Based on the usual list of suggestions Netflix offers me this will be a total failure.

The matching algorithm seems to miss the most important quality of any show the writing. It does action/drama/whatever, foreign/domestic, live/anime and all those other parameters but the matching algorithm does not seem to care one bit about the quality of the writing for the show.

Who ever was on the board of Sears for the 1990's and 2000's needs to grilled by the share holders for missing the online ordering bonanza. Sears should have been Amazon.

Your option for - brakes - has expired.
Renew - brakes - now for $1000 for two months.

What they meant to say was "we pulled a bunch of wild assumptions together with a few more wild assumptions did some magic math and got a number.

We have observed exactly one planet with life and that planet has a civilization on it. To extrapolate anything to the 100's of billions of start systems in the galaxy is ridiculous.

We have not even confirmed the longevity of contactable life on the one planet we know about. The way things look the time from developing radio to making the planet uninhabitable could be less than 200 years.

"Apple has been awarded a patent today that prohibits smartphone users fro"

The patent is a piece of paper with a description it in no way does anything to smart phones.

The patent describes a process where hardware at a location interacts with software on the smartphone to .....

By definition extremist is extreme.

Google's job is to be relevant. Extreme is generally not relevant.

Facebooks jobs is to be a nice social place, extreme is generally not social.

I do not see excluding extreme content from being outside the self set mandates of either service.

If you have a self driving car you can bet there will 360 video of the entire incident to go through with exact speed logs. You will also be able to review the decision tree of the self-driving car.

Wait for inevitable addition of all cars automatically reporting driving "deviances" to the authorities, or at least the insurance company consortium, with full data logs.

The once dominant interactive web "standard" is dead.
What killed it? Security problems.

For the web, security needs to the number one priority considered from day one when the architecture, specifications and scope of the project are first looked at.

I see "OEM and third-party applications support". That sounds like a "good idea"(tm) when every third party app will come with the required 400 page disclaimer and rights waiver "this app is not guaranteed in any way and you waive and damage claims against the supplier"

Although I do see great promise in phone apps for the "real time driving experience you have always wanted" connected to the car app "leave the driving to us".

The general public is going to take their view of AI not from researchers, not from the press, but from mass media entertainment. And possibly a few sensationalist press pieces that play off the mass media entertainment view of AI.

I really really hate public opinion polls that survey the public’s impression of things that require deep understanding.

Consider that a good part of the public takes its democratic responsibility to vote on issues that directly impact them using such an educated and informed manner as "me dad was a ______ so I am".

To expect any educated and informed response from the general public on any issue is really asking for blood from a stone.

OS updates are security issue. Users cannot really apply updates to devices so manufacturers should be required by law to support and update devices for as long as the device exists.

Sure the manufacturer would really be better off selling you a new one. If they issued no updates you would have to buy a new device every month or three.

Look at car recalls, the same standard should be set for support of devices. If there is a system issue and a security update is needed the manufacture should be required to provide it no matter how old the device is. Shame on them for not making is safe/secure in the first place.

Also to avoid false fronts there should be a mandatory bond for 5 years of support should the "manufacturer" disappear. The bond price will be very low for real manufacturers.

In the presence of homonyms and synonyms you need context which means you need the full sentence before you can figure out what the words are.

We should sail, there is a sale on sails at Sail.

I have resorted to typing 2 or 3 random letters into the search box then scrolling through the people list to scan the Netflix catalogue for something interesting.

I hate that the content is getting split between all these providers. I do see my solution as a couple on months on one then cancel and switch to the next one. Just need to subscribe to each one once a year to accesses the latest season of whatever.

Of course they can come up with solutions to mess over frequent switchers.

This point right here. The ability to cut and crimp to make a cable the exact length you need in an installation is why the RJ-45 is the end.

Maybe we get 2 sizes. The RJ-45 for installation and some downsized consumer cable. But the big boys need it the way it is. Cheap and customizable.