Plus, the way a lot of modern cars are put together, it costs $750 in labor to disassemble/reassemble everything that needs to come apart just to get to the damned $40 part that needs replacing.

I doubt that the engineers who choose AI chips are going to be influenced by the name. Artsy types might be, but they aren't the ones designing computers.

Prosecution will be slow and by the time they get a conviction the money may have been spent. Shaming people sounds like a good strategy for getting money back quickly.

"You might like this too!" is about the only thing streaming offers these days. I have my easynews, RADARR/SONARR NZBgeek, etc along with my subscriptions. Lemme count what I have... Netflix HBOMax Amazon (but came with prime so...) Hulu Disney Peacock I might have some others, but at this point I'm really starting to not see the value of paying over $100@mo for streaming channels which at this point don't have much I want to watch, or in the case of Amazon/Hulu I have to pay an extra $5@mo to not have commercials. I can give my relatives access to my plex, so Disney can fsck off.

Now that we know how memories are formed, there is no magical "soul" that exits your body with all of your memories are intact. Your memories are something that can be written, or erased. It won't happen in my lifetime, but I'd love to be around to see where this goes. A persons entire brain backed up, reprinted and reinstalled. Bad memories erased entirely, the implications for how this can help deal with the worse of trauma's is nothing short of amazing.

Anyone outside of the US should review bomb them, and hope that the Streisand effect takes over from there. The Internet makes us a global community now, and this displeases me greatly, and hopefully displeases others.

I actually used my phone as part of my HVAC system. The system has a Bluetooth service interface, so it was helpful to see if it had a clogged condensate line or other issue that I could take care of quickly. Unfortunately my login appears to not work anymore after an update, and I suspect the manufacturer has started cracking down to limit the use of the app by DIYers.

You don't even need to involve iCloud at all - you could include a printed TOTP secret that's associated with the device and will work with any TOTP app to generate a credential when needed, and don't be dumb enough to keep the secret anywhere on the device itself or in its bag/case. The pairing software will ask for a credential, and you give it when needed. Or you could provide the key as a YubiKey-like device, but that too would need to be kept separate from the phone/computer. Recyclers could pay a bonus for devices with a working key to encourage folks not to lose it.

This is just off the top of my head, and obviously the idea would need to be fleshed out, but the point is that there's no reason to make it a requirement that the manufacturer be involved anytime a device needs to be repaired while still maintaining a reasonable degree of anti-theft protection.

I think if you could sue the officers personally instead of making the taxpayers foot the bill we might see some changes.

Or just treat law enforcement like a lot of other professions, and make a current professional liability insurance policy a requirement to keep their LE certification. Eventually, the problem children will accrue enough claims to make them uninsurable, which also fixes the "resign and go to another agency" problem that's way too common. I too would prefer to see an end to qualified immunity as it currently exists, but the insurance angle would probably be easier to implement while remaining fairly effective in weeding out those who abuse their authority.

In addition to the privacy issues, I don't see how this helps the investigation. It makes sense to track people viewing something like child porn, or perhaps videos advocating terrorism, but how does tracking the viewing of innocuous videos unrelated to the alleged crimes help? This would seem to be pointless or at best very inefficient. (If the answer is in the Forbes article, it is pay-walled.)

But why do these devices accept wireless input at all? If their job is logging, they just need to record data and have some means of off-loading it. That could be via a physical connection, but even if for some reason a wireless readout is required, there should be no need for it to accept wireless input.

Here in San Jose CA, we have a development called "Communications Hill" which is a big mound of asbestos. https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home... In our infinite wisdom we decided the best course of action would be to scrape the foliage and topsoil off to build homes! The dust and asbestos that's kicked up rains all over south San Jose.

There's embellishing and then there's outright lying.

This is informative. I'd mod it up if I could.

I don't know why this is modded down. This is an important fact.