It was a simple matter of Cox buying Thomas a 2026 Winnebago.

Nah, just a minor bump.

To get the hockey stick effect (like climate change), you need the new users actually feedback into improving the software they use. That doesn't happen much already much less with people with a focus on gaming.

It was their bikini clad shots at the beach bar with 10 men that got them in trouble.

la Presidenta is entirely Republican. You must recall that Reagan campaigned on Gov. is the Problem and more or less promised to tear it down. He didn't of course and taxes actually went up under Reagan. He also let the feral Christian Right into politics under the guise of Jerry Falwell and his ilk. They proceeded to destroy any freedoms that they could lay hand on since they were not contained in his Bible. After that, Gingrich proceeded to further destroy a functioning government and then campaigned on government does not work. Nice shot, Gringrich, and he's still promoting the same stupid shit.

Reagan also campaigned for the rich people. His tax cuts were aimed, if not entirely on them, they were huge beneficiaries. Bush 1 and 2 were similarly dumb. Bush 2 claimed there were gov. surpluses as far as they eye could see, so they could then proceed to cut taxes thus screwing government one more time. Deficits continue to rise because of those. Obama stupidly continued those damn things, and then we got The Whiner in Chief who thought that rewarding rich people for being rich meant that they'd reward him with some of their riches; he wasn't wrong.

Biden was caretaker and the U.S reeled under Covid, a disease ignored by la Presidenta until if couldn't be, mainly due to the stiffs piling up. The Republicans thought this was just potty because they were not Their stiffs, those were little people stiffs. la Presidenta funded the vaccines only because he wanted to be re-elected, other than that he didn't give a flying fuck. It was so bad that when Biden got in and asked for the NiH plan to combat the pandemic, they handed him a binder of crap that was no plan at all. The Biden Administration had to start at square one.

Now el Bunko is selling off the Federal Government one piece at a time to his rich friends who reward him by feeding his grifts. Just look at who contributed to his alleged companies or his dumb-ass ballroom or his festooning the White House with tasteless gold gewgaws. Meanwhile the Republicans are whacking Medicaid and intend to whack the ACA under reasoning that those are helping the little people. In their eyes, the little people are not rich because they choose to be poor.

Most /. readers should have a clue how many of those cameras exist... and that includes areas around sensitive government facilities.

I can't imagine that this is going to turn out well. Crappy security on the cameras, terrible security in the online software, and now add in that data being manipulated by people overseas. That's a trifecta of security compromise creating a national security problem.

I see what you did there.

The critical thing is how can people drive and text with these things? If people can't text and drive the phone market will collapse as those critical group chats have to happen! Validation is no joke, my friend.

Hah - I'm holding out for the 16-fold Samsung, a Smartphone that I can open to an 80 inch Television. This 2 and 3-fold crap is for posers, and poor people. Wake up people - the cool kids are waiting until Samsung smartens up.

You can't even define woke in this instance.

Whoosh!

SpaceX knows exactly where each terminal is because they have to for radio timing to work correctly with the moving satellites. Russia has to test those terminals somewhere. SpaceX could be giving that location to Ukraine. SpaceX could be permanently destroying any terminal that turns up near there and hasn't been cleared by Ukraine. SpaceX could be reporting the incoming locations of missiles and could be cutting service as soon as they realize that there's a surprise terminal moving rapidly towards a Ukrainian city.

Due to their lack of accuracy which makes them ineffective against hardened military targets, most of the Russian missiles are used in strict terror campaigns against civilian buildings: Power stations providing neighborhood heating, residential tower blocks with hundreds of families living in them, independent churches, nurseries often at times of maximum use and of course hospitals.

Getting on top of this and ensuring that Ukraine is a key supported customer that feels it gets what it needs could have allowed a real feel good story showing a company that took abuse and murder seriously. In fact it's pretty clear that some working at Starlink tried to do that at times and the management made it more difficult. Elon Musk is literally a baby killer.

I appreciate your ideas, but this will never work. Executives (and every other sane person at the company) will always be more interested in their own success than in the company's success.

It's not though. But if it were, that's solvable through reforms initiated with democratic representation. Assuming the people of the nation actually care enough to run their own government. Of course that only occurs when people actually have power and representation. Perhaps that can be solved by removing a class of people with more money than everyone else and who are getting much more "representation" than the average.

You're not helping your case by quoting a quack like him. He's a pop sci author that specializes in junk science. Exactly the kind of guy that I would expect to do a lazy study pointing to cell phones bad.

Like I mentioned on other comments I'm still not at all convinced and correlation is not causation.

I keep coming back to the fact that these same studies have been done with every new form of media and they always find a correlation.

The problem isn't the New Media the problem is we don't support parents and kids enough so the parents plop their kids down with Penny dreadfuls or radio or TV or Internet and now cell phones and screens.

In another hundred years these same dumb studies will be done for cyberdecks.

So I'm aware that the abstract says that they controlled for socioeconomic factors I'm just dubious of that.

It's far more likely that kids spending a bunch of time on screens is a symptom of other problems.

That said on the off chance that the phones are a problem they are a miniscule problem compared to everything else kids are up against in 2025.

Taking your kid's phone away isn't going to magically make them get better grades or take up sports.

Even so I think it's far more likely that you're seeing the same basic problem across different economic groups. And because of that you could replace the phone with basically any form of media. Which is why you get the same little panic every time a new form of media comes out and the same group of social scientists running the same experiments blaming the New Media for causing the problems.

I'm not a huge fan of folk music but having listened to a little bit of it just because I'm a lefty and Lefty's tend to blare the stuff I can tell you that the same problems that we had a hundred years ago or more we're getting sung about in folk music back then and are getting sung about it and folk music today. We haven't solved any of the problems. And it's the same damn problems. The only thing new is obesity and that's just because we have reasonably reliable access to food for most people... Most people. There are still several million kids having sleep for dinner every night...