Comment Re: I really do not get it (Score 4, Informative) 69
Comment Re: Midroll Ads (Score 1) 40
Comment Re:This won't end well (Score 1) 93
I know it is a joke, but Alexa's equipment people have at home is only a dumb terminal to Alexa's mainframe. Alexa is in AWS, so you can't kill it, and unless Alexa allows you to disconnect "her" from "your" equipment it would keep working even after you shot it.
Now, Cortana/GoogleHome/... will probably do exactly the same AND each one will have its own quirks. One will turn on, the other turn off, a third one will learn from the warring assistants and soon the city will be like a Christmas tree.
Submission + - The Chang'e-5 Recovery Team Wore Powered Exoskeletons (universetoday.com)
Strangely enough, the workers wearing the exoskeletons weren’t there to help with a difficult mountain ascent, or even pick up the payload of the lunar lander itself (which only weighed 2 kg). It was to set up a communications tent to connect the field team back to the main CASTC headquarters in Beijing.The exoskeletons were designed to help people carry approximately twice as much as they would be able to. Local state media described a single person carrying 50kg over 100m of the rough terrain without becoming tired. Setting up communications equipment isn’t all the exoskeletons are good for though. They were most recently used by Chinese military logistics and medical staff in the Himalayas, where the country has been facing down the Indian military over a disputed line of control.
Comment Re: "Death Panels" are real (Score 5, Insightful) 312
In most places that have (more or less) successful health systems, its main responsibility is prevention
Submission + - Firefox 79 Stable Wants Users to Test Unreleased Features Using Experiments
Comment Re:Escape from Wuhan (Score 1) 411
Comment Re:Http is what Linux apt-get uses (Score 1) 60
And it never fails:
Comment Re: You gave chemists oil and got plastic (Score 1) 73
Brazil? Because:
The United States has a glut of soybeans that have only recently started to flow back to China thanks to reductions/suspensions in tariffs.
Comment Re:Energy only? (Score 1) 81
Well if every company and every person did the same Microsoft trying to do, 100% of the emissions would be accounted for.
On the other hand, if everybody did what you are suggesting, we would remove much more carbon than we generate. We would not be neutral, but negative.
Comment Re:It's a directed propaganda campaign (Score 1) 176
Comment Re:They are coming for you tech people (Score 1) 115
What? You think that because these candidates are turning their sights on my industry, in a way that might hurt me personally, I'd no longer support them?
... as a high-earning tech person it will indeed harm me
Why are you so sure it would hurt you? I'm not sure it would even hurt Zuckerberg.
If you are the owner of a small company it may be difficult to hire for a while(more competition), but migration could solve that pretty easily
Comment Re: The media has power (Score 1) 115
Is it unrestricted speech? In the beginning Facebook would show you everything that your friends posted. That is not true anymore. Now they choose what to show you. As much as any other media company! You see what other people posted, sure. But not everything, just their selection of it.
I'm not saying I'm pro or against anything, just that what we have is not free and unrestricted speech in any way or form.
Comment Re:That's so easy to address (Score 1) 71
Another option similar to your (1) is to ask for all that replied(up to single digit repliers...) if it is ok to push the edit and if they want to maintain their answer
Yes, most posts would be kept as-is in the end, but people would at least stop complaining(myself included)