A car manufacturer can fit this https://www.amazon.ca/Portable... AM radio into the car's glove compartment or its trunk or a seat pocket, this should be sufficient, no?

BS, bull shit, there is no such thing as a 'human right' to any good, service, attention of any kind, including education, medical care, housing, food.

A human right is a protection against government (people in power) destroying you, taking your property away, taking your freedom and life away from you, that's what rights are.

As to privileges, such as health care, old age insurance, education, whatever, all of those things have to be provided and you are the one responsible for it.

Societies are inherently social. It's right there in the name; there's no getting around it. From how your parents came together, to your employment, to professional and personal organizations, to recreational activities: anytime you have more than one person, it's social (no matter how much some of us may wish otherwise).

You know what isn't social? Having a physical barrier that isolates you from others. So while Apple will tout the device's AR capabilities, show us ads with fathers participating in birthday parties while wearing the headset, and slap some creepy eyes on the outside that fail to make eye contact, so far as everyone around you is concerned you're just wearing a VR headset. The world doesn't care that you say you can see it, it can't really see you because you made a choice to physically separate yourself. You're distant. You're disconnected. You're removed. You're not present in the moment, no matter how much you insist to the contrary. And that's fine when you're at home playing games or watching a movie by yourself, but it's a really tough sell out in the rest of the world where things are social.

I'm excited for a future where prescription glasses have this stuff baked in. I'd love additive experiences like seeing the names of people floating over their heads, a map HUD that's with me for both the drive to the airport and the walk to my gate inside, distance traveled and heart rate when I'm out biking or running, the option to see more detailed information about the history of items in a museum, realtime translations for foreign languages, and so on. In each of those use cases I could see it being vastly superior to a smartphone, but so long as this technology has the effect of removing me from my surroundings in the eyes of everyone around me, it has no place out in society. My smartphone will suffice.

The word corruption, the only thing it means is - tax payers money is stolen by people with access to it. In the private sector this is known as theft. Corruption exists because governments exist and governments take our money and then it is used for personal gain of people with access to it.

All the things FTC gets its hands into are not corruption (they often become corruption once FTC gets involved).

FTC shouldn't exist in the first place, all of the things the Federal government does to hinder business is illegal, it should be the Federal government that receives letters from everyone, telling it to go to hell, not the other way around.

Which doesn’t matter even one bit, given that the 1% share the CCP has is a golden share that trumps the rest of the shares. For all intents and purposes, it’s under the thumb of the CCP and thus its US operations are subject to Congressional oversight.

If only we had a way to save the intermittent energy for later. Like, a storage device, but for energy. And if only we had some sort of indication that those storage devices had come down in price by 90% in the last 15 years, with further gains still to be had. Alas, we can only imagine.

I fail to see how this is ignoring the Constitution. People are calling this a “ban”, but legally speaking it isn’t. TikTok itself is fine: it’s the foreign ownership of TikTok that’s at stake, and yes, that distinction matters. We can’t do business with, say, Iran or Libya because Congress has the Constitutional authority to regulate commerce with foreign entities, as they should, and all they’re saying here is that TikTok has to change hands from its current, foreign owner. That’s well within their Constitutional authority. If TikTok gets a new owner, it’s fine to continue.

It’s absurd to think that any company would be able to wrap illegal commercial activity in a robe of free speech and then try to argue that they’re untouchable as a result. If that were permissible, we’d be able to legally perjure ourselves, engage in defamation, or commit fraud. Free speech has always had limits (e.g. the First Amendment uses the definite article—the freedom of speech—to refer to an idea that would have been understood in the context of existing case law and precedent, rather than a generic, limitless idea), hence why the more absolutist notion of it you see spreading in some echo chambers these days was called “absurd” when it was raised before the Supreme Court a few decades back.

TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese organization with ties to the CCP. TikTok isn’t being banned, per se: ByteDance is being forced to divest itself of TikTok or else cease its operation. Should they divest, TikTok can continue to exist, per what you suggested. Congress is only regulating TikTok to the degree that it is beholden to a foreign entity.

I used to run a phpBB forum for a group in an online game. At one point, we were getting upwards of a dozen bots a day signing up and plastering spam in every public area they could access. I was the sole admin, so policing it was a pain. I briefly tried a traditional CAPTCHA, but users hated it and it was barely effective when I tuned it to be easier.

I eventually installed a plugin that simply asked users to correctly sort items via dragging into one of two categories before they could register. We wanted to keep it easy for any legitimate users, while making it more difficult for bots or Mechanical Turks, so each prompt relied on the sort of info any player of the game would acquire on their very first day. We figured a few users who didn’t know anything at all about the game might not make it through, but that was viewed as a benefit, not a detriment. Sure enough, we had zero bots from that day forward, never again got a complaint from a new user about the CAPTCHA, and never heard about any issues via external communication channels, though we did get a few compliments.

Given that it cost the 1-2 new users we’d get each month maybe a minute, and only once at that, yes, it was worth it for the many minutes it saved me each and every day.

it is called inflation - expansion of the money supply that accumulated over the years (bail outs, social payouts, covid.. ) In terms of gold HDD prices fell.

The update is being withheld because Spotify has yet to agree to the terms for a developer entitlement they’re required to obtain with their update. The entitlement allows developers to bypass Apple Pay, but because they’re still benefitting from whatever other services Apple offers, the devs need to agree to terms that basically say they still owe Apple a 27% cut (the same 30% as before, minus 3% for credit card processing) for any out-of-app sales that occur as a result of a referral from within the app. Spotify wants to have its cake and eat it too (can’t say I blame them), so they submitted the app without the required entitlement, then withheld that info when they cried to the press, which strikes me as a bit disingenuous.

It seems like Spotify will be using the rejection to build a legal challenge against Apple, but this part of Apple’s compliance hasn’t yet been challenged or noted as being under scrutiny by regulators, so Spotify doesn’t have any precedent or regulators to back them up yet, which means that Apple is justified in continuing to enforce their published rules.

Sounded a lot like the reporters specified that WART was being used for the OEM’s tests.

The summary doesn’t mention that they have sources at multiple OEMs who are telling them they’re getting less than 50% of the claimed performance.

My company, my rules. For example almost all people working for me are Ukrainians, my policy is that Ukraine must win in this war against the murderous ruzzian aggression. Anyone not aligned with my values shouldn't be working here. I also completely support Israel, anyone not aligned with my values, shouldn't be working here.