Now they just need to make the standard overbooking illegal. "But we need to overbook so we can break even" No mate, you need to charge fares that break even without fraudulently selling seats that are already reserved. "But then we'll be running below capacity when people don't show" Right, mate. But those no-shows have *paid* for the seat they aren't occupying. See previous answer and don't or rebook refund no-shows. "But then air travel will be more expensive." Oh, such a tragedy that passengers pay the real cost of air transport.[1]

[1] I'm pretty sure airports themselves are subsidized and I'm not necessarily arguing for that to change. But the cost of carriage on the vehicle itself is a different matter (fuel, staffing, etc.).

You underestimate how common abusive clauses are in employment contracts. From blanket intellectual property assignments (even stuff done on personal time) to unpaid noncompete periods after termination, these are distressingly common.

Good. Finally someone going after them for it. I hope they lose *hard*. When I went through that process, I ended up getting very rude by the end of it. Very rude. One or maybe two retention offers and I will hold that in check because the person on the phone isn't responsible for the script they have to follow. But There is a line after which my patience no longer exists. My experience was made worse by the person on the other end of the phone having barely intelligible English.

That's actually legal in the land of the "free"? Wow. Of course, even if it isn't actually legal, the people most affected by it don't have the knowledge or means to fight it and even if they do, by some chance, actually fight it, the system is almost certainly rigged against them.

That the woman was diagnosed with dehydration after she was released might be a bigger headache for the police than the arrest itself. They have a duty of care once they take someone into custody and that diagnosis would seem to suggest they did not take that duty seriously.

Considering the "smart" bits are all basically garbage tier software that almost works some of the time, I doubt they'll get much more traction, either. And calling some of the "apps" from "smart" device makers "garbage tier" is insulting to garbage.

How about we focus on computer literacy. As in, knowing how to actually use a computer including basic troubleshooting? And while we're at it, focus back on basic literacy and numeracy.

I've been saying for many years that the path we've been taking for computer vision, natural language processing, and other things, has been wrong. But I don't mean wrong in the sense that the direction we've been going is not useful. Rather, I mean that we do a lot more then edge detection, pattern matching, and the like. Because we can understand not only the semantics of specific words, but how they relate to the real world and our experiences, we can apply a layer of error detection and correction that pattern matching scheme, however elaborate, cannot. And that's leaving aside the actual meaning of the words themselves which is often contradictory without context (and even with context sometimes). It seems clear to me that multiple techniques working in tandem will be required to accomplish the end goal. A similar analysis applies to vision (like autonomous cars would need), etc.

It's obviously possible to build a reasonably low powered device that is reasonably portable that can decode natural language (and vision and a lot of other things). There are, after all, billions of biological ones already on the planet. We just need to work out how we manage it in the first place.

Presumably showing that they purchased sufficient tuna from suppliers would be enough to shift the complaint to their supplier(s) if there is even any claim left. Especially when combined with the deleterious effect cooking and canning have on DNA, the very limited sample size that was tested, and the non-lab conditions before getting to the lab for testing.

They're obviously doing this so they can get revenue from non-Tesla EV owners. There may also be other benefits to doing so (subsidies or other possible benefits).

I suspect they were planning to do this at some point anyway. Because revenue.

Of course they aren't definitively stating that *unidentified* things are not X, Y, or Z. There are good reasons not to do that, not least of which is the sheer number of things that any given unidentified object isn't. But also different unidentified or unknown things can have different causes. It's far more productive to focus on identifying what something is rather than enumerating what it isn't. Though, of course, ruling out some causes can help with identifying the real cause. But, again, that has to be on a case by case basis. Not all events will be caused by the same thing. However, unless you can definitively identify something as terrestrial in origin, it still could be extra-terrestrial (which includes meteors and the like, not just aliens, by the way).

Seems like turning this on without active consent may turn out to be illegal in at least some jurisdictions. (Might even qualify as theft depending on the specific laws in effect.) And, for that matter, it may even violate the terms of service from the device owner's ISP and lead to them having their internet disconnected. And then there's the liability quagmire for some random passerby or neighbor doing something illegal on the device owner's internet connection. I'm kind of hoping Amazon gets a major legal black eye on this one.

Note that I'm not saying their sidewalk network idea itself is the problem. It's the notion of enabling it by default that is.

As I said, *one* of the major drivers. But increased consumption also has limits. Again. Perpetual growth is literally impossible. (And, no, inflation is *not* real growth.)

Not directly, no. But the current system is predicated on perpetual growth. One of the major drivers of that growth over the past few centuries is population growth. (Others include industrialization and colonialism, both of which have obvious limits.)

Any time you see someone talking about "sustainable growth", you know they either don't understand what that means, don't understand how exponential functions work, or have a vested interest in the current system. (Perpetual growth is impossible, no matter what that growth rate is, and no matter what an economist tells you.)

There are reasons you might need (or want I suppose) globally unique IP addresses while not publishing said IP addresses to the global public internet. An operation on the scale of the US Department of Defense would easily find itself in such a situation. If you have private interconnections with multiple third party organizations (which may be other government agencies, even), private address space is not sufficient. Eventually you either run out of private address space or it becomes impossible to coordinate uniqueness among all interconnecting parties. Globally unique IP addresses as obtained through ARIN or its siblings or predecessors solves that problem. This is one of the ways you can trigger the "routing policy differs from upstream providers" thing in the allocation rules. So even if the DoD allocations didn't predate the current allocation rules, the lack of advertisement to the public internet doesn't mean they weren't using them under the definitions of current policy.

I can think of one good reason they might be announing the addresses now. There are idiot[1] network operators (of various sizes) who have chosen to use portions of the DoD allocations as "private" addresses on their networks. As soon as they do that, it means that anyone on a DoD network who has been assigned one of those addresses will have trouble accessing resources on other networks who have used DoD space as private addresses. By announcing the space, they are firing a shot across the bow of any organization dumb[1] enough to be using the DoD address space within their network.

Of course, they may also simply be "cleaning" the addresses in preparation for transferring to other entities (government or otherwise) or they may be planning to use the addresses publicly or some combination of both. Announcing the addresses allows identifying a lot of the problems.

[1] Yes, I do mean idiot and dumb.