Comment Re: What's the problem? (Score 4, Insightful) 161
Because you can't institute such age verification without collecting everyone's PII.
Because you can't institute such age verification without collecting everyone's PII.
"And then, anything the mods let be becomes officially approved by the company's official moderators."
No, that's only true if they approve content, as opposed to removing content.
It is NOT a big deal or shift to monitor services on servers to see if the server is capable of actually doing work. You have been able to do it with OSS tools for decades. Big Brother, anyone? Doesn't only ping, although it does that too ofc to see if the machine is even responding before doing other tests. If they weren't already doing this, they are grossly incompetent, period.
Hopefully the real story is that they came up with a better way to do it than what they were doing before. That seems likeliest.
"The big advantage Microsoft has had for years is backward compatibility"
Has had? No, just had, until Windows Vista. Backwards compatibility went to shit then and has gotten even worse since.
ARM is actually less of a problem than Windows version, because the x86 to ARM translator is now pretty good.
Google says that a lie.
I say you don't understand argument.
Let's talk Ratios.
OK. Let's talk about the ratio of claims made about iOS security to claims fulfilled.
So on the one hand they are tearing out hydroelectric dams, and on the other hand they want more power for AI server farms and EVs.
I'd rather not have the server farms up here in the North where we are removing the dams; if they are going to go in the state at all they should be further south where they can have better access to solar power. As for EVs, we have refineries here in California, and the energy it takes to make gasoline can propel an EV about as far as the gasoline would an ICEV so guess where the energy is going to come from?
In this area there is no shortage of water. Almost everything is soggy AF basically all year. The same coastal proximity that gives the area mild weather gives it regular precipitation and fog, and we still have enough redwoods here that a significant portion of the fog is harvested and stored in the soil. Most communities are on former riverbeds, and some of them (like Ferndale) are basically in current ones.
Nobody wants to destroy all of the reservoirs.
On the other hand, if we would refill aquifers we could store more water underground, where there aren't the evaporative losses, and then we wouldn't need as many surface reservoirs.
Yes, of course it can. You generate it fractally. Then you keep finding more complexity the deeper you look, and what's more, it's consistent. You don't need to store it, since you can always regenerate it from the same rules.
Google has delivered malware from the play store before.
However, apple has also delivered malware from the app store before. In fact every few months we discuss an article about malware currently found there. So that is not a differentiator, though apple fans want to believe otherwise.
"fixed cellular internet is not an replacement for dsl"
It shouldn't be, but in my area you can only get 5 Mbps over DSL at best even right next to the CO...
What about the even more hypocritical patriotic kitsch? Shitty little plastic American flags made in China? We're gonna miss those!
I bought my Android phone because the answer to every structural problem with iOS is "you can't do that, it's Apple's phone not yours, if you want to do that buy an Android phone".
But that doesn't help people locked into the iOS walled prison, with a bunch of apps there, and not allowed to install a meaningful app to transfer even their data.
We only need amateur radio when none of that other shit is transmitting, so no problem if it's got static the rest of the time. Sure it's a bummer, but you've got other ways to communicate while the Internet is working, including Internet repeaters.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce