Nah, for me, this has absolutely nothing to do with AI. I don’t use my phone for nav and can easily leave it at home. This is 100% about security and reducing tracking and PII. Not to mention, not putting all the pieces together in one handy, easily leakable database.
Okay, from a naive POV, if this was only used for that purpose, sure it’s too bad. But there’s logging, theres extra info gathered here.
Scanning a plate instantly enters at a minimum, into a DB:
Do that a multiple times to the same car across the area, every day, now you can extrapolate where they go, when they go, predict what they’re doing in the future, the route they take the likely speed they’ll go and all sorts of other privacy invading info.
This data could be used to accuse you of a crime, of cheating on your spouse, of speeding without a speed camera based on distance between scans, doing nefarious in their eyes things, etc.
Edit: and just imagine if this data leaked, which it likely would. Stalkers would love it, among theives and all sorts of other people.
Its such an insignificant amount of money to fund PBS. It’s mostly paid by donations and sponsors anyway. If they really wanted to save taxpayers money they should look elsewhere first… but thats a harder question that might rustle a few of their own feathers. Not only do they try to take the easiest route that doesn’t involve their side, but they want to make people think it’s a win. PBS isnt greasing their palms, so out it goes.
AM lasts longer but the quality just isn’t the same.
On one hand, I LOVE crossing things off my list.
But God Damn does this ice cream taste fucking awesome.
(Adds “finish quart of ice cream” to list and proceeds to cross it off)
Its been less and less useful over the last few years anyway. Time to just bust out that eyepatch.
If they also view this as a bubble, they have to weigh how long the bubble will last, and what happens to the investment in equipment required after the bubble pops. It may not be worth the investment if they think it’ll only last 1-2 yrs and it takes them 1-1.5 to spin that up.
Not to mention all the extra costs in raw materials/logistics of getting more materials into the factory and more chips out. You start shifting to “can the local infrastructure handle that?” Or is it near capacity and will either need improvements as well or if they’d be better off building a new facility elsewhere and everything associated with that.
It’s a complicated mess, and again, might just be a bubble.
The OP basically is saying: Monthly health insurance premiums == monthly subscription fees.
A schooner is a sailboat, stupid head.
I hear chicks dig dudes with money… well, maybe not all chicks, but the kinds that’d double up on a dude like him, at least.
You had me until the last paragraph… The Orange man and MAGA in general don’t care about communism anymore. The government owns part of Intel now, his best friends are Putin and Xi, he’s pushing changes like the government controls all the means of production. Communism is hip now it seems.
Maybe if you call them socialists? But only because their base doesn’t really understand what it means, they just hate it but secretly want it when it benefits them.
I believe that’s assault. I hope someone teaches Karen that.
Or… they could use a thunderbolt/usb-c wire and not pollute the wireless spectrum.
They missed the picture of 200 people in the subway where the streets are completely empty.
I feel like if my kid was the age that needed this sort of distraction free phone, I’m not spending $250 on it. $100 would likely be my cutoff.
As it is, my teenager has a used iPhone SE I only paid $150 for. (She’s super anti-social network so I don’t really feel bad as she doesn’t spend that much time on it.)
Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense
Still a banger.
Now it has the kitchen sink AND vulnerabilities… and an asshole CEO.
As someone who managed it for a while, WP as a platform isn’t horrendous, but there are definitely better alternatives depending on what you need to accomplish.
Sadly it’s still a defacto standard.
If he liked it, he shoulda put a ring on it… and he did.
“Replacing high fructose corn syrup with cane sugar doesn’t make sense,” said Corn Refiners Association President and CEO John Bode. "Replacing high fructose corn syrup with cane sugar would cost thousands of American food manufacturing jobs, depress farm income, and boost imports of foreign sugar, all with no nutritional benefit.”
Corn farmers heavily voted for Trump, but according to them they’re weak and stupid anyway, so now we just wait for the cost of Coke to jump due to importing sugar. ‘Course, he never said anything about Pepsi, so people just flock to the much cheaper Pepsi products and Coke goes under! Brilliant!
Might also be non-AI consumers reassessing their storage needs. If SSD’s are expensive and you don’t necessarily NEED the faster speed, you’ll hop to the cheaper choice.