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Cost kind of stops the government from sending goons right now, sure some governments do it but, it's costly at scale.

The flip side here is if I could use an iPad to replace the MacMini on my desk and connect to a monitor with the same support my Mac does I'd most likely have a top end iPad Pro as opposed to my mildly spec'd MacMini M2 and iPad Air M1. I'd literally spend MORE money on that 1 iPad than both existing iPad and Macs I have today.

Never considered this before but I'd be curious if the delivery apps have data where they can tell which drivers are using this tactic.

What state has drivers license numbers the same as your social security number?

I have a 2021 Mazda and I can't say enough good things about it's infotainment interface. The dial and 5 buttons on the center console behind the shifter is wonderful, I can glance at the screen while using the dial and I know what each of the 5 buttons do across the system. I've been in a few vehicles from Honda, Toyota and Chevy and the Mazda is multiples better at interacting with the system while driving.

"I hate being back: My gear at home is better, I have to work in uncomfortable clothes and at a room temperature that makes me sweat within minutes. I have to work in an N95 mask since we are packed in small 4 person cubicles and COVID numbers are still too high in my area. I'm spending more on gas and wasting time in traffic. I'm eating worse quality food. I keep getting interrupted by exactly those sames guys that took the 2 year vacation. I feel hard to concentrate and I'm angry all the time so my output has suffered."

We start back at the office next week and this sums up exactly why I have no interest in going back full time.

Wasn't the bot that tracked Nancy Pelosi and Diane Feinstein banned? Curious to see if this goes the same route.

I purchase the physical books as well ones I bought on kindle or audiobooks that I think will age well, want to read again or want my kids to peruse at some point. Scanning a library on a kindle just isn't the same.

Has any research been produced around animals in general that live this long? IE: what about their genetics/life encourages this longevity?

Do you have any preference towards a Ledger, Trezor or other?

If it's not happening in my back yard then it can't possibly be happening anywhere else. That's the level of delusion we're dealing with.

I've come to appreciate the lists and details from privacytools.io on tools related to user privacy.

Will teaching basic financial skills in school actually help? We teach basic health skills like nutrition and exercise but look at America as a whole, we're unhealthier than ever yet we still teach health in school. We can teach basic financial literacy but I don't think by and large it'll change anything.

If you have 1M people around the world checking into a VR camera atop a car going around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway at 200MPH you need bandwidth and image quality. I want to see what the driver see's in near perfect image quality and be able to look around when he goes wheel to wheel around a turn. The entire layer of crap that's fed from whatever service, NBC, ABC, ESPN, etc will flatten and the consumer will be able to watch the event as if they were in the action themselves. 5G will help in driving that engagement.

EDIT: Given how crazy America is about football, my guess as well is the NFL could sell millions of VR related tickets to the Superbowl in a similar scheme. The hitch in my opinion is commercial breaks will ruin the experience if commercials as they're broadcasted today happen in VR - people will want to plug themselves into the action with no obstructions.

5G will need it's iPhone moment.

In my opinion that will be gaming, sports and live events in cutting edge quality VR applications. If consumers can buy a 'digital ticket' and watch the World Cup, Superbowl, Indy 500, Le Mans, etc. in whatever cutting edge quality exists at the time in VR you'll have that moment. You'll be able to buy digital season tickets for the NY Yankees right on the 3rd base line (your friends will be there next to you represented by their memoji or the like so you're still watching the game with your buddies), buy a ticket for an Indy Car race and be able to watch the race in VR as if I was sitting in Alexander Rossi's seat from start to finish. The next question is how much will I have to pay to not have commercial breaks...

Don't recall what specifically I was doing at the time but was maybe 7 or 8 years ago my computer got a virus and took me close to a week to fully gain control of my machine again. Only time I got actual warnings from Defender about something it couldn't erase.

Doubling down on this, I do the same and have had maybe 1 instance where Defender didn't catch something in what seems like the last 10 years I've used it almost exclusively for 'virus' protection.

Textbooks now just equate to software for homework that happens to include a basically worthless 'ebook'.

When I was getting my bachelors I had a history professor REQUIRE 6 textbooks 5 of which he was author or co-author. I read a lot as it is but reading 5/6 books for 1 class in 1 semester is crazy.

I usually try to be an optimist however, I have zero expectation we're able to mitigate severe climate change and it's repercussions.

The only mechanism I can think of is we'll develop mechanisms at scale that can remove CO2 from the atmosphere and oceans and sell it to the world as if we're able to continue BAU and just raise taxes on carbon or income to pay for it.

New South Wales police said that since the beginning of November, 24 people have been charged over allegedly deliberately lighting fires as officers continue to investigate the role that arson has played in the devastation.

Police in the state have also taken legal action against a further 159 people. Among them are 53 people who allegedly failed to comply with a total fire ban and 47 people who allegedly discarded a lit cigarette or match on land.

So is the premise these people deliberately attempted to set wildfires ablaze or are they charging them with arson for ignoring a total fire ban?

I often think these efforts will just continue to empower the larger players and frustrate the user. No one is going to go to all these companies/websites/apps and ask them to delete their data and then do it again tomorrow, next week, next month, next year...when they collect more data. We need a mechanism that just creates so much data both legitimate and artificial that these systems prove worthless.

Edit: Curious the effectiveness of browser extensions like Ad-Nauseum. I've used it on & off and became amused with how much I 'cost' the ad-companies but for all I know it just proves another data point that my machine clicks every add that comes across it.

I tried a Kindle and iPad for reading and I just didn't enjoy what I was reading as much. One of the joys of reading to me is disconnecting - full stop - I don't get that feeling when I pick up a Kindle or iPad to read and subsequently don't enjoy what I'm reading as much. I'm a sucker for the used books on Amazon lol.

Physical books will always reign supreme in my eyes apart from textbooks or technical books where I actually prefer a pdf or ebook that I can easily search for terms, keywords, etc.

I think it's safe to say once we're at that stage the tv's simply won't work unless connected to the network.

You'll have to buy the monthly subscription fee to have your toast without ads.

This is one way to volunteer yourself to help them with any and all IT needs on their devices moving forward.

I'm all about helping out on privacy related topics but unless they want to learn about the how and why you're turning on xyz they won't care in the long run.

Are these attacks able to be used against 2FA apps that use the same underlying software?

Do you have any examples of how a coop model would work for a service based business like a VPN? My feelings on VPN services like these will churn and burn in the long run.

As these services acquire extensive customer bases that on the face of it are trying to mask their activity (not saying this is bad) they're going to be bought out.

The article states GM has 11M, 4G enabled vehicles, does this imply it's actively tracking these vehicles? Doesn't this also imply you don't have to be paying for any type of service/connectivity on your end and GM can be paying for the connectivity on theirs and be extracting data unbeknownst to the driver?

Nothing in this article mentions AT&T or Verizon but in fact accuses Sprint of the leak.

Why do we as adults presume a child of say 6 or 7 years of age understands the context or ramifications of searching taboo terms on the Internet and subsequently put said child in trouble for being curious?