Have you checked the iPhone prices recently?
Have you seen who owns Apple?
Still doesn't invalidate his point.
Pixels are google's flagship devices, so naturally they'll have flagship prices. Fortunately, unlike the Apple cago-o-system you've a choice. If you just want a cheap, quality phone I'd suggest a Motorola as they seem to have the best cheap hardware at the moment. Other brands are available.
Wait... after reading the article, replace India with Morocco.
Replace former English colonies with former French colonies. Much of West Africa is French speaking.
...still get serveral unsolicited phone calls every day. This will only get worse as AI drives the cost of phone harrassment to zero. Tell me again how passing laws is gonna stop them... it gets funnier every time! How does France plan on enforcing those laws against bots calling from another country over the internet?
I get almost no spam calls... Last one I got was to a number I use exclusively for data on overseas travel (free data roaming in 72 countries for just £10 PAYG/Prepaid so I only put money on there when I'm travelling). My main UK number gets nothing any more, it's been years since I even got a "so we's heard you was in an accident" call. So you can do something about it.
That something is punishing telcos that allow spammers/scammers to operate. It's relatively cheap to set up a VOIP/PABX setup however if you want to phone people on a phone number you still need to link to a network which means the telco's can be gate keepers and should be. They can easily spot someone making a dozen phone calls a minute and just as easily cross reference that with a legitimate business like a well known insurance company. Totally Legit Call Company PLC with one director listed in Companies House should set off a huge red alarm bell.
I'm guessing you're American... the problem you've got is that the telcos are making money off that and none of your spineless leaders have the stones to tell them to stop. It's not that they cant, it's not impossible to action against, it's just that they wont.
no they are calling with personal looking numbers so it increase chances people pick up phone. it is such a pain, almost nobody answer a normal phone call if they dont know your number
Which means the calls are originating inside the country. This means someone is paying for a connection even if it's a VOIP/PABX that connects to a foreign site... this means the Telcos can be held responsible for activities that are now illegal.
You might not be able to fine or imprison people in another country but you can do that to telcos operating in your country and you can bet your arse that the telcos can tell who is making dozens of calls per minute on their networks (clue... they'll be taking money from them).
I cant imagine it would be cheap to dial in internationally and caller ID would put the country code in front of it. Definitely not profitable on the return you get from spam/scam calls.
Freenet is also based on middle-out compression.
No. Trying to push 30TB into Freenet will be interpreted as an attack on the network by other peers and they'll disconnect from your peer.
Freenet is better viewed as a communication medium than a storage medium. Data is prioritized according to demand, somewhat like an LRU cache. You can't upload 30TB and expect the network to preserve it for you.
On liability, running a Freenet peer is more like running network infrastructure that automatically routes and caches other people's traffic than intentionally publishing it. US law explicitly recognizes this distinction in the DMCA's provisions for transitory network communications and system caching. We discuss this in more detail in the FAQ.
You obviously haven't tried Freenet. You can join our room on River and you'll see no spam, no fraud, no hate speech, none of that.
Decentralized doesn't mean unmoderated. Systems built on Freenet can be moderated however their creators and communities want. River is moderated.
The difference is that nobody running one service gets to decide what everyone else is allowed to run.
Might be just stupid metrics, yes. Most guards are NOT there to "identify" anything or "arrest" anybody. They are there to have somebody watching things.
Identify is precisely what security guards are hired to do, the big issue with CCTV is unless you know when and where an event took place, you're looking through a mountain of footage for a needle. This is likely the same problem with robot guards, they cant tell when or where something untoward is happening.
Arrest, probably not as, in most civilised countries guards are instructed not to put themselves in danger. However the article mentions places in the US so that doesn't really apply.
The other thing they're there to do is deter, which a physical presence tends to do a lot better than any camera or robot. Even a cardboard cutout of a police officer has resulted in noticeable reductions in petty crime. Humans are wired to respond to human features (notably eyes) in that way. A liveried police patrol car will slow down far more drivers than 100 speed cameras.
You can do that in the USA too, but it costs extra.
Yep I was going to say mostly the same thing.....the car on the LOT, is one I can haggle over and get the best price.
I can't haggle on a made to order car.
And these days, for the most part...there aren't THAT many things you can order custom...I find few options on many cars, like Mazdas, etc....but in general I find a car on a lot that is the color and has most all options offered that I want I go to haggle and hopefully drive off with it that or the next day....
Nope, you don't haggle on a car like you're at a Turkish bazaar, you negotiate and yes, you can and should negotiate on a made to order car. Especially so see what options and extras they'll throw in for free. If anything, it gives you far more options and power as the dealer knows it's easier for you to walk away.
Also the car you test drive won't be the one you buy unless you're trying to buy a used demonstrator.
This a BMW thing? I've only bought three new cars in my life, but I test drove the exact vehicle I purchased. Why would you drive a different car?
Nope, it's most manufacturers. Dealers don't really keep stock of most models as they want to sell them with options, so the demonstrator they have on site will not have all the options. Most cars are ordered from the factory these days, only the base models are kept in stock.
He's saying "do you want robot cars to be as good as humans, or safer?"
If the goal is just "as good as a human" then (in theory) we have "proof of concept" that that can be achieved (humans drive cars all the time)
Right now, self driving cars are just stopping in the middle of intersections because they don't know what to do. So "better" than the average driver they are far from. If a human driver just stopped in the middle of an intersection because they got confused we'd take their license off them.
Also, they should be better than the average western driver, if not the average Nordic driver. Saying they're better than Americans is saying they're still half as good as the rest of the developed world (1/4 compared to the UK or Nordic nations).
One of the nice things about mRNA vaccines is that they tend to have fewer side effects. Flu vaccine always makes me feel pretty bad. Hopefully this will be better.
But the horse de-wormer chuggers have constantly told us how many bad side effects there are from mRNA vaccines... tell me they weren't lying. I mean we're all already dead from vaccine hurties within 2 years of even thinking about taking one as they predicted.
RFK Jr must be in a hell of a pickle, he wants to say "vaccine baaaaaad" but flu is a big killer of the elderly so it's literally killing his voter base and here is an effective preventer of that death.
"The Computer made me do it."
