Maybe google can find a way to make the video streaming less awful. They can hardly make it worse!

If you don't see the usefulnes, I have to challenge your reading or thinking skills.

This is in a discussion inspired by a plaything endangering many human lives, in a subdiscussion about regulation of those things.

Obviously a good line like this allows for reasonable regulation of playthings that are frequently used in dangerous ways vs those that are not and thus should not need regulation.

You're simply underinformed.

it's possible to have service level agreements about things like uptime of a service that is wholly managed by a provider that are sane. Things like how much is guaranteed before payment is reduced or no longer expected.

However that's not what IT departments deal in. No IT department starts losing funding if they fuck up the DNS infastructure for 2 weeks. No IT department loses its funding if they fuck up the spanning tree for the 5th time in a single year.

SLAs in this context are about "we promise to write a pointless reply email within 1 day" and such, which are the VAST MAJORITY of SLAs in the overall computing and IT industries. And if you had any breadth of experience you would know that.

Toys don't need cameras or autonomous flight features. Seems like a good line to draw.

There have already been rulings that decided that headers that define a public api are not under copyright if they represent the only way that that public api can be declared.

In other words, this judge did not follow precedent, or they're in different jurisdictions (I don't actually know).

More briefly: Service Level Agreements are accepting failure and then trying to limit it.

Service Level Agreements get demanded for communication paths or trust relationships that have already failed, and now someone is demanding a limit to the amount of failure.

Far from it.

IT Departments fail from the inside over time, and are replaced by mindless outsourcers, contract buyers, and CIO magazine readers. Productivity decreases drastically as the employees are blocked from effectively doing their jobs by infrastructure problems, and no one at the top even understands the problem enough to be upset about it.

That's the usual pattern.

Communities and prevailing attitudes are pretty different.

And speaking as a gay person, I'm not very interested in the "gay communities". I'm interested in a place that I can live as an openly gay person without having to give a shit about it. Closest in the US to that is the Bay Area, definitely not Texas.

Of course if you're comparing to southern California, I've encountered a sufficient amount of racism re: Mexicans there for one lifetime.

I have been there. It is.

The Sumerians gave us the number "base-like" system that is used in time, but the actual units of hours and seconds that we use didn't come until much later. The Babylonians for example divided the day into 6 top-level units and then down from there.

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You seem to have responded to being called out on missing the boat with a pile of insults and vile talk.

I'm sorry you're wrong.

Apparently, you are an awful person in real life, just when you think it won't have any repercussions.

People who are better looking do enjoy privilege from that. Why would you jump to the bizarre conclusion that men do NOT enjoy privilege because of this?

Money is a source of privilege, but it is important to understand that we have many forms of privilege in this world. If I am born rich, I get privilege from that. If am born white, I get privilege from that. These things do not cancel each other out. Being rich and black does not make you stop feeling the effects of race privilege. Being white and and a woman does not make you stop feeling the effects of gender privilege.

Privlege is not about whining. Privilege is about those who can simple presume that the world will work out for them in various ways, and especially when they do not even realize this is not so for others.

For example a rich black family cannot feel certain that their children will be exposed to positive examples of black people in their general school curriculum. A poor white family CAN be assured that their children will be exposed to positive examples of white people in their general school curriculum. That's an example of privilege.

Complaining is not what's going on. What's going on is that people are raising the bar, and saying that our interactions and our creations should be made in light of awareness that these issues do exist. They do not mean that we need to do penance, or feel guilt, or make a froth about our liberties being impugned. They mean, be aware, and act accordingly.

You should try it.