I would expect it would be some kind of landline unless it is far away from the front. A lot of people have gotten killed because they had a device that was transmitting that could be targeted by missiles and drones.
The Vulcans likely gave humans more than starcharts. I wouldn't be surprised if Vulcans also gave humans rather large databases of other languages. There are probably also algorithms for determining languages based on known samples.
For that one planet that Archer condemned a species to die while having an easily treatable disease with their technology, first contact likely started with the person getting them in a language that the universal translators could understand then running all verbal and text communication it could through Enterprise's computers to come up with a rough translation.
We know that the Universal Translator isn't perfect. ST:VI had the scene where Uhura had to speak in Klingon because the Universal Translator would be detected. TNG had the translator be worthless when a species spoke only in memes. DS9 also had the episode where the genetically augmented group gained insight by listening to Weyoun in Dominionese instead of translated to English.
Yeah. The tech industry is imploding as it switches from development to maintenance.
And this is a policy the actors' union went on strike for.
A raw number across the whole federation would be useless. Different instances have their own cultures, making a unified number worthless. People could also goose their numbers by creating an instance that gives their account unlimited karma.
Instance karma could be useful, but it is a design decision not to show it. I suspect that will continue until there is a need to use karma for moderation, but I suspect that defederation would be the lower lying fruit for now.
Karma has become a part of a measure to determine if an account is a human non-troll.
The first step in ban evasion is to create a new account and continue doing what you've done before. By requiring an account to be a certain age along with a certain amount of karma, it makes sure the account is less likely to be a ban evader.
They need to be easy to train, goal oriented, and loyal enough. I would imagine a lot of psychopaths go into the special forces because of the requirements.
As long as you only talk about making an organic twink farm, you're good.
This movie has Tom Hanks. But there is now a trained AI model that can make a very old Tom Hanks look younger. That same model could probably make someone who looks and sounds similar to Tom Hanks look and sound exactly like Tom Hanks.
I thought they went on strike to make sure the next Tom Hanks movie actually has Tom Hanks.
I get that a lot of billionaires support Trump because he's going to keep taxes low and kill regulations.
The government has been dysfunctional for a while.
Given that they could be food as well, probably more like a twink farm.