That's why I never put two mirrors together face-to-face. I don't want the universe to have a stack overflow.

The whole "the Universe is a simulation" thing is silly, IMO. It doesn't predict anything. Whether the laws of physics arise from time and space and whatever context those exist in, or were created by God, or are rules of a simulation that is running on some kind of pandimensional metacomputer doesn't change anything, because we are still confined to this universe.

Windows' greatest competitor was always the previous version of Windows (except for Windows 10, whose greatest competitor was Windows 7.) I think from now until the end of the universe, Windows 7 will always be the best version of Windows.

From everything I've read about Windows 11, I have no desire for it, since, as has been done since Windows 8, most of the changes are to benefit Microsoft, not me.

> First of all, even if they block the ads how will you know if they are still sending your data to 3rd parties?

I don't think they're even pretending to not do that. They just aren't targeting you with ads based on the information they are collecting anyway.

No, it's not. Facebook creates internal accounts for tracking people who aren't even registered.

The anonymous reader might be.

I just want my flying car. And fusion reactors. They've been 10 years away since the 1950s.

Google does it with everything. They create a service that achieves some level of success and then monetizes it to the point where it no longer serves its original purpose.

The LD50 for saccharin was at least an order of magnitude higher than what they're saying for aspartame. If you pump some creature full of enough of anything, it will get cancer.

They stopped putting radium in bubble gum in the 40s and switched to plutonium. Cocaine was phased out by the late 60s, and is no longer used. But that white powder you find on bubble gum in baseball cards and Wacky Packages? That's anthrax.

When I heard that news, my first thought was "Who's paying them to say that?"

I'm 58, and I tend to keep the TV significantly louder than my wife, but a lot of movies and shows, etc., make the dialog hard to hear, with either the music and background noise too loud (Nolan, I'm looking at you), or a lot of dialogue being whispered or spoken really low.

I would attribute part of it to my old man hearing, but definitely not all of it, because we watch a lot of old TV shows and movies, where I don't feel the need to turn on subtitles.

If it were useful, sure Meta, which has sunk 10 figures into trying to make it happen would have something interesting and compelling to show... and yet, all they seem to have to show for it is an avatar of the Zuck with big, girly eyes.

(Yes, Meta has demonstrated some really interesting tech, but they haven't demonstrated a use-case for it.)

Apple probably just isn't seeing the level of interest they expected because the headset costs $3500.

No one is showing off a "killer app" for AR. It's one of those things that's cool, but no one has demonstrated a compelling reason to use it. Also, even for Apple, they should have expected people to balk at that price tag.

Brave has been my primary for about 4 years now, and I very rarely have any problems. I've never had to do any weird configuration to make things work.

If the viewscreens are not showing the outside, then they could give no sign. If the images are faked, then we would see exactly what the was revealed at the end of the episode. It doesn't answer any questions, just deepens the mystery.