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Comment Digital Price Tags are not new (Score 1) 149

The US Military's own DECA Commissaries have been using digital price tags for nearly 20 years. As have places like Best Buy, Micro Center, etc. There are multiple positive reasons for having them, including updating prices when sales start or new deliveries at the same time the inventory system is updated. No more will you run into someone needing a price-check, because what is on the shelf and what is at the till are wrong, as they will be tied together. This is a nothing burger, brought up by some of the most out-of-touch members of our nation, elected politicians.

Comment OpenAI/ChatGPT isn't integrated into the OS (Score 1) 40

Why does no one understand what is actually going on, and instead act that ChatGPT is baked into the OS at this point, it isn't. Apple has its own LLM (Apple Intelligence), which is processes on device, or on their servers, using open source and publicly verifiable code. It is only when a request is outside of the scope of Apple's LLM, that it asks to share with ChatGPT. There is no "OS integration", everything is opt-in, and everything is obfuscated to the best of their ability to only share non-identifiable data.

Comment Do they understand?? (Score 1) 58

Processing payments in a pain. You have to calculate taxes, the appropriate taxes per state, country, county, and city; plus their own local taxes, and pay them all appropriately. Small developers are sticking with Apple, because they handle all of that for them. It is like politicians and judges haven't actually had real jobs, or had to deal with running a business.... wait?

Comment Re:nazi said what? (Score 1) 191

There is a whole conspiracy that the "elite" want people to eat bugs and "fake" meat so they can control the content of their food, and make them incapable of independent thought. Similar to the low-protein gruel they feed to Homer in the cult episode of "The Simpsons".

Comment Fertility =/= Birthrate (Score 1) 281

This is a false metric. The number of children being born does not reflect on fertility, it reflects on procreation. More people are choosing not to procreate or delay having children because of economic factors. This isn't a problem like in some countries where a growing number of people are either uninterested in sex, or sterile. This is literally people wanting to be able to have a decent life, struggling to do that, and not wanting to introduce another person to the struggle.

Comment Re:Same old, same old (Score 1) 89

Absolutely. I don't have a physics degree, but know enough through learning about engineering, and learning on my own that the real future is with nuclear. The amount of radiation being discussed is so minute, that it won't even register. The rise in background radiation around the plant has been reported as not much more then a few hours on an airplane aggregated over a year. This isn't Chernobyl, nor anything like it, and the fear mongering needs to stop. That isn't to say that there aren't better designs that could have been used, or that it was the best location; but all of these couch physicists are no better than the COVID deniers, and may actually be worse, because they are perpetuating the continual use of coal and gas, which according to most researchers, appears to be more damaging, over a longer time period and over a greater number of people than have been affected by nuclear byproducts in history.

Comment Apple TV (Score 1) 207

The Apple TV is the best. It has a better interface and more open marketplace than anything else. And for those communities with inconsistent power delivery, the power supply is more robust, and allows the device to face brownouts with nary a hiccup. Where as the people in my community with Roku or Fire Sticks usually have to replace them yearly, or more frequently. Plus, being able to fire up a game on the Apple TV has its perks.

Comment Yelp! (Score 1) 93

Pot, meet kettle. Yelp is one of the biggest abusers of businesses and their monopoly. Tech companies need to "play fair", but reigning them in or breaking them up is antithetical to technology. The film "Antitrust" puts it well, any one with a better idea, can easily destroy an established tech giant. See Google vs Yahoo!, Facebook vs MySpace, Myspace vs Frendster, etc. It just doesn't seem that way right now because so few are willing to invest in their own ideas, or venture capital won't invest, for various reasons, but it will happen.

Comment India... WTF? (Score 5, Interesting) 26

This is yet another invasion of the Indian Government into the lives of its citizens. They continually want back doors into encryption, they force all of the major Cloud Services to store data locally so it can be inspected. I don't understand why the people, who ostensibly live in a democracy, don't fight back.

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