Skinny people don't generally drink diet soda. So detecting a common ingredient in diet drinks as commonly present in people with a disease common in people with obesity isn't anything close to indicative.

I had a hunch this was happening. Notably the 10 cities listed in the paper may not be the only cities where the trial was run, but here's what's listed in the paper: Atlanta Boston Chicago Los Angeles Miami New York Philadelphia Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle

How does a case proceed to trial, much less win a default judgement of millions of dollars, without proof of service to an identified natural person? Shouldn't the fact that they could have pursued $7B in damages point to the fact that the penalties are unconstitutionally unreasonable? Did nothing change after RIAA demanded $75 trillion from LimeWire-- more money than actually existed on the planet combined?

That was my initial thought as well. Additionally, comparing the speed to 5G implies that technologies were replaced at least 5 times in some communications networks, and there's certainly more maintenance than just that. It's a lot harder to resolve an outage in space than it would be to climb a tower.

"Society will accept" translates to "it's going to happen, and I've already got a VP in mind as a fall guy to ensure I don't lose my job over it." It's true that automated vehicles have the potential (if not currently the ability) to be safer than human-driven vehicles, but if a corporation's software is making the decisions, they should bear the financial responsibility. The current model makes much more money shifting the burden to individual policyholders, and we need to ensure that a future model doesn't make victims of a crash (e.g. pedestrians) unable to get properly compensated for their injuries... not that the current model of insurance regulations has show to be especially good at ensuring proper payout of claims....

I'm about as libertarian as most older slashdot users, but food manufacturers have made it clear that if allowed, they'll take out the good (expensive) stuff, substitute it with oils and synthetic cocktails, and pretend they're doing you a f(l)avor, while knowingly contributing to obesity and other health issues. Steak is specific to meat, and specific cuts of meat, at that. Maybe something like "cheeze" vs cheese could work for dairy products, but this is about consumer protection, not just protecting animal-based producers.

Now that's an educator worthy of the title.

SAG-AFTRA successfully argued that they were owed a portion of every blank CD-R sold as well as personal audio devices, media centers, satellite radio devices, and car audio systems that have recording capabilities, because it MIGHT be used for piracy. The US government collected the revenue it, and paid it out to the actor's union and RIAA for many years, and would have done the same based on the storage capacity of your cell phone and other digital devices if that specific issue wasn't preempted by another lawsuit. This isn't conjecture, they collect on this basis in other countries outside the US. They're a special interest group, Ãnd shouldn't be entitled to tax revenue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Like most headlines that pose a question, the answer is no. But the planned digital television broadcasting migration from ATSC 1 to v 3.0 might be what kills OTA TV, as it's not backwards compatible, and the media lobbyists that run the standards group is pushing to require "security certificates" that increase operational costs for stations, and facilitate censorship and DRM in OTA broadcasts.

How about we let local schools and districts set appropriate policies for their students, rather than issuing broad edicts from national legislators?

> I'm thinking this technology can be adapted to process organic polymers found in wood, paper, cotton, and other natural materials from industrial waste, municipal waste, agricultural byproducts...

The first commercial thermo-depolymerization plant opened in Carthage, MO in 2003. Every day, the plant handled up to 200 tons of unused turkey parts. During the first three months of 2008, plant generated 391,000 gallons of fuel. It was shuttered after local residents complained about the smell.

In the end, CWT sold only 93,000 of the 391,000 gallons of low-grade fuel it produced and earned just 99 cents for each one. At the time, wholesale fuel oil distributors were raking in $2.50 to $3.30 per gallon. Even with the $1-per-gallon U.S. biofuels tax credit for every gallon sold, Changing World Technologies paid more for Butterball's turkey offal than it earned back in revenue.

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How long until this "helpful" feature gets a "helpful" update allowing LEOs and national intelligence to bypass it?

YouTube set prices and their own policies on stolen and reuploaded content. Facebook just flat out declined to pay for content, even when it was posted in violation of copyright law. Why would anyone expect Meta to suddenly start respecting copyright?

This letter starts with the inaccurate assumption that the government cares about people's privacy. They already require public disclosure of your private details to file own real property and pay the associated taxes, and to vote, operate a ham radio, and plenty of other things... unless of course you're a part of the Special Class (e.g. police officers, politicians, and wealthy) and fall under a specific exemption they created for themselves to limit the mandate for sharing this information.

Not just under investigation, but already ruled (In Aug 2024) to be in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act by illegally monopolizing the search engine and search advertising markets, most notably on Android devices, as well as with Apple and mobile carriers in United States v. Google LLC (2020).

And further active court cases (final arguments were in Nov 2024) for illegally monopolizing the advertising technology market in violation of sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 in United States v. Google LLC (2023).

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