While it is popularly felt that Issac Asimov was writing Science Fiction with his robot stories, I posit that he was actually writing Locked Room Mysteries. You know the kind. The murder victim is in a locked room with no windows and only one door locked from the inside -- how was he murdered?

These "famous" laws seemed to say that Nothing Could Possibly Go Wrong.
And then he broke those laws in virtually every story.

Fun fun reading.
But as a basis for building robots to coexist with us safely, not thinking that this is the plain vanilla approach that I'd use.

If anything, however, I'd say that Asimov's Laws, or something similar, would provide the basis for a Robot Moral Code -- which would be a very good idea for robots to have.
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"It is impossible to be for Free Speech and Political Correctness at the same time without a healthy dose of Cognitive Dissonance."

...it's a small fraction when compared to the climate impact of beef and lamb.

So now we know.

The cows and sheep are the ones killing the planet.

And we should punish them for this by killing and eating them.

So let me get this straight:

The local ISPs are complaining that they won't be able to continue getting customer data for sales and advertising purposes now because Google is getting the customer data for sales and advertising purposes.

Seems to me that I'm being left out on wanting Nobody getting my data for sales and advertising purposes.

Am I missing anything here?

It seems today that Facebook today is claiming First Amendment protection AS A PUBLISHER as a defense against a case brought by Laura Loomer.

You can't have it both ways, Facebook, and if you're a Publisher you lose that Section 230 immunity.

Do you left-hand lawyers know what your right-hand lawyers are doing?

I think we just found the true cause of agoraphobia.

My last Amazon Prime order was given Free Same Day delivery.
Of course they're tricky here. They tell you that Free Same Day is available, but both 1-Click and regular shopping cart defaulted to 1-day. You can't use 1-Click because you can't change it, and in the regular shopping cart you have to select it before confirming your order -- but it's there on selected items in selected cities.

This sounds like the beginning version of the regrowth technology that the revered Robert A. Heinlein wrote about in The Door Into Summer.
He was only talking about this in 1956.

So now anyone with this database knows just which phone number to "borrow" to take over an account with 2FA enabled.
This means that 2FA has just been rendered moot to anyone able to break into your account primary password/security questions/linked e-mail account.
Sweet!

While I think that it sounds like a great keyboard, it's 5 years old.
What is Amazon building and selling now? And how does it fare?

Well, the Greek Gods did live interesting lusty lives.

Must be all of those Alexa smart speakers and their ilk given as Christmas gifts.
[Raise Hand] That's how we got ours this year.

I'm left to wonder if some words are A LOT more common in word-oriented passwords than others.
Common words compared to exotic, more likely to misspell words.
Short words, instead of long to type words.
I would expect this to make guessing word-passwords even easier.
Most places I've seen say that 8-11 random characters isn't secure anymore against modern hardware and weak, fast, non-salted hashing.
Even rainbow tables seem to handle ever longer passwords. Not quickly, but over the years they've added more length.
Or am I just being too paranoid?

What I truly don't understand is why the 3-word password is considered so safe?
Yes, it can be pretty long in characters, while still easy to remember.
But in another sense, it's a 3-character password from a set of maybe 300K "characters"
If I'm not being clear on what I mean, I'm saying that if my password is: doggoatpig, you can say that's a 10-character password and fairly hard to brute force.
But it's also just 3 words out of a universe of 300K words, which is a pretty small universe.
And what 3-character password is safe?
And while I didn't see it mentioned here, dictionary attacks and phrase attacks using every phrase that can be mined on the Internet are in use by advanced Crackers.
It just doesn't feel all that secure to me.

You say "regressive tax" as though that is somehow morally wrong and shocks the conscience of the Universe. You might choose a cutoff that income tax starts on all income above a basic subsistence rate, but there is no absolute moral authority stating "regressive tax bad, progressive tax good." Besides, many low income people currently pay no income taxes at all. Even if they paid a pittance and had some skin in the game they might start taking a much greater interest in how their tax monies were being spent -- which would be a Good Thing.