The real problem isn't being recorded, it's what's being done with the recordings.

If you're going to legislate something, it should be what can be done with recordings more than stopping people from recording, because there are legitimate purposes for the latter.

We already have numerous laws where we criminalize doing something only for criminal purposes, so it's reasonable for the laws against recording to continue to exist, but also for them to apply only to recording with criminal intent. Then you can tack those offenses on when someone has abused a recording.

The corollary is that no law can be useful if 1) not enforced and 2) it doesn't have meaningful penalties. Without meaningful penalties for violating people's privacy, having any laws about it is just jerking off.

There's a fix for that. Specify a color scheme for assistive devices, and make it illegal to misuse it. Specify that such devices or services must not retain data, it must not be used for AI training or similar, yada yada.

Yeah this. People are stupid as fuck when they think AI is the cause of all of our woes. Corporations are effectively just big machines and they've been chewing us up and spitting us out since before computers were even invented. It doesn't matter if the code runs on silicon or meat and paper.

Guess what? Peasant farmers worked less hours a year than we do.

Yeah, they had a lesser lifestyle, but increases in productivity mean that we should be able to do less work still and still have more.

I don't think that's where they were going with that. As I read it, if you're being assigned homework before you even get an interview, you're in a trap at best.

The privacy suits might be successful but:

Yeah that's gonna fail. Users definitely consented to that.

There's nothing wrong with doing it that way. That's just making the data more available. As long as it's making things better and/or cheaper for the customer, it's positive. Nothing is preventing anyone else doing the same.

Paying for priority access to the pipe is the problem.

Microsoft was always trying to take over. At that point they were pushing .NET as the official way to make new applications. Unlike Windows Mobile they weren't stupid enough to deprecate all other methods, so they didn't destroy themselves completely... alas.

Did you forget how to read halfway through my comment?

Wow, a whole game engine?

A lot more than that uses C#, but C# didn't take over, which of course is what Microsoft wanted. But it was never going to happen for many many reasons. That's why Microsoft has to use the EEE strategy, which at least is somewhat successful for them. Their ability to use it is waning as they become less relevant, but they remain hugely influential due to their massive installed base so they can still fuck things up pretty good and will likely be able to for decades yet.

Their attempt to do that was called C#. It failed. Not everything someone tries succeeds. For example, you tried to be smart there, whoops!

Now do the USA

You just called bullshit on sometime I didn't say, clown. I never said all this were the fault of one party but YOU made it into that because YOU are hyper partisan. Get fucked with your hypocrisy.

I always figured that people who genuinely believed their employers were likely to kill literally everybody in the near future might burn down a bit more than that, but so far it's mostly been tweets

There was literally nothing even slightly off topic about the GP comment.