"but the public is still clamoring for Thinner and Lighter"
Phones have been thin enough and light enough for 6 or 7 years. I think most people would rather a better battery than a thinner phone. I can't imagine anyone still thinks phones should be thinner- it'll get to a point where it makes them harder to hold.
Google is a well known brand, but has Google ever made something other than the search engine that people are proud to have and use? As far as I can tell, Android is a negative brand: It's defined by the things it doesn't do, i.e. lock you into a walled garden.
I prefer Android to Apple. Both do a good job and there's not really much difference but I do prefer Android.
Google has lots of products I use. Gmail, Google Maps, Google Voice, Google Drive, Google Photos, Google Labotomy
I still use an LG G2 and it's a great phone for its age. G4 by all accounts I've read was an awful phone. Sometimes good manufacturers make terrible products (like OnePlus Two, or LG G4).
This isn't Android's fault. This is the fault of LG in this case.
That said, I like your STD naming system. Android Blue Waffles could be a dessert or an STD name.
... that people who have smartphones are on them all the time? I have a few, but I am only on them when I'm talking or texting, and in restaurants or waiting rooms, playing games. When I'm at work, I do my work, and the phone is just there to make or receive calls related to my work.
Similarly, when I drive, the smartphone is on driver mode, just in case I receive calls. Other than that, I don't use the phone while driving. I do use it when I'm shopping - either check out the store's app (like Costco) or check out my shopping list or prices.
And at home, I use it to FaceTime or WhatsApp w/ family.
Let us know when your boss stops looking over your shoulder.
You know, for a loong time, whenever I heard mention of Kardashians, I thought they were talking about Cardassians. Which left me blissfully unaware of their existence, and everyone else wondering, what planet was I from.
I still hear them as "Cardassian". I think I would rather deal with Cardassians on earth than Kardashians.
Another website suggested 11GHz was also used by the military. Definitely deserves keeping track of- but theres a good chance this is terrestrial in origin and interfering with sensors.
Whereas people are making valid points about the flaws in this experiment, I don't think anyone at NASA thinks that this is a perfect dress rehearsal. It's about baby steps.
You can bring in the real-life high paid astronauts, build expensive underwater, or Himalayan bases, give them less sense of security, etc later.
If you think this is the only experiment that will happen you're mistaken, they're going to run similar tests numerous times. This experiment was about watching just basic psychology- start with a few factors, add some more, see the differences. See what causes the breaking point that would lead to a failed mission and try to alleviate it.
Many people here are programmers. You don't write an entire program in its entirety and then test it. You build chunks and test them as you go along. This was step one.
I'm a centrist. I believe in birth control and sex ed for all children.
However, before today's results, I would have thought the robot baby IN ADDITION to sex ed and teaching about birth control was a good idea. I've not read the nitty-gritty of Australia's tests. (Are the robot baby girls getting less Sex Ed teaching) so I won't rule out Robot Babies as a viable option- it certainly shouldn't replace learning.
I'd be interested in knowing WHY the robot babies failed. Do the girls consider the experience "not that bad". Do they think "I've done it with a robot, I can handle my own child". Or is it simply that they didn't receive as good sex ed teaching as the control group?
Indeed, many people have pointed this out over the last couple of articles on this subject. So they could just as easily turn off the game altogether to prevent drivers pretending to be passengers.
In reality, the deaths here are the drivers fault not the games, but if the death count racks up this will eventually result in a lawsuit and fines for the developer. The moral thing for them to do is disable the game when the phone is moving fast to prevent asshat drivers hitting people. It also might be the best economic move for them- if they end up getting hit with massive fines from a government somewhere in the world that want to blame deaths on the game instead of the driver it could be crippling.
Most countries probably won't blame the game developers they will blame the driver; however, I guarantee there are some countries in the world that WILL blame the developer.
Facebook doesn't exist as a charity to provide a free platform for you to show grandma pictures of your lunch. We've all known that Facebook invades every bit of privacy that you allow it to, it absorbs every sliver of information you wittingly or unwittingly provide it.
That's the cost of dealing with Facebook. If you use Facebook you give them every right to collect whatever information on you that they choose. In many cases, Facebook knows more about you than you do yourself.
People have two choices: 1) decide whatever benefit you get from Facebook is worth giving away every information about yourself and all privacy. or 2) don't use Facebook.
If privacy is important to you, you won't use them. If privacy is unimportant to you, no-one has the right to complain.
It's inevitable that Artificial Intelligence is going to take more and more control over our lives.
Don't want racist cops shooting black people: Introducing the Copbot 3000- guaranteed to treat all races equally. The Copbot 3000, won't be distracted by cleavage and give women warnings for speeding and men tickets. The Copbot 3000 won't pat white people on the back whilst massacring our African youth. The Copbot 3000 won't hide in the doughnut shop whilst the bank gets robbed.
Ask your senator to replace the nations police force with Copbots today!
Before that though, in the much more near-future, what about managing Economics? A computer AI could probably learn to control our nation's economic policy much better than any human(s). A computer could probably make a better legislator. There might be some resistance to turning over control to AI but once North Korea and China do, and they start leaving our economy in the dust then a domino effect will happen and more and more nations will turn to AI to control their nations economic policies.
It won't be far into the future where the choice will be- turn control over to AI OR fall behind. No-one wants to fall behind so we will gladly surrender our sovereignty to AI.
It's scary. National governments aren't allowed to collect data on us and spy on us (legally at least, we all know they do illegally behind our backs), but private corporations are allowed to collect data on us and spy on us all they want.
At some point there will have to be some major consumer rights movement to protect from this. The data collected on us doesn't just exist on the websites of whoever collects it, but also in the Russian hackers cloud storage, and everyone they sell their information to. The companies collecting our data hasn't been particulary good at defending it. Any level 1 shadowrunner can steal it.
I had a coworker who taught intro to computers in evening classes at a community college 15 years or so ago.
On more than one occasion he had a student get confused by the concept of "Right-Click with the Mouse" they would try to *write* "click" using the mouse.
Slashdot Mirror
Niantic (which sounds like the name of a drug for erectile dysfunction, by the way)
It's the name of a town in Connecticut, as well as the Native American people for which it was named.
If they named an erectile dysfunction drug after them you'd expect them to be a more populous tribe.
"Niantic does not and has no plans to sell Pokemon Go user data -- aggregated, de-identified or otherwise -- to any third party
And then in small-print. These terms are subject to change as soon as we get a good enough offer.
"but the public is still clamoring for Thinner and Lighter"
Phones have been thin enough and light enough for 6 or 7 years. I think most people would rather a better battery than a thinner phone. I can't imagine anyone still thinks phones should be thinner- it'll get to a point where it makes them harder to hold.
It was a joke. Yes, I meant Lobotomy.
The vibrator works on the G-Spot if you strap it in your G-String.
Flip phones!
Google is a well known brand, but has Google ever made something other than the search engine that people are proud to have and use? As far as I can tell, Android is a negative brand: It's defined by the things it doesn't do, i.e. lock you into a walled garden.
I prefer Android to Apple. Both do a good job and there's not really much difference but I do prefer Android.
Google has lots of products I use. Gmail, Google Maps, Google Voice, Google Drive, Google Photos, Google Labotomy
I still use an LG G2 and it's a great phone for its age. G4 by all accounts I've read was an awful phone. Sometimes good manufacturers make terrible products (like OnePlus Two, or LG G4).
This isn't Android's fault. This is the fault of LG in this case.
That said, I like your STD naming system. Android Blue Waffles could be a dessert or an STD name.
... that people who have smartphones are on them all the time? I have a few, but I am only on them when I'm talking or texting, and in restaurants or waiting rooms, playing games. When I'm at work, I do my work, and the phone is just there to make or receive calls related to my work.
Similarly, when I drive, the smartphone is on driver mode, just in case I receive calls. Other than that, I don't use the phone while driving. I do use it when I'm shopping - either check out the store's app (like Costco) or check out my shopping list or prices.
And at home, I use it to FaceTime or WhatsApp w/ family.
Let us know when your boss stops looking over your shoulder.
Grumpy Cat does not want $600k. Why would a cat want money? What's it going to do, bury it's poop in it.
Grumpy Cat's OWNERS want $600k.
Real loafers know that zen is surfing Slashdot on your smartphone, hiding out in the bathroom away from your desk.
You know, for a loong time, whenever I heard mention of Kardashians, I thought they were talking about Cardassians. Which left me blissfully unaware of their existence, and everyone else wondering, what planet was I from.
I still hear them as "Cardassian". I think I would rather deal with Cardassians on earth than Kardashians.
Perhaps aliens like microwaved popcorn too
I hate the smell of microwaved popcorn. If these aliens are popcorn aliens I suggest we start an interstellar war to wipe them out.
Another website suggested 11GHz was also used by the military. Definitely deserves keeping track of- but theres a good chance this is terrestrial in origin and interfering with sensors.
I'll have to try that if it gets me free slaps. Normally I pay good money to get slapped.
Whereas people are making valid points about the flaws in this experiment, I don't think anyone at NASA thinks that this is a perfect dress rehearsal. It's about baby steps.
You can bring in the real-life high paid astronauts, build expensive underwater, or Himalayan bases, give them less sense of security, etc later.
If you think this is the only experiment that will happen you're mistaken, they're going to run similar tests numerous times. This experiment was about watching just basic psychology- start with a few factors, add some more, see the differences. See what causes the breaking point that would lead to a failed mission and try to alleviate it.
Many people here are programmers. You don't write an entire program in its entirety and then test it. You build chunks and test them as you go along. This was step one.
No... you still need a real child to prevent sex.
Obviously you're not doing it right.
Maybe I'm getting my input and output ports mixed up. Electronic Anal, or enal for short.
I'm a centrist. I believe in birth control and sex ed for all children.
However, before today's results, I would have thought the robot baby IN ADDITION to sex ed and teaching about birth control was a good idea. I've not read the nitty-gritty of Australia's tests. (Are the robot baby girls getting less Sex Ed teaching) so I won't rule out Robot Babies as a viable option- it certainly shouldn't replace learning.
I'd be interested in knowing WHY the robot babies failed. Do the girls consider the experience "not that bad". Do they think "I've done it with a robot, I can handle my own child". Or is it simply that they didn't receive as good sex ed teaching as the control group?
I find robots very effective at birth control. I've not managed to get one pregnant yet.
Indeed, many people have pointed this out over the last couple of articles on this subject. So they could just as easily turn off the game altogether to prevent drivers pretending to be passengers.
In reality, the deaths here are the drivers fault not the games, but if the death count racks up this will eventually result in a lawsuit and fines for the developer. The moral thing for them to do is disable the game when the phone is moving fast to prevent asshat drivers hitting people. It also might be the best economic move for them- if they end up getting hit with massive fines from a government somewhere in the world that want to blame deaths on the game instead of the driver it could be crippling.
Most countries probably won't blame the game developers they will blame the driver; however, I guarantee there are some countries in the world that WILL blame the developer.
And why not? Facebook exists to make money.
Facebook doesn't exist as a charity to provide a free platform for you to show grandma pictures of your lunch. We've all known that Facebook invades every bit of privacy that you allow it to, it absorbs every sliver of information you wittingly or unwittingly provide it.
That's the cost of dealing with Facebook. If you use Facebook you give them every right to collect whatever information on you that they choose. In many cases, Facebook knows more about you than you do yourself.
People have two choices: 1) decide whatever benefit you get from Facebook is worth giving away every information about yourself and all privacy. or 2) don't use Facebook.
If privacy is important to you, you won't use them. If privacy is unimportant to you, no-one has the right to complain.
It's inevitable that Artificial Intelligence is going to take more and more control over our lives.
Don't want racist cops shooting black people: Introducing the Copbot 3000- guaranteed to treat all races equally. The Copbot 3000, won't be distracted by cleavage and give women warnings for speeding and men tickets. The Copbot 3000 won't pat white people on the back whilst massacring our African youth. The Copbot 3000 won't hide in the doughnut shop whilst the bank gets robbed.
Ask your senator to replace the nations police force with Copbots today!
Before that though, in the much more near-future, what about managing Economics? A computer AI could probably learn to control our nation's economic policy much better than any human(s). A computer could probably make a better legislator. There might be some resistance to turning over control to AI but once North Korea and China do, and they start leaving our economy in the dust then a domino effect will happen and more and more nations will turn to AI to control their nations economic policies.
It won't be far into the future where the choice will be- turn control over to AI OR fall behind. No-one wants to fall behind so we will gladly surrender our sovereignty to AI.
It's scary. National governments aren't allowed to collect data on us and spy on us (legally at least, we all know they do illegally behind our backs), but private corporations are allowed to collect data on us and spy on us all they want.
At some point there will have to be some major consumer rights movement to protect from this. The data collected on us doesn't just exist on the websites of whoever collects it, but also in the Russian hackers cloud storage, and everyone they sell their information to. The companies collecting our data hasn't been particulary good at defending it. Any level 1 shadowrunner can steal it.
I had a coworker who taught intro to computers in evening classes at a community college 15 years or so ago.
On more than one occasion he had a student get confused by the concept of "Right-Click with the Mouse" they would try to *write* "click" using the mouse.