Yeah it was a middle school thing in Finland too, at least in the 90's.
I did an exchange year in the US in my 2nd high school year, and I was honestly a bit surprised at how… well, simple it all was. I was a senior in the US and I'd learned just about everything they taught that wasn't specific to the US or the English language (and even some of those…) either in my 1st year in high school or in middle school.
Oh yeah it's obviously a shit idea, but that generally doesn't stop executives when they think there's money to be made – considering how eg. YouTube's trying to stop you from blocking ads and will apparently start showing ads when videos are paused, requiring attention seems like a logical next step to drive that CPM up to fund the CEO's new yacht
But they haven't released a TV with that feature yet though, and if I remember right that patent's fairly old – something like 10–15 years.
Wonder what's kept them from actually doing it. Maybe even Sony suits understood it'd be a fucking disaster from a marketing perspective?
Edit: the patent was filed in 2009
I'm actually somewhat surprised that "smart" TVs and phones don't already have attention-aware ads
YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO, YOU'RE NOT EVEN MY REAL DAD
Yeah, although without the cool space station and cyberpunk-ish tech. I doubt we'll get that far.
we aren’t going to science up a magic bullet to save us from the epically irresponsible actions of our epically irresponsible species.
In-fuckin-deed. All the talk about "carbon capture" schemes makes my skin crawl.
Well it's either that or delusional parasitosis that makes my skin crawl, but anyhow.
won’t stop until they […] are physically stopped by something like climate change
Ah I see you're an optimist.
While the network service is designed to only accept commands that start with “wl” or “nvram get,” ONEKEY found that the restriction could be trivially bypassed by injecting a command after shell meta-characters like ; , & , or, | (e.g., “wl;id;”).
Whenever I feel like I'm a terrible programmer, I remind myself that there are vast amounts of confident coders out there being paid for code with idiotic mistakes like this and they have no intention of getting any better at it
It's the step between primary and secondary school that a lot of countries have, also known as intermediate school, junior high school, junior secondary school, or lower secondary school: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_school