A big issue here though is that the right-wing viewpoint is usually "This is forbidden! We will NEVER change that!".
If prostitution were regulated, with mandatory heath examinations, licensing of facilities and a framework that prevents these women from taken advantage of, we could have it both ways: People who want to pay for sex would be able to, with less risk to themselves and their "partner".
A good fictional example...
You don't need fictional examples, there's plenty of places that already have legal, regulated sex industries that prove your point.
Where I live happens to be such a place and I indulge regularly. It's good fun and everyone wins (mostly).
case would be different when non facebook users are exploited by zuck and gang, that too happens. that should be criminalized with prison..
Did you RTFS? Her second identity wasn't on FB.
I'm not on FB but you can bet those cunts still know everything about me. If I lived closer I would take to their HQ with a couple of bump-stocked AR-15's...
"The stuff Google showed off was brazenly designed and strangely, invitingly touchable. These gadgets were soft, colorful... delightful? They looked human, but like something future humans had made; people who'd gotten righteously drunk with aliens."
I'm speechless...
What, you couldn't include the name of the company in the headline?
Clickbait is more important to you than conveying actual information?The dumbification of Slashdot is getting really irritating...
I needed a car towing about a hundred miles back home. Most tow drivers need you to ride with them so you can receive your keys back at the destination.
What?
Keys go with car. If that's a mechanic then you collect when the car is fixed, if that's home then leave the window slightly open and drop them in the car (or letterbox, or in meter box, or under a shrub, or rock, or...). This is a non-problem.
Yes, âoeIOT security!â Lots of panic. Systems are exploitable. You could get robbed.
Not panic, just sharing the opinion that the risks are far more than any reward, therefore the idea is stupid.
In exchange, I got four hours of my life back that time and have a bunch of other similar stories of the convenience that more than outweighs the very slight additional risk.
Again this is a non-problem. I get packages dropped off on my front porch no issue. My local supermarket also offers a collection service (get stuff delivered there, I pick up on next visit).
IOT is mostly solutions to non-problems. No panic, just a dumb gimmick.
The clue is in the title. If anyone involved in the transaction is in a place (The Land) where the activity is illegal (The Law), then it's illegal in that place and can be tried there.
TFA doesn't contain enough information, but you can bet it it's on the Internet, someone somewhere transacted with it while on US soil thus triggering the DEA
Proving once again, as many cops say, most crooks are stupid.
Cops are stupid too, the difference is they get be wrong as many times as they like, whereas the crooks only have to get it wrong once and they are taken out of circulation. So the game is biased in favour of the cops, it has nothing to do with smarts.
Surely the War On Drugs has been won now right??? Or we're at least really close??
What, no?? But how can that be! All other drug dealers must have seen the life sentence and were immediately deterred, no?
Not all but it has stopped some. For example, I've contemplated some sort of drug trafficking/dealing business as a way to make cash, but every time I do the numbers the risk of a long prison sentence is too great.
There are measures of success that don't require a 100% hit rate.
Puerto Rico is poor because its people are lousy workers. I read a story 40 or 50 years ago...
Right so let me get you straight. You read a 'story' 50 years ago and from you concluded that it's ok to be racist?
I'm going to go out of a limb here and bet you vote Republican? Call it a hunch...
what I've just described is a common sort of behavior for Democrats.
And I really don't think the current Republican Congress is interested in adding some safe Democratic seats to Congress.
Which raises the question of why a D Congress never done anything about it when they had the chance? Seems like a no-brainer if they're interested securing power.
2) I can go back and see "Oh yeah, I was sick then" or "I was in, but I was in a rush because of A and B and forgot to sign in" or "Oh yeah, I took a day of vacation then, did the vacation registration not go through?"
Or do what I do and say dunno, see ya later. I actually prefer to be able to forget.
4) The inevitable "He said" / "she said" argument. You have proof right on-hand.
I take it you're not married? Hint: you are always wrong regardless.
5) Contextualizing the past. Why do people take pictures or videos of major events? To remember and revisit them later. Why not have as much data as you can for those past events?
Efficiency mainly. When I'm 80, I won't have time to revisit 80 years of memories in real time. Even right now with easy video camera capability I very rarely take video because the time it takes to catalog and review it all. There is a tipping point where too much information is too much.
6) Rescue. If your phone logs everything to the cloud, and you have it set up so that friends or family members can access it in an emergency, it makes it a lot more likely that you'll be found.
Not a problem I face on a day to say basis.
7) Crime. I was a victim of a crime in a place I wasn't familiar with.
Also an extremely rare problem
What I don't understand is why so many of you are afraid of logging yourselves. What the heck are you doing that you're so terrified of governments hacking into your data and stealing it?
Less about that and more about overhead of managing that data. And it's not only govt you have to secure it from, there's marketing companies and crims and others who will only use it against you. There is next to no benefit for me, but there is a non-trivial risk and a lot of overhead to manage.
So you mean Google does not know the context? Let's see:
Ok maybe I didn't make it clear. The order of the words in a sentence differ in different languages, so before you can translate you have to hear the entire sentence in order to accurately translate it. This is what I meant by context. Since you have to wait to hear an entire sentence before translating it can never be real time.
Anyone who speaks more than one language will tell you that context is one of the biggest hurdles in translating language. It's not just straight word for word translation, the context might not be given until you get to the end of the sentence, so it is actually impossible to translate language in real time.
Even for native speakers of multiple languages you have to wait until the end of the sentence before translating. So the TFS is fucking bullshit (again).
$40/month divided by 8 GB/mo is $5 per GB, as I estimated. That can still be expensive for moving multi-GB video files around.
Do you find Dropbox efficient with bandwidth usage?
I have 1000GB on my home internet, unlimited at work, and 8GB on my phone and I've never even come close to exceeding anything so never had to think about it.
I don't move videos around (except for every now again when travelling I load up the tablet, but do this via USB), and photos only sync when on wifi. So most sync's are small files or one off photos I manually sync using Keep. So the LTE thing isn't a problem for me.
Then you're limited to 2 GB in your Dropbox account,
Correct, which isn't a problem for me, but even if it was I'd happily pay for a service I find useful.
$40/month divided by 8 GB/mo is $5 per GB, as I estimated. That can still be expensive for moving multi-GB video files around.
As I said originally, except for large files. I can't imagine the market for moving large videos around on city buses is that large. Clearly the major phone manufacturers don't think so either.
Where I live, home Internet alone is about $60 per month from Comcast. If I were to cancel cable Internet with its 1000 GB/mo quota in favor of LTE, I'd end up using far more than the 8 GB per month that you quoted.
But you only need the LTE when you're on the Bus. Every other use case you use you home connection, work connection or wifi somewhere.
As above, the single use case of needing_to_move_large_files_between_devices_on_a_bus isn't really enough to build that feature into every single device.
The issue with this is that there is only 1 USB-C connector on the phone. So you can't plug in your headphones and charge your phone at the same time.
You can if you have an adapter cable that allows exactly this.
Plus, it's more stuff to remember to bring with you (USB-C -> 3.5mm adapter), and more stuff to lose.
The adapter plugs into your headphones then you leave it there. There is nothing else you need to remember or carry.
Then one day when the world catches up and USB-C becomes ubiquitous, you won't even need that. That is how change happens.
But, no, let's not force everyone to have to...
Are you new here? Technology changes rapidly, and most change forces you to do things differently (horse/car, steamboat/fly, telegram/telephone, fax/email, key/swipe, LP/CD/MP3 etc etc. I find it odd that on a Tech site there are people here whining that new things require change. Maybe Amish.com is more your thing?
But who wants to keep their expensive device in their pocket with an USB cable plugged in
You don't keep it plugged into your phone, you keep it plugged into you headphones. Then treat your headphones exactly as you do now. Easy if you just think about it a little bit...
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A big issue here though is that the right-wing viewpoint is usually "This is forbidden! We will NEVER change that!".
If prostitution were regulated, with mandatory heath examinations, licensing of facilities and a framework that prevents these women from taken advantage of, we could have it both ways: People who want to pay for sex would be able to, with less risk to themselves and their "partner".
A good fictional example...
You don't need fictional examples, there's plenty of places that already have legal, regulated sex industries that prove your point.
Where I live happens to be such a place and I indulge regularly. It's good fun and everyone wins (mostly).
And there you have swallowed the "Big Lie" whole. The thing is that almost no sex worker is ever "trafficked".
Citation? Trafficking may not be as big as the scare mongers make out, but it's a long way from "almost none".
case would be different when non facebook users are exploited by zuck and gang, that too happens. that should be criminalized with prison. .
Did you RTFS? Her second identity wasn't on FB.
I'm not on FB but you can bet those cunts still know everything about me. If I lived closer I would take to their HQ with a couple of bump-stocked AR-15's...
Enough of modding comments, I want to be able to mod this fucking awful summary and article out of existence...
"The stuff Google showed off was brazenly designed and strangely, invitingly touchable. These gadgets were soft, colorful... delightful? They looked human, but like something future humans had made; people who'd gotten righteously drunk with aliens."
I'm speechless...
It's most likely water currents causing this phenomenon.
What water? Antarctica is mostly ice on rock. Where this is happening there is no water.
What, you couldn't include the name of the company in the headline?
Clickbait is more important to you than conveying actual information?The dumbification of Slashdot is getting really irritating...
I needed a car towing about a hundred miles back home. Most tow drivers need you to ride with them so you can receive your keys back at the destination.
What?
Keys go with car. If that's a mechanic then you collect when the car is fixed, if that's home then leave the window slightly open and drop them in the car (or letterbox, or in meter box, or under a shrub, or rock, or...). This is a non-problem.
Yes, âoeIOT security!â Lots of panic. Systems are exploitable. You could get robbed.
Not panic, just sharing the opinion that the risks are far more than any reward, therefore the idea is stupid.
In exchange, I got four hours of my life back that time and have a bunch of other similar stories of the convenience that more than outweighs the very slight additional risk.
Again this is a non-problem. I get packages dropped off on my front porch no issue. My local supermarket also offers a collection service (get stuff delivered there, I pick up on next visit).
IOT is mostly solutions to non-problems. No panic, just a dumb gimmick.
Is it the law of the land for ...
The clue is in the title. If anyone involved in the transaction is in a place (The Land) where the activity is illegal (The Law), then it's illegal in that place and can be tried there.
TFA doesn't contain enough information, but you can bet it it's on the Internet, someone somewhere transacted with it while on US soil thus triggering the DEA
Proving once again, as many cops say, most crooks are stupid.
Cops are stupid too, the difference is they get be wrong as many times as they like, whereas the crooks only have to get it wrong once and they are taken out of circulation. So the game is biased in favour of the cops, it has nothing to do with smarts.
Surely the War On Drugs has been won now right??? Or we're at least really close?? What, no?? But how can that be! All other drug dealers must have seen the life sentence and were immediately deterred, no?
Not all but it has stopped some. For example, I've contemplated some sort of drug trafficking/dealing business as a way to make cash, but every time I do the numbers the risk of a long prison sentence is too great.
There are measures of success that don't require a 100% hit rate.
The wires between houses need to be constructed in either scenario.
I'm not sure you understand how PV and batteries work...
Puerto Rico is poor because its people are lousy workers. I read a story 40 or 50 years ago...
Right so let me get you straight. You read a 'story' 50 years ago and from you concluded that it's ok to be racist?
I'm going to go out of a limb here and bet you vote Republican? Call it a hunch...
what I've just described is a common sort of behavior for Democrats.
And there we have it....
Puerto Rico is poor because they're an island in the Caribbean with a population over 250,000.
Try 3,500,000...
And I really don't think the current Republican Congress is interested in adding some safe Democratic seats to Congress.
Which raises the question of why a D Congress never done anything about it when they had the chance? Seems like a no-brainer if they're interested securing power.
2) I can go back and see "Oh yeah, I was sick then" or "I was in, but I was in a rush because of A and B and forgot to sign in" or "Oh yeah, I took a day of vacation then, did the vacation registration not go through?"
Or do what I do and say dunno, see ya later. I actually prefer to be able to forget.
4) The inevitable "He said" / "she said" argument. You have proof right on-hand.
I take it you're not married? Hint: you are always wrong regardless.
5) Contextualizing the past. Why do people take pictures or videos of major events? To remember and revisit them later. Why not have as much data as you can for those past events?
Efficiency mainly. When I'm 80, I won't have time to revisit 80 years of memories in real time. Even right now with easy video camera capability I very rarely take video because the time it takes to catalog and review it all. There is a tipping point where too much information is too much.
6) Rescue. If your phone logs everything to the cloud, and you have it set up so that friends or family members can access it in an emergency, it makes it a lot more likely that you'll be found.
Not a problem I face on a day to say basis.
7) Crime. I was a victim of a crime in a place I wasn't familiar with.
Also an extremely rare problem
What I don't understand is why so many of you are afraid of logging yourselves. What the heck are you doing that you're so terrified of governments hacking into your data and stealing it?
Less about that and more about overhead of managing that data. And it's not only govt you have to secure it from, there's marketing companies and crims and others who will only use it against you. There is next to no benefit for me, but there is a non-trivial risk and a lot of overhead to manage.
But "it's the most fascinating camera I've used in a very long time"...
This has to be the lamest attempt at astro-turfing I've seen in a while.
Russia managed to destabilise the UK? When did that happen?
You missed the cold war?
So you mean Google does not know the context? Let's see: Ok maybe I didn't make it clear. The order of the words in a sentence differ in different languages, so before you can translate you have to hear the entire sentence in order to accurately translate it. This is what I meant by context. Since you have to wait to hear an entire sentence before translating it can never be real time.
When the performance of these things starts to drop off and they all need to be replaced, are people going to get sticker shock
Being solid state, then if $thing cost $1000 now, it will cost $100 in 20 years.
Anyone who speaks more than one language will tell you that context is one of the biggest hurdles in translating language. It's not just straight word for word translation, the context might not be given until you get to the end of the sentence, so it is actually impossible to translate language in real time.
Even for native speakers of multiple languages you have to wait until the end of the sentence before translating. So the TFS is fucking bullshit (again).
$40/month divided by 8 GB/mo is $5 per GB, as I estimated. That can still be expensive for moving multi-GB video files around.
Do you find Dropbox efficient with bandwidth usage?
I have 1000GB on my home internet, unlimited at work, and 8GB on my phone and I've never even come close to exceeding anything so never had to think about it.
I don't move videos around (except for every now again when travelling I load up the tablet, but do this via USB), and photos only sync when on wifi. So most sync's are small files or one off photos I manually sync using Keep. So the LTE thing isn't a problem for me.
Then you're limited to 2 GB in your Dropbox account,
Correct, which isn't a problem for me, but even if it was I'd happily pay for a service I find useful.
$40/month divided by 8 GB/mo is $5 per GB, as I estimated. That can still be expensive for moving multi-GB video files around.
As I said originally, except for large files. I can't imagine the market for moving large videos around on city buses is that large. Clearly the major phone manufacturers don't think so either.
Where I live, home Internet alone is about $60 per month from Comcast. If I were to cancel cable Internet with its 1000 GB/mo quota in favor of LTE, I'd end up using far more than the 8 GB per month that you quoted.
But you only need the LTE when you're on the Bus. Every other use case you use you home connection, work connection or wifi somewhere.
As above, the single use case of needing_to_move_large_files_between_devices_on_a_bus isn't really enough to build that feature into every single device.
The issue with this is that there is only 1 USB-C connector on the phone. So you can't plug in your headphones and charge your phone at the same time.
You can if you have an adapter cable that allows exactly this.
Plus, it's more stuff to remember to bring with you (USB-C -> 3.5mm adapter), and more stuff to lose.
The adapter plugs into your headphones then you leave it there. There is nothing else you need to remember or carry.
Then one day when the world catches up and USB-C becomes ubiquitous, you won't even need that. That is how change happens.
But, no, let's not force everyone to have to...
Are you new here? Technology changes rapidly, and most change forces you to do things differently (horse/car, steamboat/fly, telegram/telephone, fax/email, key/swipe, LP/CD/MP3 etc etc. I find it odd that on a Tech site there are people here whining that new things require change. Maybe Amish.com is more your thing?
But who wants to keep their expensive device in their pocket with an USB cable plugged in
You don't keep it plugged into your phone, you keep it plugged into you headphones. Then treat your headphones exactly as you do now. Easy if you just think about it a little bit...