“Decentralizing” sounds great in theory, but in practice it’s often a mistake.

You can do the exact same thing with your internet connection (provided there is competition in your area). This isn’t restricted to TV service.

Download the app called GPS Status & Toolbox, throw your phone into airplane mode, walk outside and launch the app. You can watch it get a fix, including the number of satellites it can talk to.

This has nothing to do with what your long, incorrect post said. You said that the phone is incapable of getting a GPS fix.

I learned a new word today.

This is wildly incorrect.

Sorry, I lost track in the chain of who you were replying to. I thought you were replying to the parent comment. I agree with you.

How do you think GPS works?

That’s completely wrong.

I can see how it would be annoying, I just thought it was funny that it would make some people insane, and make some other people happy.

Funny, I love the sound of the cicadas. It’s such a warm weather sound to me.

Great response, this is something I’ve seen brought up a lot. “It can’t be secure if it’s always in your computer.”

Fair point, it’s just that we can’t effectively know what the percentages are. From a pure gut-level, it feels like I’m seeing a higher frequency of problems compared to what growth I’d expect.

Shame that there seem to be increasingly more problems renting through AirBnb. I must have stayed in 3 dozen AirBnbs over the course of a year of traveling, and the absolute worst experiences we had were nothing more than two stays with weird homeowners.

The idea that you can “de-identify” your DNA is laughable. There is literally no part of you that is more uniquely identifiable than your DNA, and as technology advances, DNA analysis will only become more specific and detailed. (edit: I know you talk about this in the article, I just think it’s worth reiterating)

I get it, but again, I don’t feel like I’m obligated to use a service just because someone gets paid to provide it.

Between work travel, and extensive personal travel, I have stayed in countless hotel rooms.

I’m sorry, but I can’t take on the obligation to raise everyone’s salary to a living wage.

I leave the DND sign up because I prefer they stay out. It’s not that I am hiding anything, I would just prefer they not come in, and I don’t need the service. I realize it’s not a legally binding contract. In all the many, many hotels I have stayed at, I have never come back to find my room clean when I left the DND…

I understand the sarcasm, I am objecting to that. I don’t see this as a stupid design at all; if you want a front-facing camera, at some point there needs to be space dedicated for it.