With gps and telemetry. It would be less useful for visual surveillance, but pretty good as a bomb. And probably still work pretty well as a signal stealer or repeater. With the use of an algorithm to isolate and remove the sound of the drone, it probably would still work pretty well for audio surveillance too.

Those who would give up liberty in the name of security——-THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!

This is a adult tracking bill, full stop. The government only knows “adult content” when they see it.

The best solution, and it always has been the best solution, is for parents to actually parent their kids. And for kids: learning how to evade, not get caught, and learning where the line actually resides is a part of growing up. I’m not talking about truly nefarious things. Think speeding on the highway in a safe and reasonable fashion, this is also technically illegal. Yet if you went the speed limit you would actually be a danger to the majority of drivers on the road.

Kids shouldn’t be looking at porn. Kids will look at porn. This law wouldn’t change that. What it will do is track nearly every adult in the USA who gets online.

Let people resell and lend out their digital games to their friends. That would solve half the problems right there. That is the ownership you get with physical discs you lose with the current digital downloads.

Though assuming the mechanism to do so works through your Sony account, it won’t help independent brick and mortar resellers. Nor chains like Game Stop. We have an independent store on our neighborhood Main Street. They stopped dealing in dvds about a year ago. They do sell card games and board games too. But their bread and butter is the secondary and vintage video game market. I don’t see how they survive this long term unless they completely reinvent themselves.

In the training courses on their learning platforms, they try to drill into the learner that anything the AI does is the responsibility/fault of the user and not the AI/Anthropic. Yet this press release tries to split the responsibility between themselves and their Frankenstein’s monster as if that means it’s only partially their fault while ignoring they created the monster in the first place.

Are they going to get made at people doing laps on the plane? There has to be a large cross section of people who could afford that flight with people who are older and more likely to fall victim to DVT. I sure as hell wouldn't wanted to be seated for 95%+ of twenty hours. I have done the 15 hours flights a dozen or so times and that is more than enough in one go. People better bring compression socks or a massage gun.

This reminded me when a friend gave me a bootleg of Star Wars Episode II. It was a low quality video that couldn't even fill up my tiny CRT monitor without looking like garbage.

Some movies are just made to be watched on the big screen and in this case the biggest screen you can find. I have a killer home theater setup as well as a VR system that will make a virtual movie size screen. Even then, it just can't match the in theater IMAX or Dolby Cinema (Tall) experience for a movie like the Odyssey. Not to mention, in an almost surreal experience at this point. The theater was actually packed. Which definitely adds to the experience as well.

If you are that concerned about hiding your content from the government, it seems it would be less suspicious to back up the device, wipe it. Install minimalist backup designed to look like the phone is still actually used. Then reinstall it with your full backup afterwards.

It is more of a pain to be proactive than reactive, but it would have avoided the mess this person now has to deal with. Obviously we shouldn’t have to worry about any of this in the first place, but unfortunately that isn’t the world we live in. I don’t have any sensitive data on my phone or laptop hd, so for me personally I don’t care. But on principle I do think it is excessive. And if I were a reporter or activist I would definitely be proactive about it instead of reactive.

A better way to measure that would be, what percentage of 911 call were because of “sleepers”. Why? Because a million people don’t need the service at any given time. But are the needs of the people who do call being met? That is the question that matters.

This would be kind of hilarious if it wasn’t such a drain on public resources. Maybe the cars should have a mechanical prod coupled with the sound of wailing infants a playing at an uncomfortably loud volume to wake the drunks. That and the passenger should be liable of for all associated cost if 911 is called. A $500-$1500 surcharge would be a mighty incentive for better behavior.

The US median age is 38. In Europe it is 43. In Japan/China/Korea/Taiwan 48. In Africa it’s 20, but the life expectancy is only 63. If you are younger than the average age of your region and your region has a relatively high average lifespan it’s fair to say that makes you young in the eyes of most people you encounter. In Africa if you were 48 you’d be considered relatively old. In Japan, that merely middle aged.

There is just something awesome about using all four limbs to finely control a high powered machine. It is the closest I am likely to ever get to piloting a humanoid mech. Alas, you are right. Those days are gone.

Manual transmissions are the ultimate theft deterrents. Most crime is committed by the young and...well...the supermajority of them can't drive a stick.

Where I live there are many, many, large trees everywhere (80+ feet tall) and much of the ground is hilly and uneven. The power goes out once or twice a year. The worst I can think of was 3 days after a particular big storm. Most outagges last a couple hours to half a day.

There are basically two ways to fix the issue. Burying the lines or widening the power corridors to keep the trees far from the power lines. Both would require chopping down thousands of 100-300 year old trees. No one here wants that.

So instead maybe 1/3 to 1/2 of the homes have whole home backup generators powered by natural gas or propane. I would not be surprised if a good percentage of the rest have back up batteries. It is a choice most of us have made that we would rather live in lush and leafy shaded place than have more reliable publicly supplied electricity. I can't say I know anyone losing sleep over it.

To the modern Republican "Conservative" means a dedication to concentrating wealth and power in those that already have it.

Established laws?Meaningless.
Established social norms? Meaningless.
Legal precedents? Meaningless.
Established and well researched science? Meaningless.

Sure they will pretend differently when it suits their goals. But their overriding goals are more power and wealth for themselves and to hell with the consequences.

To be clear I am not saying the Democratic Party doesn't have it issues. They suck at messaging. There are plenty to still seek power and wealth while being selective about the truth. But the pervasiveness and unabashed shameless boldfaced lying to achieve their goals is simply unmatched by the modern Republican.


As yourself this: Who does this policy benefit? Follow the money.

Exactly. There is no walled garden on Mac OS. That is only only on their other devices. Which is one of the reasons it is very lame the top end IPads, and the AVP are behind their walled garden. Though I don't really mind, given the option it would be nice if IOS wasn't a walled garden too. The top end iPhones are more powerful than most of the laptops sold only a few years ago. There is no real reason why shouldn't be able to plug it into a dock and then have a full desktop experience.

Mac OS has more of a low fence than a wall consisting of scary sounding messages to ward away people who may not really know what they are doing.