Wong Kim Ark was itself a baffling decision imho. I read through it once. It seemed to me that it should have been 1 sentence, “Constitution says citizen, therefore he legally is one”. Instead it went through dozens of pages of nuanced and somewhat precarious reasoning to reach the same conclusion.
That the current SCOTUS took this case at all made it sound like they were inclined to overturn Wong Kim Ark, and decide that the Constitution really didn’t mean what it said.
I see, like putting the person on speaker phone. Not nice, but thanks!
I didn’t hear a mention of this watch being usable for phone calls but if that’s in the cards, then I guess that’s a legitimate application, though I don’t see how it would work. You hold your wrist up to your ear? Sounds painful. Is it somehow better than using an earbud? If you don’t want to walk around wearing an earbud like a Borg when you’re not on a call, maybe they could put an earbud holder onto the watchband. The watch could be shaped to accomodate the earbud and maybe even recharge it, if it’s shaped like an Airpod.
There’s a whole book about this, written (wow) all the way back in 1996. The Challenger Launch Decision, by Diane Vaughan. Technically a different incident, but it sounds like history repeats.
Yes and it’s a constant issue, and there is tons of security stuff in the phone to deal with the mic’s presence. I’ve elsewhere suggested making phones with no mics, so if you want to make a voice phone call you have to use an external mic. At least the phone has an important application that uses the mic.
The mic in this watch seems to have been added to the hardware just because they could. But as they say, just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
This is about a watch, not a phone. It looks like they added the mic as an afterthought.
The crappy old Casio that I use now has no microphone and no wireless comms. Just an LCD and some pushbuttons.
Ugh, it has a microphone. Eavesdropping malware incoming. And it’s another big clonky smartwatch.
It’s nice that it has a blood oxygen sensor I guess. And there’s a 6d accelerometer. I don’t see mention of a temperature sensor either, though with the wireless connectivity and presumed frequent recharging, I guess you can keep correcting the time.
I still like the Sensorwatch (sensorwatch.net) better. Much more modest, smaller, etc. Runs for a year on a coin cell, has a temperature sensor which can used to correct the oscillator and give timing accuracy to within a few seconds a year, and other cool stuff.
Nice but doesn’t sound self hosted.
2016 at this time of night? Probably typing on a computer.
Now? Typing on a computer.
This looks AI, or at least blithering.
deleted by creator
deleted by creator
I have one, I like it, it can run corded power tools fans and stuff like that. I’m trying to avoid cordless tools except for a few important ones, because their batteries are a scam. The power station also = free electricity if I charge from solar panels, though I’m not yet doing that.
What is going on with you? Anyway, if you want to try self-hosting on a VPS, make an account on lowendspirit.com and hang out there for a while. There are lots of offers for free or ridiculously cheap VPS there. Like this starts at 25 cents per month ($3 per year):
Open a thread there saying what you’re trying to do, and ask for hosting and for technical help if you need that.
Just use a text editor. I use Emacs org files but that’s just me.
I guess I don’t understand the issues you think you’re facing with straightforward approaches. You probably don’t want it on an internet server, right? Maybe just scrounge an old laptop with no internet connection and set it up with an encrypted disk. Then use it as your journalling box. So you’re fairly safe from network attacks. You might have to worry about someone snagging the laptop itself and recovering the key somehow. Yes there are approaches you can take to mitigate that. I don’t know of any super simple ready made methods though.
This type of story tends to result in a plea deal or no charges or just civil litigation. I didn’t read the whole wall of text but I assume it’s all hypothetical. If it’s a real case that you’re involved with, you need a real lawyer. If it’s real and you’re uninvolved, it’s lurid enough to probably play out in the news, so you can follow it there.
In principle, what a person intended is a factual question and as such can be decided by a jury. But as you say, making the case can be hard.
The main point that will convince them is the decimal point in your donation check. There needs to be at least 5 or 6 digits to the left of it.
These are services, nothing to do with source code, and most don’t release theirs.