If we put our minds to the task, I'm sure humanity can build a death star that doesn't have an easily accessed weakspot that when tapped causes the whole thing to explode.
Perhaps if Darth Vader hadn't hired the creators of the Pinto to design his death star the Empire would have won and we could all be happy now.
That's the one biggest factor that should be decided for any web-browser. You should be able to prevent autostart video with the native settings without add-ins or extensions.
I think I've read about screens that can project different images in different directions. Maybe oneday the technology will get so good that everyone looking at the screen will see something different.
I can't help but read that at ass-guardian...as in CYA?
Well, considering it's a country that only comic-book geeks and mythology nerds will sign up to join it's going to be a real sausage party... you may just want to guard your ass.
It's an English pronunciation. Just like we call Köln "Cologne", Roma "Rome".
English is not the only language to completely butcher and change the name of a location from a different foreign language. Many do the same thing. Hence your mythological location becomes AssGuard in English.
Wouldn't it be cheaper/easier/more comfortable for end user to have a replaceable keyboard?
Like some cell phones let you replace the rear panel of your phone to change the colour without using a case- you could have an empty tray with sensors on the bottom where the keyboard goes, and then just a clip in keyboard to go on the top that presses the sensors below. An interchangeable clip-in keyboard selection.
Want a different layout, buy a different keyboard insert for $10 (or $40 since this is apple) a cheap chip on the keyboard makes connection with the base to tell it the configuration (or even simpler, just a circuit being connected by pins in a binary code).
This way, not only can you buy the layout you want cheaply/easily without adding bulk- you can customize the keyboard to look like you want it: black, white, red, blue, zebra stripes. You could have a special keyboard for teenage girls that has shortcuts for emojis.
What China is doing, hiding in plain site, is essentially set up a colony model. They want China to be the world's hub where everything is owned and all advanced construction is done. The world will work to supply China with raw materials and China will export, control and distribute to the rest of the world whilst holding the reigns.
Of course a foreign owned company shouldn't be allowed to operate too freely. All capital should be within China.
It might be easier to measure how many people died than it would be how many people's lives it saved. Sure we can point fingers at the guy who crashed his car playing pokemon whilst driving; but what about the guy who played pokemon instead of doing some other dumb teen thing. If pokemon kept him from joining a gang and getting shot, for example.
You can't really say "Pokémon" caused X more people to die, because we don't know the net affect. Extra people may have survived because of it.
Algebra is very useful in the real world. Even though you don't see the formula 5A = 14 + 6 written down on blackboards in real life and have to solve that problem, Algebra shows up in plenty of real life scenarios.
As a programmer I use Algebra every day for my job too.
Teachers give assignments via internet portals. Students turn in assignments via internet portals. Without internet, it's not that you can't look up on a map where the city of Mörön is. It's that you can't turn your assignments in. You can't see what your assignments are. Thus bad grades.
You go to school, get good grades, get a good job, stay out of trouble, all to make a good living and enjoy some luxuries.
But it looks like you don't need to do that because the fucking government is giving it all away.
Why would anyone want to escape poverty when poverty in the US is merely a lower middle class lifestyle?
You make it sound like you're more angry that poor people aren't accepting their station in life as being far beneath you than you are angry that the government is intervening (in this case, it's not).
How dare those pesky peasants try and make anything from their life and approach the status and rank of Sir Anonymous of Coward.
I guess we know where all those returned Galaxy Note 7's are going.
Double purpose, acts as central heating if you can't afford the electricity bill.
I'm just not sure how you're going to charge it to provide the heating if you don't have electricity...... I may not have thought this through completely.
This is a much better than Facebook's plan of giving access to their tailormade list of sites that suits their interests.
Anyone who has kids knows how much the internet is central to a child's schooling needs now. It's more than just using the internet for research now. The internet is used as the medium in which teachers hand out assignments, give grades, accept assignments.
Without internet you can't be an affective student. If your parents don't have internet service you have to go places to access it from free-public places; libraries, whilst they're open, etc. Poor kids manage, but it's a definite disadvantage than having to access your work from home. Poor kids in rural areas are probably in extra trouble.
The other methods are private conversations (held in public places). Posting a comment on Facebook is a semi-private message (held in a public place).
If someone followed you around in public recording everything you said whilst in public you could probably sue them for harassment, or get a restraining order. You have no such option online.
I'm not blind to the differences. What you say in the marketplace disappears into history for anyone not around to hear it. What is published online stays there. You can see if people are around you in the town square. You can't see who is reading online- you have to assume it's everyone. Not being insensitive to those differences, I still think it amounts to an invasion of privacy and harassment for companies to harvest your data wholesale or sell it without your permission.
It is tolerated because that's the way it's always been online and we've got used to it. If there were an economic way to record everything you say and do in public in the real world there would be more of a stink.
How dare people monitor what people post publicly?
It's OK for the police to track your movements via fake phone towers, because you're publically transmitting that data anyway. It's OK to place audio-bugs around the city to listen in on people walking around, because they're in a public place. It's OK to have license-plate readers on every road to track people's travel habits because they're out in public.
We're all out "in public" or say things "in public" where the public could overhear us, or see us. That doesn't make tracking or bugging the general public OK. It's one thing to casually over hear someone, or read what a stranger posted. It's an entirely different animal to go out and track an individual or a group of individuals and monitor their every move and utterance. Even in public we have an expectation not to be stalked.
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If we put our minds to the task, I'm sure humanity can build a death star that doesn't have an easily accessed weakspot that when tapped causes the whole thing to explode.
Perhaps if Darth Vader hadn't hired the creators of the Pinto to design his death star the Empire would have won and we could all be happy now.
Can you turn autostart off?
That's the one biggest factor that should be decided for any web-browser. You should be able to prevent autostart video with the native settings without add-ins or extensions.
You'll have to take the battery out of your cellphone too for it not to recognize you.
Seriously, I'm considering to stop carrying a cellphone.
I think I've read about screens that can project different images in different directions. Maybe oneday the technology will get so good that everyone looking at the screen will see something different.
So now every time I pass by a billboard it's going to display ads for extra extra large condoms... ... how embarrassing.
I can't help but read that at ass-guardian...as in CYA?
Well, considering it's a country that only comic-book geeks and mythology nerds will sign up to join it's going to be a real sausage party... you may just want to guard your ass.
It's an English pronunciation. Just like we call Köln "Cologne", Roma "Rome".
English is not the only language to completely butcher and change the name of a location from a different foreign language. Many do the same thing. Hence your mythological location becomes AssGuard in English.
Wouldn't it be cheaper/easier/more comfortable for end user to have a replaceable keyboard?
Like some cell phones let you replace the rear panel of your phone to change the colour without using a case- you could have an empty tray with sensors on the bottom where the keyboard goes, and then just a clip in keyboard to go on the top that presses the sensors below. An interchangeable clip-in keyboard selection.
Want a different layout, buy a different keyboard insert for $10 (or $40 since this is apple) a cheap chip on the keyboard makes connection with the base to tell it the configuration (or even simpler, just a circuit being connected by pins in a binary code).
This way, not only can you buy the layout you want cheaply/easily without adding bulk- you can customize the keyboard to look like you want it: black, white, red, blue, zebra stripes. You could have a special keyboard for teenage girls that has shortcuts for emojis.
That's osist!
No-one uses the "J" key anyway. If someone wanted to use the "J" key they could just attach a special "J" key button via the lightening port.
That's why the government's steal the decryption keys too.
... this is dogs and cats lying down together.
It's not like they did something reprehensible, like pee in the woods and get spotted, or smoke MJ recreationally.
I was thinking something similar. It's a lot of money, but it's probably a small % of their annual budget.
In context. $100,000 would be a lot of money to me, but to the US government budget it would be rounded down to $0.
What China is doing, hiding in plain site, is essentially set up a colony model. They want China to be the world's hub where everything is owned and all advanced construction is done. The world will work to supply China with raw materials and China will export, control and distribute to the rest of the world whilst holding the reigns.
Of course a foreign owned company shouldn't be allowed to operate too freely. All capital should be within China.
It might be easier to measure how many people died than it would be how many people's lives it saved. Sure we can point fingers at the guy who crashed his car playing pokemon whilst driving; but what about the guy who played pokemon instead of doing some other dumb teen thing. If pokemon kept him from joining a gang and getting shot, for example.
You can't really say "Pokémon" caused X more people to die, because we don't know the net affect. Extra people may have survived because of it.
Algebra is very useful in the real world. Even though you don't see the formula 5A = 14 + 6 written down on blackboards in real life and have to solve that problem, Algebra shows up in plenty of real life scenarios.
As a programmer I use Algebra every day for my job too.
I think people don't understand exactly what kids do online (for school).
It's not just about them being able to go to Wikipedia to look up what happened in the war of the golden stool.
Teachers give assignments via internet portals. Students turn in assignments via internet portals. Without internet, it's not that you can't look up on a map where the city of Mörön is. It's that you can't turn your assignments in. You can't see what your assignments are. Thus bad grades.
... but I don't want to live 2.83 million years.
You go to school, get good grades, get a good job, stay out of trouble, all to make a good living and enjoy some luxuries.
But it looks like you don't need to do that because the fucking government is giving it all away.
Why would anyone want to escape poverty when poverty in the US is merely a lower middle class lifestyle?
You make it sound like you're more angry that poor people aren't accepting their station in life as being far beneath you than you are angry that the government is intervening (in this case, it's not).
How dare those pesky peasants try and make anything from their life and approach the status and rank of Sir Anonymous of Coward.
I guess we know where all those returned Galaxy Note 7's are going.
Double purpose, acts as central heating if you can't afford the electricity bill.
I'm just not sure how you're going to charge it to provide the heating if you don't have electricity... ... I may not have thought this through completely.
This is a much better than Facebook's plan of giving access to their tailormade list of sites that suits their interests.
Anyone who has kids knows how much the internet is central to a child's schooling needs now. It's more than just using the internet for research now. The internet is used as the medium in which teachers hand out assignments, give grades, accept assignments.
Without internet you can't be an affective student. If your parents don't have internet service you have to go places to access it from free-public places; libraries, whilst they're open, etc. Poor kids manage, but it's a definite disadvantage than having to access your work from home. Poor kids in rural areas are probably in extra trouble.
I guess we know where all those returned Galaxy Note 7's are going.
Double purpose, acts as central heating if you can't afford the electricity bill.
The other methods are private conversations (held in public places).
Posting a comment on Facebook is a semi-private message (held in a public place).
If someone followed you around in public recording everything you said whilst in public you could probably sue them for harassment, or get a restraining order. You have no such option online.
I'm not blind to the differences. What you say in the marketplace disappears into history for anyone not around to hear it. What is published online stays there. You can see if people are around you in the town square. You can't see who is reading online- you have to assume it's everyone. Not being insensitive to those differences, I still think it amounts to an invasion of privacy and harassment for companies to harvest your data wholesale or sell it without your permission.
It is tolerated because that's the way it's always been online and we've got used to it. If there were an economic way to record everything you say and do in public in the real world there would be more of a stink.
How dare people monitor what people post publicly?
It's OK for the police to track your movements via fake phone towers, because you're publically transmitting that data anyway.
It's OK to place audio-bugs around the city to listen in on people walking around, because they're in a public place.
It's OK to have license-plate readers on every road to track people's travel habits because they're out in public.
We're all out "in public" or say things "in public" where the public could overhear us, or see us. That doesn't make tracking or bugging the general public OK. It's one thing to casually over hear someone, or read what a stranger posted. It's an entirely different animal to go out and track an individual or a group of individuals and monitor their every move and utterance. Even in public we have an expectation not to be stalked.