If all of my friends, many of whom I consider smart and reasonable people, suddenly and inexplicably decided to jump off a bridge all at once, I would quickly reach the conclusion they knew something I did not and that jumping off the bridge was deemed safer than staying on it.
I hope they can remotely update the car with improved collision DETECTION.
How awesome a publicity stunt would it be in 2091 if the car comes shooting straight at the earth, strikes through the atmosphere, and then grinds to a sudden and inexplicable halt 10 cm above the planet's surface?
I gave the example of the guy coming to pick up the milk elsewhere in this discussion. He's on a deadline, and that deadline shifted with DST coming and going. Thus the farmer has to be done milking on HIS schedule, not that of the cows.
Deer, as an example, get used to roads being safe to cross until a certain point in the morning. All well and good, but suddenly that point shifts by an entire hour without any warning that the deer can perceive. Result: More animals hit by traffic.
Most animals live by their circadian rhythm. Wake up at a certain time, eat at a certain time, sleep at a certain time. For farm animals like cows and pigs, this fits into their daily routine as livestock. But suddenly everything shifts by an hour, resulting in anything ranging from confusion to stress. And for what? So the stores turn on their all-night LEDs at the same time they always do?
Or maybe people don't consider the phrasing of their Google searches.
Maybe they look for dissertations, in which case I can clearly imagine a thorough and indepth essay on what Jews are and aren't being titled "Are Jews Evil?" simply because of the Betteridge law of headlines!
Maybe someone told them, "I don't remember the title, but if you Google for 'blacks are not oppressed' you'll find it," and what they're after is a comparison of black life today compared to before Rosa Parks.
Consider the stupid, stupid things people say on a daily basis. Now apply that level of thinking to "I want to look up this topic on the Googles!"
Google is not and SHOULD not be the thought police. If their algorithms show these to be common search queries, take that as a hint that we need to DO something - as long as that something isn't to sweep things under the rug by censoring the results.
Yes, censoring. I don't give a rat's ass about the argument that it's only censorship if the gubbermint does it. The internet is the new town square, deal with it. Circumventing censorship laws by "suggesting" to private companies what is and isn't appropriate things for people to see is bad.
Except when you run a website in eg. Chrome, you have a lot of (we assume) really smart people keeping Chrome from having serious exploits.
If you run a website from JimBob's AutoParts in its own app that JimBob's third cousin grabbed the code for off the net you have NO IDEA how well it's sandboxed if at all.
That girl wore some very provocative clothes. That would like to the man like she wanted to be raped. Next time you go out, wear very conservative clothes that show no more than 3% skin so as to prevent men from assuming you want to be raped.
See how your logic works?
An innocent person with no fucking clue what's going on should be allowed to react with fear and wanting to INSTANTLY SHOW HE IS NO THREAT.
Yeah, this is as crazy as thinking the NSA has the capability to snoop on all communication going through the internet unless it's heavily encrypted, and even that is no guarantee.
And point of order: If you change Alexa's activation phrase to something like "Gumball", the ads during the Superbowl during which they say "Alexa!" all the time will do nothing to your device anyway.
The ads for gumballs, however, are your own problem.
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If all of my friends, many of whom I consider smart and reasonable people, suddenly and inexplicably decided to jump off a bridge all at once, I would quickly reach the conclusion they knew something I did not and that jumping off the bridge was deemed safer than staying on it.
So yes.
I'm saying English isn't my primary language, so I Googled the word 'perviserating' and got no useful results.
Now what? Should I sign up for a mind-reading class?
I hope they can remotely update the car with improved collision DETECTION.
How awesome a publicity stunt would it be in 2091 if the car comes shooting straight at the earth, strikes through the atmosphere, and then grinds to a sudden and inexplicable halt 10 cm above the planet's surface?
And that is why reviews show how much recorded play time you have in a given title.
Do you seriously care if you see the touchdown in a Superbowl match a second before some guy 2000 miles away?
To put it in perspective, two days ago was the 28th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. 3 in the US.
You're seeing it from above because the turtle is shy.
But everyone the farmer deals with DOES.
I gave the example of the guy coming to pick up the milk elsewhere in this discussion. He's on a deadline, and that deadline shifted with DST coming and going. Thus the farmer has to be done milking on HIS schedule, not that of the cows.
That description sounds more like hacking than a beneficial tool.
That or serving ads at will.
Better than covering them in white phosporous.
And when the milk tanker shows up half an hour before the farmer is done milking instead of half an hour after?
So they voted to find out the pros and cons rather than just going with a gut feeling to rip out the existing system.
Seems reasonable to me.
Deer, as an example, get used to roads being safe to cross until a certain point in the morning. All well and good, but suddenly that point shifts by an entire hour without any warning that the deer can perceive. Result: More animals hit by traffic.
Most animals live by their circadian rhythm. Wake up at a certain time, eat at a certain time, sleep at a certain time. For farm animals like cows and pigs, this fits into their daily routine as livestock. But suddenly everything shifts by an hour, resulting in anything ranging from confusion to stress. And for what? So the stores turn on their all-night LEDs at the same time they always do?
Or maybe people don't consider the phrasing of their Google searches.
Maybe they look for dissertations, in which case I can clearly imagine a thorough and indepth essay on what Jews are and aren't being titled "Are Jews Evil?" simply because of the Betteridge law of headlines!
Maybe someone told them, "I don't remember the title, but if you Google for 'blacks are not oppressed' you'll find it," and what they're after is a comparison of black life today compared to before Rosa Parks.
Consider the stupid, stupid things people say on a daily basis. Now apply that level of thinking to "I want to look up this topic on the Googles!"
I'm actually tempted to go look up what that search result contains ...
Google is not and SHOULD not be the thought police. If their algorithms show these to be common search queries, take that as a hint that we need to DO something - as long as that something isn't to sweep things under the rug by censoring the results.
Yes, censoring. I don't give a rat's ass about the argument that it's only censorship if the gubbermint does it. The internet is the new town square, deal with it. Circumventing censorship laws by "suggesting" to private companies what is and isn't appropriate things for people to see is bad.
I think society will survive just fine without Razer Drivers for Linux.
I prefer punctuation brooches, myself.
Let every bereaved family member sue Williams' estate for eleventy billion bitcoins!
Except when you run a website in eg. Chrome, you have a lot of (we assume) really smart people keeping Chrome from having serious exploits.
If you run a website from JimBob's AutoParts in its own app that JimBob's third cousin grabbed the code for off the net you have NO IDEA how well it's sandboxed if at all.
That's actually a pretty good catch. I hadn't noticed it myself until you pointed it out. What a difference a near-synonym can make.
Hell, I would rather the kids know how to handle the knives properly than not!
That girl wore some very provocative clothes. That would like to the man like she wanted to be raped. Next time you go out, wear very conservative clothes that show no more than 3% skin so as to prevent men from assuming you want to be raped.
See how your logic works?
An innocent person with no fucking clue what's going on should be allowed to react with fear and wanting to INSTANTLY SHOW HE IS NO THREAT.
Yeah, this is as crazy as thinking the NSA has the capability to snoop on all communication going through the internet unless it's heavily encrypted, and even that is no guarantee.
And point of order: If you change Alexa's activation phrase to something like "Gumball", the ads during the Superbowl during which they say "Alexa!" all the time will do nothing to your device anyway.
The ads for gumballs, however, are your own problem.