Iâ(TM)m looking forward to try the premade filmmaker settings when it gets pushed to my TV. Btw, If you have not yet tried it, then I suggest Googling around for recommended settings for your particular TV model. I thought I was clever and first adjusted the settings myself, but it was never quite right until I dialed in the recommended settings. The results for my TV went from âmehâ to âoebreathtaking.â

In life-critical systems like airplane flight control, the risk of a failed channel becoming malicious, is addressed by replicating the channels, and using a software and hardware voting mechanism to vote out the perceived bad channel, physically removing itâ(TM)s ability to move flaps and ailerons. In early days, roughly 1978-1982, the risk of an inherent algorithm flaw was addressed by using dissimilar processors in different channels and separate software teams building the algorithms for each channel. That approach (dissimilarity) ended once we started having confidence in our software testing/analysis and the reliability of our hardware. Perhaps itâ(TM)s time to return to some version of that for AI, with voter-driven kill switches on the network interfaces.

Hey Beavis, he said Dummerstorf

Yes, although my fave was the ORIGINAL stumbleupon. This concept is still viable, especially since content has gone exponential, and the front page algorithms seem to be pushing me into corners that I donâ(TM)t really wanna go. If the algo for this is more random, then it would truly be valuable to content adventurers like myself.

I would love to see a poll of US residents reading this that live within 1 mile of the ocean with the question: âoewhere should the first $trillion go - reduce emissions or build the seawallsâ

⦠and have you already moved your savings outside of Cheena?

From the man who discounted the internet, another statement as interesting as his book I never opened.

It could not have happened to a nicer country

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Broadening the question to “should there be tracking and contact tracing, and should it include GPS” I would answer “Yes, because the benefits far exceed the downside”. This presents a stark choice between individual rights and societal health.

I’m living in Taiwan, and I was exposed to the Wuhan virus on a flight and subsequently contacted by Taiwan’s CDC to self-quarantine (did not get sick). I gladly was geo-fenced using my mobile phone ( https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.privateinternetacc... ) as it seemed to be a responsible action to take as a member of society. In discussing with others and reading news reports, most everyone here agrees, and in fact, there is anger about the few people who were reported to have violated quarantine and were electronically caught and subsequently punished. Did they stop tracking me? Don’t know and don’t care, as everything is secondary to fighting spread of the virus. Phone tracking is not contact history tracing per se, but it is a key data driver of such analysis efforts.

Note that Taiwan goes far beyond the “notification” functions proposed by Apple/Google, from what I understand. For example, when ships (more than one) discharged passengers for a day who were later determined to be sick, the Health Ministry was able to quickly send advisory text messages to everyone who had been near the infected passengers for more than a few minutes! There have also been several incidents where geolocation data was used to detect crowding behavior and text messages were sent requesting social distancing. Few people complain about these intrusions, because of the benefits.

Taiwan is very close to the source of the virus and could have been dramatically hit, but their actions, including phone-tracking, has contributed to maintaining the open society that it is. Very few things are closed, here. Life has gone on at about 95% normalcy. Virus infection is twenty per million, and new cases are at zero-one per day. The public sees those actions and results, and they have developed trust in the government leaders and departments that are steering them through this.

Of course, this approach could not be replicated in less advanced and more politically Balkanized places, but perhaps some of the processes and tech could be borrowed.

Okay, well how about this? I have owned every Sidekick model since the first, in 2002/2003 (can't remember exactly when). I have never lost data while using the device with T-Mobile. I've had many data glitches, and I lost the hardware twice and restored it effortlessly from the "cloud" (of course we did not call it that, then :).

While the rest of the tech world "dreamed of the future when mobile devices had useable browsers and data was reliably stored on remote servers", I lived the dream. They were way ahead of their time (and don't tell me you had this or that device - I evaluated every device coming to market every year, and they all sucked until recently).

After MS bought Danger, I knew that era was over. And now, the results of that marriage (or should I say "meal") has produced this epic 2 week outage. Tell me how the culprit could NOT be MS ??

This is easily solved by a stated convention. Just as the current "MPG" is established to be based on xx octane unleaded gas, "MPD" would be defined as being based on zz cents/kilowatt hour (and xx octane unleaded gas in case of plug-in hybrid). This convention would be established for the entire country, so that efficiency comparisons could be made simply between vehicles. Now, if your local utility charged 20% more for juice, why, then you would derate your MPD by 20%.