Comment False police report (Score 3, Insightful) 112
Comment Just turn it off (Score 1) 63
Siri Recap runs only when you choose. You can turn on Siri Recap in the Watch app on iPhone. When you turn it on, you can set a schedule based on time and/or location (for example, "only at work" or "never at night"), or you can manually turn it on and off. Across all these options, you can always turn it on or off at any time from Control Center.
If it is illegal, don't use it. If you find it unacceptable to record and transcribe, don't use it. This isn't some new never before seen tech, there are programs that let you record audio on the watch already, and they keep an entire conversation not just a transcript.
Comment Re:Google Maps are detached from reality (Score 1) 149
Google has a fundamental problem with perception of which roads are equivalent.
It often sees rural 60mph roads as equivalent to highways where in reality they former are narrow, bendy, sometimes dangerous, and you can never so more than 30mph on them safely.
One advantages of this if enough data is collected on those roads then Google will have real data to base they routing on rather than speed limits which may not reflect reality on the road.
Comment Re:Unethical (Score 1) 149
- Deliberate unauthorized tampering with lawful street traffic? Check.
- Deliberate experimentation on unsuspecting humans? Check.
The Stanford University Institutional Review Board clearly dropped the ball on this one. Not entirely surprising since Stanford is Google's alma mater and I'll let you imagine what that means for board members.
Last I check Google is a private company, not an academic conduction research under Stanford's name. There was no more tampering than any other routing and the users know Google going to recommend a route based on their algorithms, and this was simply can attempt to see how well they could work.
Comment Re:Experiencing this firsthand (Score 1) 149
Had this happen three times in the last month or two in Northern California. As long as I follow the new route strictly, I usually get there at about the same time I would have otherwise, but with a brand new view of the cityscape / rural landscape. Went for a nice river drive last week, 10/10 so far.
Don't think Google did it to me as I am not in the targeted cities, but a few times I've had WTF reactions to routing and said F it, I'm going how I always do...
Comment Re:Weird but kind of cool (Score 4, Interesting) 40
I gotta give to Lucas that while much of his work is of questionable qualities across many metrics they could be judged on, he still spends his energy and more importantly money on things that make him happy and attempt to bring something he finds cool and interesting into the world, instead of trying to usurp platforms to further his fave political agendas and stroke his ego, which cannot be said for many/most pepole of his status. Can't say he's my favourite creator, but at least he acts like a human being, rather than turning into a monstrous hollow husk chasing profit or worse, trying to make other people's life worse actively like certain individuals
I certainly agree, and find teh whole high and low art a bunch of BS. Some people like one thing and another a different thing, neither is better just different. The only thing the distinction is good for is for some pretentious critics to pontificate about things most people never read.
that give many a slashdot commenter raging hardons.
You saying
Comment Re: Who's money is being spent here? (Score 1) 68
The US lacks a real infrastructure to allay range fears
No what the US lacks is people who look into the current situation and instead repeat a trope that hasn't really been relevant for a long time. The great American roadtrip can very easily be done by EV at this point. Heck the first coast to coast coverage was provided by Tesla well over a decade ago and there are many orders of magnitude more charging options now than back then.
Unless you're taking a trip out to some true wilderness (as opposed to driving through on the highway) an EV is perfectly suitable even for long family vacations in the USA. But a lot of people seem to think they aren't.
Can do and convenient to do . Compared to Europe, the US infrastructure is pretty bad. Where I am, you have charging stations at each rest stop, for example. Friends have work parking with chargers as well. Yes, the US has. a lot of chargers, but how many are right off an interstate vs having to drive somewhere to find one? Friends who have EVs have two basic complaints: chargers are not near interstates and when you get there sometimes don't work or have a car using it as parking after a charge. The other is lack of charging at hotels, etc. so they have to find a charger where tehy are staying rather than be able to charge at the hotel. I understand hotel's lack of chargers, one I worked with looked into it but the upfront costs were prohibitive for 1, let alone two or three so they would never recoup the costs, plus give up valuable customer parking.
Walmart's partnership with Murphy USA and teh plans to add chargers can go a long way to fixing the first issue, given Walmart's presence in the US and having some locations near interstates as well as in more rural areas. The second is a tougher sell. Faster charging is helping as well
In the end, consumer perception is what drives the slow adoption, as well some real challenges and in some cases, the higher price for an EV version of a similar vehicle.
Comment Re: Who's money is being spent here? (Score 1) 68
Comment Re: Who's money is being spent here? (Score 1) 68
"especially since probably 90% of teh daily driving is less than 50 miles" These kind of claims appear over and over ("average commute of 38 miles" is another. EV advocates making the statements do themselves a disservice. What happens with human lossy-compression cognition is that a technically correct statement becomes "EVs can go only 50 (or 38) miles". There's also an arrogance factor where it looks like the EV advocates in their ivory tower are telling you what's good enough for you.
Certainly. It's a problem of cognitive dissonance, where new information disagrees with your preconceived ideas.
Comment Re: Who's money is being spent here? (Score 1) 68
The only people who care about EV range are people who've never driven an EV. The rest of us just drive them and pull into a fast charger and get a coffee if need be. I've done this 3 times in the 3 years I've had my Chinese EV, and my car has about 1/3rd of the range of a modern latest gen EV with their massive batteries. This is a classic case of people demanding a spec that works against them. All you achieve with this is a more expensive car for a feature you'll almost never use.
That depends on the US case. In Europe, there are often charging stations at rest stops along highways, so you can recharge and get a snack or meal; and driving distances are often shorter on trips. The US lacks a real infrastructure to allay range fears and vacation driving is often a longer average distance than in the EU. While I agree the range concerns are overblown, especially since probably 90% of teh daily driving is less than 50 miles, range and charging is not an issue; but th perception it is limits adoption.
No one said it did. That said there's nothing low quality about Chinese EVs. It's every bit the normal car with the excellent finish I expect from any other car company.
Haven ridden in one I agree, and given the vehicle's cost it is quite impressive; the Chinese seems to avoid teh Korean/Japanese market entry of build tehm cheap/sell them cheap and once we get a foothold move upmarket in quality and price.
Comment Re: Who's money is being spent here? (Score 1) 68
Comment Re:This isn't the EU. He's going to win. (Score 1) 314
That is where they have him. He did not invoke his 5th amendment right and remain silent... he gave the federal investigators false information which he knew would result in the destruction of any potential evidence on his device.
What I don't get is if he was that determined not to let CBP search his phone, for whatever reason, why not simply wipe it beforehand so a search would just yield a vanilla phone? He could always restore it later. CBP might be curious why it was in that state, but a simple security explanation that he wants to be sure no viruses are on it before he uses it in the US would be a logical explanation.
Comment Re:This isn't the EU. He's going to win. (Score 1) 314
Demand an attorney, and remain silent until your attorney advises you to speak.
Except they can use your silence against you now. So you must know and use the magic words.
This. Any competent lawyer would tell you always specifically invoke your rights when questioned to protect yourself; or as was eloquently put in Bosch(?) "In a pickle, invoke the nickel..."
Comment What goes around comes around (Score 2) 233
The willingness of most of the Republicans to accede power to Trump to not incur his wrath and thus protect their reelection chances will come back to bite them when the Democrats retake control. Many of them probably privately worry about ow the courts and Congress have vested a lot more power in the executive and what it means long term, but lack the courage to stop it. From all accounts, the Democrats are already plotting payback when they get in the majority. In the end, the politics of retribution are not good for the US, and there deserves to be a pox on both their houses. Even if Trump issues a lot of pardons, the Republicans have proven you can still make peoples lives miserable through investigations, even if there is little merit to the investigation; a playbook the other side can and likely will adopt.
Journalists on all sides of the issues should be worried about how the President is using the FCC to go after critics, because they could be next when the other side gets in office, especially if the courts let him.