It's almost like allowing Google to become a single point-of-failure for the Internet is a bad idea.

Citation needed.

Machine learning is largely being used to acquire data to serve advertising. Server automation is being used to aggregate hardware under the control of a handful of huge corporations. VR technology is used for porn and games.

To be fair, the most productive and forward looking uses for these technologies would be in medicine, which is hampered by our byzantine patient privacy regulations. And even so, progress is being made, i.e. automatic scanning of xrays and remote surgery. But short of a radical new paradigm that doesn't involve hoovering up data so Granny will get ads for blood pressure meds instead of Viagra, technology has stalled.

It's also an example of hyperbole.

I won't copy/paste a definition because I assume you know what the word means, but I also assume you missed the point.

If Apple's TOS includes a provision whereby your liver may be made available to Tim Cook, should he require it, that is completely legal.

A corporation may define how you are allowed to use their services. If you don't like the terms, you don't have to use it!

Simple! I don't see why so many people misunderstand this.

I, for one, am glad to see that giant tech corporations will finally get some representation at the top levels of our government.

Web pages use SVG to render vector graphics. It uses the exact same imaging model as PDF and is implemented in all modern browsers. The web in general has taken a lot of lessons from Adobe because Warnock and Geshke, in the PostScript Red Book, got so much right about how to build an image model that many GUI developers are still learning today. If you start with a PDF, it should be possible to machine-translate it to SVG and present it as a web page.

PDF exists because it is trivial to generate it from the document renderer meant for printing. Although I have once in a while run into an improperly scaled PDF meant to be printed 8-up, I'm just not

YES! They are monsters defacing digital propery--as opposed to the people spray painting "All Cops Are Bastards" on public buildings, smashing windows, and setting fires. Those people are peaceful protesters! Heroes, even!

I too am happy about this. If it weren't for corporations like Google, Facebook, and Twitter, the people of the world would be subjected to unrestrained access to the President's speech. Without corporate gatekeepers to filter what we see or read, we would all be influenced by whatever propaganda the President posts online. We need more corporate control of the Internet to prevent these things from ever happening again.

I call on the Republicans and Democrats in Congress to put aside their petty partisan politics and work together to ensure that the Internet remains in the control of private corporations. We cannot let this travesty happen again. Not one more time!

I tried telling that to Ilhan Omar and I got put in Internet Jail for racisms.

The old Blackberry charging cradle was like this. Not only that, when you dropped the Blackberry into the cradle, it automatically went into a "night" mode and showed a clock, so you could keep it on your bedside table.

I am constantly baffled that nobody produces a phone similar to the Blackberry Bold. Not even Blackberry does anymore. The form factor was excellent, the swappable battery was great, and if you like your physical keyboard, there were none better. I guess if you mostly use your phone to consume content it's no good, but I used mine as my primary email device for years. It was just that good.

RIP Blackberry, I miss you.

It's a mobile app devised by the Lizard People Who Live in the Deep Earth to corrupt our youth and ruin their brains.

It's also, probably, an app that brings much joy to perverts and pedophiles.

If you discover your teenager using TikTok, it's time to collect your beans and ammo and head for the bunker. The End Times are nigh.

It may be worse than that. The security people may be the ones recommending these third-party solutions because it gives them a goat to sacrifice if something goes wrong. "It's not MY fault, the vendor screwed us!" Covering your ass is job priority #1 in our modern world.

From the summary:

Ronald Klain is a moron. The reason we had battalions of grandmas sewing masks is because we do not have any of the infrastructure, tooling or workers to produce these things. America has become the Outsourced Nation. In fact, the number one best thing that could be done at the time was to shut down the borders to prevent new infections from incoming from the outside. The Democrats started calling it racist and encouraged people to go out and visit Chinatown. The official line went from "masks are useless" to "masks are mandatory". It's absolutely dishonest to lay the entirety of the blame at the feet of Trump. Every government official, from local to state to federal, fucked this up, and most of them were screwing around with it for political reasons.

These COVID articles are so transparently political it's becoming farcical. You want to avoid the next pandemic in America? Make America nationalistic again. Bring our troops home, bring manufacturing home, boot out illegals and immigrants that are lowering Americans' wages, and engage in trade with other countries like we care about our own people instead of multinational corporations. We can't be prepared unless we support our own people and our own industry.

But that will never happen because morons hear "nationalism" and then shit themselves out of fear of Nazis. It's all so tiresome.

Name 5 people who want to go to war with China over the Uighurs.