That's actually so true. Those bastards, regardless if they voted for or against, they just want a piece of their opponent's blood. They don't really give a shit about the subjects that were supposed to be protected by those laws.

I'm with you on this. For a long time I've been thinking about how such a universal ID can be created, but it's not really easy to coordinate worldwide. I imagine it has to go through some kind of authorized local ID check, but the system that makes it work will be too hard to control.

This is still not good enough, it's actually gonna make things worse
The app is supposed to be rated with age that it's appropriate for. Then it can only get ONE signal: Yes or No on the age check. Revealing something like 16-17 still becomes someone's target, and God forbids if they decide to do something with that. It's even MORE dangerous than without age check because they'd have no clue how old a user is and may have to refrain due to that uncertainty.

Their political decision gets the attention, but it doesn't change the fact that their product quality sucks. After the hyper dies down, it goes back to what people need. We can't even change miles to km, no street views, low accuracy. They've done little to improve their service really.

Services to be paid at different tiers... there's no reason to force the "equality" for everyone. Just like cars, TVs, homes, everything else. People buy products and services according to their budget. This is similar to forcing carmakers to make luxury cars for everyone, but they won't buy it. People in remote areas would rather tether off their phone and still be better than paying for a crap load of money just to get 1Gbps internet.

Same here.. when the phone is used outdoors for too long it powers down. Phone on the charge stand in the car and the AC was blowing straight at it, it powered down too.

There's a guy trying to build AI datacenters in space. If that idea works, we won't need to fight anymore.

Guys I wanna ask a question because I'm clueless. In the scorching heat or frozen cold, how do electronic components in cars survive? They have a small range of temperature tolerance. I'm quite sure there're protective designs around them, but if the interior temp of a sun-exposed car is always a lot higher than the outside, what kind of shield protects them from dying?

We've all seen this repeated countless times in history. Resisting the customer demand/preference ALWAYS lands in hot water. I've become so used to mobile payments and since it has become available virtually everywhere, I no longer bring my wallet with me. Once I went grocery at WMT and didn't bring my wallet like usual. I was dumbfounded when I realized the issue. If my wife didn't register a WMT account on her phone, I would have left the cart and gone home empty handed. I think WMT has realized countless cases like me and decided to do the right thing.

Sure it would have been nice to have fiber all across everywhere but we all know that ain't gonna happen, especially in places that are not populated enough for them to make a profit. Given the costs of provisioning the cables is way expensive. But I see this a different way though. The way it looks, wireless satellite link is the future. Cables/fibers are gonna be forgotten like how we now forget modems. Bandwidth/throughput requirements at home don't break the Gbps offering and wireless is already running at a few hundred Mbps. Until future media contents become much richer, 4K still streams fine these days on 100Mbps.

When DSL first became available, it was 128K. The T1 speed of roughly 1Mbps was only a dream to everyone. Only corporate offices had it. Now I'm currently using fiber at the speed fast than my wifi router, which makes my speedtest always wrong. Truthfully, with 100Mbps, we can stream a few movies concurrently, watch TV programs, surf the web, you name it. There's no need for Gbps any time soon.

Are you a racist?

You'd be surprised... while people with average modern tech skills all watch streaming, the rest still watch TV. I think the number will gradually go down in one more generation. But until then, they're still around and TV is their friend.

Question guys... I'm asking because I'm clueless. How do you measure the number of viewers when the transmission is free (local TV).

Really? I never knew a cow can shit 100lbs per day. My family used to own a dozen cows, I'm quite sure the whole group shit about 30lbs a day.