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@Karla That looks disgustingly American. I’d eat all of it.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
It's liable to turn into a Garage discussion
Given the EU's attempts to impose their laws on the rest of the world
PotBlack hole, meet kettle.
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@boomzilla in the news
https://www.wsj.com/articles/get-off-my-lawn-homeowners-ward-off-drivers-misled-by-gps-11564071010
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@Captain said in In other news today...:
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/454915-city-killer-asteroid-just-misses-earth-shocks-scientists
WashPost said:
According to data from NASA, the craggy rock was large, an estimated 57 to 130 meters wide (187 to 427 feet), and moving fast along a path that brought it within about 73,000 kilometers (45,000 miles) of Earth. That’s less than one-fifth of the distance to the moon and what Duffy considers “uncomfortably close.”
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@Zecc 73e6 meters doesn't seem that close; it's still 12 times the radius of the earth. On the gun range, if the earth was the bullseye, does that even land you on the target?
From the objects in this wikipedia page, 7 out of 17 passed closer than this (though all were smaller):
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@Zecc 73e6 meters doesn't seem that close; it's still 12 times the radius of the earth. On the gun range, if the earth was the bullseye, does that even land you on the target?
From the objects in this wikipedia page, 7 out of 17 passed closer than this (though all were smaller):
It's well within the moon's orbit. If that's not close enough to call it a near-miss, you're a damn kamikaze.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla in the news
https://www.wsj.com/articles/get-off-my-lawn-homeowners-ward-off-drivers-misled-by-gps-11564071010
paywall
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
3% tax on revenue (not profit), and the article doesn't say whether it's just revenue earned in France (which might be reasonable) or total, worldwide revenue. Given the EU's attempts to impose their laws on the rest of the world, France attempting to tax the worldwide revenue wouldn't totally surprise me.
The problem is caused by the various tech giants' aggressive tax reduction strategies, including how they've tried to book revenue in countries other than where it originated (despite presenting a view very much customised for citizens of that country) while doing accounting trickery to claim that profits in somewhere like France are virtually zero. This has been annoying tax authorities for many years, so they're switching to taxing revenue and not profits to make it harder for fair taxes to be dodged. Or that's the way they see it; I'm sure the tech giants (and a few other very big but less well known companies) have a different opinion. Trump's adding bonus nationalism for extra noxiousness, but the core of the dispute is nothing to do with it (and very much to do with the structure of certain tax breaks offered by Ireland, which have been annoying the rest of the EU for decades; there might be equivalent problems with the tax policies of some states in the US, but I don't know much about those).
I suspect that tax trickery is one of the key things which has allowed the likes of Google, Facebook and Amazon to grow so large and so fast. It's amazing how much
profitworking income you can make when you don't have to pay a normal level of tax on it.
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@pie_flavor
A wall would keep people off your lawn yes
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@boomzilla <in near future> In other news, 2 unidentifiable bodies are found dismembered and dumped in an alley.
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Surprise! Apple can and do listen to everything just like Google and Amazon
For example, it doesn’t attach Apple IDs to recordings, contractors study recordings in “secure facilities” and they are bound by “strict confidentiality requirements.” Additionally, Apple doesn’t know whose device made a request, nor can it make other connections.
However, The Guardian’s source said that recordings come with user data showing location, contact details and app data.:womp_wah:
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@Dragoon INB4 the shooter thinking that halitosis is a sign of demonic possession.
The mind boggles...
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Surprise! Apple can and do listen to everything just like Google and Amazon
Um, that's not at all the same because the real problem is the always-on listening. I use Siri once a month to set a cooking timer. Go ahead and listen to that if you must.
@hungrier linked an article saying:
The Apple Watch and the HomePod produced the most mistaken recordings
Oh ok. Yes. There's your problem.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Um, that's not at all the same because the real problem is the always-on listening. I use Siri once a month to set a cooking timer. Go ahead and listen to that if you must.
This is so grotesque that I honestly don't know if you are serious or making fun of apple sheep.
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
This is so grotesque that I honestly don't know if you are serious or making fun of apple sheep.
It's worse: he's baking apple pies using patented Rose Gold fruits from his walled garden
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Well, hell. Line up to sue us....
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
This is so grotesque that I honestly don't know if you are serious or making fun of apple sheep.
It's worse: he's baking apple pies using patented Rose Gold fruits from his walled garden
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Um, that's not at all the same because the real problem is the always-on listening. I use Siri once a month to set a cooking timer. Go ahead and listen to that if you must.
This is so grotesque that I honestly don't know if you are serious or making fun of apple sheep.
You don't see the difference between a device that listens when I push a button (which is almost never) and a device that listens 24/7?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Um, that's not at all the same because the real problem is the always-on listening. I use Siri once a month to set a cooking timer. Go ahead and listen to that if you must.
This is so grotesque that I honestly don't know if you are serious or making fun of apple sheep.
You don't see the difference between a device that listens when I push a button (which is almost never) and a device that listens 24/7?
You knowingly ignore that they listen on people and you come up with meaningless justifications delibarately, or is defending Apple an involuntary reflex?
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Um, that's not at all the same because the real problem is the always-on listening. I use Siri once a month to set a cooking timer. Go ahead and listen to that if you must.
This is so grotesque that I honestly don't know if you are serious or making fun of apple sheep.
You don't see the difference between a device that listens when I push a button (which is almost never) and a device that listens 24/7?
You knowingly ignore that they listen on people and you come up with meaningless justifications delibarately, or is defending Apple an involuntary reflex?
Okay, you seem incapable of giving a reasonable reply.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
I use Siri once a month to set a cooking timer
You don't cook often
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I was about to make an off the cuff remark about the following picture being applied to alexa
but then I found this article
What did Alexa say?
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-sending-warning-letters-to-more-than-10-000-cryptocurrency-holders-11564159523?mod=rsswn
In Soviet America, ledger publics you.
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@LaoC Letters? Are they expecting crypto people to unfold the parchment and read it by candlelight? They should be calling them and requesting payment in the form of iTunes gift cards
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Um, that's not at all the same because the real problem is the always-on listening.
Do you believe that it only starts listening after you say "Hey Siri"? How does it know you've said it?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:that listens when I push a button
What Apple device has buttons?
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
requesting payment in the form of
iTunes gift cardsbitcoins
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
requesting payment in the form of
iTunes gift cardsbitcoinsI don't think the IRS is that dumb. iTunes vouchers would be worth something at the end of the year.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
A bit hyperbolic but good to know that I should be uninstalling WhatApp soon.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
A bit hyperbolic but good to know that I should be uninstalling WhatApp soon.
That much was clear the moment WhatsApp got hoovered up by the suckerplex.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Um, that's not at all the same because the real problem is the always-on listening.
Do you believe that it only starts listening after you say "Hey Siri"? How does it know you've said it?
I've disabled "Hey Siri", of course.
Note the "there's your problem" joke in my post about "HomePod", because those always-on things are clearly just as bad.
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@topspin That's good for you and anyone who disables the feature (assuming that the setting actually stops the always-on recording and transmission, rather than just ignoring the key phrase), but most people will leave it on and probably use it out of convenience.
As always, the real solution is to move to a shack in the mountains with a generator and no connection to the outside world.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Well, I've worked with programmers that are that incompetent, so why not M.E.s?
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@hungrier That's what you get when you rate your police with “objective” criteria like percent of cases solved (or if your officers are just plain old lazy).
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Um, that's not at all the same because the real problem is the always-on listening.
Do you believe that it only starts listening after you say "Hey Siri"? How does it know you've said it?
You do realize that there's stuff like Wireshark which lets you analyze which traffic gets sent where at what times?
I'd really like for people to not needlessly combine the "listening" and "transmitting" parts.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Um, that's not at all the same because the real problem is the always-on listening.
Do you believe that it only starts listening after you say "Hey Siri"? How does it know you've said it?
You do realize that there's stuff like Wireshark which lets you analyze which traffic gets sent where at what times?
I'd really like for people to not needlessly combine the "listening" and "transmitting" parts.
I don't own any apple products, but are you saying they transmit this kind of information in the clear, readable to all along the way?`
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Um, that's not at all the same because the real problem is the always-on listening.
Do you believe that it only starts listening after you say "Hey Siri"? How does it know you've said it?
You do realize that there's stuff like Wireshark which lets you analyze which traffic gets sent where at what times?
I'd really like for people to not needlessly combine the "listening" and "transmitting" parts.
I don't own any apple products, but are you saying they transmit this kind of information in the clear, readable to all along the way?`
You only need to establish a temporal relationship: "If I do this then that gets sent to somewhere at Apple with a payload size of Foo"
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
The stab wounds are a bit of a gotcha, but he's totally wrong about one bit:
But I looked up the symptoms of hepatitis C, and one of them is not “causes large amounts of blood to get out and onto the walls throughout a house,”
Liver failure (which Hep C causes) can cause portal hypertension, and the blood vessels in various other places distend and swell to try to carry the compromised flow. When these varices in the throat and stomach burst you get projectile vomiting of blood (and then you die). Liver disease is horrible.
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Paging @anotherusername
Think twice before adding that extra kick of chili sauce or chopped jalapeno to your meal. New research involving the University of South Australia shows a spicy diet could be linked to dementia.
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@Dragoon But does eating spicy food cause dementia, or is it a result of dementia? Because either my Carolina Reaper powder is harming my brain, or it's already too late for me.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon But does eating spicy food cause dementia, or is it a result of dementia? Because either my Carolina Reaper powder is harming my brain, or it's already too late for me.
It definitely causes it. A few weeks ago I made Reaper dry rub that gave me stomach cramps, on Sunday I made dry rub chicken with the same amount again (I'll have tolerance now!) ...I was up most of the night with stomach cramps again
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Bethesda enters the Tour De France of backpedaling:
"Oopsie, we accidentally introduced an online login requirement with a TOS to a port of a 30 year old game"
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@hungrier
No idea how all that personal information collection and all those lootboxes got in there. Also, would you like more ammo and a free bonus health pack for just $0.99?
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Paging @anotherusername
Think twice before adding that extra kick of chili sauce or chopped jalapeno to your meal. New research involving the University of South Australia shows a spicy diet could be linked to dementia.
Meh. My grandmother got dementia and she tended to think that black pepper was spicy. OK, let's go look at the link...
The study, led by Dr Zumin Shi from Qatar University, showed that those who consumed in excess of 50 grams of chili a day had almost double the risk of memory decline and poor cognition.
Wow...that's a lot of chili.