All the 200MP cameras in phones? What a waste! About the only good for a 200mp in something THAT TINY is if you take a photo, zoom in and then crop the photo. You won't lose as much detail. Then, it's the problem with a low light photo. With THAT many sensors that close together, the gain of the sensor has to be increased which causes the signal to noise ratio to go up! Then the software tries to remove the noise in the photo, and causes the photo to not look as good. Heck, if that many pixels were the solution to a good photo, the mirrorless & d-slr cameras would of had them a long time ago. Most max out around 20-30 MP. Then of course is the GLASS in front of the sensor. There IS a reason why 500mm or more telephotos are VERY expensive! Heck, one of my more inexpensive 100-400 lenses has 17 in 11 groups! Let's see these pinhole cameras try that! Most smartphone users never use anything but automatic mode anyway and won't see the benefit (if any) in a variable aperture, not to mention changing other things like the shutter speed, ISO etc.

Happened in 1859, took down a lot of the TELEGRAPH lines, some even caught on fire. That was before electricity was around! Just imagine what that would do to the power grid, smartphones, internet and pretty much everything with a chip! The Amish would be about the only ones that could survive! ;)

Well? How do you expect a DC politician to become a MILLIONAIRE, on just a less than $200,000 a year salary, while living in an expensive place like the DC/Virginia area, while also having a residence in their district back home. It's expensive and those poor politicians are working hard for their people back home (yes, sarcasm). They start off in a small town city council, then move up to a state congress. Then if term limited out, they run for state senate. If that goes well, they sometimes run for state governor. After that they move up to "the big league". Once there, you can bet they get pulled into whichever party boss they are assigned to and told welcome to DC. Here's how things work. DO what we say, VOTE how we tell you to vote and you will get rich beyond your wildest dreams. Go against us, and you'll be gone by the next election. "but what about the people in my district?" No worry, we'll throw you a bone once in a while, so you can record it so it can be played on your local tv stations. The entire DC area is corrupt, doesn't matter which party you subscribe to.

Oh, they'll be found guilty. "Forced" to pay a fine of a BILLION dollars! Boy! That will show em! LOL, they make that much money EVERY DAY, and then some!

It's the bottom of the world. Less fuel required. You just cut the rope and they will fall into orbit! LOL

the deflock.org site which I started watching about a month ago, showed less than 100 towns/cities that abandoned Flock. Now it's over 150 that have told flock to go flock off. Two towns in my neck of the woods have covered the cameras with black garbage bags and said they are canceling their contract and returning the money flock paid them to put the cameras in their towns.

Get rid of the 3,494 sensors, computer control garbage and it would make vehicle more affordable in two ways. One, less expensive to purchase and two, less expensive TO REPAIR!

Ahhhh...seems like yesterday that people were saying "cut the cord", drop cable and STREAM! It's cheaper! LOL, those days are over!

Then, all the food was "whole food". Today, everything is pre-processed junk!

They've invested too much into these things. The pushback against the data centers will cause them to be built in China. If you look on Google Earth 3625'27.62"N 9510'39.07"E, 36 3'56.04"N 10026'32.58"E, 3722'42.20"N 9713'20.76"E, That's just the three I've found so far. Couple have a solar mirror generator too. Also, two of the three have a huge reserve of water available. If the pushback continues, you can bet China will welcome the AI Data centers with open arms.

Maybe there is a QR code or something associated with it, but if your license is on your phone, and you hand it to the officer....ummmm

Sadly, we've destroyed ourselves. It's just like with a lot of the former HUGE corporations. Sears, IBM, Xerox, American auto industry etc. They get too big for their britches, don't innovate, and someone else comes along. Of course the BIGGEST problem was what Nixon did in 72 by opening up China to trade, then Carter signed the trade agreement in 1980 "most favored nation" status. The Corporate CEO's LOVED that! Production in the United States slowly died off because everything was moved to CHINA where they had CHEAP labor. Not only that, the workers can't demand higher wages, unions like they did in America. America's glory days are behind it. Once all of the data centers are built in China, it's one more needle in their ever growing haystack. Don't think that is where the data centers will be built? Look up on Google Earth all of the HUGE, and I do mean HUGE solar panel & solar mirror farms along with large lakes to provide water. You can bet they didn't build that for their "people".

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To these new air traffic controllers. Congrats on being hired! Just remember one thing. Unlike playing a video game, there is not PAUSE button on the ATC screen, and most important, unlike a video game, if something doesn't go your way, you can toss your headset on the ground, get up and stomp off. LOL /s

Looked on their store, trade in, perfectly good working 9ProXL, $550.00 For my usage, the "telephoto" camera isn't a big deal, as is any of the camera upgrades. I only use my phone camera for snapshots in work related things. For everything else I use my d-slr. The goofy notification light on the back to me is useless. I never lay my phone on its screen anyway. Faster processor? Shoot, I probably never go anywhere near the limit my current phone can do. So, unless their sales don't go where they want and they make an incentive to upgrade, I'll just stick with my perfectly good working 9Pro XL for now.