Posts by ITS Retired 385 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Dec 2010
"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.
The domino effect in action. 400,000 jobs lost. Those 400,000 people quit buying anything not necessary to survive. Business go out of business because not enough customers buying their services/widgets. Causing more people to be out of work, not buying stuff. Bigger business go out of business. Survival is harder because less stuff is available. 1929 collapse was just a minor hiccup.
The rich and powerful buy everything for pennies on the dollar again.
If we had more smart people, we'd have less need for smart IoT that actually aren't.
Smart TV's with RF remotes that work anywhere in the neighborhood? No key pad on the TV remote? WTF! You have to bring up a screen on the TV, so you can hunt and peck on the on screen keyboard to change channels. But the TV is defaulted to be programed ahead of time for what you want to watch? Works great when the football game runs long. How is this "smart"?
Smart light bulbs and plug in switches for lights, fans, heaters, etc., that need a remote server and your WiFi password and an apt to work?
You are normally right there anyway to experience the effects of whatever said device. Deal with it directly using the switch on, or near the device. Why let a server, who knows where, know about it. Especially if you are paying someone for this server to know.
I am not really a Luddite, but I prefer to control my own stuff I bought and paid for myself, without any input from any unnecessary third party.
Its been my experience that people, how even musically talented people, will tolerate crappy sounding music coming from cheap too small speakers. i.e., nothing below maybe 200hz.
I don't understand why when reasonably sounding speakers don't cost that much. Not to mention ear and head phones sound so much better. My own hearing falls off a cliff at 5000hz and I cringe if I hear the fidelity of what normal hearing people listen to from their TV's, laptops, and even desktop computers with cheap speakers.
that does not serve to enhance safety. In fact can be a distraction from any attempted safety features.
The distracting beeping and flashing RED warnings of eminent crashes, AFTER the driver has already recognized, and is reacting to the situation.
Like when you are in the outside lane and the vehicle, ahead is you is in the inside lane, puts on their left turn signal and slows down to make a left hand turn and you are warned of an imminent, major crash when there is no possibility of such.
On a related note, the unrelenting e-mails and snail-mail from Sirius wanting you to pay $19.95 a month for their music, when you already have an AM/FM radio with HD radio in your vehicle. Plus being able to plug in your own music for free. They can't seem to understand "NO!", to well past the point of making it hard to drop their 'service', should you be suckered in.
"Microsoft produces software that is hard to secure due to many things that constantly change the user does cant control. At some point, they need to be held accountable. Change my system without my permission, it is on them."
Especially when quality control rests more on the end user, than from the source corporation.
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