a lifespan that long would make evolution (both genes and memes) very slow, reducing the likely hood of becoming so advanced.
On the flipside, if you're advanced enough to create interstellar spacecraft, you might very well be advanced enough to eliminate aging in your species artificially.
Even if they couldn't, there are plenty of other natural alternatives outside of technology. Lifespan is relative. A long lifespan just means that it just takes longer to evolve, who says they haven't been around longer than us? Their biology might be such that they evolve quicker, higher number of mutations. They might have a cyclical lifetime where they go through phases of growth and dieback, and they could mutate multiple times in a lifetime (Some species do that on earth- although could an advanced species do that and retain memories?- not inconceivable). The mutation that caused extremely long lifespans could have evolved late in their development when they were already becoming the dominant species on their planet.
Any number of explanations why a long-lived species could be out there.
>my photos! (which they won't find because I'm not on facebook)
You probably are. Someone else uploads a picture with you in it, your face gets tagged, then it gets linked to the shadow profile of you they already have. Maybe it's an out of date photo - an old school class photo or something.
It's extremely evil from a privacy perspective and there is no will in the USA to do anything about it.
Probably... but no user would be able to find enough photos of me to reliably pass themselves off as me. I'm sure a couple of photos of me may have found their way online (I avoid when possible) but not enough to create a fake persona.
Actually you got that wrong. If you're not on FB, you'll never get a notice that people who _are_ on FB are posting pictures of you.
It's a ploy to get all the paranoid people onto FB or at least 1 picture of them.
If someone wants to pretend to be a slightly overweight guy with yellowing teeth from excess coffee consumption, they're welcome to use my photos! (which they won't find because I'm not on facebook.)
I can't wait until I get notified by my doppelganger, who is a porn star. It's caused quite a bit of embarrassment when co-workers ask if that's me in the skin mags.
We're doing this to prevent people from impersonating others on Facebook,
That's a lie Facebook. You're doing it so that you can track people better. See if they have multiple accounts. Track who really knows who and who has been where. Etc.
You're facemapping people so you can collect more data to sell. Don't tell porkies and claim it's to prevent impersonation. It's not. It's really not and we're not all stupid. You may "tack on" that functionality to make it sound more palatable, but you're really just being a big creepy stalker.
Same shit as back then. A lot of people with more money than brains find something where they think for some odd reason that will generate money. How? They don't know. They don't understand it. But somehow that's gonna make money.
Everyone who DOES know also knows that this can't work. At least not in the long run. But there's idiots with money throwing it at me, should I really tell them?
I may be honest. But I'm not stupid.
It doesn't have to make money in the long run if you are psychic enough, or lucky enough to predict when it starts to lose money and get out before then. Short term money gains are good enough if you're lucky enough or know something no one else does.
The same way they come up with electric bills. A guy I worked with was running some miners. The power company contacted him because his power usage was so high they were certain something was malfunctioning. He was using something like 20x the average power of a house. Tracking it would be trivial.
And in a country where electricity is subsidized by the government (everyone else) that 20x power consumption amounts almost to stealing from everyone else (the rest of the country is paying for you to get rich).
As you say, they should be easy to track, and whereas I don't agree with Venezuela's form of government, the government in that case absolutely has the right, and moral responsibility to track these people down and tax them accordingly.
No one is trying to take your receiver. It's the transmitters that are changing. You're welcome to keep your receiver that no longer receives anything.
Bill Rogers is going to Telus that an enormous country with a low population density and harsh weather requiring more expensive equipment, combined with a mostly "fairly-well off" population is going to result in prices being higher than for a more compact population in a milder climate.
I can't, I'll have to get my kids or my wife to ask Alexa. Alexa still doesn't recognise a British accent (at least not in the US). If I ask Alexa what AI is, I'll probably get a pizza delivered.
When I was a kid and did something wrong, Dad used to tell me to go out back and pick a switch.... kids these days would probably get excited to hear that.
Pretty un-fucking-likely. The Wii rode a massive wave of grannies and non-gamers who only ever used the thing for Wii Sports/Wii Play/Wii Other Assorted Minigame shit. The Switch has maybe 3 games worth playing with about 1 more in the pipe, unless they can somehow turn it into another motion-control gimmick machine and market it to the Wii crowd, there's no way it will outdo the Wii on sales.
Game quality-wise, it already has outdone the Wii, but everyone knows that sales are kind.
Wii was first console I ever bought (mainly for kids though). Prior to wii we had been PC only household. Switch is probably the second console I will buy (again, for the kids primarily).
Switch, just like the Wii, crosses the boundaries and attracts people beyond the unshowered sweaty neckbeard demographic.
You think that because you come from Android. Obviously I'm talking generalities here and there are plenty of exceptions but Apple and Android have a different philosophical approach.
Apple try to provide a good service, in part by making it simple to operate so the end-user doesn't have to make any decisions. They make an educated decision on behalf of their user base. (many who are old and don't really understand the technology, so appreciate that).
Android try to leave many decisions in the hands of the users. A lot of them make poor decisions, but it is their decision to make. A lot of them are uneducated about the decisions, but again, if they wanted to they can learn and customize the operating system and the whole experience much more minutely than can be done on Apple's part.
Apple understands their customer base. By and large, it's older and more wealthy than the Android customer base. It's less tech savvy, and wants an experience provided for them. They don't want an operating system that is work for them to configure. Yeah, it might be nice to default it on and give them an option to change it, but the more options there are, the more complexity there is in configuring.
And you don't need to ban 15 year olds from learning phone use!
Oh yes, such a difficult skill to master and we're in such short supply in the labour market for workers who have the ability to use a phone. Why, just the other day I recall hearing our manufacturing department lamenting how hard it is to find workers who know how to operate Candy Crush on their smartphones.
The problem with putting phones in lockers is that the teachers will end up having to deal with disrupted classes because of the kids who just need to check instagram in the break and then end up being late for class. This is a problem that was solved already, mobile phones haven't been around for that long, surely the school has a way to contact students and vice-versa.
There has always been reasons why kids might be late for class. There have always been punishments for kids that are repeatedly late for class. If kids are repeat offending for this, then it is the teacher's fault.
Now i'm sorry, but having a 9 year-old carry a $1000 device is providing them with more risk of being mugged, not less. If they need a mobile, give them a cheapy $20 feature phone. It's also much less expensive when it does inevitably get lost, broken or stolen.
Even if I were obscenely rich, I wouldn't want my kids having powerful phones, not whilst in school. I wouldn't want them to be easily distracted. Cheap underpowered crap is all they get, and not just because I'm cheap.
I also think a teenagers first car they get to drive should have more than 4 cylinders either. Even if you can afford to buy the snowflakes a Porsche, don't! Until they have 5+ driving experience, no one should be driving a powerful car, even if "Daddy" can afford it. For the safety of them or others.
Most school children of ages 8-10 go to a primary school in their neighborhood. On the walk home from a neighborhood school there has seldom ever been a series of pay phones.
I guess if you live in a shit urban area this may not have always been the case.
They don't need a pay phone or a cell phone during school. Kids shouldn't be calling anyone DURING school. France is not talking about banning them BEFORE or AFTER school. Put that phone away kids during the schoolday, it has no place in school.
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a lifespan that long would make evolution (both genes and memes) very slow, reducing the likely hood of becoming so advanced.
On the flipside, if you're advanced enough to create interstellar spacecraft, you might very well be advanced enough to eliminate aging in your species artificially.
Even if they couldn't, there are plenty of other natural alternatives outside of technology. Lifespan is relative. A long lifespan just means that it just takes longer to evolve, who says they haven't been around longer than us? Their biology might be such that they evolve quicker, higher number of mutations. They might have a cyclical lifetime where they go through phases of growth and dieback, and they could mutate multiple times in a lifetime (Some species do that on earth- although could an advanced species do that and retain memories?- not inconceivable). The mutation that caused extremely long lifespans could have evolved late in their development when they were already becoming the dominant species on their planet.
Any number of explanations why a long-lived species could be out there.
>my photos! (which they won't find because I'm not on facebook)
You probably are. Someone else uploads a picture with you in it, your face gets tagged, then it gets linked to the shadow profile of you they already have. Maybe it's an out of date photo - an old school class photo or something.
It's extremely evil from a privacy perspective and there is no will in the USA to do anything about it.
Probably... but no user would be able to find enough photos of me to reliably pass themselves off as me. I'm sure a couple of photos of me may have found their way online (I avoid when possible) but not enough to create a fake persona.
"Just one more reason not to be on Facebook..."
Actually you got that wrong.
If you're not on FB, you'll never get a notice that people who _are_ on FB are posting pictures of you.
It's a ploy to get all the paranoid people onto FB or at least 1 picture of them.
If someone wants to pretend to be a slightly overweight guy with yellowing teeth from excess coffee consumption, they're welcome to use my photos! (which they won't find because I'm not on facebook.)
Facebook's facial recognition is still not perfect. Every time I post a picture of my shih tzu's ass, it tags it as "Donald Trump".
Are you 100% sure your dog's arse isn't Donald Trump?
I can't wait until I get notified by my doppelganger, who is a porn star. It's caused quite a bit of embarrassment when co-workers ask if that's me in the skin mags.
Marty Feldman is not a porn star.
We're doing this to prevent people from impersonating others on Facebook,
That's a lie Facebook. You're doing it so that you can track people better. See if they have multiple accounts. Track who really knows who and who has been where. Etc.
You're facemapping people so you can collect more data to sell. Don't tell porkies and claim it's to prevent impersonation. It's not. It's really not and we're not all stupid. You may "tack on" that functionality to make it sound more palatable, but you're really just being a big creepy stalker.
Same shit as back then. A lot of people with more money than brains find something where they think for some odd reason that will generate money. How? They don't know. They don't understand it. But somehow that's gonna make money.
Everyone who DOES know also knows that this can't work. At least not in the long run. But there's idiots with money throwing it at me, should I really tell them?
I may be honest. But I'm not stupid.
It doesn't have to make money in the long run if you are psychic enough, or lucky enough to predict when it starts to lose money and get out before then. Short term money gains are good enough if you're lucky enough or know something no one else does.
The same way they come up with electric bills. A guy I worked with was running some miners. The power company contacted him because his power usage was so high they were certain something was malfunctioning. He was using something like 20x the average power of a house. Tracking it would be trivial.
And in a country where electricity is subsidized by the government (everyone else) that 20x power consumption amounts almost to stealing from everyone else (the rest of the country is paying for you to get rich).
As you say, they should be easy to track, and whereas I don't agree with Venezuela's form of government, the government in that case absolutely has the right, and moral responsibility to track these people down and tax them accordingly.
It annoys me when I see their beards and glasses and hairy arms.
Yeah... and that's just the hipster women!
Same way they track people who grow pot in their homes, I suspect.
By tracking who buys all the boxes of Betty Crocker brownie mix?
. . . when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
(Sansui 3000A tuned to KCRW)
No one is trying to take your receiver. It's the transmitters that are changing. You're welcome to keep your receiver that no longer receives anything.
I'm confused. What is Bell Rogers going to Telus?
Bill Rogers is going to Telus that an enormous country with a low population density and harsh weather requiring more expensive equipment, combined with a mostly "fairly-well off" population is going to result in prices being higher than for a more compact population in a milder climate.
Bottoms up!
Why do you want my bottom up? I don't trust you with my bottom up.
we should just ask Alexa.
I can't, I'll have to get my kids or my wife to ask Alexa. Alexa still doesn't recognise a British accent (at least not in the US). If I ask Alexa what AI is, I'll probably get a pizza delivered.
When I was a kid and did something wrong, Dad used to tell me to go out back and pick a switch. ... kids these days would probably get excited to hear that.
Pretty un-fucking-likely. The Wii rode a massive wave of grannies and non-gamers who only ever used the thing for Wii Sports/Wii Play/Wii Other Assorted Minigame shit. The Switch has maybe 3 games worth playing with about 1 more in the pipe, unless they can somehow turn it into another motion-control gimmick machine and market it to the Wii crowd, there's no way it will outdo the Wii on sales.
Game quality-wise, it already has outdone the Wii, but everyone knows that sales are kind.
Wii was first console I ever bought (mainly for kids though). Prior to wii we had been PC only household. Switch is probably the second console I will buy (again, for the kids primarily).
Switch, just like the Wii, crosses the boundaries and attracts people beyond the unshowered sweaty neckbeard demographic.
serious players
That's an oxymoron.
"Dedicated" gamers, or "obsessive" gamers might sound a little better.
I'd rather power lines than one of the other things the Japanese media are obsessed with.
But they shouldn't force it.
You think that because you come from Android. Obviously I'm talking generalities here and there are plenty of exceptions but Apple and Android have a different philosophical approach.
Apple try to provide a good service, in part by making it simple to operate so the end-user doesn't have to make any decisions. They make an educated decision on behalf of their user base. (many who are old and don't really understand the technology, so appreciate that).
Android try to leave many decisions in the hands of the users. A lot of them make poor decisions, but it is their decision to make. A lot of them are uneducated about the decisions, but again, if they wanted to they can learn and customize the operating system and the whole experience much more minutely than can be done on Apple's part.
Apple understands their customer base. By and large, it's older and more wealthy than the Android customer base. It's less tech savvy, and wants an experience provided for them. They don't want an operating system that is work for them to configure. Yeah, it might be nice to default it on and give them an option to change it, but the more options there are, the more complexity there is in configuring.
And you don't need to ban 15 year olds from learning phone use!
Oh yes, such a difficult skill to master and we're in such short supply in the labour market for workers who have the ability to use a phone. Why, just the other day I recall hearing our manufacturing department lamenting how hard it is to find workers who know how to operate Candy Crush on their smartphones.
The problem with putting phones in lockers is that the teachers will end up having to deal with disrupted classes because of the kids who just need to check instagram in the break and then end up being late for class. This is a problem that was solved already, mobile phones haven't been around for that long, surely the school has a way to contact students and vice-versa.
There has always been reasons why kids might be late for class. There have always been punishments for kids that are repeatedly late for class. If kids are repeat offending for this, then it is the teacher's fault.
Have you ever heard of parental controls?
Shame parental controls are easy to circumvent and none are very good.
Really? Where do French students fuck?
They don't. They just French kiss a lot.
Now i'm sorry, but having a 9 year-old carry a $1000 device is providing them with more risk of being mugged, not less. If they need a mobile, give them a cheapy $20 feature phone. It's also much less expensive when it does inevitably get lost, broken or stolen.
Even if I were obscenely rich, I wouldn't want my kids having powerful phones, not whilst in school. I wouldn't want them to be easily distracted. Cheap underpowered crap is all they get, and not just because I'm cheap.
I also think a teenagers first car they get to drive should have more than 4 cylinders either. Even if you can afford to buy the snowflakes a Porsche, don't! Until they have 5+ driving experience, no one should be driving a powerful car, even if "Daddy" can afford it. For the safety of them or others.
Most school children of ages 8-10 go to a primary school in their neighborhood. On the walk home from a neighborhood school there has seldom ever been a series of pay phones.
I guess if you live in a shit urban area this may not have always been the case.
They don't need a pay phone or a cell phone during school. Kids shouldn't be calling anyone DURING school. France is not talking about banning them BEFORE or AFTER school. Put that phone away kids during the schoolday, it has no place in school.