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Comment Re:Unplug (Score 1) 67

For me, the only solution is to _not_ buy an Xbox or Playstation from this point forward.
I think a sharp and sustained drop in sales is the only thing which will tell the makers that they can no longer abuse the minds and lives of the public.

I don't enjoy any device or platform that will not let me easily block an ad, close an app, mute an ad, or shut down the stream of incoming info.
In the past I have physically destroyed devices because of ads which refuse to be blocked or muted, and don't allow for an easy disconnect.. and i don't miss those devices either.
There are several brands of product which I will no longer buy as a direct result of the intrusive-ness of their advertising.

From an stock-market-investment point of view I refuse to invest any of my money in this.

Comment Possible Solution(s)? (Score 1) 50

Possible Solution #1: Stop using Twitter?

Possible Solution #2: Delete the tweet and write a new one (even Slashdot.org should have a delete function but one where once you post and delete you are not allowed to re-post to the same thread because of the "free" delete they gave out.)?

Possible Solution #3: If Twitter started making people pay a small amount (doge?) every time they tweeted, it would cut down on.. _some_ of the stupid comments / trolling / scamming / etc.

Possible Solution #4: Stop using Twitter!

Comment Not (Score 1) 132

Not all crypto-assets are created equal. Everyone who sent ETH should have known about the gas fees, as its always a major topic of discussion. If you know anything about Ethereum you know that the gas fees will drop when sharding goes live and ZK-Rollups become more common. Don't know what a ZK is?... oooo.. too bad, read more. All this really did was add yet another use case for Eth ad well as highlight the need for sharding and ZK. Notice that it was ETH which was used and not Bitcoin nor Cardano nor Avalanche (which is sketchy at best). Meanwhile I'm so poor I dont even have one ETH to my name. I'm not sad that people have to pay a lot for gas fees for a cause which failed.. I'm sad that I don't even have one ETH and have to watch other people burn ETH needlessly. Someday I hope that the major crypto-assets will set up a "people's charity-lottery of crypto" where big organizations can deduct from taxes 100% of the money they effectively donate to a 'help the poor people' cause. Doing so would burther increase the use case for Eth would it not?

Comment Law should play fair for a change. (Score 1) 193

When law enforcement makes a mistake it should be their responsibility to correct it. The woman should not have to pay for an attorney to expunge at all. The district attorney messed up; that same district-attorney's office should be required by law to pay for the damages they have caused, including the expungement. Anything alse just allows law enforcement to commit financial and reputational crimes against the public and go unchecked.

Comment Hypothetically speaking; (Score 0) 107

Hypothetically speaking; Is 'catastrophe' on earth in the same hypothetical chapter as "we found a new planet, lets send some probes and seed pods to colonize it just in case earth ever becomes uninhabitable; simultaneously we get to claim colonization rights if it ever becomes an issue"? --__-- If faster-than-light speed travel is not possible, how would you send a human to another planet in a different star system? So how did humans get here intact? Religion has its own answer. Another possibility is that a human could live several thousand years while in deep space?!? No?.. humans don't live that long.. sucks to be a human. I've long said 'freeze the seed' and pitri-dish/clone the bio-goo after the deep space craft is in orbit in 'the new heaven' around the 'new earth' --__-- I've been thinking about an 'ark' for many years and wondering 'how would the poor humans get the money and public support for such an endeavor?' What about building a bio repository on the moon and use that research to figure out how to build a space station and cloning repository around a 'new earth' (distant planet), and in the short-term, claiming moon-development rights in international court and mining those prescious rocks which contain large amounts of Helium3 (useful for "green" H3 reactors here on earth.) But wait, there's more, once militarized, the repository on the moon could be set up as a dead-hand launch to use mass-weapons.. just incase one or more nations become too aggressive, ie the 'catastrophe' that would be WorldWar3. Hypothetically speaking, can the possibility of a 'catastrophe' lead to the situations which inaugurate that catastrophe?

Comment What if we are the punchline (Score 1) 259

In my opinion, extra-terrestrials already visited; once at the dawn of civilization and once again each time a new season of Rick-n-Morty drops. ... Of all the ideas humans might ascribe to other intelligent life, I haven't (yet) seen any discussions about what extra-terrestrial humor might be like. ... If you were on approach to earth and began scanning our media, would you be like "..come on family, lets not stop in the bad section of the galaxy", and keep going.

Comment UseCase 1 (Score 1) 197

Several years back I had the idea, why not encase small bits of nuke-poo in graphite wrapped by multiple layers of peltier devices... next, build a heat shield.. send the whole thing up into space and the part behind the heat shield is cold as the sun doesn't shine there, and peltier generates electriciy.. good for when probes are in deep space and too far away from the sun for solar to be efficient, yes? So you have to start somewhere.. developing it here on earth seems to be easiest since its the closest planet which has both peltier devices and nuke-poo right now.

Comment Re:PC for every single person? (Score 1) 65

"PC for every single person" translates (in my head) as 'We want to monitor everyone through our OS' and by so doing, compete with Google for dominance on peoples online transactions and with Facebook for peoples private information'. I'm not actually objection-ed to being monitored in theory.. but America has shown me repeatedly that those in the background who tend to do such things tend to their own pre-existing narrative and are easily removed or replaced by their bosses if they come to conclusions that their bosses don't like... (have you read the news at all in the past 5 years?) But if "PC for every single person" was the _actual_ goal these units would only cost around tewnty five dollars so that everyone could get one or else MS would just give every household in America one, free of charge. Have you actually seen the price? Clearly "PC for every single person" is a lie.

Comment Responding to user :: tiqui (Score 1, Interesting) 58

Phone makers will never install a manual 'kill' switch on the outside of the phone which disconnects the audio and camera as it makes it difficult for you to be monitored (without your knowledge) through a domestic surveillance program. To help avoid getting hacked/info-siphoned: 1. Tend to keep your phone physically turned off when its not in use. (this takes care of the accidental audio-leak) 2. Avoid downloading anything that is in any way connected to facebook or instagram. 3. Don't use any video-chat app at all (tik-tok!?!) (I once took a hammer to a phone because a photo-edit app sent pics out behind my back. The app itself was a trojan and I made sure that the app, the OS, and the phone would never do that again.. ie 'Hammer-Time') More recently, I've learned to use two small pieces of vinyl electrical tape placed one over the front camera and another over the rear facing camera on my phone, and this before the protective case is put on. If the camera gets activated, by whatever means, there will be no video to siphon. When I want to use the camera I take the time to remove the electrical tape.

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