I bought 3 Google Nest protects late last year and each came with a free google home mini. I gave them away as Christmas gifts, and so far 2 have never been opened and the third was use for a single day and put back in the box.
I really wanted to buy a razer blade a couple of years ago, Then I got a Razer Blackwidow Chroma keyboard
To use the keyboard as more than a dumb USB keyboard, you have to have an always-on connection to the internet. If they need that kind of invasive control of your computer to blink a few colored lights, how invasive is an actual computer from them? Never buy Razer products.
The world's 7.6 billion people represent just 0.01% of all living things, according to the study.
There may well be something to see here, but when they count a human as one for one equal with a cockroach and a head louse I have no interest in anything these disgusting vermin have to say.
The one thing I agree with the poster on is they are equal to a cockroach.
That doesn't work everywhere. Around here, you can't drive the car off the dealer's lot without it being licensed, registered, and plated (which also means you can't buy a car and drive it off the lot the same day).
Don't drive, and don't own a car. Driving a car is a choice you make that involves giving up some privacy. For example, if you're walking down the street, you have no obligation to identify yourself to police, there is no "papers, please" here. But part of choosing to drive means you do agree to provide identification papers to police on demand while you are driving. And the police can't even ask your passenger their name.
By choosing to drive, you're agreeing to stick a big visible serial number on your vehicle that everyone is free to read. If you don't like it, don't drive.
I agree with you, except that realistically I think it's closer to 20% more rather than 300% more. For example more robust motor is going to cost more but it's not going to affect labor costs, factory space, electricity, etc to include.
So Washer A is $499 and lasts 5 years, Washer B is $699 and lasts 20 years while both look the same on the outside. And everyone still buys Washer A. It's a lot sadder than your example.
Washer C is also around at $399, does a crappy job washing and lasts a year. It also sells better than B.
This is the big joke. You say these new delicate electronic washing machines are more efficient, but is it really more efficient to have everyone buy a new washing machine every 3-5 years? I do about 2 loads a week, so 500 in 5 years. Is the environmental impact that much more efficient over 500 loads that you're still ahead after making a whole new washing machine?
Somehow things got so twisted around that the "environmentalists" are demanding things that are horrible for the environment in the name of corporate profits.
Exactly that. Which is why I specifically said aftermarket. Otherwise the fee is exorbitant if you're lucky enough to even be able to source the controller for your 5 year old appliance -- the manufacturer prefers you scrap the product so it's not always to easy to get parts. A microcontroller and small circuit board shouldn't cost more than $5-10 and the manufacturer pays a whole lot less than that.
Instead, you're left with getting brand new appliance for $1000 or buying a microcontroller for the 5 year old one for $500 and praying nothing else breaks in the next few years since it's all designed to fall apart at that point.
That's a good point, but even for those people, they feel like the three year newer phone if the new latest and greatest and they're not replacing it so much for the new battery as for the new shiny.
Even bluetooth noise cancelling headphones just don't change that much in 3 years to justify spending another $500 to replace, and Bose at least says a dead battery requires a flat rate "out of warranty repair" that is more expensive than the actual street price of the headphones. At least Apple will replace an iPhone battery for $100 (and currently $30 because of the class action lawsuits).
I just wonder what's going to happen when all the people spending $300-500 on wireless headphones find out they have a glued-in non-replacable battery that will turn their expensive "investment" into landfill within about 3 years.
It's an environmental nightmare, but will they go out and repeat the same mistake for another $300-500 or realize a wire isn't all that bad a lot of the time?
Modern machines can tell ketones from alcohol. And testing procedure to admit results into court is 2 tests at least 17 minutes apart while monitoring the subject to make sure nothing goes in their mouth. The tests must be in good agreement to be admitted into court. That takes care of things like mouth alcohol.
It's the same as that in Canada. We use the Alcotest 7410 as a roadside screening device and the Intoxilyzer 7000 to do the actual certified test. I assume most of the worlds works that way, but it wouldn't surprise me to find out the US has an asinine system in place to help the lawyer make a fortune. Already on this thread I'm reading about field sobriety tests and blood tests. It's like they're still living in 1930.
The Alcotest is a roadside screening device. People who fail the road side test are then taken to a station (or mobile truck during RIDE type programs) for a more precise test.
The roadside screening only has to give the police officer reasonable and probable grounds to arrest the person and continue with the investigation and subsequent test. Even if this result proved 100% that the Alcotest produces a lot of false positives, it casts zero doubt on any convictions or even matters currently going through the courts. The cops would have had RPG on a good-faith basis and every right to have proceeded.
Going forward, it may be possible to argue that with the alcotest proven unreliable it can no longer be used to establish RPG, but even that won't be automatic because the roadside screening device isn't really required if the cop can say their were sufficient signs of impairment to arrest on impaired driving rather than over 80. The over 80 can then be laid at the station if the person blows over.
I have older iOS devices that I sometimes go weeks at a time leaving them untouched on the shelf but I pick them up to play with once in a while.
Heck, I go on vacations greater than week a couple of times a year and since I don't want to bother with roaming, I leave my primary phone at home. I certainly don't want my USB to permanently lock out the first time I don't touch my phone for a week.
I'd rather personally give my PIN to any law enforcement officer who cared to ask for it than have this feature implemented.
It happens just as much in other civilized countries, the only difference in the US the people can see the "donations" and the companies can use them as tax write-offs.
Robert J. Sawyer in his book Quantum Night mentioned this sort of idea.
He suggested that Philosophical Zombies would not have an inner voice, they in reality go through the motions of every day life without actually carrying on an inner monologue and they just fake it to fit in. He gives a lot of examples of strange human behaviour that are explained by the idea. For example mob mentality if many people are running a simple "just fit in" script in their brains instead of a real train of sapient thought.
No matter what, if this device really works, we are going to learn a lot more about human consciousness from it over the next decade.
Every other computer vendor in the world brings out multiple refreshes per year as new CPUs or GPUs become available. But the trillion dollar company can't update a desktop computer in less than 6-8 years.
This is the world we live in today, and by ignoring modern movie distribution to pretend we're still living in the past, Cannes is only making themselves irrelevant and in the blink of an eye, the world will turn their backs and ignore the film festival.
This is what I don't understand about people's position. I agree with everything you said about government and mass surveillance. But I see people raise those issues so often in a sky is falling we have to stop them kind of way. Yet what google is doing is at least as bad (far worse imo, but leave that aside). And everyone seems to give google a pass.
So I'm not saying I'm pro surveillance, I just find it incomprehensible that people can in the same breath be pro-google surveillance and anti-government surveillance.
I'd draw the line at not sharing the data with google and their cronies. Once you're okay with google having it, I really don't understand why you care if law-enforcement has it too. So I'd draw the line way before you seem to want to draw it.
Why are you happy to share you data with greedy corporations who will do anything they can with it to turn a profit, yet you're not okay *also* giving access to law enforcement who wants to solve major crimes?
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I bought 3 Google Nest protects late last year and each came with a free google home mini. I gave them away as Christmas gifts, and so far 2 have never been opened and the third was use for a single day and put back in the box.
I really wanted to buy a razer blade a couple of years ago, Then I got a Razer Blackwidow Chroma keyboard
To use the keyboard as more than a dumb USB keyboard, you have to have an always-on connection to the internet. If they need that kind of invasive control of your computer to blink a few colored lights, how invasive is an actual computer from them? Never buy Razer products.
The world's 7.6 billion people represent just 0.01% of all living things, according to the study.
There may well be something to see here, but when they count a human as one for one equal with a cockroach and a head louse I have no interest in anything these disgusting vermin have to say.
The one thing I agree with the poster on is they are equal to a cockroach.
That doesn't work everywhere. Around here, you can't drive the car off the dealer's lot without it being licensed, registered, and plated (which also means you can't buy a car and drive it off the lot the same day).
Don't drive, and don't own a car. Driving a car is a choice you make that involves giving up some privacy. For example, if you're walking down the street, you have no obligation to identify yourself to police, there is no "papers, please" here. But part of choosing to drive means you do agree to provide identification papers to police on demand while you are driving. And the police can't even ask your passenger their name.
By choosing to drive, you're agreeing to stick a big visible serial number on your vehicle that everyone is free to read. If you don't like it, don't drive.
I agree with you, except that realistically I think it's closer to 20% more rather than 300% more. For example more robust motor is going to cost more but it's not going to affect labor costs, factory space, electricity, etc to include.
So Washer A is $499 and lasts 5 years, Washer B is $699 and lasts 20 years while both look the same on the outside. And everyone still buys Washer A. It's a lot sadder than your example.
Washer C is also around at $399, does a crappy job washing and lasts a year. It also sells better than B.
This is the big joke. You say these new delicate electronic washing machines are more efficient, but is it really more efficient to have everyone buy a new washing machine every 3-5 years? I do about 2 loads a week, so 500 in 5 years. Is the environmental impact that much more efficient over 500 loads that you're still ahead after making a whole new washing machine?
Somehow things got so twisted around that the "environmentalists" are demanding things that are horrible for the environment in the name of corporate profits.
Exactly that. Which is why I specifically said aftermarket. Otherwise the fee is exorbitant if you're lucky enough to even be able to source the controller for your 5 year old appliance -- the manufacturer prefers you scrap the product so it's not always to easy to get parts. A microcontroller and small circuit board shouldn't cost more than $5-10 and the manufacturer pays a whole lot less than that.
Instead, you're left with getting brand new appliance for $1000 or buying a microcontroller for the 5 year old one for $500 and praying nothing else breaks in the next few years since it's all designed to fall apart at that point.
That's a good point, but even for those people, they feel like the three year newer phone if the new latest and greatest and they're not replacing it so much for the new battery as for the new shiny.
Even bluetooth noise cancelling headphones just don't change that much in 3 years to justify spending another $500 to replace, and Bose at least says a dead battery requires a flat rate "out of warranty repair" that is more expensive than the actual street price of the headphones. At least Apple will replace an iPhone battery for $100 (and currently $30 because of the class action lawsuits).
I just wonder what's going to happen when all the people spending $300-500 on wireless headphones find out they have a glued-in non-replacable battery that will turn their expensive "investment" into landfill within about 3 years.
It's an environmental nightmare, but will they go out and repeat the same mistake for another $300-500 or realize a wire isn't all that bad a lot of the time?
Clockwork timers are pretty easy to repair/replace. It wasn't very long about that kind of "repair" was considered routine maintenance.
An electronic controller that has tendrils throughout the produce is virtually impossible to repair aftermarket.
Modern machines can tell ketones from alcohol. And testing procedure to admit results into court is 2 tests at least 17 minutes apart while monitoring the subject to make sure nothing goes in their mouth. The tests must be in good agreement to be admitted into court. That takes care of things like mouth alcohol.
It's the same as that in Canada. We use the Alcotest 7410 as a roadside screening device and the Intoxilyzer 7000 to do the actual certified test. I assume most of the worlds works that way, but it wouldn't surprise me to find out the US has an asinine system in place to help the lawyer make a fortune. Already on this thread I'm reading about field sobriety tests and blood tests. It's like they're still living in 1930.
The Alcotest is a roadside screening device. People who fail the road side test are then taken to a station (or mobile truck during RIDE type programs) for a more precise test.
The roadside screening only has to give the police officer reasonable and probable grounds to arrest the person and continue with the investigation and subsequent test. Even if this result proved 100% that the Alcotest produces a lot of false positives, it casts zero doubt on any convictions or even matters currently going through the courts. The cops would have had RPG on a good-faith basis and every right to have proceeded.
Going forward, it may be possible to argue that with the alcotest proven unreliable it can no longer be used to establish RPG, but even that won't be automatic because the roadside screening device isn't really required if the cop can say their were sufficient signs of impairment to arrest on impaired driving rather than over 80. The over 80 can then be laid at the station if the person blows over.
TL;DR nothing to see here.
You may be right, but there is nothing in the summary which remotely implies that it's reversible.
I have older iOS devices that I sometimes go weeks at a time leaving them untouched on the shelf but I pick them up to play with once in a while.
Heck, I go on vacations greater than week a couple of times a year and since I don't want to bother with roaming, I leave my primary phone at home. I certainly don't want my USB to permanently lock out the first time I don't touch my phone for a week.
I'd rather personally give my PIN to any law enforcement officer who cared to ask for it than have this feature implemented.
The call for names, which closed at the end of last week, received more than 1.1 million submissions,
The new slashdot, always a day late and a dollar short.
Jesus Christ.
Not only that but they're talking dual 8k screens. At 90Hz that's 138 gigabits/second of real-world throughput needed in that wireless system.
It happens just as much in other civilized countries, the only difference in the US the people can see the "donations" and the companies can use them as tax write-offs.
Robert J. Sawyer in his book Quantum Night mentioned this sort of idea.
He suggested that Philosophical Zombies would not have an inner voice, they in reality go through the motions of every day life without actually carrying on an inner monologue and they just fake it to fit in. He gives a lot of examples of strange human behaviour that are explained by the idea. For example mob mentality if many people are running a simple "just fit in" script in their brains instead of a real train of sapient thought.
No matter what, if this device really works, we are going to learn a lot more about human consciousness from it over the next decade.
Every other computer vendor in the world brings out multiple refreshes per year as new CPUs or GPUs become available. But the trillion dollar company can't update a desktop computer in less than 6-8 years.
This is the world we live in today, and by ignoring modern movie distribution to pretend we're still living in the past, Cannes is only making themselves irrelevant and in the blink of an eye, the world will turn their backs and ignore the film festival.
This is what I don't understand about people's position. I agree with everything you said about government and mass surveillance. But I see people raise those issues so often in a sky is falling we have to stop them kind of way. Yet what google is doing is at least as bad (far worse imo, but leave that aside). And everyone seems to give google a pass.
So I'm not saying I'm pro surveillance, I just find it incomprehensible that people can in the same breath be pro-google surveillance and anti-government surveillance.
I'd draw the line at not sharing the data with google and their cronies. Once you're okay with google having it, I really don't understand why you care if law-enforcement has it too. So I'd draw the line way before you seem to want to draw it.
Why are you happy to share you data with greedy corporations who will do anything they can with it to turn a profit, yet you're not okay *also* giving access to law enforcement who wants to solve major crimes?