I find this highly disheartening. I finally cut the cord this summer, and have been very happy with Vue. It was the only service that had all the channels my wife and I both agreed we wanted. I agree with other posters that the name and branding were terrible, and I also had several people say to me 'but I don't have a PlayStation'. We have Prime and Netflix and also soon to be Disney+, but this was our go to for watching TV and the news or just having something on in the background.

All we hear about is how hard it is to get people to the theaters, so this is the response? The people who are still going are your audience, and now you want to make their experience worse? What happened to making it a better experience so _other_ people want to come back and watch.

I've had this same conversation with non-technical family and friends. It seems to be a combination of not understanding networking as well as just a general mistrust. The amount of data that would be generated if _every single phone_ was constantly streaming data to their home base would be staggering. Not to mention multiple apps, streaming all voice data, to multiple home bases (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon) would cripple your phone's ability to do anything. As well as a family all connecting to their basic home wifi when everyone is around at the beginning or end of the day.

Or use Facetime and do an audio-only call to a friend, and let it just sit there. See how long your battery lasts while simply transmitting audio.

I have seen very weird advertising pop up on my apps, but I can always link it back to my physical proximity to a store, or similar circumstances such as my active web searches. It's easier to be worried about something they can understand, rather than the complex algorithms and machine learning that are raking in the data that we _freely give away_.

It's an interesting question. However I think that in this case tumblr is considered a public site and service, so I would liken it more to a store deciding to not allow one or two customers in when clearly everyone else is able to go in. They were not doing anything malicious, so denying normal access to an otherwise public site falls into a different realm.

Why does this make me immediately think of the VATS system?

Yes, I was thinking the same thing. It would be great if this was something cool, but it's probably extremely mundane.

There is really almost no info here, so not much of an article. I suppose it is implying that you can do this attack when someone walks away, and when they return they are none the wiser. Or at worst think their laptop rebooted for some reason.

I'm an adult, and texting is a nice way of touching base with friends when you really don't have anything to say. Rather than call up for 15 minutes of attempting to find a conversation, you can send a text, or a picture, or something funny that made you think of them. And it's asynchronous so you don't have to worry if they pick up or not, or listen to a VM or not. Plenty of times a text 'conversation' turns into a phone call, because it's not great at high throughput the way a call can be. Plus when you can touch base with multiple people at a time. How much time did we waste on the phone talking for hours 'about nothing' according to our parents? Are we annoyed because 'kids today' can do it more efficiently?

Most of the time, the problem is there is no budget set aside for the new tech. Or for the staff training to use new tech. Or to spend on a vendor/partner/consultant to help determine what new tech to use. So isn't that the real issue? If you had the money, you would solve the problem.

This sounds similar (but different) to when they did the walking while blindfolded tests. You would think you would notice that you are curving, but they showed that when blindfolded, you have no idea if you are walking in circles or maintaining a straight line, even when the person was trying to walk as straight as possible. Add to that VR that is actively trying to fool you, and I can see how this could be highly effective. When do I get this for my Oculus?

Isn't this the normal alien commentary. Even more general really: aliens might do something bad, but maybe it'll be good. At least we have Voltron to defend us.. oh wait.

Exactly. This is just in the system. There is no charge. This is just some way to turn something that is not a subscription, into a subscription service, with some PR in place to make it sound like it's a good deal.

Those of us who enjoy real maple syrup will. If you like chemicals, continue with your manufactured sugary crap.

Yes, this. I hate that people like to try and make it all into sound bites, when it's much more complicated. Everyone wants (or should want) security and privacy, but we also want law enforcement to be able to protect us. When those two conflict, how do we handle it? Everyone wants the simple one sentence, headline-style answer, and there isn't one.

I think most people understood that this was their attempt at trying to make it work, and only vaguely scientific. Basically they are trying to say they have a better algorithm. However, the commercials really do amp up how they break down the answers and questions and results, and match on all sorts of data points, etc etc so I can understand that the regulators would say 'hey, take it down a notch'.