Some people seem surprised by the glasses and how they can be used in perverse ways. These people seem to have forgotten what the original aim of facebook was. The website itself started as a way for "bros" - who would have been called incels had the term existed then - to trade pics of women from their campus. How many of those pictures do we think were taken with consent? Even if they were taken in public they still could have been creepy. This is just the same mindset, applied to technology that didn't exist at this scale in the early 2000s.

There is pushback on Flock, and, from some of the stories where officers were using them to "follow" someone for a date or what not, yes, they need to be held accountable. With a huge system, comes huge responsibility, and unfortunately, a lot of humans don't have that. But, what will probably happen, is some huge "9/11" type event will happen, that perhaps the flock cameras could have tracked or help prevent and just like with 9/11, the public will "demand" government do something about it. After 9/11, the TSA came along. Now, you get to show up at the airport an hour or more to be searched, in some cases groped, you can't take shampoo on board with you, you can't do this, you can't do that, you have to have a "real ID" to fly and on and on. You can bet, that if something happens that perhaps a flock could have helped in some way, the public will demand Washington do something. And, politicians, D or R, will jump on that, and VOLLA! Cameras everywhere, tracking everyone, not just in vehicles, but walking, bicycles etc. And don't think that eventually, they will start sending you tickets for speeding, or jaywalking thanks to the cameras. Heck, with all of the connectivity/GPS in vehicles, I'm surprised they don't send tickets already! And, perhaps states will get rid of the "gas tax" and other fees and just tax you based on how many miles you drive, thanks to the cameras & connectivity on your vehicle. It's happened before...it will happen again.

And so much for the "less expensive" uber/lyft rides now that the UNIONS will jack up rates so they can get THEIR cut!

All the 200MP cameras in phones? What a waste! About the only good for a 200mp in something THAT TINY is if you take a photo, zoom in and then crop the photo. You won't lose as much detail. Then, it's the problem with a low light photo. With THAT many sensors that close together, the gain of the sensor has to be increased which causes the signal to noise ratio to go up! Then the software tries to remove the noise in the photo, and causes the photo to not look as good. Heck, if that many pixels were the solution to a good photo, the mirrorless & d-slr cameras would of had them a long time ago. Most max out around 20-30 MP. Then of course is the GLASS in front of the sensor. There IS a reason why 500mm or more telephotos are VERY expensive! Heck, one of my more inexpensive 100-400 lenses has 17 in 11 groups! Let's see these pinhole cameras try that! Most smartphone users never use anything but automatic mode anyway and won't see the benefit (if any) in a variable aperture, not to mention changing other things like the shutter speed, ISO etc.

Biochemist here. I've done genomics, I've done proteomics, I have customers in diagnostic medicine currently. My PhD was on protein-protein interactions, which is a big part of how our immune system works.

A lot of people are quick to jump on the fact that the Theranos system didn't work, and many others claim that it was impossible and never could have worked. While indeed their system didn't work, that doesn't at all disqualify the principle.

For one case study of how far we've come in recent times I point to genomics. The first draft of the human genome took more than a decade start to finish and cost over $1B. Now we can sequence full human genomes on a commercial scale for $500 or less, and it's done in less than a week with far better resolution than the first draft.

From genomics we went to proteomics; classifying proteins in a organism instead of just genes. This tells us more about what cells are doing (although transcriptomics can bridge the gap to a certain extent). Proteins are often better disease markers than genes as well for a similar reason. When proteomics started getting off the ground we were cataloging proteins from large amounts of cellular extract. Now we can catalog and in some cases quantify proteins from individual cells. We can also use protein staining and imaging mass spec to show which cells from a biopsy are expressing aberrant proteins (again as disease markers); we've reached a point where we can do this in real time on live tissue.

One of the biggest faults in the Theranos system was in the fact that blood is not the best serum for disease markers. Yes there are markers in there but not everything goes in there, and not always in quantities that are easy to observe. Blood is great because of how much is in there but lots is missed there as well.

I think you two are both correct here. The company was mostly funded by very wealthy investors, those folks lost money and are getting their pounds of flesh back by way of seeing her rot in jail. As you point out there were also actual patients who had tests ran (uncertain now what tests, where, by whom) and received crap results; those people of course are getting nothing back because they don't have enough money to be considered worth anything in the courts - even if they died as a result.

You're not wrong that the democrats are run by a bunch of cowards. They propose a plan, and reliably fold on it as soon as the MAGA party comes up with a (not at all) clever insult that invariably tears the plan down to a single word bite. The democrats do have ideas, they just have no spine to actually push them through.

Happened in 1859, took down a lot of the TELEGRAPH lines, some even caught on fire. That was before electricity was around! Just imagine what that would do to the power grid, smartphones, internet and pretty much everything with a chip! The Amish would be about the only ones that could survive! ;)

Well? How do you expect a DC politician to become a MILLIONAIRE, on just a less than $200,000 a year salary, while living in an expensive place like the DC/Virginia area, while also having a residence in their district back home. It's expensive and those poor politicians are working hard for their people back home (yes, sarcasm). They start off in a small town city council, then move up to a state congress. Then if term limited out, they run for state senate. If that goes well, they sometimes run for state governor. After that they move up to "the big league". Once there, you can bet they get pulled into whichever party boss they are assigned to and told welcome to DC. Here's how things work. DO what we say, VOTE how we tell you to vote and you will get rich beyond your wildest dreams. Go against us, and you'll be gone by the next election. "but what about the people in my district?" No worry, we'll throw you a bone once in a while, so you can record it so it can be played on your local tv stations. The entire DC area is corrupt, doesn't matter which party you subscribe to.

Oh, they'll be found guilty. "Forced" to pay a fine of a BILLION dollars! Boy! That will show em! LOL, they make that much money EVERY DAY, and then some!

Show us how you know essentially nothing about the Ford Pinto without telling us that you know essentially nothing about the Ford Pinto.

On the plus side, at least we still have enough readers on this site to have at least one person who meets that criteria. I guess that's something.

It's the bottom of the world. Less fuel required. You just cut the rope and they will fall into orbit! LOL

the deflock.org site which I started watching about a month ago, showed less than 100 towns/cities that abandoned Flock. Now it's over 150 that have told flock to go flock off. Two towns in my neck of the woods have covered the cameras with black garbage bags and said they are canceling their contract and returning the money flock paid them to put the cameras in their towns.

Get rid of the 3,494 sensors, computer control garbage and it would make vehicle more affordable in two ways. One, less expensive to purchase and two, less expensive TO REPAIR!