early dragon naturallyspeaking worked on lowly 486dx and pentiums running windows 95 and nt 4
That was just speech-to-text. Google is going much further than that, with semantic understanding of what you are saying. That requires way more compute power. On a cell phone, this has only been viable with sub-second response times since mobile GPUs got decent support for CUDA and OpenCL.
Sure, USC is a decent school, but nobody is going to be impressed if your kid gets in, and it is not going to open doors like a degree from Stanford, Harvard, or Berkeley.
If my kid decides to go there, I won't be disappointed, but I certainly wouldn't pay an extra $250k to get them in. It is just a middle-of-the-pack university. USC's most famous alumni is O. J. Simpson.
Today's chicken, like most other industrially raised foods has LOST pretty much all flavor.
Much of that is due to their diet of nothing but corn and soybean meal.
Try raising a flock in your backyard, where they can scrounge for insects and worms, and you will get much more flavor. The egg yolks are a deep orange color instead of the pale yellow yolks from battery cage chickens.
Many cities and towns permit small flocks. My hometown (San Jose) allows up to six hens, which is plenty for my family.
Donating a building and getting special accommodation etc was an open secret.
At many schools it is not a secret. They are quite open about favoring donors. This makes sense, since the limit on a school's capacity is money, not the number of chairs in the classroom. So a donor pays for their own kid, while expanding opportunities for others. The cheaters did the opposite.
LensCrafters is for when you're in town for a funeral and step on your glasses the day before.
Who travels without backup glasses?
For the Lenscrafters price, I can buy 5 pairs from Zenni. I keep an extra pair in my backpack, another in my car's glove compartment, and yet another in my desk drawer at work.
What ever happened to getting your kid into college the good old fashioned way? Donating enough money to get a building named after you and guaranteed admission to any descendants.
According to TFA, most of these parents paid the consultant $250k to $450k. A donation that size is not going to get your kid admitted automatically. It would take millions.
But the moral/ethical/legal difference is that those millions would go to the university to help fund its operations and scholarships, rather than into the pocket of some slimebag consultant.
If it turns out that sound has a negative amount of mass, does this fix many of the problems with dark matter and the weight of the universe? Is dark matter just... sounds?
No, but we can use phonons to make a really cool anti-gravity hoverboard. Just be sure to wear hearing protection, because it will be loud.
Because people click on "Allow". If an app asks for data that it has no need to know, including your email, phone number, friends list, location, momentum, etc., about 80% of users will just allow everything.
How many other Apps are grabbing the data?
If the app is free, the data is how the coder makes money.
Why did Facebook create the ability of third party apps/extensions to grab such data?
Some apps have a legitimate need for the data. So Facebook allows them to ask. Is it Facebook's fault that most people just say "yes" to everything?
The FCC should ban number spoofing, unless the company doing it has full legal control over both the calling number and the spoofed number.
Any spoofed call should be required to have a live human available to handle callbacks on the spoofed number, and that human should be required to provide the full name and legal domestic address of the entity that made the call.
There are legitimate reasons for spoofing. There is no legitimate reason for anonymous spoofing without accountability.
Regulations should be based on scientific evidence. They should not pander to superstitions. There is zero evidence that GMO salmon is harmful, and no reason to believe that it is.
If someone wants to grow non-GMO salmon, and label it as such, they are free to do so. This is exactly how it works with other GMO foods. If you go into any grocery store, there are plenty of products labeled "GMO Free", or "Organic" which implies GMO-Free.
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I know what kind of TV I WON'T be considering for my next purchase...
You don't have to turn on the "smart" features. They are off by default.
Also, Vizio won't be the only company doing this. Likely, they all will.
early dragon naturallyspeaking worked on lowly 486dx and pentiums running windows 95 and nt 4
That was just speech-to-text. Google is going much further than that, with semantic understanding of what you are saying. That requires way more compute power. On a cell phone, this has only been viable with sub-second response times since mobile GPUs got decent support for CUDA and OpenCL.
USC is definitely a 'good school'.
Sure, USC is a decent school, but nobody is going to be impressed if your kid gets in, and it is not going to open doors like a degree from Stanford, Harvard, or Berkeley.
If my kid decides to go there, I won't be disappointed, but I certainly wouldn't pay an extra $250k to get them in. It is just a middle-of-the-pack university. USC's most famous alumni is O. J. Simpson.
Today's chicken, like most other industrially raised foods has LOST pretty much all flavor.
Much of that is due to their diet of nothing but corn and soybean meal.
Try raising a flock in your backyard, where they can scrounge for insects and worms, and you will get much more flavor. The egg yolks are a deep orange color instead of the pale yellow yolks from battery cage chickens.
Many cities and towns permit small flocks. My hometown (San Jose) allows up to six hens, which is plenty for my family.
without the suffering of millions of chickens raised in really poor conditions.
To be fair, the conditions for meat chickens, while awful, is not as bad as the battery cages used for egg layers.
Disclaimer: I keep my own chickens in my backyard. It is a fun hobby, and the eggs taste way better than store bought.
So the takeaway is that the Swiss make their voting systems the same way they make their cheese: full of holes.
They just have to be safer than the average person, which is a really low bar.
Actually, they don't even need to be average, since the worst drivers will likely be the early adopters.
Donating a building and getting special accommodation etc was an open secret.
At many schools it is not a secret. They are quite open about favoring donors. This makes sense, since the limit on a school's capacity is money, not the number of chairs in the classroom. So a donor pays for their own kid, while expanding opportunities for others. The cheaters did the opposite.
LensCrafters is for when you're in town for a funeral and step on your glasses the day before.
Who travels without backup glasses?
For the Lenscrafters price, I can buy 5 pairs from Zenni. I keep an extra pair in my backpack, another in my car's glove compartment, and yet another in my desk drawer at work.
What ever happened to getting your kid into college the good old fashioned way? Donating enough money to get a building named after you and guaranteed admission to any descendants.
According to TFA, most of these parents paid the consultant $250k to $450k. A donation that size is not going to get your kid admitted automatically. It would take millions.
But the moral/ethical/legal difference is that those millions would go to the university to help fund its operations and scholarships, rather than into the pocket of some slimebag consultant.
I think you are assuming that airplane mode works.
RF is not difficult to detect, especially a cm from the transmitter.
You need a better conspiracy theory.
If it turns out that sound has a negative amount of mass, does this fix many of the problems with dark matter and the weight of the universe? Is dark matter just ... sounds?
No, but we can use phonons to make a really cool anti-gravity hoverboard. Just be sure to wear hearing protection, because it will be loud.
It has always seemed a bit arbitrary to label something as "the world's data".
A yottabyte is 1e24. That is more than 100 terabytes per human.
You could always add the history of every cache on every processor on the planet to your definition of "data" and have a much larger number.
640 yottabytes ought to be enough for anyone.
And the means of achieving this imperative?
Allow consumers to directly sue the telcos for spoofed calls in small claims court, with a minimum penalty of $500 per call.
Congress should set broad guidelines and leave the technical details up to the regulatory agencies.
So this should be done by the FCC.
Why was the App able to grab the data?
Because people click on "Allow". If an app asks for data that it has no need to know, including your email, phone number, friends list, location, momentum, etc., about 80% of users will just allow everything.
How many other Apps are grabbing the data?
If the app is free, the data is how the coder makes money.
Why did Facebook create the ability of third party apps/extensions to grab such data?
Some apps have a legitimate need for the data. So Facebook allows them to ask. Is it Facebook's fault that most people just say "yes" to everything?
please explain what the FCC can do?
The FCC should ban number spoofing, unless the company doing it has full legal control over both the calling number and the spoofed number.
Any spoofed call should be required to have a live human available to handle callbacks on the spoofed number, and that human should be required to provide the full name and legal domestic address of the entity that made the call.
There are legitimate reasons for spoofing. There is no legitimate reason for anonymous spoofing without accountability.
On my iPhone, 90% of scam calls say "Scam Likely". The false positive rate seems to be 0% (No legitimate call has been falsely flag as a scam).
If Apple can detect these calls, why can't the FCC require the telcos to block them? They have at least as much info about the calls as Apple does.
Not affiliated, but I can get my lenses and frames from Zenni for about $30 a piece and I have terrible eyesight.
Same with me. I buy my glasses from zennioptical.com for $19.95.
If you are paying $99.95 at LensCrafters, it is not because of some vast capitalist conspiracy. It is because you are an idiot.
China is forgetting that Boeing is based in a blue state
Boeing is shifting jobs out of Seattle to cheaper and more business friendly places like South Carolina.
as long as it is clearly labeled
Regulations should be based on scientific evidence. They should not pander to superstitions. There is zero evidence that GMO salmon is harmful, and no reason to believe that it is.
If someone wants to grow non-GMO salmon, and label it as such, they are free to do so. This is exactly how it works with other GMO foods. If you go into any grocery store, there are plenty of products labeled "GMO Free", or "Organic" which implies GMO-Free.
Is it even remotely feasible to send normal-ass moon rocks back to earth
No ... and that is why you do NOT bring it back to earth. It is worth far more in space.
Price of a kg of iron on earth: $4.
Price of a kg of iron at GEO: $12,000
Radio waves exist, can be used to send information! May have potential uses, to be determined.
Also, Wi-Fi uses radio waves. So many, if not most, past bitcoin transactions have used radio waves.
Cellphones also relay on radio waves.
Here is a link from Nature: Opponents of GMO know the least, but think they know the most
as long as it is clearly labeled so that I can make an informed choice.
Even the non-GMO salmon is fed pellets made from GMO-corn and GMO-soybean meal.
If you want to avoid all GMO you need to buy "Organic" or "Wild".
Another way to make an informed choice by reading information on the topic instead of listening to nonsense from Greenpeace.
People opposed to GMOs know the least about them