The idea that a state government is unnecessarily at the mercy of any corporation is hard to comprehend. Especially, as in this case, a foreign corporation.
Open source shouldn’t only be the standard for governments. It should be the minimum requirement.
Another thing is that I feel like the era of the private phone number has passed. I see the use case for phone numbers for businesses, but people just don’t use them very much anymore otherwise.
Like, we don’t memorize them. We don’t dial them. They’re just entries in our contacts.
At this point, we could create an alternative way of contacting private phones. Something based on whitelisting instead of blacklisting. Something that can be easily shared but not easily guessed. Something that would be easy to trace who called you.
All of these phone scams rely on the idea that a stranger can just up and contact you without any effort. It’s ridiculous. If we got rid of that, we’d save people from untold billions of dollars of scams almost instantly.
My computer is good enough to run any games I want to play, even recently released FPS types of games at reasonably high settings. Still not good enough for Win11. My weak-ass tablet, though, was upgraded straight away.
Do you remember a few years ago, it came out that some company was working on a new idea that, when you were given an advertisement on a TV, it could require you to say the product name aloud or it wouldn’t continue?
I try not to concede anything related to advertising because everything they want seems so dystopian.
Password manager is one of the few “free” services that I pay for. Still feeling pretty good about 1password.
This is a complicated situation, but in my opinion, probably the correct decision.
Given this is the ruling, if you do believe your phone is about to be confiscated, and you don’t want its contents to be used as evidence, it might be a good idea to turn off your phone. Although the police cannot compel a password, a biometric unlock is not a password. If you turn off your phone, it will generally require a password to enable biometric unlock.
I’d prefer him on Mars.
Well, like I said, the point is that I refuse to believe it until I’ve actually used it myself, because they’ve squandered all credibility with me.
If people actually knew what percentage of tech demos, even by the biggest companies, were at least partially faked, they would be offended.
Unless I can actually use it myself and replicate results, I just assume that tech demos are complete crap.
Remember how maybe a year or two ago, Google showed a demo of a digital assistant independently calling and making an appointment for you with a hair dresser? It even added natural pauses, and "um"s and that sort of thing. If that was real, I think a lot of people would want it. Where is it? They already made it for the demo, right? So it seems like all they need to do is to sell access to it. Why would you put all that effort and make something and then not sell it? It’s almost as if it never existed and the entire demo was fake.
Ignoring the overall subject, I don’t like your physical description of yourself.
Try to be a little healthier, please.
“Pathetic” is actually a really good word to use in this situation, because its root is the greek word “pathos”, which is known today as a type of persuasion where you rely on emotion.
People only look at the headline. They see a person fired without a specified reason. It seems like it should be easy to see something happening is unfair.
But this sort of thing is rarely that simple.
I purchased an FSD Model 3 a long time ago. For the life of me, I can’t understand why it is still so bad today. How hard is it to stay in the left lane when you’re just about to take a left?
However, that being said, it’s just a tool. The first time I drove (other) cars with cruise control or GPS, I knew I didn’t want to drive without those features anymore, even if it was years before they started working very well. I feel the same thing about FSD, even in its current poor state.
I know that it’s been advertised to be something it’s not, and I think Tesla needs to lose a lot of lawsuits over it, but I need this technology now.
Just like when cruise control and GPS came out, there were people who wrecked because they relied on them too much, the same thing is happening with new technology in a Tesla. There is no autonomous driving mode. The driver is supposed to be in control and paying attention the entire time.
He didn’t sell the Tesla stock. He used it as collateral to borrow the money. Rich people rarely sell their things while they are alive. They borrow against their fortune because if they sell, they have to pay capital gains taxes.
Google allows (and has) numerous third-party app stores on their devices, some of which are completely free. The app store that Google themselves operate also has lower fees and looser restrictions than Apple’s own store. Android is also an open-source platform that allows sideloading of thirdparty applications. Most device manufacturers heavily modify it to suit their needs.
There is nothing about any of that which has anything to do with whether Google is using their market power to unilaterally charge more than they would in a fair market.
This is from wikipedia: “In law, a monopoly is a business entity that has significant market power, that is, the power to charge overly high prices, which is associated with a decrease in social surplus.” As a side note, I find it really distasteful when people say, “It is not a monopoly,” because it adds nothing to the conversation, and is almost always wrong.
Of course they make bank on their app store. It’s a monopoly.
You need to make a choice to continue using Facebook
This reminds me of the movie War Games, when WOPR says, “The only winning strategy is not to play.” The only correct choice to make here is to delete your Facebook account.
The problem is that nobody in tech can even really work for eight hours a day for long periods. People who work long hours almost always pad out the actual work with non-work. And the people who live at work are typically screwing around so much that they barely get any work done.
Yes, it makes sense to do all of this as a person working there, but I think it is telling that the companies let this happen. People can only work so much. Why not get the work out of them that you can, and then send them on their way?
Even worse, they laid them off by having the voice assistant call to inform them.
By these standards, most of my adult relatives are actually children.