There are good reasons to want a tablet in a central, accessible location in the kitchen. Apparently, Samsung isn't it, but that's not a condemnation of the idea.
I'd rather duct-tape an iPad to the refrigerator. I don't need to replace the iPad if the refrigerator breaks, and I don't need to replace the refrigerator if Apple stops posting security updates 6 months after I buy it.
You must follow the laws of the land to operate in the land. This is an issue of sovereignty, and US cannot dictate otherwise.
You follow the rules where your servers are located and your corporation is based. Choose Carefully. All other countries can do is try to block access to your service at their borders, or punish their own citizens for using your service.
No ID to vote, but need an ID to see Taylor Swift! Lol.
False equivalence - these two things are not the same. You don't have to to buy one of a limited limited number of tickets in order to vote. Lol, indeed.
If I vote without ID and am not registered, I might alter the outcome of the election, and possibly deny the registered voter whose identity I briefly stole the opportunity to vote. If I am registered, there's a risk that someone else used my name (without ID), preventing me from voting.
If I get into a Taylor Swift concert without valid ID, I deprive the legitimate owner of the ticket of entry to the concert (if I copied the ticket code), or I might just be taking their place (if I bought their ticket)
Also this is like, the exact opposite of individualism; It's collectivism. People contributing their individual resources for a common good.
It looks a lot more like cooperation to me. Collectivism is people's individual resources being redirected to some central authority, if you're lucky it's for a common good. We haven't been lucky often.
The kid's collected diaries? Not likely, even if he did keep a diary or journal.
My bet is on a news article about the shooting and a position statement of an anti-gun group.
Very few people leave behind enough data to create a believable AI avatar: one that has a chance of crossing the uncanny valley and convincing a questioner that it is a reasonable simulation of the source's mental state. This situation is using a victim as a political tool.
I like the idea that the manufacturer can find and fix a bug without a trip to the dealer. I also like that the manufacturer has the ability to add new features and update things like navigation maps at no additional cost or (again) the hassle of making a dealer visit.
Agreed. But I don't like the idea that the manufacturer can introduce new bugs, whether with or without a trip to the dealer. I also don't like that the manufacturer has the ability to remove existing features and update things like navigation maps from no additional cost to monthly subscription fee required. I'll also pass on changing privacy policies so they can now sell my driving telemetry data to anyone who will pay them (insurance companies, advertisers, etc...) They used to sell the data before now, the update is just to prevent you from suing them.
If you're an unknown sender, you go into the bin. Simple as.
The big problem is Unknown Senders that you *do* want to hear from, often in a very timely manner:
--'Confirm your phone number' codes when signing up for an account on a new service/website.
--2-factor authentication codes. Sometimes the number that sends the codes is different than the number that sent the 'Confirm your phone number' message.
--'Is this your transaction or is it fraud?' requests from your bank or credit card provider.
--'Reply Y to confirm your appointment, reply CANCEL to cancel'.
Many of these legitimate requests will re-use the same number, but the problem is that the first time that number is *unknown*.
Sometimes a business will send messages from multiple numbers (best case is out of a pool that they own, worst case is from their SMS provider's pool that is shared when other clients of the SMS provider.
Remembering to check your spam folder when requesting a 2FA or phone-number-verification code is a workaround, at least you know that you requested the code and are expecting it. Some of the other situations happen when you aren't expecting them so you don't know to check your spam folder.
Right, because I want my ISP operated by the government.
Some year, we'll replace our acoustic-coupled modems and upgrade our StateISP internet speed to 56K
The big tractor-trailers (semi truck) by far do the vast majority of the damage.
From the perspective of road damage (which feeds into cost of road repair), passenger cars are a rounding error compared to fully-loaded tractor-trailers [ 40-ton 5-axle semi truck versus a 2-ton sedan gives a factor of 10,000 to 1 ], to the point that they could be ignored if your purpose was to charge for wear-and-tear on the roads.
Splitting the semi-truck loads in half (still using 5-axle trucks) cuts the road damage by 2/3, but you now have twice as many trucks on the road and are probably burning somewhat more fuel (not 2x)
HOW TO REDUCE CAR DEPENDENCY
1) Find high density cities.
2) Find locations in those cities where lots of people want to go on a daily basis.
2.5) Build out mass transit that can handle the load of current car trips with a similar source-to-destination time. No, replacing a 15-minute car ride with a 2 1/2 hour bus ride that requires two transfers is a FAIL.
3) Eliminate parking anywhere near those locations.
Doing 2.5 in a cost-effective manner is the tough part. In the area where I live, the government spent about US$1B building a new commuter rail line on an unused right-of-way, if the riders had to pay for it, the cost would be about $50 per one-way trip [$1B bond, 4% interest, 250 workdays per year, 800 roundtrips per day] just to cover the interest on the construction bond, never mind the operating costs. That's a tough sell when existing commuter rail tickets run about $10 per one-way trip
Because the populist shits ( of left and right ) are doing what people want them to do, not what people need them to do TO SAVE THE FUCKING PLANET.
If only the government officials weren't under threat of being voted out of office for doing something the citizens didn't want them to do.
It's been tried before. The death toll in the last 100-odd years has 9 digits.
Just like the solution to the HorsePoopCopalypse, it needs to make life better for the common man. If you do that, you won't need a totalitarian government to force people to adopt it.
Capitalism means private individuals and groups can act on whatever issues concern them most without some politburo signing off on it.
Crony capitalism means that private individuals and groups can spend money to suppress action on whatever issues profit them most. And this is the dominant paradigm in climate action, or lack thereof.
Crony capitalism is not capitalism, like <adjective> justice is not justice and soy milk is not milk.
So scrap capitalism. Hey I'm all for it but that's a different discussion.
The question is: who do you put in the place of Stalin or Mao?
You could move to North Korea and see how that works out.
And on the seventh day, He exited from append mode.
