Well... They're not wrong, at least in terms of ad and usage tracking.

Jesus H. Christ, Disney!!! Get your act together! It's almost 2020, Post-Snowden! How the ever-living crap is this system not secure?! Is Disney not the largest media conglomerate on the planet? Y'all should have the resources to not let this happen!!!

Okay, if a Chinese national working in their local government needs this app to get wages or a press pass as a member of the local media, what's stopping them from buying a separate phone devoid of any information other than the sheer basics to use this app?

Seems pretty simple, though I'm thinking most regular folk in China won't be aware of this idea, or aren't able to afford a secondary smartphone for such a purpose.

That's a big point... They are free to return back home to their nations. They should be allowed to work through the process here in the US, but it does not mean they will have free rein while waiting for their case.

You're also misrepresenting Article 26 further. It does say "not required", but it doesn't mean a State can't do it anyway. It does not say "prohibited from".

If they fly or sail to the US directly from the State they are seeking asylum from, then yes, the US is the first country they will apply to. If they haven't already been directed at an Embassy or Consulate to apply in their original country and wait there.

The current US administration's policy is mostly applicable to land border arrivals. So, because our system at the southern border is currently overwhelmed by migrants attempting to gain asylum, it makes sense.

I personally do not buy into the opposition party's narrative that there "isn't" any backlog at the border, but I'm sure others do.

Big Problem: Very frequently, those "tagged and released" often do not show up at their court date and will disappear into the depths of the US, living in constant fear of deportation, instead trying to build their new lives here and make a family so that they might be able to justify leniency to USCIS. (Though that often doesn't work.)

This is the loophole that I've seen a LOT of Progressive activists 'conveniently' not pay too much attention to, or even sometimes encourage it. And Conservative activists focus almost exclusively on this issue.

The only practical ways of dealing with this problem are to either place an ankle GPS tracker on the migrant applying for asylum OR detain them in an ICE detention center and provide basic needs while they are waiting for their case to work its way through the system.

That is the other thing subject to debate: How much basic needs should we be providing to the detainee? Conservatives want to provide only the sheer basics like food, water, and shelter, but no legal counsel since they are not citizens... Should be treated as prisoners because they technically broke the law. Progressives want them to have more than that.

That would require people to have driver's licenses.

If Elon Musk has his way and we all give up driving across the developed world, we will have networked self-driving cars taking us everywhere.

When everything is working, it will be safer than driving manually. But, when it doesn't and the system gets hacked or glitches, it will be much worse than a 20-car pileup with deaths.

I personally do not buy the "extreme unlikelihood" Musk and Co. continue to sell with Level 5 fully autonomous driving being "hacked". The most I'll accept is autonomous driving on a highway for a road trip. Beyond that, there's too many variables that a set of cameras, a lidar, and a neural network can predict.

People, this contradiction among the American populace is head-spinning. Yes, they love the ability to live-translate a call into text! But NO!

"Don't listen to my calls!... But I want that live-translate feature!"

Good lord, most people are freaking dumb when it comes to electronics. These computers are not able to learn how to give useful data to humans by themselves. They HAVE to collect data to be able to interpret and provide good services.

This crap is a double-edged sword. Yes, you can have something like Google Assistant in your home, but no, it doesn't mean the computer or "cloud" is doing all the processing by itself without human intervention.

Because this whole AI "industry", as it exists now, is still in beta. It's not done yet. There's only so many engineers employed at Google or Amazon that can provide a wide enough variety of accents and dialects to constantly train the service.

So pick one, please. You want to have Tony Stark's JARVIS in your home or do you want to have total privacy? You only get one, NOT BOTH.

Correct.

At this point, in the year 2019, it is nearly impossible to avoid being catalogued by some service, somewhere on this planet. Be it public government records or private search history, it is no longer practically possible to live in a forest without some service knowing where the heck you are, even if you leave your smartphone at home and remove the license plate off of your car.

The ones spoken of here in this article are going to ridiculous extremes to try (fruitlessly) to keep their data off of some company's or government's servers.

Even then, they are still recorded.

There is ZERO possibility in this day and age to live a fully private life. *****The only real way it could be done is if you have a kid born at your home and never have them leave the house for medical services or getting a birth certificate.*****

Everyone else, you are known. And you can never be unknown. It's best to just stop with the insanity.

A month with 100+ days? Call me ignorant, but I sincerely doubt that will be enough to cause people to stop using gas-fueled transportation. In the southern US, we often have 100 days that can last 2 months.

The world is going to get warmer, I acknowledge that. But what I'm seeing here are climatologists that are refusing to accept that it is beyond too late to reverse or suspend climate change. Work is already being done on atmospheric carbon capture devices because it was a very nearly unrealistic idea by the world's scientists to expect people to switch to more expensive but cleaner forms of energy and transportation in a matter of a few years.

What I personally find hilarious in all this mess is that the electrical and computer engineers involved in the creation and maintenance of this standard **sincerely believe** that this is actually all perfectly reasonable and logical. They're able to tell the difference between a 3A and 5A capable connections and wires. And STILL continue to believe it even after having laypeople point out to them how confusing this standard is.

Most I have met in my university have honestly given shocked expressions and seem truly bewildered by how confused the mass market is over USB 3.x and USB-C.

I know Apple was involved in the creation of USB-C, but it feels like they had more of a consulting position in the whole ordeal. They probably weren't in control of how the USB-IF would be rolling out the standard.

Any EE and CE folks, speak up... Correct me if I'm wrong here, or add in if you wish.

The Supreme Court of the United States has already ruled over this insane discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

This was a 7-2 decision in favor of upholding vaccination rules made by the States.

The Social Contract overrides personal liberties and freedoms granted by the US Constitution. The government MUST uphold the common welfare of the people, overriding your freedoms.

End of discussion.

You do not have the liberty to walk in public and infect other people with your nasty disease that you think, "Oh, it's nothing. I'm strong."

Every time as case about vaccinations gets to federal court, these cases get thrown out. Go ahead and sue, New Yorkers and Californians. Your "freedom" to not vaccinate ends when you enter into public spaces. Period.

For many of these Fortune 500 customers, time is money.

The encryption used by these ransomware criminal groups or individuals is often of a sufficiently complex manner that it would take thousands, if not millions, of years to crack through brute force, if a "time clock" isn't already attached to that ransomware threatening total deletion of encrypted data if the ransom isn't paid within a certain amount of time.

Even if one of these companies has access to a supercomputer cluster, it wouldn't be enough to crack it in a reasonable amount of time to ensure the victimized customer is back online.

Now, I wonder why these security firms don't keep extensive daily backups of their customers' data instead of paying up? Is it due to power/processing costs being much higher than just straight-up paying the ransom? Or is it because it takes "too much time" for everything to be restored, making the customer unhappy?

Wow-wee! What a life of luxury you live!

Surely you cannot be serious...

I wish I could afford the delivery fee + tip I'd have to leave for the grocery delivery driver on top of the state sales tax and overall price of groceries.

The idea behind a privately-owned car is that other activities you'd want to do on your own are made cheaper with your own transportation and the amount of space it comes with (trunk(s) + optional roof rack). You cannot do any of that with public transportation. Maybe an on-call taxi or the more expensive Uber/Lyft services available (higher than UberX)... But then all those costs start to add up such that any savings gained by not owning a car and the gas/electricity/hydrogen used to fill it up are negated.