Yeah, I wish Amazon would cast to my Chromecast. But they don't.

I'm sad and wish Amazon hadn't starting this petty fight.

How did you read into this that Google was being evil? Because hotels were offering Google lower prices to compete with online travel agencies? That is good for the hotels, the consumers, and Google.

How is that evil?

It doesn't.

I listens locally for a trigger phrase and then starts recording and sends to a server for transcription.

This article is talking about what COULD happen if the device was hacked, not what DOES happen now.

I just got a google home when they went on sale a couple weeks ago.

I already had a chromecast and audio chromecast.

My kids, who don't have phones, now say "Hey Google, play Christmas music on the family room speaker" And it happens. "Goodmorning" and it tells me the weather and my commute time while I eat breakfast. "Add eggs to my shopping list" as I'm walking through the kitchen thinking about it. "Turn off the Christmas trees" as I walk upstairs to bed.

All of these tasks could be done with my phone. Most of them are much faster and convenient to just say. There are some things I still use my phone for- like picking specific radio stations or tv episodes to cast. It's been a fantastically useful tool.

I suppose the trade off is that I now have to refrain from planning my murders or insurrections in my kitchen.

You only consider wealth real if it is entirely liquid!?

No one with that much money can liquidate it instantly- at least not without losing some of it.

What if they owned a Billion of real estate? You think they'd be able to dump in in one weekend?

Maybe. I don't like what they have to say either.

But it wasn't just a "Nazi" that were muzzled. It was in, a broad sense, some inconsequential-person-that-Google-doesn't-agree-with that was muzzled.
You still think that's a good thing?

I don't.

I agree with your sentiment. I just hope whatever I think isn't someday deemed unworthy to say by American tech companies.

Still, if no one knew about the Charlottesville thing then no anti-protesters would have shown up. The vanishingly small number of nazis would have had their little hatefest and been properly ignored. No one would have gotten hit by a car.

Why can't we handle these things like we always have. Let them have their platform and ignore them. Let the FBI worry about whether they are planning actual violence.
This modern idea of given massive attention to a handful of radicals and then killing their free speech is frightening.

Irreparably damaged == destroyed

They are describing a situation where if you open this laptop it will never go back together as a laptop again.
That would, in fact, be "literally" destroyed for any reasonable interpretation of the word.

That would only be true if ISPs had competition like in a regular market.

I've lived in 5 houses in three states over the last 15 years and never once had a realistic choice of ISPs.

It's about motives.

I trust a surgeon is motivated to save me. A robot assisting him will therefore be working in his and my best interest.

A bank is not motivated to save me money- their whole purpose is to extract money from me. Therefore a robot assisting them cannot be trusted to have my best interests in mind.

If you don't understand the snark then why don't you "play along" at home.

Sure the idea is great for people consuming the service- it isn't so great for the unwitting customers providing the service at the expense of their bandwidth and security.

(Yes. I saw that they claimed it won't affect bandwidth or security. Why would you believe that?)

He never said that all depression is caused by dependence.

He said dependence causes depression.

I hope you are able to make it through your depression but your situation has nothing to do with the OP's assertion.

Love this. Out of curiosity what makes a black person not count as a black person? Just by disagreeing with you or is it more nuanced than that?

Used to hear the same kind of thing about Clarence Thomas. Apparently it is problematic for stereotypes if there are non-white republicans.

Standard disclaimer: I affiliate with neither party and despise the hypocrisy from both.

70 years * 365 days (roughly) * 24 * 60 * 60 * 88 bytes/sec / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 181GB

Is my math off or are they assuming such people will only have a 15 year life span?

Thank you!

You just saved my 1st gen Nexus 7 from a landfill!