NihilsineNefas

To be fair to her, she's 22, and a trainee.

Being brought up from day one in a surveillance state probably makes it easy to forget that every action is being watched

Maybe not over 80 years if only due to the lack of technology (it would have taken a lot of agents manning a lot of switchboards to listen in on every telephone conversation), but saying "at least since the late 60s" wouldn't be inaccurate at all

Sweet fucking jesus that's not a mental image I wanted but by god did it crack me up.

It's like Dylan Moran's bit about the "Ideal body" from Monster (top tier stand up show if you haven't seen it)

Eglin must be having a staffing issue after everyone caught the lettuce shits

Oh I know it isn't, because I trust google as far as I can throw a datacenter.

But I'm still struggling to see the use of an app that makes you stop and go "let me ask my app to turn on my remote connection feature and search to see if this person is wearing the pervert glasses." instead of using my eyes and going "That guy looks like he's wearing pervert glasses, I'm leaving the area."

So you have to leave bluetooth on, which means your device is broadcasting an active bluetooth signal.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/14/opinion/bluetooth-wireless-tracking-privacy.html

If any random shop can use any phone's active bluetooth to track and profile every user that's i side or nearby, I don't want to have bluetooth active when in public. Genuinely not worth it just to fi d some glasshole pervert when my own eyes can do the job without giving away any more of my data. That's what I'm on about.

I don't even trust the "only give permission to use [camera/mic/bluetooth/location] while the app is active" setting.

I would not enter a public space with my phone lit up like a EM Christmas tree, sonar pinging every receiver in sight.

Let alone giving some rando app the access to every piece of NFC/radio comms on the off chance it can positively identify someone's spy glasses, because that means if they are, ive just given their spy glasses my phone's identifiers, and I'm spending more time near them and more time to possibly end up on some shady company's panopticon server.

It's like the people suggesting shining a laser into a flock camera, it might destroy a bit of the sensor, but they've also put a highly visible beam of light directly from themselves to it.

So they want the chat bot that lies instead of the science machine that cures cancers.

Wouldn't expect any less from the company that removed "Dont be evil" from its company charter.

Reminding you of the name and possibly previous interactions with the person you’re talking to, for instance (if it only did local lookup based on consensual photos you had previously added to your address book). I’m not face-blind or anything, but my memory is bad enough that that would be helpful to me.

I would rather the person shattered a glass fountain pen in my urethra than scanned my face because they forgot my name.

The even-worse-case scenario of "went to a conference and forgot I had my mic still on when I went to the bathroom, so everyone heard me calling the urinal a "thirsty boy". "

While useful, I would not want my device to be constantly pinging every device around it with wifi, bluetooth, or whatever other radio signal, on the off chance it might catch someone wearing the most groucho marx looking spyglasses on the planet when my own eyes can do that for me.

If not for the sake of my battery life, then for the same reason why I dont leave my bluetooth or wifi on- less avenues for people nearby to gain easy remote access to my device.

Human workers drag power cables all over construction sites. Why can’t a robot be built that’s smart enough to manage its own power cord? Power cord management seems simple compared to doing meaningful construction work.

I'm sure it seems simple from your desk

One thing: do you think that those power cables are permanently connected to the workers? Are you thinking about workers using extension cords for tools or the ones laying cable for the building, because it sure as fuck isn't simple to do either, which is why battery and petrol powered tools exist, and why the cableways are planned well in advance.

The wear and tear is a legitimate concern, but fixed industrial robots have been operating for many decades.

Only with maintenance and servicing by a human trained to see every potential flaw and monitor the equipment long term. Nothing, not even the most expensive equipment you can imagine, is without the need for regular maintenance.

You could have trade-specific robots. A drywall robot, a plumber robot, an electrician bot, etc. Each equipped only with those tools needed to complete just that trade. And instead of mechanical hands, they could simply be mounted.

Do you think that a construction site works the same way as a factory building cars? Just one long conveyors that shits out a fully built house? Workers move up, down and across the building dozens of times a day in a job doing multiple different jobs within their field, problem solving on the fly.