More libertarian is to come up with an alternative that is better, not to tax something in a way that inherently harms poor people - that's the domain of liberals seeking to create victims to exploit.
I think there needs to be a recycling tax (on everything) to mitigate this new disaster.
The problem is, where do you apply that tax? Because almost all of the ocean plastics come from the third world (and China, I don't really think of them as third world)... can they afford the tax you are proposing? I think instead of a tax some kind of viable alternative for the plastics they are using needs to be in place.
I agree that plastic trash is a problem everywhere but a lot of first world areas (like the U.S. or Europe) have done a pretty good job greatly reducing plastic waste that gets into the environment, especially by reducing the use of plastic bags from stores.
I do a lot of work picking up trash around my community and elsewhere, in recent years there has been a notable reduction in the amount of plastic bags blowing around outside (there are still some).
I'm confused -- I thought you were FOR mass surveillance in other threads on Slashdot. Why the sudden change of heart?
You can recognize mass surveillance is inevitable, and even support it to some degree - while still wanting to support things that help maintain anonymity.
After all, mass surveillance only potentially gives information about where you were - but not for instance hat you did there in private.
Personally I am neither for nor against mass surveillance, I just recognize the inevitability of more and more cameras being everywhere. So then it makes sense to balance that out with anonymizing features the populace can make use of.
Microsoft concluded it would lead to innocent women and minorities being disproportionately held for questioning because the artificial intelligence has been trained on mostly white and male pictures.
So that naturally leads to the question, why the heck are they training these things with mostly white and male pictures? Couldn't find any pictures of women on the internet?
I've never understood why so many people buy playstations.
Because they are fun and offer a lot of entertainment for the money.
They have a lot of great exclusive games, and more importantly to me, have some really interesting fringe stuff that is like indie stuff done with a higher budget.
I like to compare two large scale games to help demonstrate the difference as well - Horizon Zero Dawn, and The Witcher 3.
I have both for the PS4, the Witcher 3 I know was very popular with PC gaming friends. But to me, even playing it on a console it had way, way too much micromanagement and gear wear mechanics to make in enjoyable - even though I loved the Witcher books, and found the game story very interesting.
Horizon Zero Dawn was way more tuned to someone who wanted a pretty long adventure, but more time spent enjoying the world and learning mechanics of the game rather than drudgery. It sure seems like most of the PC exclusives are heavily into drudgery in a way that turns me off now.
They're so limited and not even that much cheaper than a decent gaming PC
Here's the thing, I've had gaming PC's before. They are only cheaper, as the old saying goes, if your time is worth nothing.
I don't have a lot of time during the week I can play games currently. So have to have any of that sucked into the nightmare that is Windows/driver maintaining... well, not worth the tradeoff for the few advantages you would get from a PC exclusive.
By the time you've bought 3-5 AAA games on steam vs PS4 games
I don't see how that helps make the PC cheaper since AAA titles on PC or steam are all very expensive. I usually wait some time before buying most games to get a bit of a discount (there are some exceptions).
To those with the time an energy to invest in PC gaming, I salute you and am sure you will have some amazing experiences (especially visually, I've watched a number of videos of the ray tracing stuff starting to be delivered and it looks amazing). But I am extremely happy limiting myself to consoles for now, and can have some amazing experiences there as well.
It wouldn't identify them as spam, it just wouldn't say they were verified (as this new T-Mobile link up appears to do).
T-Mobile does also identify scam callers in some cases, but it uses a variety of techniques to do that (and a master list updated every six minutes), so it also would not arbitrary mark all calls from a small carrier as spam.
I have to say from those pictures it did seem like the film was hard enough to remove I was surprised they tried past the first small tug.
But enough other screens are dead as well the protector alone cannot be the whole story... you have to wonder when these things hit the drop/scratch test videos, if any will survive at all.
I still like the idea of the Fold but it seems like it needs some refinement for durability.
I saw a few Twtter users partially blaming themselves for removing a protective film that Samsung says you are not supposed to remove...
For one thing, if it was a layer that users should be removing, don't make it removable like the screen protectors most other phones ship with.
Secondly, there's no way removing that film would have helped since it seems like failures are often coming from stuff trapped in the hinges that bulges outward into the screen? Regardless screens should not fail so quickly because a protective film is removed.
I'm having trouble visualizing how these failures happen though, one tweet I saw said something got trapped in the hinge and bulged outward. How could anything get trapped in a hinge that would do that though? Folded the hinge is on the outside, unfolding it just opens the two halves up, I don't see how it could apply mechanical pressure to the screen from the back...
["Content relevant to your interrest" normally include stuff you agree or disagree with, but on a particular subject.] - You'd think that, but that's not how people are.
But Twitter shows that is EXACTLY how people are.
Because so much of twitter is filled with people in a bubble, bringing in contrary stories from outside that bubble to complain about, and to have others complain about as well.
A flat earther wouldn't find stuff on Globular Earth within their interest
Yes they absolutely would because they would want to bitch about that on Twitter, and call the group to flood the comments on any globular Earth story. That is exactly what happens today, everyday, all the time.
This is a bit surprising not so much because Intel has been having such a good time in phone silicon(since they haven't); but because I would have assumed that Intel would have considered an at least adequate cell modem to be essential
They probably do consider that essential.
But the fact is, they just cannot do as good a job as Qualcomm can. Losing Apple meant that there was no way they could fund the years required for Intel to build up the expertise needed.
You can be forgiven for thinking that, because it was not that long ago what you say was true and you don't get a lot of news about China in the mainstream press.
But these days the poverty rate has been driven to 3.1 percent, because China has been working really hard to live the very poorest out of poverty.
Now China is of course known to cook some books, but even with that factored in they are far from having 2/3 of China below the poverty line these days.
I'd hire back-hat hackers and under-20's to deal with this problem if I was truly serious about addressing this issue.
That's close but wouldn't really fix things...
Instead, anyone with a specific degree of hacking ability would automatically gain a UBI of $250k a year an immunity from all drug and prostitution laws.
Let the really good hackers take themselves out of the game through victory.
Just provide a convenient and cost-effective means of replacing the battery when it fails.
Except your concern is not even a thing for most people, so how would it stand out?
An AirPods user can just have Apple replace batteries when needed a few years down the road. Why make a product suck (which it would using any kind of common battery) for something you may need to do once every few years?
Or maybe they make some kind of super custom Microsoft battery. Honestly how is a user having to change out tiny super-expensive micro batteries "better" by any metric?
A nice sentiment but I strongly doubt Apple will actually do anything useful in this regard.
They already did.
The iPhone used to offer a unique device ID that never changed, and was the same across all apps.
But Apple realized that was being misused for tracking, so they changed the system (at a time Google was paying them to include Google as the search engine) so that advertisers could just get an advertising ID, that can in theory change any time.
In fact the thing that really scratches your theory - any IOS user can reset the advertising ID manually any time they like, via the Reset Advertising Identifier feature under Settings->Privacy->Advertising.
Yes in fact the wall kept out the wildlings, until they were invited to cross so they could help fight the undead.
The undead would have been hanging out for a long time being burnt to a crisp from above, had they noted a dragon to melt a section of the wall.
So yes, even after building a wall a tank can indeed get through it. But since not everyone has a tank it's still a good idea to build a wall to keep out the vastly greater numbers without tanks.
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More libertarian is to come up with an alternative that is better, not to tax something in a way that inherently harms poor people - that's the domain of liberals seeking to create victims to exploit.
I think there needs to be a recycling tax (on everything) to mitigate this new disaster.
The problem is, where do you apply that tax? Because almost all of the ocean plastics come from the third world (and China, I don't really think of them as third world)... can they afford the tax you are proposing? I think instead of a tax some kind of viable alternative for the plastics they are using needs to be in place.
I agree that plastic trash is a problem everywhere but a lot of first world areas (like the U.S. or Europe) have done a pretty good job greatly reducing plastic waste that gets into the environment, especially by reducing the use of plastic bags from stores.
I do a lot of work picking up trash around my community and elsewhere, in recent years there has been a notable reduction in the amount of plastic bags blowing around outside (there are still some).
I'm confused -- I thought you were FOR mass surveillance in other threads on Slashdot. Why the sudden change of heart?
You can recognize mass surveillance is inevitable, and even support it to some degree - while still wanting to support things that help maintain anonymity.
After all, mass surveillance only potentially gives information about where you were - but not for instance hat you did there in private.
Personally I am neither for nor against mass surveillance, I just recognize the inevitability of more and more cameras being everywhere. So then it makes sense to balance that out with anonymizing features the populace can make use of.
The classification of a bot as bad could be debated
If the bots could talk, I'm sure they'd paraphrase Jessica Rabiit and say "I'm not bad, I was just coded that way".
Microsoft concluded it would lead to innocent women and minorities being disproportionately held for questioning because the artificial intelligence has been trained on mostly white and male pictures.
So that naturally leads to the question, why the heck are they training these things with mostly white and male pictures? Couldn't find any pictures of women on the internet?
I've never understood why so many people buy playstations.
Because they are fun and offer a lot of entertainment for the money.
They have a lot of great exclusive games, and more importantly to me, have some really interesting fringe stuff that is like indie stuff done with a higher budget.
I like to compare two large scale games to help demonstrate the difference as well - Horizon Zero Dawn, and The Witcher 3.
I have both for the PS4, the Witcher 3 I know was very popular with PC gaming friends. But to me, even playing it on a console it had way, way too much micromanagement and gear wear mechanics to make in enjoyable - even though I loved the Witcher books, and found the game story very interesting.
Horizon Zero Dawn was way more tuned to someone who wanted a pretty long adventure, but more time spent enjoying the world and learning mechanics of the game rather than drudgery. It sure seems like most of the PC exclusives are heavily into drudgery in a way that turns me off now.
They're so limited and not even that much cheaper than a decent gaming PC
Here's the thing, I've had gaming PC's before. They are only cheaper, as the old saying goes, if your time is worth nothing.
I don't have a lot of time during the week I can play games currently. So have to have any of that sucked into the nightmare that is Windows /driver maintaining... well, not worth the tradeoff for the few advantages you would get from a PC exclusive.
By the time you've bought 3-5 AAA games on steam vs PS4 games
I don't see how that helps make the PC cheaper since AAA titles on PC or steam are all very expensive. I usually wait some time before buying most games to get a bit of a discount (there are some exceptions).
To those with the time an energy to invest in PC gaming, I salute you and am sure you will have some amazing experiences (especially visually, I've watched a number of videos of the ray tracing stuff starting to be delivered and it looks amazing). But I am extremely happy limiting myself to consoles for now, and can have some amazing experiences there as well.
It wouldn't identify them as spam, it just wouldn't say they were verified (as this new T-Mobile link up appears to do).
T-Mobile does also identify scam callers in some cases, but it uses a variety of techniques to do that (and a master list updated every six minutes), so it also would not arbitrary mark all calls from a small carrier as spam.
I have to say from those pictures it did seem like the film was hard enough to remove I was surprised they tried past the first small tug.
But enough other screens are dead as well the protector alone cannot be the whole story... you have to wonder when these things hit the drop/scratch test videos, if any will survive at all.
I still like the idea of the Fold but it seems like it needs some refinement for durability.
I saw a few Twtter users partially blaming themselves for removing a protective film that Samsung says you are not supposed to remove...
For one thing, if it was a layer that users should be removing, don't make it removable like the screen protectors most other phones ship with.
Secondly, there's no way removing that film would have helped since it seems like failures are often coming from stuff trapped in the hinges that bulges outward into the screen? Regardless screens should not fail so quickly because a protective film is removed.
I'm having trouble visualizing how these failures happen though, one tweet I saw said something got trapped in the hinge and bulged outward. How could anything get trapped in a hinge that would do that though? Folded the hinge is on the outside, unfolding it just opens the two halves up, I don't see how it could apply mechanical pressure to the screen from the back...
["Content relevant to your interrest" normally include stuff you agree or disagree with, but on a particular subject.] - You'd think that, but that's not how people are.
But Twitter shows that is EXACTLY how people are.
Because so much of twitter is filled with people in a bubble, bringing in contrary stories from outside that bubble to complain about, and to have others complain about as well.
A flat earther wouldn't find stuff on Globular Earth within their interest
Yes they absolutely would because they would want to bitch about that on Twitter, and call the group to flood the comments on any globular Earth story. That is exactly what happens today, everyday, all the time.
It is only a matter of time until economy class gets always-on advertisements without ability to turn off, mute, or skip on infotainment.
The flight attendant is now demonstrating how to buckle your seatbelt, and attach your mandatory head restraint and eyelid clips.
Thank you for flying Clockwork Air!
Click on all the squares that contain:
80's pop stars
Original Star-Wars trilogy special effect
Pogs
Kurt Cobain Girlfriend
There will be life here after we are gone
Hey, the Earth only kept us around so we could produce plastics. Our work here is done.
This is a bit surprising not so much because Intel has been having such a good time in phone silicon(since they haven't); but because I would have assumed that Intel would have considered an at least adequate cell modem to be essential
They probably do consider that essential.
But the fact is, they just cannot do as good a job as Qualcomm can. Losing Apple meant that there was no way they could fund the years required for Intel to build up the expertise needed.
2/3 of China is below the poverty line
You can be forgiven for thinking that, because it was not that long ago what you say was true and you don't get a lot of news about China in the mainstream press.
But these days the poverty rate has been driven to 3.1 percent, because China has been working really hard to live the very poorest out of poverty.
Now China is of course known to cook some books, but even with that factored in they are far from having 2/3 of China below the poverty line these days.
I'd hire back-hat hackers and under-20's to deal with this problem if I was truly serious about addressing this issue.
That's close but wouldn't really fix things...
Instead, anyone with a specific degree of hacking ability would automatically gain a UBI of $250k a year an immunity from all drug and prostitution laws.
Let the really good hackers take themselves out of the game through victory.
You want to vote for this guy, or someone creating a Space Force?
Besides, Trump already issued a National Cyber Strategy, and there is already a joint military Cyber Force.
Just provide a convenient and cost-effective means of replacing the battery when it fails.
Except your concern is not even a thing for most people, so how would it stand out?
An AirPods user can just have Apple replace batteries when needed a few years down the road. Why make a product suck (which it would using any kind of common battery) for something you may need to do once every few years?
Or maybe they make some kind of super custom Microsoft battery. Honestly how is a user having to change out tiny super-expensive micro batteries "better" by any metric?
Never really thought about it before, but a very bright screen meant for outdoor use is a great niche to produce a laptop for.
A nice sentiment but I strongly doubt Apple will actually do anything useful in this regard.
They already did.
The iPhone used to offer a unique device ID that never changed, and was the same across all apps.
But Apple realized that was being misused for tracking, so they changed the system (at a time Google was paying them to include Google as the search engine) so that advertisers could just get an advertising ID, that can in theory change any time.
In fact the thing that really scratches your theory - any IOS user can reset the advertising ID manually any time they like, via the Reset Advertising Identifier feature under Settings->Privacy->Advertising.
That was introduced in iOS6...
"You're gonna need a bigger boat"
2 inches? In the Midwest? Where one regularly drives past (and into) potholes that are over 4 inches deep after each winter?
Maybe the thought was if the cables were just 2in down, they would actually serve to reinforce the road. :-)
I was also wondering why just 2in down, that seems extremely shallow and that any kind of roadwork would mess up the cables.
Couldn't the city just have taken over the cables at least? Why do they have to be removed?
I can see repairing the damage but it seems excessive to go back and remove everything installed.
Yes in fact the wall kept out the wildlings, until they were invited to cross so they could help fight the undead.
The undead would have been hanging out for a long time being burnt to a crisp from above, had they noted a dragon to melt a section of the wall.
So yes, even after building a wall a tank can indeed get through it. But since not everyone has a tank it's still a good idea to build a wall to keep out the vastly greater numbers without tanks.