Posts by ITS Retired 404 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Dec 2010
If you do not connect your "Smart TV" to the Internet, it is clunky to use. Little things like the channel key pad doesn't work. You need the Channel Up/Down to change channels. Or you need to set up your Favorites so you at least can get close to the channel you think you want to watch, then fine tune with the channel up/down.
Why can't these so-called Smart TV's be uses the same as the old fashioned dumb tv's? Just make the channel key pad work.
Having and/or sharing a picture of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel on my phone, or computer can get me in legal trouble? Does it make a difference if I am Catholic or not?
How "nude", or "naked" does a picture have to be to trigger a programed machine? A machine controlled by people that have wrongly assumed they have a responsibility to protect the rest of us from their reality? I thinking a high chance of hypocrisy here,
Never mind pictures, how long till there will be list of forbidden words, in various common languages? I'm seeing another way to control us, using children as an excuse to treat the rest of us as children.
Bloody hell, this idea is dangerous. Where are the parents of these children that need protecting? Leave the rest of us out of this.
"So just like manned vessels they break and need fixing and who's there to do it?
Didn't we already have this problem with some autonomous ship, or boat that was suppose to cross the Atlantic all by itself, a few years ago? Something broke and it had to be towed back to port.
Whatever the problem was could have been easily fixed on a crewed ship.
The worst thing you can do to electronic devices is turn them on. That is when they most often fail. The power surge, unless designed for, which costs money, can hit design limits in both the power supple and whats being powered. That takes a toll after a while. For electronic equipment it depends on how often it needs to be used. All day, every day? Leave on. If for occasional use, turn it off when not in use. I won't even mention the stress on thermal cycling of components here.
Computer need updates. They cannot be updated when powered down.
As for Desk Tops, Windows 7 seems to be, to me, something they basically got right. Just because it is 'old' should not automatically make it obsolete. There are times when something 'old' is hard to actually improved on. The basic form and function of Windows 7 worked very well back in the day, something Microsoft has long forgotten. Shifting stuff around in the panel is an improvement? How are ads when you click on something you payed for, an improvement?
Change for change sake so they can say "NEW and Improved" too often is so they can charge more. it is so easy to make changes be shifting things around to allow the maker to say "NEW and Improved" when there is little new and the code is not new, just shuffled around.
Now about those ads on an OS you have payed good money for. Or making your computer a paper weight if the Internet isn't available, because everything you need to do is in somebody else's cloud. Not only your data, but your programs too.
I went from Windows 7 to Linux Mint. Why Mint? Because the desktop is similar to 7. It works fine for me. User interfaces matter. One shouldn't have to treasure hunt with every update. You shouldn't have to reconfigure anything after an update either because your tweaks were reset to someone else's idea how things are done.
My Data and my programs are mine right on my computers, not being mined for fun and profit in someone else's computer, located who knows where, especially when you have to pay for the privilege.
"The company said it intends to get a low-Earth orbit demonstration satellite up and running by 2028, and plans to launch its first geosynchronous orbit satellite by 2030, when it intends to begin commercial operations "with the world's first megawatt transmission from space."
More junk in the sky to shied the Earth from global warming. Stop it already. This reminds me of the Space Elevator for practicality.
"Bondi also told Fox Business: "ICEBlock is designed to put ICE agents at risk just for doing their jobs, and violence against law enforcement is an intolerable red line that cannot be crossed." "
And yet ICE does violence against innocent citizens as a part of their "jobs". The real threat of ICEBlock is to let people know areas to avoid, where ICE is vandalizing property and violating the Civil Rights of the average citizen.
The ISAC funding cuts, along with the broader budget and staff reductions at CISA have led to worries about election security and how officials across all 50 states will be able to rapidly share threat information.
Right there is the main reason why. The results for the next election are already being tabulated.
I don't want thin. I have an Otter case on my iPhone that doubles the thickness. That makes the phone much easier to handle for one thing. Plus I have an easily accessible belt clip for it, so I have pockets for stuff that actually need a pocket. Keys, wallet, ball point pen, little green Xcelite screwdriver, stylus for when I need to 'type' on the screen keyboard, when I dictate messages, etc.
Also a 'thin phone' and 'back pocket' doesn't sound like they go together very well. There is also the issue of the protruding camera that defeats the purpose of 'thin'. A thicker phone has room for a bigger battery. Win-win. Let the camera determine the thickness of the phone. Makes sense to me.
AL has its uses, but it does not belong everywhere in everything. Just as IoT does not belong in everything from toasters to clothes washers/dryers, refrigerators, door locks. Why would anyone want to control the living room lights from a thousand miles/kilometers away?
There is too much because we can, forced on users that complicate otherwise simple, easy to use operations.
This is another energy hog of "Because we can, not because we should", or for any actual necessity.
Sure it looks impressive, but why?
Some people have entirely too much money. There are better ways to use multimillionaire's excess money. Like fair share taxation, used for working economies and proper functioning governments for its citizens. Heaven on earth.
Navel ships are war ships have be self sufficient while at sea. They can be thousands of miles from any help even in peace times. Steaming for weeks, sometimes months at a time.
How can they function if they cannot repair whatever, when something, anything breaks?
Farmer's tractors are bad enough, but our military?
Maybe, just maybe this planet was setup to make it very difficult to impossible for us to leave on purpose. We are not supposed to be able to export our dysfunctional life form to elsewhere. Robots exploring the neighborhood is one thing, but we can never expect to actually go anywhere and survive for long, until we learn to get along with each other like some civilized life form, without killing each other over minor differences that don't really matter. Hide color, eye shape, gender, sexual preference and other normal differences that exist in other species of animals on this wet rock.
That is why these AI models need to have a hard wired kill switch, that the AI can't bypass and preferably does not even know about.
Hooked to the Internet, who knows what these self programing AI will, or can come up with. "Do - you - want - to - play - a - game?"
Sounds like a plan. But what does that have to do with the current administration? They are reducing, destroying, deporting, defunding, down sizing every agency, firing every educated DEI hire, eliminating college classes/program needed to educate enough people needed to upgrade the very systems that they say that need to be upgraded and replaced... In three years? It will take decades and trillions of dollars to catch up at this point in time.
These same idiots should have been allowing funding equipment upgrades for the last several decades! Hiring and training enough people to efficiently do the required jobs, regardless of skin color or national origin.
Instead they have concentrated on down sizing as the solution to not enough people to do the many jobs required. To say nothing about voting as a block all along, against any equipment upgrades as too expensive and we can't afford it. For them being incompetent is a job requirement, so now we only need three years do what actually will take decades. Never mind funding an unknowable upfront.
Passwords are so last century. Never mind nothing actually better has come along, but changeable passwords have worked for over 65 years.
But somehow just because something is 'old' doesn't mean needs to stop being used. That is sometimes faulty thinking. Occasionally the old stuff is better than the newer stuff. Passwords refuse to die for a reason. Stop trying kill what works well enough for most things, for a long time, with something new, say with AI, because AI is the shiny new, or whatever. Change for change sake is seldom better.
Musk has all the government contracts he needs for control of communications, rockets, stolen data bases. He has neutered his competition. He has hollowed out the regulations of his "businesses", so he is mostly free to do what he wants. Of course his 'government' job is pretty much finished. He is just sticking around to make sure he doesn't lose the plunder he has stolen.
This man needs reside for the rest of his life, in a secure, walled residence in El Salvador for the damage has has done to our government. His money can be used to repair the damage he has done to innocent people's lives.
Geothermal, or ground source heat pumps. They are not the same. Geothermal is using the heat that is underground. Can't be directly used for A/C.
Ground source heat pumps pumps heat into the ground in the summer for A/C, and out of the ground in the winter for heating.
Saying 'geothermal' instead of 'ground source heat pump' is a sales pitch to justify higher prices/price gouging.
