Ok. What specifically, did he do that was illegal? Influencing tech companies is not illegal. In fact, it is very much free speech.

You'll want to constrain the selection lest they pick something like Morning Glory Milking Farm.

I think they mean 500 words per minute, which is a fast but still comprehensible speed.

TTS is text-to-speech, the automatic conversion of text into voice. Essentially having the computer read to you.

Not sure how that's better than audio books though.

From ProPublica:

So there was a loophole in the rules. And of course they're doing this to save money, so the Americans they hired weren't highly technical and probably can't identify attempts at subterfuge.

I mean even if someone very technical was there the perform the supervision, it would still be hard to defend against a persistent attacker.

Nothing's changed partly because most businesses can see that whatever deal they sign with an ISP will be unnecessary in 4 years at most. Less if state law gets involved. Why would they acquiesce to ISP demands?

Net neutrality is much more important for smaller websites. The large internet companies have far more leverage than the ISPs. As a user, I would much sooner change my ISP than move all of my contacts over to Hotmail. That's not the case for /.

From the Alan Turing Institute:

The irony.

Plus when you're launching hundreds of these, it really doesn't matter if a few are lost. You are probably double or triple tapping targets of any significance.

I think it's worse if we had that capability and then lost it.

There exists software that if it crashed would lead to the same kind of loss of life, yet we don't have a standard that we can hold such software developers to.

There's no alternative to roads. Even if you manage to take all passenger cars off the roads, you still have busses and trucks, and your road still has to be maintained. Moreover, since most road wear is caused by these heavy vehicles, the maintenance will be more or less the same as before.

And software on American cars can be used by the CIA to spy on me. Guess which government can cause me more problems?

How many liberals have set fire to EVs? Intentionally I mean.

This. The Canadians had political problems that made it impossible to buy good buses (i.e. weatherized for winter) and then dragged their feet on infrastructure needed to make it work. Battery cold weather performance should not be a thing for busses. Heating the battery can also be done while it's charging, since you expect the bus to run continuously. The battery will heat itself up as it is used, and if it's well insulated, it will have no trouble maintaining its temperature.

Sorry but PPP is widely used in economics to produce a realistic view of how much stuff money can buy. Someone earning $40,000 in the SF Bay Area is much worse off than someone making only $20000 in the Philippines because everything is more expensive here.

As for human rights, I don't know exactly what the situation is in China, but I don't think it will make a difference. Look at the US, how many people are riling up to overthrow the US government for banning pro-Palestine speech on college campuses? Or for those attacks in the Caribbean? Or for sending the national guard to quell peaceful demonstrations? Until those violations cause big problems for your average person's quality of life, most people will not do anything about it.

Ah I used to watch that guy. He and laowhy86 were probably paid off as a part of a CIA influence operation. Nobody goes from enjoying their time in China to suddenly bashing everything China. It's way too sudden and coordinated. Even if you argue what they're saying today is truthful, you have to wonder how they did such a great job at lying to everyone right up to the 180 degree turn.

Their videos went from very simple vlogs to every thumbnail being click bait, often backed up by an internet controversy and claims of "oh yeah that happened all the time". I mean do you really believe videos like "China just lost 1 billion people" or "China is stealing air" are anything but propaganda?

Actually if you do you believe that China only has 400 million people, then their GDP per capita is actually on par with most of Western Europe and their exports would be as competitive as Japan and Germany on a per capita basis. But then that would conflict with the idea that Chinese workers are making almost no money in an extremely cutthroat business environment that struggles to hold on to workers.