On the flip side, one reason I'm sticking with my old cars and not considering buying a new one any time soon is because I really like the fact that they lack connectivity of any kind. They also have real control knobs and no touch screens.

Just because the police are interested in someone, does not mean their reasons are just. We have lots of stupid laws, there's no reason to help the police enforce drug laws, or (here in texas) abortion laws. There's no reason an APB should be out on some girl trying to flee the state to get an abortion after she got a positive test and some stupid religious fuckwit nurse broke all kinds of laws to report her. Definitely no reason your ring camera should be used to help identify her going to the person who lives across the street from you who offered to drive her to New Mexico, and then that person is tracked by every flock camera between Austin and the border.

Or perhaps you were suspected of being a protestor in No More Kings day, and the ring reported on your whereabouts, We're calling such people domestic terrrorists these days. You personally could never be forced to testify against yourself, but your ring camera could.

And that's just official law enforcement. Flock is a Peter Thiel gamble, part of his ever expanding private global espionage platform. Maybe you told one too many pooh bear jokes on the internet and Xi decided to have you offed. For a price he can know where you are and what your routine is.

The only time you should be giving Ring data to anyone but yourself is if you need to report a crime to your property or the people within. You should be in a position to volunteer it, or at the very least require a court order.

Fusion Energy would, eventually, be cheaper than all other forms of energy.

Fusion Energy would stop Global Warming because the carbon dioxide and other pollution of fuels would eventually be eliminated.

while it still includes two controllers featuring dials and number pads instead of joysticks, they're both wireless and charge when docked to the console.

Wireless, no matter how good, still has delays or blips which interrupt the signal. You need the consistent signal of a wired connection.

I know people will give me reasons why I'm wrong, but this is no different than having touchscreens for basic operations in a car. You need the analog touch for simplicity and reliability.

as long as the topic is not controversial and political.

The problem is that the Wiki mods are VERY VERY biased. Not just a little. I have run into this personally just trying to make very simple edits. They would not accept simple facts that I had backup sources for.

This was just for movie credits for an actress that at some point had turned conservative...

So for anything political, Wikipide will be factually wrong, sometimes (or often) egregiously so.

But that's ok if it's only for political content right???

But there's the trouble you see. It affects what is political TO THEM in ways you cannot comprehend, so ANY page might be touched by the corruption of the Wikipedia moderator biases. I wouldn't think a simply actress filmography would be affected yet it was. No visitor other than that page would ever know it was inaccurate or incomplete.

So you can trust absolutely nothing from Wikipedia without extensive checking of what facts they refuse to list. Which makes the entire body of work garbage - I have not used it for years now.

Folger's Crystals already did this experiment this back in the 1980s. Then they publicized the results ad nauseam.

No.

This room-temperature ice is simply a plot device that demonstrates the sheer stupidity of human behavior.

Then they'll find out the hard way that Steve was right.

> ads that pop up piped in directly from Microsoft.

When did Windows turn into a shitty mobile game?

> "Tea; earl grey; hot." and you wind up with a 3d print of the letter "T" painted earl grey and warmed to 100

LUL! That is a perfect example of voice UI being ambiguous. I've had these discussions for decades but never had a good example. I'm cribbing that.

> "Computer, fire torpedo bays 1 through 5!" takes a lot longer than me pressing the button

Yup, as much as I love ST:TNG I've had that criticism for decades. Voice UI is HORRIBLY SLOW, not to mention ambiguous.

Why the hell wouldn't the captain just press a button to raise shield instead of wasting time to say "Raise Shields", waiting for Worf to listen, and wait for them to actually execute it. That's at last 1 - 2 seconds of wasted time.

Also, wouldn't the computer monitor this and automatically raise shields? I'm sure its reaction time is helluva lot faster then humans!

I'm pretty sure not one of these crypto companies could obtain, much less keep a banking license (at least, not in a proper country where you can't just buy your way in).

And you would be wrong. The first stablecoin bank, backed by billionaires who backed trump, was just approved by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency after a rigorous two month review (that's sarcasm in case you missed it).

Supposedly this "bank" will have to adhere to money laundering rules, but as we've seen with other digital money, that goes out the window because who needs regulations.

If you set up a market, and multiple people who actually had $1e100 put in a bid of that amount for your stupid crypto, then at least for that instant it was worth that much. It may not be worth that much later, but it would be NOW.

FFS, how can you have such a hard time understanding such a basic concept?

Luckily for the Chinese, they're allegedly communists.

"From each according to his ability" - that would be the robots.

"To each according to his need" - those millions of people.

We'll see whether it pans out.

Most people are forced into relatively sedentary careers with long commutes

Because working from home would be completely different with the refrigerator only feet away or not having to do much more than roll out of bed.