as possible.
How about we wait for a problem to show itself and THEN fix it? Which probably would include having the Federal Trade Commission apply existing laws against anti-competitive behavior. Letting the FCC, amoeba-like, envelop the entire internet in Title 2 just in anticipation that maybe there might be a problem somewhere down the line is nuts.
you get sued. When climate is in the control of God, there's nobody to blame when a hurricane kills thousands. Start deliberately monkeying with the climate and you'll be the attractive scapegoat for every weather calamity that befalls. Drought in California? Your fault. Flooding in Missouri? Your fault. Increased desertification in Africa? Your fault.
That's if you're even allowed to continue. It's more likely the UN will shut you down just because many countries will simply fear what will happen. The more paranoid ones like North Korea will probably accuse you of trying to alter the weather to attack them, and decide that you and your operation must be dealt with.
If the license plate readers retain the info they collect even after they've made their assessment of insurance, then the system becomes one big movement tracker. Anyone in government will have a handy record of where you went and when. We've already got something like that on a limited scale in my city, but a system like this would kick that into overdrive.
.
Pretty evident that they hope to attack the companies on several fronts: wages paid, overwork, violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act, violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and discrimination.
Any time someone with a no bezel phone hands it to me, I have to treat it like I'm defusing a bomb. Almost inevitably a fraction of a finger touches the screen and there goes whatever I was supposed to look at. Leave enough of a bezel that the phone can be handed off to another person.
Perhaps he can develop super-strong materials and fill it with ... wait for it ... vacuum! The lightest airship filler available.
Has anyone bothered to do a check on a sample of pro-net neutrality comments to see if similar problems exist there, or are only anti-nn comments worth investigating?
The Amazon Echo was supposedly going to add push notifications last Fall, and they finally announced the feature yesterday. I have hopes of getting access to it via the API and making Alexa announce things like, "Mailbox opened," "basement flooded," and the like.