I didn’t present it as a rebuttal, I added important context that was missing from your question that makes the answer much more clear.

And these thing are unreliable now, but Microsoft and others are dumping billions of dollars into making them better and they’re doing it for profit. Waiting around until they’re perfected before fighting against the ongoing unfair use of copyrighted content is a sure fire strategy to losing that fight.

I thought it was that vampire family who were countering t-mobile's service 🤔. Hopefully they didn't try surfing during the day 😔& now that's why Comcast is going off about 10G.

Seriously though 10G is really available on Comcast & you're right cord cutters are killing cable tv. A couple of months ago streaming beat cable by ~1% for the first time in history. The streaming numbers are growing.

Wish I could get rid of Xfinity, but stupid board of directors didn't listen to me about cord cutting & FAST... now a 10 year Xfinity contract, where they'll be raising prices more & more. 😭

Note: I think Comcast is like google... they're watching my posting about them & placed an ad at the top of the thread.

Maybe you got downvoted for speculation without evidence?

> Or, just spitballing here, they could have designed the kernel so that it doesn’t take root level commands from anything in the application layer…

Sure, but exploits happen from time to time.

If you create (write , draw, design) for a living - particularly advertising, corporate communications, fluff for blogs & youtube, and you're a grunt, not the creative director... AI is gonna eat your lunch. The advertising companies are already wetting themselves with glee over AI.

AI is also surprisingly competent at programming. Alot of programming is Tinkertoys now: grab an input library here, a little glue logic, data-processing from another library, push to the cloud storage, repeat. An AI can cruise the libraries, whip up a demo, validate the code and unit-test it, all in seconds. Then it pushes this to the human for some business rules added, back to the AIs for QA and end-to-end testing. Any process that can be encapsulated in a library function is now available to a programming AI. I'm sort of glad I left that field a few years ago.

Search providers like google don't just show you links though. They also show you potentially relevant excerpts so you often don't even need to go to the linked site to get what you were after, and show previews of images in image search etc.

Determining exactly where to draw the line of what to consider fair-use for things like this is a highly complex and dynamic issue. Web search engines are (by necessity) parasitic as well but that alone neither makes them bad nor illegal.

Parasitic is also not the "bad" counterpart of symbiotic. A symbiotic relationship is simply a parasitic relationship that benefits both parties. Just saying parasitic says nothing about which side(s) would benefit. I think exploitative would be a more appropriate word to use for such relationships.

Tell that to all the people that spend hours trying to navigate an automatic customer support phone labyrinth.

And 100,000x the cost to make it.

When there is a market.. there is a way. Unfortunately these attacks are not some teenager or a hobbyist doing in their spare time, it’s a whole industry and they make a lot of money.

This isn’t a pedantic debate. If the math works and the results demonstrate the math works, what more is there?

> However, the sample size is only large enough to draw conclusions on maybe a county level.

Again, this is simply incorrect, as demonstrated by the math and backed up by actual results from polls conducted in this manner. You’re wrong and burying your head in the sand. Their polls of 1200 people arrive to the same conclusions within a fraction of a percent as the actual results. Is that really so hard to believe?

I feel like this is a pedantic debate.

It is true that the statistics math works.

It is a non sequitur that therefore the conclusions are correct in a broader context than the sample warrants.

The data only tells us that, among the relatively small sample, there is a general consensus. However, the sample size is only large enough to draw conclusions on maybe a county level.

The sample would need to cover a broader sample of Texas citizens and be larger to be relevant. For 27 million people, you'd need a sample size of tens of thousands from a broad number of locations.

How many sock accounts do you have? I'm curious.

Some executive suggested more steps involved because they read an article once

Eat the rich

Let’s do some math! How much was the MSRP of the original iPhone (serious question). How much was Apple stock at the time of the unveiling. How much would that stock be worth today.

I always remember the saying “if you love a product, by the stock”

That $2 is based on current splits, as far as I can tell

Look at me:

I am the Metaverse now.

I just had a ball playing one of those text only adventure games lol. Except it was revisiting my own past…I did enjoy this YT exploration of Oregon Trail by a teen who was all wtf is diphtheria, why tf is this game so hard 😅

Lol, much much more. The stock has split many times.

> Or, just spitballing here, they could have designed the kernel so that it doesn’t take root level commands from anything in the application layer…

They already do. The problem is they don't trust it. As there have been privilege escalation bugs before.

This is similar to Apple's "blast door" idea for messages. Neither should be necessary if software is written correctly in the first place.

BTW, Apple's "blast door" was bypassed within a year of introduction. So even that "extra layer" only slowed down the attackers, not stopped them.

Imagine that you were a true genius with an amazing 'photographic' memory that could recount almost everything you ever read. Imagine winning awards, getting a premium 'Ivy League' education, publishing award-winning original essays, and becoming a revered scholar. Now, imagine every publication such as the WSJ coming after you for 'using' their published content to make yourself so smart.

I wonder how long before the battery begins to leak and corrode the other components as well as destroy the packaging?

In another 15 years the price will probably more than double again as long as they don’t open it. It’s an investment at this point. Not one that I’d make at that price, but I get it.

I need to start buying shit and leaving it unopened.

I went to Cornell

Yeah, I'm extremely not worried.