Because this goes way deeper than just one service on one platform from one company. And the way things are done now, it hinders and slows technological progress. In addition, enforcing interoperability would give us all a much better level of interoperability WITHOUT enabling any company to become a monopoly and even if one company did create a product or service good enough that even, despite the above protections, somehow would up being a defacto monopoly in their chosen space... if they then used that monopoly to go off the rails and start artificially crippling features so they can be sold back to their consumers, it simply opens the door for another company to step right in and fill the void. It will ENFORCE competition much more than any other method currently and will force focus on new features and technology advancements to gain and retain customers instead of much slower advancement that uses crippling technologies to grind every cent out of their users at every opportunity.

In all of the digital space, there really needs to be government intervention to guarantee that artificial blocks to interoperability should be illegal. There is a term for it.... adversarial interoperability. But the thing is, if this were in place and couple with protections that hardware and software MUST be considered separate for all devices, technology would advance WAY faster, and competition would be much stronger if this were enforced by law. Anti competitive and anti consumer practices like artificially crippling hardware so that the functionality could be sold back to you would go away literally overnight. It would force actual innovation to get ahead rather than beating on consumers with these shit practices. Even in items like cars with subscriptions for heated seats. If you could swap out software or use software of your choice if one company decided to do stupid shit like this.

I guarantee you this is about accessing and controlling your data to a higher degree. I don't mind who does my system as long as it is usable and doesn't spew my data everywhere. At least with android auto its very easy to just keep an old phone paired to the car that isn't tied to a normal user account. Hiding in plain site. I guarantee you they are going to tell you you have buy yet another data connection also.

I got into a huge argument years back on the Homeassistant forums when homeassistant started banning plugins that did not use official API's. The biggest majority of homeassistant users are using homeassistant exactly because it allows controlling your home devices without having to authenticate to servers that you don't control and ask permission of someone else to control equipment behind your firewall. In my opinion everyone that went with change is getting what they deserve. Cloud controlled devices are a security joke. Connected devices are wonderful, but they should expose a local web interface or some other local API.

And if you do continue with his logic then you have to come to the ultimate conclusion that people are born either bad or good (within a spectrum of course), but the following logic is if someone falls on the bad end of the spectrum, then why should society allow them to pass their genes along?

I think you are focusing on the wrong word. CONNECTED devices are awesome. I want as much control as I can. But by connected and control, I mean me and me alone for things behind my firewall. I wanted connected things. I just refuse to have things that connect back to the manufacturer who I then I have to ask permission from to control a device behind my own firewall and who can see everything that is going on behind my firewall. Device manufacturers like using the word connected because they want less tech savvy people to believe that their way is the only way and that there is no choice other than using apps and servers that the person who owns the device doesn't control.

I was going to post that most of the best beer in Europe has very little hops at all compared to American crap. The really super strong Belgian Ale's for instance have VERY little hops in it. I'm really not a huge beer drinker, but I severely despise our crap in the United States. The only beer that I really enjoy is the Belgian trappist Chimay blue label grande reserve. Very strong alcohol content, very dark, very little hops. Beer in America is trash, especially lager, but even the ales are crap.

For two reasons, session is superior to signal. Primarily is also secure and verified original user, but also anonymous. Too many people try to break security and privacy into two separate things. But they are very closely related and you can not truly have security without also being able to be anonymous if you choose. The fact that signal ties the account to a phone number which is usually tied to a real person or can easily be tied to real person is not acceptable. Two people need to be able to verify that the people that exchange credentials are truly each other after that initial exchange, but they do not need to able to expose the real world identity of the other party if that party chooses not to exposed. Many times it is important that two parties trust the communication between each other but due to circumstances need the security of ensuring that neither side, nor the company creating the software, nor the carriers delivering the traffic can easily work out who the real person is behind the communication.

It isn't even better than most. I would argue that it is in fact worse. This legislation is still sorely underwhelming unless it completely addresses artificial crippling of devices when 3rd party components and 3rd party repair shops are ruled out. The only thing that Apple did was stall so they could get crippling software in place that allows then to lock out 3rd parties. Just fixing the devices is not sufficient. The legislation needs to ENFORCE that there is competition in both the parts and the repair arenas. Also, any software necessary should be free of charge to the owner of the device if they decide to self help.

Glad I'm not the only one. I was already semi-boycotting Sony even prior to the rootkit thing because of their insistence on using proprietary memory stick format for all their devices long after everyone else had adopted a standard... I think it was MMC at the time. But when they did the rootkit it has been a complete boycott for me. I have not given Sony a single cent of my money since then other than watching a few of the Spider-Man movies. Even then I felt dirty afterwards.

When any branch of government ever remotely tries to justify ANYTHING like this it is time to rid them from their positions. If the people in NYC and state aren't voting every fucking idiot out that supports this from the police in any remote way, they need to be removed. Police unions need to be stripped and removed. Cameras should not be able to be turned off by poilce. ALL police camera footage should immediately be accessible, no questions asked to anyone in any police interaction whatsoever. In addition to that, all police footage even when there is not an incident should have a regular citizen review board that constantly and randomly reviews footage from all cameras whether there is an active incident or not. Purely randomized review and if the camera is not worn or is covered, the police are not acting in an official capacity. This is the only way that police corruption will be rooted out. They need to brought down not just a notch, but they need their damn wings clipped.

I think for the betterment of humanity, the entire concept of information being copyrighted and locked up needs to go away. People can still make money with things made from knowledge, but the knowledge itself should always be free. Nowhere is this more evident than in medicine. Public money goes into universities to fund research but then universities and individuals still get to tie up the knowledge legally. Yes, it would be severely disruptive of markets, but for the long term betterment of humanity, all knowledge should be free.

This isn't even close to sufficient level of protest. The government isn't supposed to know where we travel especially within our own borders. It does not take knowing who someone is to confirm they have no weapons or explosives or otherwise. Also, the entire premise is security theater and their current method makes the carnage even worse (human toll wise). If someone wants to wear an explosive vest and detonate on a plane, they take out the planes passengers and the plane. This stupid security theater just moves that point to the security line. Now someone can just detonate and line and take out MULTIPLE PLANE worth of travelers waiting in the security line to be groped and personally identified. Fuck that and them.

Yes, that charge speed is the reason I can never do EV until it is resolved. I drive regularly for work. I put about 25k miles on my vehicles per year and regularly drive more than 300 miles. I am absolutely OK with an electrical vehicle that matches most gasoline cars for fill up which is in that 300 mile range. But taking even 15 minutes to fill up is a no go, but when you may be driving 600 - 1000 miles in a single day, you need to be able to start with a full charge and get another full charge, possibly 2 in a very quick charge. Even the 15 minute super charger times that people quote are only an 80% fill. Charging to 100% capacity is a very long charge even with super chargers.

I fly self built gyroplanes and ultralights and I would not get in that thing and go higher than I am willing to fall. Every type of aircraft currently out there has the ability to be fully/mostly controllable in the event of an engine outage. To my knowledge nothing that is a drone or built similarly has any ability to do anything but fall when there is an engine outage. Sure you could add more engines/motors, but they are all electric. You MIGHT have a motor failure and lose only one, but if the power delivery system fails you are going to drop like a rock.