Putting exploding dye packs in cash deliveries has been done for some time, and no cash transport van robber has successfully complained about being involuntarily recoloured when they tried to count their ill-gotten loot.
I doubt dye packs in other packages that are stolen would face any more legal barriers.
The dye is not harmful.
ER docs don't have to work weeks AND weekends - whether they're men or women.
The usual sequence of events for Cisco hardcoded credentials is:
There are several of these running concurrently, so Cisco can release a new fixed-password vulnerability every few months. Back when the dot-com acquisition rate was higher, they did it more often.
... just a line item in the annual accounts. No significant penalty, no change to how they behave.
This sounds like actually useful AI - maybe.
The AI chatbots that make up random stuff when they don't know the answer, like some bullshitter down the pub or a verbally incontinent politician, are not useful. Unless you are interested in randomly fabricated lies mixed with truth, which almost no-one is, they are pointless. Even propagandists, marketers, etc, want some chosen lies mixed with the truth. There's no point in having propaganda about your Glorious Leader that randomly adds untrue good things and untrue bad things about him. You just want untrue good things.
AI systems that summarise existing information, and don't try to make things up when they don't know, are much more useful. Zoom taking a transcript of a meeting and working out what the major topics were and any decisions stated explicitly in the meeting would be incredibly useful.
Remember the Librarian in Snow Crash, our science-fiction prototype for all this: it cannot guess what people are thinking, it cannot make leaps of intuition, and it resists speculation on such matters because it cannot know if what it is guessing is true. That is a useful AI to help humans process information.
Where I live, electricity is about four times as expensive as gas - so replacing gas heating with electrical heat pumps that use half as much electrical energy as the gas boiler uses gas energy will result in paying twice as much for energy overall.
Not everyone can afford to spend that and few want to.
Fortunately it is not usually cold enough that the heat pump works at only 2x efficiency - 3x-4x is more typical - but we need more than 4x to avoid spending more on energy than we do already.
So what's their suggested way to solve the problem of educating people when classrooms are a hub for disease transmission (which they always are) and the disease being transmitted is very dangerous?
More importantly: what's their suggested way to solve the problem knowing only what they did, and having only the resources available, in March 2020?
Apple will describe it as a major win for customers.
... and they will be correct.
And it's customers we should care about, not whatever Apple wants to do.
India has an excess male population problem without any one-child policies, and China continues to have a male-skewed birth rate as well as a very low birth rate.
The reasons are much more deeply embedded in society (both Indian and Chinese), and are because of deeply embedded sexism and patriarchy in society. Until women have near-equal cultural status, social power, and economic power, male children will continue to be preferred.
One of my local newspapers, established for over a century, got rid of nearly all its journalists a few years ago and now most of the stories are about as well-written as a ChatGPT response. Writing the entire thing by AI wouldn't make it much worse, because it was ruined already.
Fortunately another company that does local newspapers started up another newspaper covering the area shortly after the incumbent paper was enshittified, with actual journalism - news, analysis, even some breaking stories - and I'd prefer that one didn't become AI drivel. I subscribe to that one, in the hope that they will see revenue and not turn to shit.
Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes has a curious definition of "inflexible". Nuclear power is actually flexible - it is dispatchable, meaning you can turn it on and off when you want. You can't turn on a solar power station at night, or a wind turbine when the wind speed is low. It is not dispatchable, and it is inflexible.
This is not the first time I've seen a German energy expert in complete reality denial about nuclear power. I have had personal discussions with several German energy experts and their blanket refusal to consider nuclear energy anything other than impossible and non-existent is incredible. They don't live in the real world.
In practice they would rather sustain or even increase carbon emissions - by burning gas and coal, especially lignite - than use all available zero-carbon energy sources. Debating with these people is no use, as they do not debate rationally. Instead, they must be bypassed.
most reported UAPs are round, either white, silver or translucent, spotted at around 10,000 to 30,000 feet, 1-4 meters in size, and do not emit thermal exhaust
I.e. they are balloons, most likely meteorological balloons, of mundane terrestrial origin.
After watching "The Big Short" I have every faith that these people know exactly what they are doing - defrauding others.
You can hide your light under a cow too, so I think the cow and the bushel are probably about the same.
The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine
