Comment Age verification should be called (Score 1) 159
Pr0nhibition.
And it's fated to fail the same way Prohibition failed.
Pr0nhibition.
And it's fated to fail the same way Prohibition failed.
Mod parent up.
I wonder how this will go in the matter of trademark ownership. Will this be overlooked by Platinum Games and Sega?
How is the NSA going to do its job when all programs are memory safe?
People.
Always the weakest link of any system.
In high altitudes maybe it's better to look up instead of down and use celestial navigation. Not so precise, but it can be corrected better when flying lower to reach the destination.
If you're having much trouble with such drones, is much simpler to just use lasers powerful enough to blind the drone's cameras.
Would be possible to detect the signal direction and ignore anything that comes from ground? Maybe some kind of unidirectional antennas pointed to known satellite positions?
Also, would GPS satellites digitally sign the signal? That'd be another way to certify the signal origin.
People tend to overreact everything nowadays.
(opens Google Maps, almost pukes)
HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT
Google answers "haha nice try".
They seem pretty productive in India. I get at least 781 phone calls per week about my car's extended warranty.
Wait until they put 70h/week, your phone will ring nonstop.
If I remember it well they're promising that 5G would enable remote robotic surgery.
Yes, enable, like if that's not for 5G, remote robotic surgery would be totally impossible.
Now tell me if anyone with a sound mind would accept being operated by a robot on a cellphone connection of any sorts.
Damn, robotic surgery is the kind of "very, very mission critical" stuff that would require low-latency, very stable optical fiber connection(s), with multiple redundancy systems (processing, connection, power, etc), being 5G the last of all the contingency connections.
Also does the very same things, although it was easy to setup a local account.
I didn't installed Windows 11 yet to tell how much mandatory is to sign-in in your MS account.
Anyway, I'll stay with Win 10 ("good" Windows?) as long as I can.
But not for all products. Sensible products come in a box or pack, those that are already well packaged are delivered as they are.
And you know what? It's nice.
Less packages to open and throw away, less trees chopped, less plastic in the environment. Win-win-win.
The politicians and celebrities that fly all over the country (and world) in their private jets are causing way more of the problem.
Don't forget that the environmentalists also fly private jets. Oops.
At first, it doesn't looks good. We already have Pix, a very convenient way to do payments. Looks like this DREX (what a horrible name) thing is a solution in search of a problem that was already solved. And oh so crypto! Such technology!
But that was a bit the same feeling with Pix, everyone here in Brazil thought it'd be a disaster, but instead it turned out to be a big hit. Brazil Central Bank got some credit (pun unintended) with us Brazilians, specially in resisting to bow to current government populist whims and keeping interest rates high (a bitter medicine, sure, but needed so inflation doesn't skyrocket).
So let's wait and see how it goes. My biggest fear is it can become a mechanism to stealthily "print money". Everyone in Brasilia knows its consequences but very few care.
The tech for very efficient incandescent bulbs is ready since 2016: https://news.mit.edu/2016/nano...
I wonder why no one put them into the market yet. Maybe now this tech get the push it needs.
Somebody ought to cross ball point pens with coat hangers so that the pens will multiply instead of disappear.
