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helpImTrappedOnline , 1 day ago to Privacy in AI trains on kids’ photos even when parents use strict privacy settings

The problem with that plan is it requires actual punishment for a large corporation and that is bad for campaign funds.

helpImTrappedOnline , 1 day ago to Technology in People in San Francisco Are Mad That a New App Lets You Spy on Bars to See How Busy They Are

The potential for misue is too great.

Security cams are not available to anyone - only the bar staff has (hopefully limited) access to the video. While everything is recorded, unless something happens you can be confident the video will end up deleted.

There's a difference from being watched by some creep through the window and being watched by a dozen creeps wanking off to you in a basment.

helpImTrappedOnline , 4 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to Memes in USA presidential candidates

It is theoreticaly possible, but praticaly speaking it would be near impossible.

To acomplish this, you need to get 51% of the population (who actually vote) to all vote for one person. However, with FPTP, you get one choice on the ballot. Is the average voter going to risk their vote on a 3rd party, or vote for who they belive to be the "lesser evil" of the two that have a shot at winning?

Even if you do manage to get 51%, there's the electoral collage. Never forget, our democracy has built in the ability to overwrite the presidential vote.

Your first hurdle is getting any one to name an independent candidate.

Edit: adjusted some wording to be better.

helpImTrappedOnline , 8 days ago to Privacy in To those of you with nothing to hide: One day you might have. Because you don’t make the rules.

Not too sure about the middle part, but the end was pointing out that baby pictures of little Sally playing in the tub are not okay to share or take in the first place.

Its a common enough situation where Ma is going through the baby album with your bride-to-be or a total stranger (mother-in-law) and there's a bunch of photos of under-dressed children that would definetny make the wrong crowd happy to have.

helpImTrappedOnline , 8 days ago to Comic Strips in The heist [beetlemoses]

Hey, you. You’re finally awake.

helpImTrappedOnline , 9 days ago to Comic Strips in Welcome to Hell!

Good people is the only requirement...if they are in the part of your cricle that overlaps, good for them. If not....

helpImTrappedOnline , 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago) to Privacy in Privacy friendly art home alert system?

You should probably get a louder smoke decetor if you can barely hear it upstairs.

I'm going to go with the DIY approach;

For the water sensor, I'd look into the possibility of linking the basement alarm to a speaker upstairs. I've no idea what kind of alarm you're looking at or what the electronics are like. Theoreticaly, you can jump off the audio signal just before it reaches the speaker. Send the audio signal through an amp (located close* to the alarm, preferably where it won't get wet) and connect it to a speaker upstairs.

I would never try to mess with a smoke detector I rely on, but a water sensor...buy two and have fun.

*the amp is to overcome voltage drop in the new cable, I doubt that the sensor electronics will be capable of driving a seperate speaker with at least 30 ft of cable between it.

helpImTrappedOnline , 11 days ago to Memes in i shall simply remain illiterate

Yeah, the first time was for the joke. Second time must have been umm autocorrect.

I am defiantly not making things up to excuse my poor spelling...what can I say? I made a double oops 0ops.

helpImTrappedOnline , 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to Memes in i shall simply remain illiterate

I know...college is a joke for a lot of careers.

I made up this situation pointing out the opposing stereotypes of books and authors.

Reads lots of books = smart person who has lots of potential in life.

Writes lots of books = bum who can barley pay rent.

helpImTrappedOnline , 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to Memes in i shall simply remain illiterate

Parents: you need to read lots of book in your free time to get smart and go to collage.

~~~ Many years later ~~~

Me: I would like to attend university next year. I will pursue an education in literature to achieve my goal of becoming a published author.

Parents: you will not! There is no success as an author, I will not support you going to to school for such a waste.

helpImTrappedOnline , 12 days ago to Technology in Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined

Music streaming has proven this for years now, all the major brands have massive collections that make its super easy to pay and listen to just about anything.

Early Netflix proved this when everything was readily available for an affordable pricre.

helpImTrappedOnline , 16 days ago to Technology in YouTube is experimenting with Notes, a crowdsourced feature that lets users add context to videos

This sounds like a great spot for scammers to flood for maximum visabilty. It'll be too much effort to moderate, so creators will just disable them (if they can) or this will be shut down in about (checks YouTube's history of dealling with scammers) 3.5 years.

helpImTrappedOnline , 16 days ago to Technology in Share Your Story: The Impact of Losing Access to 500,000 Books

Would a compromise be to simply archive them but not make them freely availible until they enter public domain.

For more current book; if they are out of print then they can be made availbe for limited loan, like any other digital library.
If a digital copy is avalible for purchase from the original publisher/author, than its not fair game. Unless they come to an agreement, perhaps add supported for freely accessing a book otherwise available for purchase.

If they got rid of the download option, it would make it much more difficult to just use a DRM stripping tool (a friend told me about these terrible pirating tools, I certently don't know how to use then).
A lot of digital libraies have a dedicated app that you can only view content from. Utilize whatever anti-screen capture systems banks and Netflix use to protect from simply taking screen shots. Make is easier to access the books legitimatly than it is to pirate them.

Lastly, don't just make everything freely availible next time there's a world crisis.

helpImTrappedOnline , 18 days ago to Technology in Voyager 1 Once Again Returning Science Data From All Four Instruments

Remote software repairs are definatly good, pretty cool and worth bragging about. If you have to do a physical repair, you're probably better off just sending a new probe [citation needed], but as I said the time investment is huge.

It is a legitimate question, however the way it was asked has a negative vibe, intentional or not. You pretty much gave a good option and bad option and said "pick one" - generally when that's asked, we assume the asker assumes the negative is true (it's hard to explain). To me, it could be interpreted as "just curious, I assume this probe is only taking pretty pictures, so why do you bother repairing it?".

Personally, I've been trying to avoid jumping to those types of conclusions, but its not easy.
Text has no tone, and phrases sometimes have a secondary tonal meanings that people will insert. "Just curious....was it you that didn't refill the coffee machine this morning?"

helpImTrappedOnline , 18 days ago to Technology in Voyager 1 Once Again Returning Science Data From All Four Instruments

Yes the data is valuable for research. You and I may not understand any of it, but its useful to someone.
As for repairing from a distance, that thing has been traveling for 46 years and gone far. For reference, it passed Neptune back in 1989.

It would take many years for a new probe to reach those distances, so if it can be repaired, it shall.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2

Hypothetically, lets say it only takes 30 years for a new probe with updated tech to reach where Voyager 2 is now. If V2 died today, thats half of someone's career spent waiting for the new probe to arrive. Multiply that by everyone using the probe for research and you have a ton of wasted potential.