The federal government gives moneys to local police to install them.

If they pay for it they can do whatever they want with it. If they buy the Mona Lisa and decide destroying it is what they want to do that is their decision. No one else cares enough to get the book first or outbid them for it.

They wont vote for or against Flock. Thats not how it works. Flock will be in an NDAA or Omnibus bill. It will be "We have to pay our veterans", or "This bill will keep the government funded". Then every one of these assholes who want cover will say "We dont like the Flock stuff in the bill, but we have to pass it for reasons". No one gets blamed, and Americans hate "other congressmen, not my guy".

Flock is something each and every one of them will believe is good for the country because "terrorists" or "anti-semites". In reality, it's just so when they decide they dont like what you say, they will find a reason to come get you. America is dead, long live America.

Install Ubuntu, it has a GUI package manager and work very well, if you buy a system that is designed to run it. I gave my nephew one and he uses codex now to make apps in Linux. It teaches him what to do. Kids have enormously plastic minds and can learn a new system very quickly. Just ask anyone who ever went from an Xbox to a play station or even from one gaming hud to another. They will be fine

From what I understand the first sale doctrine invalidates such licensing terms, but I could be wrong. I am not full read up on the material or if contracts have figure out a way to bypass that.

Yeah. This is what Americans voted for. More expensive solar panels.

Oh, no. I have it on good authority that computer vision is about to exceed human performance.

Wait - what year is it, again? :-p

I dont see what is wrong with download vs disk? If you want it on a disk, burn it. From what I read, the Playstation even runs Linux and can store stuff on an external hard drive. They are just making the brick and mortar expense disappear for them. Best Buy should care, Target should care, and Game Stop should care. You should not. Downloads are more convenient, and dont run out. No longer have to wait to find Halo 3 in stock on launch day. This is better for consumers all around isnt it? What am I missing?

Now, if they made it cheaper saying "Since we dont have to sell to retailers at bulk prices and can keep more of the profits", that would be extra cool, but its not like its worse.

I wasnâ(TM)t gonna go see it in a theatre anyway. I have a giant 100â TV, a bitchen 9.1 surround sound, and seat craft seats with heat and massage. I would have gladly bought it on Apple TV. I dont enjoy a movie theatre experience. I want to pause the movie if I have to piss, and I spent all that money on my home theatre. I didnt HAVE the option to buy it. So, I saw it like this.

But I skipped ahead, jaw dropped, and downloaded it.

Honestly, these Europeans dragging on our tech industry needs to stop. We should recoup the funds in tariffs on all goods and reimburse Google. Hurt their industries if they hurt ours.

Imagine 10,000 clusters of 20 homes. Each cluster no closer than 5 miles to.. anything. And all of them behind some mountain or in some valley or somewhere else that's really inconvenient. AI tells me you can run copper 5 miles without a booster - so that's what they did - sometime last century when they ran power. Work was cheap, copper was cheap, and someone was running power so they piggybacked. Easy peasy.

You can't run modern stuff nearly that far - except for fiber. But then you're running fiber to 10,000 hubs and each will probably need some kind of a station to do processing and splitting and further wires. I don't suppose any of this is hard - it's just expensive. And for each of these 10,000 hubs you're going to do all this work for 20 customers that only want to pay $10/month because that's their deal. You will *never* recoup those costs.

So I get why they don't wanna. But that's the deal they get for monopoly power and right of way and all that.

This is not so much about dropping copper service as it is about dropping service. AT&T (or their predecessor) put in the copper and now they just want to drop those customers because they are expensive to maintain. I can't say I blame them - I would want to, too. The thing is they don't want to replace the copper with anything - they just want to ignore those folks.

The state would be more than happy if AT&T put in fiber and dropped copper. After all, they've secured tens of millions in California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) and Last Mile infrastructure grants

That's not what they signed up for when they were granted right of way and monopoly powers. They just want to weasel out of it.

Vacuums don't crush.

I really dont get why it's an issue? Our civilization can operate in perpetual night. We have lights galore. Its not like we need to refill kerosene... No, changing clocks is the stupidest idea ever. In fact, I think we should get rid of time zones. you live in X, you wake up at Y, and you go to work / school at Z. Its the same time everywhere, and your local school or work sets its schedule accordingly. For fucks sake are we really that stupid anymore? Every human on the planet that needs to operate on a clock has a phone glued to their eyeballs that can manage this.