Echo Dot

Not wanting low effort comments is not an echo chamber. I am perfectly fine with dissenting opinions a lot of the comments on here aren’t at the level of opinions that just knee jerk reactionary comments

I’m having difficulty with the word “worth”. It appears to be doing an awful lot of heavy lifting

There’s zero benefit for Google to hand over this information, and potentially face a lawsuit because it actually turns out that no it wasn’t legal for this information to be handed over. Google are of course aware that cops don’t necessarily obey the law, so just because you’ve been asked to by a cop to provide something doesn’t necessarily mean it’s legal for you to hand it over.

It’s much simpler if they just don’t have this data. That way they can’t hand it over, so there’s no problem.

In this case an issue avoided is very much an issue solved.

the surveillance state are the customer.

Except it would seem not, since you know this news.

Why would they. Don’t like they gain anything by giving this information to the police.

They probably been forced by other countries to have some kind of effective data protection it’s ridiculous employees have random access to this data.

What you’re looking for is effective moderation. It would be nice wouldn’t it.

The minimum requirement for something to be a legal contract is a signature. You can’t just write something on a piece of paper and say “oh this is legally enforceable, no I don’t have any evidence, go away”.

And you’d have an extraordinarily hard time proving that someone clicked “I agree”. Just because companies are prepared to pay to have EULAs written doesn’t mean they’re actually legally enforceable.

They don’t meet the terms necessary for the definition of a legal agreement.

• They do not contain a signature.
• They don’t explicitly identify you as an individual (again they can’t because no signature)
• They are not open to arbitration
• They also don’t bind the company to any legal requirements. A contract is between two, or more people. EULAs just define what you’re not allowed to do. They put no restrictions on the company at all.

They exist to scare people and nothing more they’re worth not as much as the paper they never written on.

As far as I know it’s not legally binding pretty much anywhere. They’re not legal contracts because they don’t fulfill the requirements of one.

Everyone knows EULAs are legally binding.

Do we know which human brain is going to simulate or is it a random human brain? Because some brains are just not worth it.

Personally, I’d never buy a Tesla because of how much of a pain they are to get repaired. Have to go to their service centers. You can’t just go to some local repair place.

The nearest local center to me is about a 2-hour drive away. So firstly the car needs to function enough to actually get to the repair center, and then secondly I’m stuck there until they fix the car or I get a pickup to come home. Meanwhile, practically every other car I can just take to a local place and walk back home in 10 minutes.

You can’t sue people for nothing in the US either. They have a few laws. - You’re allowed to try but it’ll get kicked out of court.

It’s all bark and no bite, if anyone actually tried it they wouldn’t be able to do anything. As long as the price is paid off Tesla don’t own the vehicle so they have no rights over it.

I still don’t get why people buy Tesla products. You know what they’re like now. What are you doing?

Ironic considering you’re supposedly against market monopolies

You don’t know what you’re talking about do you.

Computers don’t come with steam automatically installed, do they? So it’s not in any actual sense of the word of monopoly.

You are been downvoted because your comment is idiotic.

Yeah but you can’t interfere with quantum entangled particles, if you do you break the entanglement. So it isn’t usable as a method of communication.

It might become like the days of sail. The fastest mode of communication might actually be the speed of ships. In order to get a message between earth and alpha centauri you might have to actually build messenger ships.

You might have to build small automated FTL capable ships with massive data storage capacity and then download all of the data you need to send and then set the ship off on its way.

I don’t know, I feel like it works on both levels really. There are actual people that think like that and it’s insane. The US trade war doesn’t really help, It paints China as the bad guy even though they’re only doing the same thing as every other country in the world.

By all means demand China improves in areas which makes sense such as blatant copyright violation and human rights abuses but not this. Making cheap cars is hardly nefarious.

Yeah that was the problem with the Nissan Leaf. It basically used the same frame as an ICE car, (and it wasn’t like it was a big SUV either) so all the batteries had to go in the back, and you had no storage and also there wasn’t really enough space in the back to have enough batteries to make it have decent range.