Sorry, but why would we trust multi-billion dollar companies to self regulate
Because if they do not they die, or are punished rather badly.
their clear goal is maximizing profits
Here's the problem with being afraid of that - you have no idea what that actually means. In fact, even GOOGLE does not know what that really means.
No-one knows what actions would truly "maximize profits". Certainly not the people outside the company's top execs who have no inkling of the roadmap for the company, and very little ability to understand what will even be possible in five years or longer. But for those inside the company, even then actions are just an educated guess.
So companies may be trying to "maximize profits" but since there is no one sure way to do so, instead what they are really doing is trying to follow a mission statement to move a company forward toward one or more end goals. Often those goals can have some altruistic purpose to help people, alongside the goal to help the company.
getting as much of your data as possible.
Some but not all, Google for sure this is indeed true of.
We need to be regulating them
Oh so you'd like the citation much worse? You'd like all other companies to end up like pharmaceutical companies, the most heavily regulated industry there is?
The problem with using regulation as the only tool to shape company actions is that if a company is large enough it can easily control the regulations that supposedly control them. Then not only can they do what they like without worry about government, but they use regulations as a tool to ensure competitors cannot function well, thereby removing the only real force that actually changes company behavior - market pressure. If you can't have some small company come up and compete against you, a company will do what it likes forever - the more regulation the better.
They looked on the beautiful night sky, pointing out to each other the constellations they knew, admiring the band of the Milky Way as it swept across the inky night sky.
But all go things must come to an end, they had to get up early to polish the shipping drones for tomorrows run. They stood up, and removed the augmented reality goggles.
Looking up again, one of them thought he could maybe see Orion peeking out from behind the neon cup-o-noodles constellation and northen lighting shading effects, but then it was gone as the remaining colors of the night sky washed over his eyes competing for attention.
A major spoiler here if you've not watched the previous seasons, but taking your dragons deep into the heart of the undead kingdom was exceedingly stupid, basically like having a cavalier attitude to nuclear weapon security and handing over a Fat Man to a rogue nation.
Now the undead have one and they are blazing a path south (though to give them credit, they are not unthinking monsters, they stoped along the way to hang some artwork). Without the dragon the wall guards could have just spent years dropping flaming pitch on the things.
Honestly I found the article at the link hard to parse to find out if you could even do anything now - I thought the whole point was they were developing a client, that would run on BOINC - there was a link to submit your email to be notified with progress (and I guess when it was ready).
Using the laptop to help measure gravitational waves is a pretty nice way to help, although I have to say after the forth or fifth drop the screen started acting up a bit so I had to discontinue.
I personally agree that all of the major companies have long ago abandoned any pretense to being neutral platforms, and all should be excluded from 230 protections.
Maybe they could be given year long trial periods to see if they could actually behave with thread of 230 status being rescinded.
From the trailer and what little we know, I think the last movie may be better than the two before it... Because they reach a real finale I think it will be less faffing about and more closing up a lot of story threads.
In a way, the previous two movies were practice movies for the last movie, both in terns of acting and writing.
The really good thing is, one way or another the final movie of the original,movie series finally leaves a lot of breathing room for a ton more Star Wars stories in all forms to bloom. There are some really promising looking videos games (Jedi Fallen Order) and live order TV stuff coming out, that probably will be more unique an interesting than the movies have been.
if you're going to sell in any appreciable volume, the costs "wasted" in production vastly outweigh
How do you know the costs "vasty outweigh"?
In fact, doesn't it seem like the costs of having two different kinds of batteries in an assembly line, along with needing to stock spare batteries of both types for years, along with the manufacturing costs of multiple kinds of batteries instead of just one all add up to a pretty significant cost - especially when you are talking about something as large as a whole-car battery?
The extra "cost" is merely a few pounds of battery material. Why is that so unthinkable? The side advantage of that is that the battery life of the lower-range cars will be improved because even as battery performance deteriorates somewhat over time, that is made up for by the unused capacity that is software limited. So it makes a ton of sense all around, especially since Tesla in manufacturing their own batteries...
"Hey's he's communicating just like Princess Leia! He must be a man of the people!".
People think of you as elitist based on what you do. If what you do is appear to them in a hologram but then say even the poorest should get $1k/month as basic pay, that sure doesn't come off as elitist no matter how he arrives speaks to them. Pretty easily people can see that being able to talk to groups from many states in a day via a fancy FaceTime, is way less elitist than flying around the country by private jet.
Plus it's not like the rich are using holograms everywhere, so there's no basis for claiming he's elitist by using one - just smart.
Exactly, for HBO for example I am in during Game of Thrones, but out the rest of the year. Even the Disney service, as cheap as it is if I find I'm not watching it, I'll drop for a few months or longer while they build up content... don't have the kind of flexibility with cable.
Some seem to do just fine without Netflix as well...
Even subscribing to Netflix and Disney I'll still be way better off from a cost standpoint than getting a cable package with any significant channels.
People will swap streaming services upon a regular basis, as none of them will end up with sufficient content
I agree with this statement, for a lot of services. HBO is exactly that way for me, it has some shows I like, but not enough to keep me around for more than a few months at a time...
Netflix I would argue, now has enough content existing and being developed that they can accelerate out of that orbit of churn, to full time streaming for most people.
Disney though, might have enough here to e a full-time subscribe. As mentioned elsewhere, they will have a LOT of Star Wars content including new content (the auxiliary stuff like the TV series have been much better than the movies in recent years). Then you have all the Marvel stuff. And all the Pixar stuff. And all the Disney cartoons and movies... that's a lot of mostly pretty good stuff (well OK Disney TV probably has a lot of filler but still). If you have kids (which notoriously like to watch things repeatedly) it's an instant must-have service. Even without kids if you are into one of the vectors they offer deep enough (Marvel/Star Wars) it's worthwhile and there's probably enough new stuff ongoing you'll keep it for a year...
As an aside, Amazon lucks into yearly video service users because so many people have prime. If they ever broke that charge for video out I think they'd see a huge decline in year long subscribers.
Although I found your post funny, I would say that looking over the data they get back there is probably plenty of micro-butt-clenching moments they are learning plenty from.:-)
by Christmas $14.99 muhahahaah. Seriously, that seems like a well though out almost reasonable price.
I had exactly the same thought, how much would it go up later...
But Disney is being super smart here, because they know even though they have a lot of good stuff, they will always be a secondary subscription to something like Netflix. So they priced it just low enough that it's practical to have both.
Now the real question is, if you want 4K content is that an extra fee on that base... I say yes.
I wasn't going to do it, but if the Disney+ thing holds all the Star Wars content damn them if they didn't price it JUST low enough I will probably go for it after all.
Panasonic doesn't have a problem partnering with Toyota.
It's hard to claim that is a "Partnership" when it was really Toyota panicking and wanting to be able to move faster on electric cars.
It was also an earlier phase of Panasonic lowering the integration with Tesla, as what the Toyota deal did was move ownership of five Panasonic battery manufacturing facilities in China and Japan to the new combined battery entity jointly owned (49% Panasonic and 51% Toyota), in the process reducing the exposure to Panasonic if the electric car battery market does not grow as expected... which Panasonic is saying now, it will not.
You really must learn how to read "partnering" agreements to understand what is really going on, but then coming from a Tesla hater it's no surprise you aren't really understanding the car, or the car battery market and where the payers are at...
the intermediate and long-term goal for the factory was to pump out high-capacity batteries that would let residential and commercial solar users finally get off the grid permanently
The PowerWall is available already. And they have been used in large installations as well, in Australia and other places.
I've thought about getting one just for backup power for the house but it really makes more sense with a solar system, just waiting to see if solar shingles work out long term or what as I would prefer that form factor...
Panasonic ended up downgrading the demand from companies making electric cars.
But it's not like the demand for electric cars is getting any lower, interest is steadily climbing...
So even though Tesla loses some money from Panasonic, it probably is an indicator they have even a larger leg up on the electric car market than previously thought as car makers struggle to get near what Tesla is doing at scale.
The reflector array is definitely on the moon now.
Good point also, though if you look through a large enough telescope you can read the words "this side facing moon" so they may want to send something up there to tip it over or whatever it needs (unboxing?).
I could really go for an unboxing video filmed on the moon. That could probably pay for the whole followup mission alone if you post it on YouTube.
The report where hey used a VPN to shut off access to all 8 million Google servers was pretty illuminating...
But there are absolutely vectors you can use to fight back. As a base - sorry, do not use an Android phone. An iOS device means Google will not get any location data you do not feed it, and you can be careful.
For email you can use something like ProtonMail, and be secure... for search you can use duckduckgo or bing.
Once you start browsing the game is kind of up. But even there if you replace the use of a lot of app websites by apps, you can probably avoid giving Google too much data...
It would be interesting to expand on that idea and see what was possible on that magic blocking VPN if you tried more carefully.
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry, but why would we trust multi-billion dollar companies to self regulate
Because if they do not they die, or are punished rather badly.
their clear goal is maximizing profits
Here's the problem with being afraid of that - you have no idea what that actually means. In fact, even GOOGLE does not know what that really means.
No-one knows what actions would truly "maximize profits". Certainly not the people outside the company's top execs who have no inkling of the roadmap for the company, and very little ability to understand what will even be possible in five years or longer. But for those inside the company, even then actions are just an educated guess.
So companies may be trying to "maximize profits" but since there is no one sure way to do so, instead what they are really doing is trying to follow a mission statement to move a company forward toward one or more end goals. Often those goals can have some altruistic purpose to help people, alongside the goal to help the company.
getting as much of your data as possible.
Some but not all, Google for sure this is indeed true of.
We need to be regulating them
Oh so you'd like the citation much worse? You'd like all other companies to end up like pharmaceutical companies, the most heavily regulated industry there is?
The problem with using regulation as the only tool to shape company actions is that if a company is large enough it can easily control the regulations that supposedly control them. Then not only can they do what they like without worry about government, but they use regulations as a tool to ensure competitors cannot function well, thereby removing the only real force that actually changes company behavior - market pressure. If you can't have some small company come up and compete against you, a company will do what it likes forever - the more regulation the better.
They looked on the beautiful night sky, pointing out to each other the constellations they knew, admiring the band of the Milky Way as it swept across the inky night sky.
But all go things must come to an end, they had to get up early to polish the shipping drones for tomorrows run. They stood up, and removed the augmented reality goggles.
Looking up again, one of them thought he could maybe see Orion peeking out from behind the neon cup-o-noodles constellation and northen lighting shading effects, but then it was gone as the remaining colors of the night sky washed over his eyes competing for attention.
A major spoiler here if you've not watched the previous seasons, but taking your dragons deep into the heart of the undead kingdom was exceedingly stupid, basically like having a cavalier attitude to nuclear weapon security and handing over a Fat Man to a rogue nation.
Now the undead have one and they are blazing a path south (though to give them credit, they are not unthinking monsters, they stoped along the way to hang some artwork). Without the dragon the wall guards could have just spent years dropping flaming pitch on the things.
And sucks midwestern
There's this little town called Chicago, maybe you should look it up sometime.
Or a bunch of towns in Texas, that are actually multi-cultural compared to pretty much anywhere in California.
And you don't have to keep your eyes on the sidewalk continuously walking anywhere in the midwest.
Honestly I found the article at the link hard to parse to find out if you could even do anything now - I thought the whole point was they were developing a client, that would run on BOINC - there was a link to submit your email to be notified with progress (and I guess when it was ready).
Using the laptop to help measure gravitational waves is a pretty nice way to help, although I have to say after the forth or fifth drop the screen started acting up a bit so I had to discontinue.
I personally agree that all of the major companies have long ago abandoned any pretense to being neutral platforms, and all should be excluded from 230 protections.
Maybe they could be given year long trial periods to see if they could actually behave with thread of 230 status being rescinded.
From the trailer and what little we know, I think the last movie may be better than the two before it... Because they reach a real finale I think it will be less faffing about and more closing up a lot of story threads.
In a way, the previous two movies were practice movies for the last movie, both in terns of acting and writing.
The really good thing is, one way or another the final movie of the original ,movie series finally leaves a lot of breathing room for a ton more Star Wars stories in all forms to bloom. There are some really promising looking videos games (Jedi Fallen Order) and live order TV stuff coming out, that probably will be more unique an interesting than the movies have been.
if you're going to sell in any appreciable volume, the costs "wasted" in production vastly outweigh
How do you know the costs "vasty outweigh"?
In fact, doesn't it seem like the costs of having two different kinds of batteries in an assembly line, along with needing to stock spare batteries of both types for years, along with the manufacturing costs of multiple kinds of batteries instead of just one all add up to a pretty significant cost - especially when you are talking about something as large as a whole-car battery?
The extra "cost" is merely a few pounds of battery material. Why is that so unthinkable? The side advantage of that is that the battery life of the lower-range cars will be improved because even as battery performance deteriorates somewhat over time, that is made up for by the unused capacity that is software limited. So it makes a ton of sense all around, especially since Tesla in manufacturing their own batteries...
Funny how all of these science-rejecting anti-vaxxers are all from the most liberal areas of the country.
"Hey's he's communicating just like Princess Leia! He must be a man of the people!".
People think of you as elitist based on what you do. If what you do is appear to them in a hologram but then say even the poorest should get $1k/month as basic pay, that sure doesn't come off as elitist no matter how he arrives speaks to them. Pretty easily people can see that being able to talk to groups from many states in a day via a fancy FaceTime, is way less elitist than flying around the country by private jet.
Plus it's not like the rich are using holograms everywhere, so there's no basis for claiming he's elitist by using one - just smart.
Holograms delivered to every state on demand for a day of town halls around the country?
Now THAT is mass-communicatiin'!
Exactly, for HBO for example I am in during Game of Thrones, but out the rest of the year. Even the Disney service, as cheap as it is if I find I'm not watching it, I'll drop for a few months or longer while they build up content... don't have the kind of flexibility with cable.
Some seem to do just fine without Netflix as well...
Even subscribing to Netflix and Disney I'll still be way better off from a cost standpoint than getting a cable package with any significant channels.
People will swap streaming services upon a regular basis, as none of them will end up with sufficient content
I agree with this statement, for a lot of services. HBO is exactly that way for me, it has some shows I like, but not enough to keep me around for more than a few months at a time...
Netflix I would argue, now has enough content existing and being developed that they can accelerate out of that orbit of churn, to full time streaming for most people.
Disney though, might have enough here to e a full-time subscribe. As mentioned elsewhere, they will have a LOT of Star Wars content including new content (the auxiliary stuff like the TV series have been much better than the movies in recent years). Then you have all the Marvel stuff. And all the Pixar stuff. And all the Disney cartoons and movies... that's a lot of mostly pretty good stuff (well OK Disney TV probably has a lot of filler but still). If you have kids (which notoriously like to watch things repeatedly) it's an instant must-have service. Even without kids if you are into one of the vectors they offer deep enough (Marvel/Star Wars) it's worthwhile and there's probably enough new stuff ongoing you'll keep it for a year...
As an aside, Amazon lucks into yearly video service users because so many people have prime. If they ever broke that charge for video out I think they'd see a huge decline in year long subscribers.
Although I found your post funny, I would say that looking over the data they get back there is probably plenty of micro-butt-clenching moments they are learning plenty from. :-)
There are at least two live action Star Wars shows in the hopper...
I agree, that is a lot of Star Wars (and Marvel) content for a not very large price.
by Christmas $14.99 muhahahaah. Seriously, that seems like a well though out almost reasonable price.
I had exactly the same thought, how much would it go up later...
But Disney is being super smart here, because they know even though they have a lot of good stuff, they will always be a secondary subscription to something like Netflix. So they priced it just low enough that it's practical to have both.
Now the real question is, if you want 4K content is that an extra fee on that base... I say yes.
I wasn't going to do it, but if the Disney+ thing holds all the Star Wars content damn them if they didn't price it JUST low enough I will probably go for it after all.
If they have an AppleTV app.
Panasonic doesn't have a problem partnering with Toyota.
It's hard to claim that is a "Partnership" when it was really Toyota panicking and wanting to be able to move faster on electric cars.
It was also an earlier phase of Panasonic lowering the integration with Tesla, as what the Toyota deal did was move ownership of five Panasonic battery manufacturing facilities in China and Japan to the new combined battery entity jointly owned (49% Panasonic and 51% Toyota), in the process reducing the exposure to Panasonic if the electric car battery market does not grow as expected... which Panasonic is saying now, it will not.
You really must learn how to read "partnering" agreements to understand what is really going on, but then coming from a Tesla hater it's no surprise you aren't really understanding the car, or the car battery market and where the payers are at...
the intermediate and long-term goal for the factory was to pump out high-capacity batteries that would let residential and commercial solar users finally get off the grid permanently
The PowerWall is available already. And they have been used in large installations as well, in Australia and other places.
I've thought about getting one just for backup power for the house but it really makes more sense with a solar system, just waiting to see if solar shingles work out long term or what as I would prefer that form factor...
1) Non tech-news at all. 2) boring as hell
Good grief, Batteries are the ultimate tech news!
If there was a BatteryDot I'd read that more often than SlashDot...
Our world depends so much on batteries these days...
Panasonic ended up downgrading the demand from companies making electric cars.
But it's not like the demand for electric cars is getting any lower, interest is steadily climbing...
So even though Tesla loses some money from Panasonic, it probably is an indicator they have even a larger leg up on the electric car market than previously thought as car makers struggle to get near what Tesla is doing at scale.
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions.
Hey, condolences to your brother....
The reflector array is definitely on the moon now.
Good point also, though if you look through a large enough telescope you can read the words "this side facing moon" so they may want to send something up there to tip it over or whatever it needs (unboxing?).
I could really go for an unboxing video filmed on the moon. That could probably pay for the whole followup mission alone if you post it on YouTube.
See recent reports of people who have tried.
The report where hey used a VPN to shut off access to all 8 million Google servers was pretty illuminating...
But there are absolutely vectors you can use to fight back. As a base - sorry, do not use an Android phone. An iOS device means Google will not get any location data you do not feed it, and you can be careful.
For email you can use something like ProtonMail, and be secure... for search you can use duckduckgo or bing.
Once you start browsing the game is kind of up. But even there if you replace the use of a lot of app websites by apps, you can probably avoid giving Google too much data...
It would be interesting to expand on that idea and see what was possible on that magic blocking VPN if you tried more carefully.