I'm pretty sure second graders are required to have better reading comprehension than you're showing here. If you honestly thought that that's what he believes based on that post, then I don't think that makes him the "phenomenally stupid motherfucker".
"they can do it in what amounts to the perfect dark alley"
And? Are dark alleys illegal? Do you get to peruse every personal document in my home because you saw me in a dark alley? I'm sorry, but there is no sound argument for destroying all encryption because a fraction of a percent of people use it in a bad way. The benefits of encryption far outweigh the drawbacks. For the bad car analogy enthusiasts, that's like banning personal vehicles because they cause more injuries than public transportation.
As more and more of our lives are linked to our digital fingerprints (with or without our knowledge or participation) encryption is only going to get more important. No person should have their entire life recorded and brought up at a moments notice. Not even for murder cases. Innocent until proven guilty. You don't get to treat the entire populace as potential suspects at all times. Individual rights are important, and should not be forcibly removed to provide a fraction of a percent of public safety.
How about work on mental health care and start from the ground up with good intentions instead of trying to force this draconian shit down from the top?
Yeah, I can see the supposed positives (informed public, safety in avoiding) but what I can't see is the gains outweighing the negatives. Also, for those positives to function it would leave open a pretty slippery slope to "Well, he had the alert, he should have stayed inside!"
I think body cams that are on 100% of the time an officer is on the clock are a better idea. Management on the police side just has to be humane about what they do with it. Right now, in my area they aren't even being humane about tracking locations. Cops get reprimanded for wellness checks (you know, the potentially positive side of police work) because it's seen as slacking and taking a break.
Or, you know, both extremes are bad and you're a shitty person for wanting anyone, for any reason, to smile if you flip them off. If you treat people like shit, expect them to react in shitty fashion. Public to cop, or cop to public.
Do you have any idea how moronic people sound when they cry about being lumped together and negatively stereotyped...and then do that exact same fucking thing do another group?
Radio stations shift their playlist to accommodate a demographic. Many respond to large amounts of feedback and adjust accordingly. It's a lot easier to change a playlist on a radio station than to shift the programming on a television station. With television there isn't as much new material to work with, and licensing on anything new is problematic at best since each station wants to keep its best shows to itself. Radio stations don't make new music, and they don't have go directly through competing radio stations to license music.
The only station near me that doesn't play the same songs over and over is run out of a college. Even they have large time-chunks dedicated to the same music every day. I used to live on the coast and moved to the midwest. It took three years for a song the played every few hours on the coast stations to make it to the midwest stations. So no, overall the market for AM/FM is not, nor should it be "music-discovery".
Other music services can be tailored per-person. They don't rely entirely on pandering to large groups. That inherently gives them a huge advantage to market to anyone that cares about more than the top 40 in a single genre.
Listening to the radio to hear new music is like going to a chain pizza place when you want tacos. Yes, very rarely you may find a place that sells both...but more often that not you'll just get pizza, and even when you do find tacos there's a decent chance that they aren't that good anyway.
The smart equivalent of my TV would have cost more, not less. I bought it new two holiday seasons ago.
I don't have serious worries about spying. I have serious worries about extra points of failure that give me zero benefit in return. I'm on my third living room TV in 15+ years and the latest wasn't a huge technological upgrade, just a much larger size for a low price. The old one was just moved to the bedroom and is still in use.
I didn't skimp on quality to get a "dumb" TV. I just didn't buy a smart TV, and I wont for as long as I have that option. I can already access streaming video on at least 8 devices in my home off the top of my head, every one of which can be connected to my TV. The TV itself has zero need to have internal apps to do the same thing.
So...you'd start your home oven from across town, with your phone, without worrying? God forbid there are any flaws in such a system that let people get their lulz by starting random peoples' ovens every day. I can't see someone with kids having LESS worries about such a thing.
Ditto on that. The only devices in my house that are connected to anything (or even have the capability to) are my XBox, my PC, my phone, and Chromecast. With the exception of my phone, all of these things are powered down when not in use. None of my televisions are smart TVs, none of my clocks are even digital, my oven/fridge/washer/dryer/etc are all 'dumb' devices. I want as few points of failure as possible in any expensive thing, so all of those bullshit features turn me away before I even have to ask myself how much I care about privacy concerns.
Not having a wire dragging against your mouse movements if it gets caught on something, or just the weight of the cable dragging if you let it hang under the tray.
If that's all it takes for you to blacklist a company you probably aren't eating at ANY major food chain anyway. Or shopping at major retailers, or a number of things.
In fact, if that's enough of an invasion of privacy to blacklist BK, why do you have said Google services in the first place? Are you ok with all of the things Google does with your data?
Maybe it's targeted at all of the grammar nazis that pop up when the summary of a grammer article uses the wrong pronoun for its own example...
"Everyone needs to be sure to tighten HE safety belt before approaching the cliff." Yup, I would totally default to "he" in that example. Thanks, summary!
(I'm aware that that isn't the intent of the article, but that's how the summary is presented.)
I know you're talking about release issues, but I don't personally know anyone that has a current Playstation and does not have a current XBox. Playstation's online stuff was so awful to use that I gave up. I had a PS3 for over a year, only played it a few days during that time.
People may have pissed and moaned about things, but they still bought the product.
- $100 higher price to cover the cost of Kinect -- a device few wanted I've never bought a Kinect bundle. I don't recall that ever being the only option. If that was a release thing they must've backed down quick.
- the TV stuff and the Snap interface so you could split-screen TV and gaming -- providing a poor TV-watching experience and a poor gaming experience All screen-in-screen stuff is terrible for doing either. It's really spiffy for Twitch streaming though, and you can now run things like Pandora in the background via Snap so it's not even on screen. I will never have to listen to repetitive game music again.
- a giant box that looked like a VCR with a big external power brick Current XBox has a low enough profile to sit in front of my TV without blocking the picture and does not have an external power brick. They're learning.
- somewhat worse performance than the PS4 because of the speed of the RAM interface I don't really care enough to make a point here...if there is a difference it's that insignificant during game play.
That's not the point. The point is that the human race is still growing in number, and space on the planet is finite. Unless we're just gonna whip up a few more genocides, we're going to have to make room eventually.
It wont. It's costing billions and it'll require upkeep when it's done. I grew up in Texas. I left the moment I graduated high school and haven't looked back.
I wonder how much is being spent in hospital bills because of Texas' policies on abortion clinics...
By all means, Berkeley should make the material accessible to all of their students. Students from other schools needing said material should be going through THEIR OWN SCHOOL to get the same material made accessible. If their school says no, that's not Berkeley's problem any way you look at it. That is the problem people have with this.
There should not be a cost associated with voluntarily making content available to the public.
They have half of the nodes, but 1-2% of the traffic. They set up a bunch of new nodes, not took over existing nodes. As a result, they have a bunch of nodes that not many people are using. As the issue gets more attention, more of their new nodes are cut out of the loop.
I'm pretty sure it is Stephen Fry, and since I recognize it I'm guessing it's from an episode of QI. I've seen him in plenty of things, but that seems like something that would come up there.
I don't think flying ~500 miles away equates to a deer running scared from a sound in the woods. If this is the same story I saw yesterday, the birds in question had just settled in after a migration flight of 3000 miles or so total. After one or two days back they up and flew ~500 miles away, then came right back to the same spot. This is way more specific than most tales you hear of animals getting away from natural disasters. It's worth looking into for exactly the reason you said, "if someone actually predicted a natural disaster by using animal behaviour, that might be interesting." Thus why it's a news story at all.
When you're talking about a projected image, those things are not automatically linked. If you have an image up on your computer screen you can touch the screen, but you can't feel anything to let you know one image from another. You feel the screen, not the image. With 3d projections you can have the same problem, and that's where this comes in.
Any citizen of the Commonwealth that is accused of a major felony crime by way of an incitement or probable cause hearing by the State, and in which the state subsequently withdraws the complaint (or portion thereof) before trial, the case is dismissed by the court prior to trial OR the citizen is found not guilty of the major felony crime at trial shall be entitled to claim all costs and expenses related to or extending from the trial (including lost income) against the general fund of the commonwealth.
So the super rich are cemented as untouchables in law by the simple fact that any government short of federal isn't going near charges against them with a ten foot pole. And even federal would be up in the air depending on charges. I agree, for nearly all cases the above would be an improvement...but at the same time it would permanently close other doors when it comes to leveling the playing field of the legal system.
Every blanket solution has problems like this, which makes me lean towards case by case solutions. That leads to a "who watches the watchers" kind of argument. I don't think that there can be a real solution without trust, and that trust has been beaten and abused so much that nothing is left. At this point everyone is kind of looking around and thinking, "Yeah, this is screwed up" but has no one to put faith in to fix it. It's a broken system behind a broken system. You have to start at the root of the problem; the people's relation to their government. People need to become more involved and government needs reform. It's a huge system designed specifically to keep sudden change from sweeping through it, which becomes a double edged blade in this case. It's also hard for most people to even grasp the scope of our current government and all of the tangled webs between local, state, and federal.
If you back up even further the problem expands to encompass our entire society. People don't trust people. People fear people. People blame people. People hate people. You have negative reinforcement from all sides. You have cities divided into something akin to war zones. Police are seen as the bad guys more often than not when they step in. Ditto for government. A lot of people just don't care, or pretend not to. Of those that do care, very few make it to a place suitable to making change and of those even less make the trip unscathed.
I've lost my point in the downward spiral, so I'll just end it there.
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I'm pretty sure second graders are required to have better reading comprehension than you're showing here. If you honestly thought that that's what he believes based on that post, then I don't think that makes him the "phenomenally stupid motherfucker".
"they can do it in what amounts to the perfect dark alley"
And? Are dark alleys illegal? Do you get to peruse every personal document in my home because you saw me in a dark alley? I'm sorry, but there is no sound argument for destroying all encryption because a fraction of a percent of people use it in a bad way. The benefits of encryption far outweigh the drawbacks. For the bad car analogy enthusiasts, that's like banning personal vehicles because they cause more injuries than public transportation.
As more and more of our lives are linked to our digital fingerprints (with or without our knowledge or participation) encryption is only going to get more important. No person should have their entire life recorded and brought up at a moments notice. Not even for murder cases. Innocent until proven guilty. You don't get to treat the entire populace as potential suspects at all times. Individual rights are important, and should not be forcibly removed to provide a fraction of a percent of public safety.
How about work on mental health care and start from the ground up with good intentions instead of trying to force this draconian shit down from the top?
Yeah, I can see the supposed positives (informed public, safety in avoiding) but what I can't see is the gains outweighing the negatives. Also, for those positives to function it would leave open a pretty slippery slope to "Well, he had the alert, he should have stayed inside!"
I think body cams that are on 100% of the time an officer is on the clock are a better idea. Management on the police side just has to be humane about what they do with it. Right now, in my area they aren't even being humane about tracking locations. Cops get reprimanded for wellness checks (you know, the potentially positive side of police work) because it's seen as slacking and taking a break.
Or, you know, both extremes are bad and you're a shitty person for wanting anyone, for any reason, to smile if you flip them off. If you treat people like shit, expect them to react in shitty fashion. Public to cop, or cop to public.
Do you have any idea how moronic people sound when they cry about being lumped together and negatively stereotyped...and then do that exact same fucking thing do another group?
Radio stations shift their playlist to accommodate a demographic. Many respond to large amounts of feedback and adjust accordingly. It's a lot easier to change a playlist on a radio station than to shift the programming on a television station. With television there isn't as much new material to work with, and licensing on anything new is problematic at best since each station wants to keep its best shows to itself. Radio stations don't make new music, and they don't have go directly through competing radio stations to license music.
It's apples and oranges.
The only station near me that doesn't play the same songs over and over is run out of a college. Even they have large time-chunks dedicated to the same music every day. I used to live on the coast and moved to the midwest. It took three years for a song the played every few hours on the coast stations to make it to the midwest stations. So no, overall the market for AM/FM is not, nor should it be "music-discovery".
Other music services can be tailored per-person. They don't rely entirely on pandering to large groups. That inherently gives them a huge advantage to market to anyone that cares about more than the top 40 in a single genre.
Listening to the radio to hear new music is like going to a chain pizza place when you want tacos. Yes, very rarely you may find a place that sells both...but more often that not you'll just get pizza, and even when you do find tacos there's a decent chance that they aren't that good anyway.
The smart equivalent of my TV would have cost more, not less. I bought it new two holiday seasons ago.
I don't have serious worries about spying. I have serious worries about extra points of failure that give me zero benefit in return. I'm on my third living room TV in 15+ years and the latest wasn't a huge technological upgrade, just a much larger size for a low price. The old one was just moved to the bedroom and is still in use.
I didn't skimp on quality to get a "dumb" TV. I just didn't buy a smart TV, and I wont for as long as I have that option. I can already access streaming video on at least 8 devices in my home off the top of my head, every one of which can be connected to my TV. The TV itself has zero need to have internal apps to do the same thing.
See also the recent Samsung brilliance.
So...you'd start your home oven from across town, with your phone, without worrying? God forbid there are any flaws in such a system that let people get their lulz by starting random peoples' ovens every day. I can't see someone with kids having LESS worries about such a thing.
Ditto on that. The only devices in my house that are connected to anything (or even have the capability to) are my XBox, my PC, my phone, and Chromecast. With the exception of my phone, all of these things are powered down when not in use. None of my televisions are smart TVs, none of my clocks are even digital, my oven/fridge/washer/dryer/etc are all 'dumb' devices. I want as few points of failure as possible in any expensive thing, so all of those bullshit features turn me away before I even have to ask myself how much I care about privacy concerns.
Not having a wire dragging against your mouse movements if it gets caught on something, or just the weight of the cable dragging if you let it hang under the tray.
If that's all it takes for you to blacklist a company you probably aren't eating at ANY major food chain anyway. Or shopping at major retailers, or a number of things.
In fact, if that's enough of an invasion of privacy to blacklist BK, why do you have said Google services in the first place? Are you ok with all of the things Google does with your data?
his FOUR YEARS of dong things
I guess that's one way to look at it...
Amazing how if you give people something worth paying for they're more likely to pay for it.
It's almost like they screwed themselves out of more money by holding out on changing thier business model than piracy ever cost them...
Maybe it's targeted at all of the grammar nazis that pop up when the summary of a grammer article uses the wrong pronoun for its own example...
"Everyone needs to be sure to tighten HE safety belt before approaching the cliff." Yup, I would totally default to "he" in that example. Thanks, summary!
(I'm aware that that isn't the intent of the article, but that's how the summary is presented.)
I know you're talking about release issues, but I don't personally know anyone that has a current Playstation and does not have a current XBox. Playstation's online stuff was so awful to use that I gave up. I had a PS3 for over a year, only played it a few days during that time.
People may have pissed and moaned about things, but they still bought the product.
- $100 higher price to cover the cost of Kinect -- a device few wanted
I've never bought a Kinect bundle. I don't recall that ever being the only option. If that was a release thing they must've backed down quick.
- the TV stuff and the Snap interface so you could split-screen TV and gaming -- providing a poor TV-watching experience and a poor gaming experience
All screen-in-screen stuff is terrible for doing either. It's really spiffy for Twitch streaming though, and you can now run things like Pandora in the background via Snap so it's not even on screen. I will never have to listen to repetitive game music again.
- a giant box that looked like a VCR with a big external power brick
Current XBox has a low enough profile to sit in front of my TV without blocking the picture and does not have an external power brick. They're learning.
- somewhat worse performance than the PS4 because of the speed of the RAM interface
I don't really care enough to make a point here...if there is a difference it's that insignificant during game play.
That's not the point. The point is that the human race is still growing in number, and space on the planet is finite. Unless we're just gonna whip up a few more genocides, we're going to have to make room eventually.
It wont. It's costing billions and it'll require upkeep when it's done. I grew up in Texas. I left the moment I graduated high school and haven't looked back.
I wonder how much is being spent in hospital bills because of Texas' policies on abortion clinics...
By all means, Berkeley should make the material accessible to all of their students. Students from other schools needing said material should be going through THEIR OWN SCHOOL to get the same material made accessible. If their school says no, that's not Berkeley's problem any way you look at it. That is the problem people have with this.
There should not be a cost associated with voluntarily making content available to the public.
I dunno, 2 Minutes to Midnight would be pretty amusing.
They have half of the nodes, but 1-2% of the traffic. They set up a bunch of new nodes, not took over existing nodes. As a result, they have a bunch of nodes that not many people are using. As the issue gets more attention, more of their new nodes are cut out of the loop.
I'm pretty sure it is Stephen Fry, and since I recognize it I'm guessing it's from an episode of QI. I've seen him in plenty of things, but that seems like something that would come up there.
I don't think flying ~500 miles away equates to a deer running scared from a sound in the woods. If this is the same story I saw yesterday, the birds in question had just settled in after a migration flight of 3000 miles or so total. After one or two days back they up and flew ~500 miles away, then came right back to the same spot. This is way more specific than most tales you hear of animals getting away from natural disasters. It's worth looking into for exactly the reason you said, "if someone actually predicted a natural disaster by using animal behaviour, that might be interesting." Thus why it's a news story at all.
When you're talking about a projected image, those things are not automatically linked. If you have an image up on your computer screen you can touch the screen, but you can't feel anything to let you know one image from another. You feel the screen, not the image. With 3d projections you can have the same problem, and that's where this comes in.
Any citizen of the Commonwealth that is accused of a major felony crime by way of an incitement or probable cause hearing by the State, and in which the state subsequently withdraws the complaint (or portion thereof) before trial, the case is dismissed by the court prior to trial OR the citizen is found not guilty of the major felony crime at trial shall be entitled to claim all costs and expenses related to or extending from the trial (including lost income) against the general fund of the commonwealth.
So the super rich are cemented as untouchables in law by the simple fact that any government short of federal isn't going near charges against them with a ten foot pole. And even federal would be up in the air depending on charges. I agree, for nearly all cases the above would be an improvement...but at the same time it would permanently close other doors when it comes to leveling the playing field of the legal system.
Every blanket solution has problems like this, which makes me lean towards case by case solutions. That leads to a "who watches the watchers" kind of argument. I don't think that there can be a real solution without trust, and that trust has been beaten and abused so much that nothing is left. At this point everyone is kind of looking around and thinking, "Yeah, this is screwed up" but has no one to put faith in to fix it. It's a broken system behind a broken system. You have to start at the root of the problem; the people's relation to their government. People need to become more involved and government needs reform. It's a huge system designed specifically to keep sudden change from sweeping through it, which becomes a double edged blade in this case. It's also hard for most people to even grasp the scope of our current government and all of the tangled webs between local, state, and federal.
If you back up even further the problem expands to encompass our entire society. People don't trust people. People fear people. People blame people. People hate people. You have negative reinforcement from all sides. You have cities divided into something akin to war zones. Police are seen as the bad guys more often than not when they step in. Ditto for government. A lot of people just don't care, or pretend not to. Of those that do care, very few make it to a place suitable to making change and of those even less make the trip unscathed.
I've lost my point in the downward spiral, so I'll just end it there.