Did the Cloudera exec who implemented this policy have anything in common with the candidates who the policy DID select...?

Niantic started life as an internal team at Google working on monetising location data. Being a revenue centre was the whole point from day one.

Only the "delivery robots" bit of this is actually news. Niantic being a datamining operation that tricked its users into scanning the real world for it is not. Hell Zuboff devoted a chunk of "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" to it and that book came out in 2019.

Latency in any sat based communication is governed by physics, not technology. Skype/VOIP over a sat connection is actually not terrible once both party understand that they need to wait for the other end to finish before they start talking. On the other hand, being able to get 720p streaming over sat connection is not something that you could get for 50 bucks a month before, so this is a huge improvement.

Saw the link, watch the talk, pretty awesome. Language can be colorful at time, i don't know if it's typical in this setting. Really liked the structure of his talk, and fact that it even goes into his state of mind when he worked on it really made the story telling much more interesting.

Another good example of incorrect usage of the word precision. In this case, the method is actually quite precious, as in measurements are very repeatable. What the author meant is that the accuracy is not very good. I tried out the app just now, at the range of 22 inch (width of my monitor), it under estimates the distance by 1 inch; and for something half an inch apart, it over estimates by over an inch. It is possible to measure the non-linearity using a control setup, but the result would be largely useless, as measurement of different items requires placing the item near the source and receiver, and this will likely change the acoustic behavior of the environment and affect measurement accuracy.

that's not a terrible idea..but i think most will just live with it without having second thought... after all no one seem to be REALLY complaining about mac addresses or IMEI

because NYT and other news agencies, as recognized journalists, are in a better legal position to protected their sources.

We know it can ran from a flash drive, but does it actually support FLASH?

Why not laptops as well?

Right here... never failed me yet: http://www.marksinfinitesolutions.com/tutorials/default.asp?tutorial=IS_Wifi

(There's an old saying that makes the point: the only truly intuitive interface is the nipple. All others are learned.)

Sorry, but that interface is a learned one too. If you've ever sat and helplessly watched a new mother and baby trying to work out how to get some milk INTO baby, you know what I mean.

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-1 this, 0 that. Sounds like you guys need a chill pills, sluts.