Well, the summary was a bit obscure. Was the espionage just spreading information or was it sabotaging it? Either or both are possible.

KDE3 was better an Mate. But that, like gnome2, got updated out of existence. KDE4 had promise at first, but they kept fiddling with it until it didn't. So I, also, use Mate thes edays.

Moving away from China will be a period of disruption, to be sure. But well worth it in the long run. China is an enemy country that must be defeated. We can't do that if we're dependent on them. It's a bitter pill to wallow since this is what Trump wanted, but it's a shit sandwich and we've all got to take a bite. All of us who buy made in China because it's cheaper are at fault.

But that's a valid point, as it openly demonstrated intent. It also facilitates induction of those without much prior intent.

OTOH, I suspect that the "prior intent" is there for practically all teen-aged boys.

When do you see human drivers being trustworthy?

I've evaluated my skills as a driver, and over a decade ago I decided that they were not sufficient. I also thought myself a better driver than I think most other people. (I'm sure my skills have declined since I stopped driving.)

If you are really only claiming that AI drivers won't be trustworthy, then I agree. But who bears the risk? And in many situations they are already more trustworthy than many human drivers that consider themselves capable. (Yeah "many situations" isn't sufficient. A driving episode encompasses a huge number of situations.)

You can make money on the stock in more ways than dividends. For example, Alphabet is also buying back stock. People who invested at a lower stock price and now sell back at the higher have made money. Normally, buybacks tend to concentrate control of a company into fewer hands, but, since these are already non-voting stock, in this case, it doesn't change this.

Yes, but this whole story is about the USA, where only 43% of the population even have a passport (and don't have access to something like the Schengen Zone).

That's not clear. One of the big problems with EVs is the ability to charge them. Lots of people don't have any way to do this at home, and the away-from-home chargers are often iffy either in access or availability. (Reports say they are often broken.)

FWIW, I won't be interested in a new car until full-automatic driving is included. So my observation of the market is a bit sketchy. But if I were to buy an EV I'd have no reliable place to charge it.

I wouldn't wager much that your last paragraph is correct. Apple is a large corporation, and different pieces of it don't necessarily talk to each other. This may have been a decision that the marketing department made without checking with legal.

Apple being in the music business breaks the court agreement that they made with the Beatles. Of course, that's probably expired by now, but they didn't wait for that to break the agreement.

I'm not at all sure it's beyond the limits of the technology, but I rather expect that properly training it would be more expensive than the call center.

Are automated agents worse than someone who only reads from a script?

... if you are on an international flight.

The restrictions include several kinds of content that are illegal in the US, including sexualized depictions of minors and bestiality

Neither of those things are illegal in the United States; the First Amendment strongly protects fiction and art. The reason why Pixiv is geoblocking this stuff is not because of US law, but because of Visa and Mastercard.

Rob

You're correct, but I was thinking of more than one model. My first thought was actually the Komodo dragon style, but that's too big. So on light flyer and a larger ground model Nothing in paleontology actually looks like a wyvern, but I was aiming in that direction.