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Comment Analog TV history: Sony Trinitron (Score 2) 26

The Sony Trinitron was one of the best consumer-grade color TV display technologies around during the life of its key patents (late 1960s through 1996).

After the patents expired, Sony couldn't charge the premium it could during the patent life. That was the beginning of the end. The switch to newer technologies sealed its fate.

Comment Reputation (Score 1) 34

Soon, AI use will be all-but-undetectable if you just look at the output.

Authors/publishers with good reputations or with reputable organizations to vouch for them might be believed when they say "I made this without AI input" but nobody else will. At least not in cases where it matters, like news reports.

Comment Denying people access to their own data should be (Score 1) 24

illegal.

Making an account "read only"/"frozen" so you don't get anything NEW in your feed and you can't post anything make sense, but you should be able to see what you've posted before and messages others have specifically sent to you.

Personally, if I ever got the ban-hammer from a company, I'd want a reasonably convenient way to download my history, including messages directed to me or to groups I am (er, was) a part of.

Comment How cell phones cause cancer: mechanism (Score 2) 60

User unlocks cell phone and looks at his feed.
Feed tells him to eat something that will cause cancer, without saying it will cause cancer.
He eats it.
He gets cancer.

"Researcher" does a "controlled study." Pretty much the same results, with a few outlyers just to show it's a "real study" and not a "rigged one."

Logically, cell phones cause cancer and now we know why!

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