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I have a coworker who has Siri enabled on his phone. It regularly wakes up and starts recording seemingly at random. Maybe "always listening" isn't the correct phrasing. "It might be listening at any time" might be better.
Sure, but the intent is there to not do that.
For now. Or so we're told.
Unless a court order (or bribed employee) decides otherwise. ;)
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Don’t forget safety, were often told it’s to monitor bad guys or people breaking the law. Australia is great at this, see the new “Phone use while driving cameras”, insane.
As a person who primarily walks and bikes to get around I am very okay with whatever measures are necessary to get phone drivers off the road.
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As a person who primarily walks and bikes to get around I am very okay with whatever measures are necessary to get phone drivers off the road.
We live in the safest world we have ever lived in yet it amazes me the willingness people have to give up privacy and Liberty under the guise of a marginal increase in "safety"
But at the end of the day it's a cultural thing— this is the same America that rejects any form of common sense gun control because liberty is more important than kids not shooting themselves in their own homes.
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I still receive decks with great regularity that drag the blockchain in by the hairs. Extremely boring and a very quick way to end up in the round archive. One of those two days ago. It was so cringeworthy I'd almost post it here but that's sort of rude. This one was a borderline scam with a whole pile of content recycled from other decks and fake education records for the participants. Who ever thought we'd check up…
> This one was a borderline scam with a whole pile of content recycled from other decks and fake education records for the participants. Fake education records... that's over the borderline for me, and definitely falls into scam territory.
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Don’t forget safety, were often told it’s to monitor bad guys or people breaking the law. Australia is great at this, see the new “Phone use while driving cameras”, insane.
After nearly 5 decades of declining traffic fatalities, the number has been increasing (at least in NL) for the past 3, with mobile use being one of the main drivers. I don't like surveillance everywhere, but I like people playing with their phones while driving even less, so I personally can't wait for those camera's to be anywhere. Also, my Tesla is filming constantly while I drive, so that's a much bigger deal.
For example in Japan the car navigation system can only be used while the car is in park. This would be more effective then using cameras which will only be semi-perfect and still people will try use their phone anyway.
There are thousands of speed cameras in Australia, people still speed all the time and time from high speed crashes.
Wow, I can’t believe how dismissive most of the comments here are. The idea of adding folding wings to existing seat dimensions could be a huge, huge improvement for sleeping on flights. No, it’s not changing or solving anything else. Yes the model is tiny. No this isn’t solving existing recline issues if you’re 6’5”. If you have incredibly broad shoulders then you might not be able to use the wings but you can still…
Let's say this adds 10 pounds to each seat times 150-400 seats. No way the airlines would go for it they are trying to cut weight from the planes to scrape every ounce of fuel economy out of the airframe. It is a non-starter. Airlines also have zero incentive to increase passenger comfort because most airlines operate near capacity (all flights full/overbooked) on most routes because of deregulation. You have no alte…
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I wonder if any of you ever tried sitting on the aisle. It’s a hazard there, constantly being hit by anything and anyone who passes by. No way I’m “resting” on that armrest and therefore I’ll lean towards the middle seat.
Do you prefer the middle seat to the aisle?
Aisle lets you get up anytime you want, but also forces you to get up twice as much as the middle seat. But mainly in the middle seat you never have to be afraid of people bumping into you, which affects you for most of the flight.
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> Have cameras pointed at every flyer for the duration of the flight, for the incredibly minor benefit of stopping your movie Besides, all these electronic devices have a high environmental impact, for virtually no benefits. It makes you wonder how we're going to decrease our CO2 emissions...
I'm pretty sure the cost of even manufacturing (let alone just operating) these screens pales in comparison to the cost of, you know, igniting hydrocarbons to make a giant airplane fly in the air at hundreds of miles an hour.