Great! Who the fuck wants to be near a hate filled piece of shit like you anyway. Lemme guess: You are a Jesus freak and probably a MAGA fanatic at that. Go fuck yourself, the world doesn't need you.

Makes you wonder how many places you stayed at (Airbnb's, motels, hostels, etc) over the years might have been pulling this kind of shit without your knowledge. I think I see a consumer market for a device that can detect these kinds of 'bugs'.

That "Brogrammer" culture goes back to when programming was usually done with pen and paper and then punched onto cards to be submitted as part of a batch job to be fed into a room-sized mainframe computer." This is about as much news as the sun rising in the morning,

Tick off "allow apps from unknown sources" under "security" in settings, get some crappy free file manager from the Amazon "app store" (you'll need this), then go to the web to find the .APK files for Firefox, Chrome, etc. from a reputable site, use crappy file manager to locate .APK file under "Downloads", open it/acknowledge warning boxes, app installs from .APK file, then enjoy!

HDTVs generally came with a standard VGA input connector so they could be used as a regular computer monitor. I bet this has disappeared in favor of HDMI, but a modern set is really just a computer monitor with a tuner added to it.

If the underlying OS is Android, I bet a standard wireless keyboard and mouse combo would work with it, and you just plug the dongle for it into a USB port on the set. (I haven't even owned a tee vee in years, but my impression is that Smart TVs are generally overgrown Android tablets without the touch screen and with some custom front end slapped onto what is otherwise a fairly standard Android system)

^to add to this, they keyboard I have was actually ment for a Windows 10 based tablet PC but works just fine with my Android devices.

This might be a dumb question, but if the TV is an Android based "Smart Tv", couldn't you simply plug in a USB keyboard or mouse as these TVs tend to have at least one USB port on them? I bet a USB hub would work with them too if you don't have enough ports on the TV itself to plug in both a KB and mouse I can plug a mini-usb keyboard into both my smartphone and my tablet (both Android) and it works right off the bat, with no need to configure or install anything, so I imagine the same thing can be done with a Smart TV.

High powered transmitters have been on the air continuously for nearly a century now, and you are worried about the little toy radio in your cellphone? WROC "Bringing you all of the latest death metal hits!" has been blasting your body full of high powered RF waves all of your life, and you are not 'glowing green' are you? Good Grief.

...yes, this will be abused, and of course marketers will be jumping on this left and right. What would scare me is if they use this to build a "Minority Report" like data base on people so they can better do surveillance on un-suspecting people, or insurance companies use this to better deny people coverage on life saving medicines. "You don't need that pill, I am the computer, and a computer iz never rong!" The AI does not scare me, it's the people who WILL be (ab)using it that will have me scared shitless!

...yes, this will be abused, and of course marketers will be jumping on this left and right. What would scare me is if they use this to build a "Minority Report" like data base on people so they can better do surveillance on un-suspecting people, or insurance companies use this to better deny people coverage on life saving medicines. "You don't need that pill, I am the computer, and a computer iz never rong!" The AI does not scare me, it's the people who WILL be (ab)using it that scares me shitless!

And it is their fault for being mentally ill! I say we beat them, dunk them, chain them up, force them to work, in shackles, at the 'elf bench' for 16 hours a day assembling stupid little trinkets, and starve them now again. That will teach them to be mentally ill! We should also do the same to heart transplant patients too, and people born with things such as cerebral palsy. After all, they did these things to them selves, and God says they have to pay!

2. One argument against making social programs like food stamps easier...is that making them a PAIN IN THE ASS might help encourage folks to double down on work and education, sacrifice so they can get a real job that pays enough so that they don't need to live off the govt. teet.>>>>> Ah yes, the old "beat them into submission", that the Christians love to use against the "other people", because their book of fairy tales and the sky daddy it is about says to do that. Just hope you don't have some shit happen to you, such as a sudden illness that causes you disability, which will knock you down a couple rungs on the social ladder, forcing you to "live off the gov't teat". I love how these same people that crow about the poor getting welfare don't say a thing about corporate welfare where much of that 'teat money' goes directly into the pockets of the ultra-rich.

Unless I am guaranteed a job which pays very well, I would rather keep programming as a hobby and just do trade work (such as plumbing or electrical ), or even be an office drone. The pressure-cooker environment, and the prospect that someone in India and China can replace me without even being brought to the States does not sit well for me. All I would end up doing is banging out the same old cogs and gears that the suits told everyone to make, and little to no room for creativity or experimentation. No thank you. Code monkeys for current and popular languages are very easy to replace.

I wonder how many of these e-mail 'addresses' read something like jhjhdsjifhdsjisfh@jdsjfhj.kjj vs ones that are legitimate (this reminds me of when spammers were selling CD-ROMs with "millions of email addresses" on them)