Is also my right to not give a crap. We had a few people do this to us when we opened a new location. That was a wake up call for HR to start offering somewhat competitive salaries as we found out we were underpaying by 20-30% in the new locations.

I shrug at this honestly, as hostile as the US is towards the working class, I think this is just the natural end game. When you don't give a crap about your workforce, why do you think they'd care about their employers?

"Autopilot is advertised to stay in the lane and maintain speed like adaptive cruise does. "

Autopilot has never been advertised like that. Ever...Every time I've heard it mentioned, it comes with the disclaimer that the car maker expects you to be attentive in case the car veers out of the lane or unexpected road conditions happen (like construction crews screwing up the painted lines).

Why not, Fox has been doing that for years.

I'm not sure why you think that's inconceivable (or hard actually). Lets say Facebook does client side translation, the packets Facebook gets would be minuscule (a few lines of text), then it's a minor big data problem to cross reference.

Even if they're sending audio in, using the right encoding, that wouldn't be a big deal either. If you isolate to vocals and send it in compressed, that's not a big network strain, or that difficult to decode server side. Maybe a few K per clip.

I'm not confirming or denying Facebook actually does this, but this is a relatively easy problem to solve.

Well...no...the first thing the kid is going to do is take this thing off...then we'll get a lawsuit that effectively kills off this product. It'll be quick corporate Darwinism I think.

You know Chicago is actually the antithesis of your point right? The gun control measures you're referring to were all lifted around 2000 when they were struck down by the supreme court. If you go look at homicide rates for Chicago, they go down in the 80s when gun control was enacted, and jump back up in 2000 when they were revokes.

In short, everything you just said is wrong.

Eh...I finally dropped it after 15 years...they're just not competitive on price any more. Things they post as "on-sale" are still 10-20% higher than their competitors. The auxiliary services (streaming video / music) I don't use as I have monster personal library, and Netflix respectively.

The turning point was finding a hockey bag on sale on Amazon for 110$, after a brief search on google (2nd hit) found it somewhere else for 40$ w/ free shipping. That happened on 3 or 4 semi-major purchases in a row.

Eh...I'll save that 100$ a year and spend it elsewhere until they fix some of their deceptive "sale" tactics.

I don't get why Microsoft keeps wanting to change Windows into something that's not windows. That's the whole appeal of the OS. They bombed hard the last time they tried this, I'm not sure why they're bothering with another disaster like that one.

If you extrapolate that data out to the normal population, that's actually some fairly significant interest. Or, based on 60 million prime subscribers, they're looking at ~25 million people who are interested somewhat in the key.

If what he claimed were true, FB would've had a major breech already. This sounds more like internal political jockeying rather than valid concerns.

No...the free market doesn't work that way. What you're seeing now is the logical end game of the free market. Basically, if a competitor shows up to disrupt your market, you buy out or merge with that competitor. If that doesn't work, you regulate them out.

I have something like 70 hours in DIII and probably approaching 100 hours in PoE (60% of that pre v1.0). They both have their pros and cons. I just finished PoE normal with the Vaal content, and it's enjoyable. Ambush is a neat twist, and Cruel is interesting with new bosses and more uniques...It doesn’t seem as grinding as the 2nd playthough of Diablo on the harder difficulty. But, to be fair, I’m only halfway through Act 1.

What I hate about PoE is if you screw up a build...there's nothing worse than finding out a 50th level character is no longer playable as you're getting smeared by common mobs. It is not a noob friendly game. I strongly recommend going through some build guides before picking it up.

Just to make sure I piss off all the fanboys everywhere though, I'll probably skip the DIII expansion until it hits XBone. I'm interested to see how it plays with a controller, and it seems like it could be a good pick up and play party / beer drinking game at lower levels. I remember great times with Gauntlet Legends on N64 and hoping this carries on that vibe with local multiplayer.

To be fair though, when was the last time the Stock Market or Consumers cared about the "Long Run." We are in an immediate gratification society (both sellers and consumers).

I think you are looking at the logic for this backwards...what will happen is the ISPs will prioritize traffic to the big players, and slow EVERYTHING else down. If you are a favorite with a large user base, you get the majority of the tubes. If not, too bad, you'll never get enough of the tube to make a dent.

This is the hypothetical if I had any talent and a lot of free time and money. (I assume the NSA does).

That's pretty easy to normalize using your favorite audio application...so that's an easy one to solve. If I’m just researching to see if this is possible, I would probably skip that problem.

Using a neural network, it might be able to learn how 'soft sounds' work...not sure...harder but not insurmountable. If you break the 0 threshold of the accelerometer (the point where you’re in the realm of error correction and just can’t get a useable signal any more), you’re broke. But, if you can get anything useful out of the accelerometer, I’m betting the normalization algorithm is going to work like the audio one above.

Probably not ideal...I'd install software to just send the audio / accelerometer data to a central location if you want to make this a real 'attack'.

See the previous...installing the neural network on the phone isn't ideal...if you can get the data back to a central server that has some real horse power, this is a non-issue.

I think you could isolate keyboard clicks and sync them with the accelerometer events. Not too bad to overcome. We have beat matching softwareI’m pretty sure someone can whip this up fairly quickly.

Again, just isolate the events you want...it'll take time and heavy processing to do so, but not too bad from an audio editing perspective.

Solved by doing your processing on a real machine instead of the phone...

What would be really interesting is if the researchers could build a small box with a better mic and accelerometers to see how far they can get from a target to make this work. Imagine something the size of a 6 sided die that you could glue to the bottom of a desk
Dunno Maybe it’s science fiction, but that’s where all the great ideas started.