Everything is, or will be, drive by wire. That's pretty much where the automotive world is going. And with software, you never know. What happens if some bit flips by mistake?

When a dealer does it the car is in a controlled location. OTA updates = no control. So adding some constraints to the process is reasonable.

Asbestos in and of itself isn't really an issue. It's manly a problem when it gets turned into dust and gets sucked into your lungs. That won't happen if the ship is at the bottom of the ocean.

Breaking the ship on land is more likely to cause asbestos-related problems than sinking it.

Not sure what the environmentalist guy is whining about. Would he rather have a few hundred people breaking the ship into small pieces on land, causing all kinds of land-based disposal issues?

Ignore the whiny New Yorkers. They are, for the most part, irrelevant, like online commenters.

"The food here sucks." - a NY'er who somehow made it to Valhalla.

These guys are basically fear mongers. In the West there's no safer time than today, period.

This is a common misunderstanding by people that are at the bottom of the food chain.

In most large organizations the C-level people set the direction and goals, not how to implement those goals. That's VP/Director level stuff and below.

It's always amazing that school districts can waste time and money on this sort of useless crap.

Google disabled RCS support in India because users were overwhelmed with rich content spam from business. Google wants that to happen to iOS devices too, which is why they keep pushing it.

Thanks, google.

"[Android] operates as a sophisticated surveillance tool"

FTFY

In other news, people are still using Oracle databases.

China's problem, when it comes to intelligence, is that they're not used to getting unfiltered data. For them, it's unclear how to weigh data since they tend to believe in the extremes (ie: authority or rumor).

We need to provide moths et al starglasses - small polarized lenses that block out "skyglow." That'll solve it!

What the people involved are ignoring is that his actions were probably within the law.

This policy was proposed under the Trump administration, and was fought by academia and industry both. Thanks Biden for finalizing the rules and finishing the job.

Any republic that elects jar jar binks to the senate is one worth destroying.

It's hard to get data out of AWS because there's a lot of it.

AWS doesn't prevent you from getting your data. I'm not sure what you're smoking, but you're totally wrong.

The problem is that if you have tons of data moving it is hard. They have snowballs that you can get to move stuff on-site, but then you obviously have to work at getting the data off the snowball.

TL;DR: I don't know what the fuck this guy is talking about.