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Comment Re:Crowd control / detterance weapon (Score 1) 51

Not unless the whole crowd agrees to be pre-fitted with submission devices. From the summary: "A challenge in targeting the olfactory bulb is that it's buried behind the top of your nose, and your nose doesn't provide a flat surface for an emitter. Ultrasound also doesn't travel well through air. The solution the researchers came up with was to place the emitter on your forehead instead"

Comment Closer than you think (Score 3, Interesting) 154

I see all the 'not a chance' responses, but I'd argue that the current Chromebook ecosystem comes pretty close to this: the majority of Chromebook hardware is designed to run a centrally-managed OS platform that enables access to larger services--just like a typical thin client; and the data and applications it runs are already 'rented' from Google using ad revenue & Google app subscriptions.

If Google added remote-hosting services for apps that can't run locally (and resurrected Stadia under a new name cause that's what Google does best), I think it would fulfill this 'vision' in all the meaningful ways...

Comment Re:Eye Opening Breakdown (Score 4, Insightful) 33

I would point out that once people start abandoning Windows on the client side, their motivation to use MS cloud and server products are severely diminished as well. So while Windows isn't the biggest money maker, it is arguably their strongest chain to keep people linked into their subscription services...

Comment Re:Tell me again why it's okay for the Swiss to do (Score 1) 204

Blankly blocking immigration is indeed a bad idea. But an population limit is not. I'm from The Netherlands myself and this country is massive overcrowded (one of the most densely populated countries on the planet). It would seriously help if our population would drop down to like 12 million instead of the current 17,5

Help what, exactly? You would almost certainly have to choose between dramatic decrease in services or a dramatic increase in taxes to achieve the same revenue from 35% less population. Since you're on Slashdot, you might be able to afford the 50% higher tax rate required to maintain current services. But would you do that (and still call it a "serious help"), considering that it wouldn't actually improve services for you?

Comment Re: Such a lack of commitment... (Score 1) 204

Is there a fence? Do scientists and hunters regularly do these things? Where is absentee ownership enforced by paid third parties, in nature?

How can you seriously compare border enforcement of a psychological entity to very localized self-defense of personally occupied land?

Many foraging and hunting animals understand the concept of 'territory', which extends to include the area of land, sea, or air which they might need to collect resources from. A wolf pack can have a territory extending to 2000 square miles--well beyond a "very localized self-defense of personally occupied land"

Comment Cataloging excuses (Score 1) 54

This really has nothing to do with the size of the Lionsgate catalog, and everything to do with the fact that there are no shortcuts to genuine experience.

The whole point of this attempt to use AI is a vain hope by the studios that they can take a shortcut straight to profits by leveraging the finished products of expert screenwriters, cinematographers, directors, actors, etc., rather than the actual experts themselves... So they feed the AI the finished movies, and hope it can spit out more finished movies (or at least scenes) of similar quality. But all they are going to get is the 'movie equivalent' of cutting and pasting images from magazines to make a comic book.

Comment Re:Trump kills windmill projects (Score 2) 184

From the article, it sure sounds like what killed that project was a lawsuit AGAINST the Federal government and the energy company from "The Mayor and City Council of Ocean City Maryland". In other words, a Maryland city sued to stop the wind farm and the Federal government is basically conceding.

No, the Trump administration is not fighting back, they don't think offshore windfarms are economical, but they didn't kill the project. A lawsuit did.

I can't say for sure, but it's a good bet that Ocean City didn't want the windfarm there because they are a seaside resort town.

You are outright making stuff up: there's no mention of any of your claims in the linked articles. Not only that, but your fabrications ignore that these are projects on federal waters--outside the jurisdiction of any mayors or city councils.

https://www.offshorewind.biz/2...

"The US Department of the Interior (DOI) has filed a motion in the US District Court in Maryland to remand and/or vacate its approval of the Construction and Operations Plan (COP) for US Wind’s 2 GW offshore wind farm planned to be built in the federal waters off Maryland."

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