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If your human bus driver crashes you place all the blame on that guy, fire him and move on with your business. If your AI that is used to drive every vehicle your fleet screws up y…

> Can someone explain to me why, over time, democratic states tend to drift into mass surveillance ? Democracy, even a flawed democracy leaves the status quo power structure vulner…

I'm not sure they really can leave whenever they want. I think once you're far down the education track you will probably feel like you're trapped into continuing even if you decid…

It is like when you start listing the insane things the CIA actually provably did and still end up looking crazy.

They'll just say it is a bug when it is turned on.

Not to mention all the dark pattern lying nag dialogs that will trick you into turning it on, or just wear you down.

Valve basically tried the later approach with the initial Steam for linux push which included steam machines and the steam controller. It did have some level of initial success but…

I honestly think the problem can't really be solved because of the adversarial relationships involved. But if there was more than one search engine with significant marketshare may…

You can just tax tires. And collecting the tax has the added incentives of being much easier to administer and not privacy invading.

The Delorean was chosen because it's horrendous 0-60 times made the acceleration to 88mph a believably difficult to achieve goal for the protagonist.

Copilot still tells me I've commit a content policy violation of I ask it to generate an image "in Tim Burton's style". Tim Burton has been openly critical of generative AI.

Real great gag from the company that hasn't had a reliable local file search since Windows XP.

Do they not numb you up for this?

> BTW I think I heard about some motherboard which had two AGP slots, but the second one was AGP only physically/electrically, running over a standard PCI bus. But maybe my brain i…

Microsoft once sued a high school kid named Mike Rowe for trademark infringement for having a website mikerowesoft.com so anything is possible.

I can understand his feelings somewhat since it seems electric cars spearheaded this malicious idiocy but rest assured it is already here for ICEs and getting worse. Rejecting elec…

I believe he's talking more about external 2.5" drives. Their low power usage means they can be run off a port with no need for an annoying wallwart. SSDs are definitely encroachin…

Is there anything stopping an employer from pretesting you to avoid adding a potentially expensive employee to their roster?

Not recently but I recall an intersection where I used to let my car roll back down the hill a bit in neutral if no one was behind me to quickly trigger the light. I didn't underst…

You could use Workstation Pro to directly assess VMs running on an ESXi server, so maybe the idea is to make company's more dependent upon the central infrastructure where they can…

I think their ability to remain functional indefinitely in populated enemy territory without a support network and increased attack range are the broader implications here. But yea…

And 10 years from now when it fails it will be a $1200 repair.

I have a Subaru Outback and the back up camera is basically useless during the winter. I'll clean it before I leave in the morning and it will be covered in filth the next time I p…

I bought one of those well reviewed mirror dash cameras and it replaced the center rear view mirror. I hated it and returned it because this extra visual burden and couldn't unders…

There's usually an attack defense asymmetry of effort on these things (attackers only need to win once whereas defenders need to always be right) so I can't really see it being any…