According to TFS, the company is losing money, but they're still fighting to hold onto it and would rather shut it down than sell it. This suggests that profit was never the main goal of its owners, and that propaganda or other intelligence gathering has always been its purpose.

...I can imagine that AI chatbots will provide perfect tech support, knowing every problem and every solution for complex technical issues
In the short term, stupid robots will read stupid scripts, just like the minimum wage workers they replace. Problems will go unsolved and customers will get angry
Unfortunately, it's all about money. Customers want accurate, useful answers. Companies want to reduce costs

The problem is that those "seems useful" results are likely paid advertising. No one is buying the newspapers and magazines to hire engineers/journalists to go find out information. So Google winds up promoting sites that look like journalism, but is likely fully advertiser supported somehow.

>"I don't see why Google gets away with this shit while Microsoft couldn't."

Because Google actually started with a good browser. Then they used it to take over and/or destroy all competition, except Firefox (which is trying to hang on). Ironically, it was Firefox that saved us from Microsoft taking over the web, and it might be Firefox that saves us again, this time from Google taking over the web. If it isn't too late.

There has been talk of introducing some sort of rules for compensation and things in Australia but the airlines have lobbied hard against it.

Any argument the airlines make that such a scheme will push up airfares is BS, the EU has had a scheme for years now and you can still get dirt cheap tickets on low-cost airlines like Ryanair.

>" Google did not outline a more specific timetable beyond hoping for 2025."

Meanwhile, Firefox ended 3rd party cookies (by default) more than 4.5 years ago.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/pr...

Why? Because they actually *do* care about privacy (and security, and choice, and open standards). And unlike Chrom*/Google, they don't have a major conflict of interest about it.

That is exactly what this is. An Ad platform. They are just trying to disguise it with a little content.

Not on my phone, no way.

Which part of it? If you're talking about the fighting, he's kept himself in shape but she's regularly training in martial arts and learning new styles and techniques. If memory serves, she used three different styles in that fight and was getting a fourth ready when he tried to escape.

They were watching Water Boy at the same time and after they heard "they Could" they heard "You can DO it!" So they did,

(Food sizes also seem weird to me no matter what. Why do tomatoes come in 28 ounce cans? Who decided that was a good quantity? There's probably some interesting history there.)

I'm only guessing, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if it had to do with filling boxes of a certain standardized size. They made the cans so that they got a convenient number into the box and then checked to see how much they held.

That is every religionist's favourite fantasy and it does not survive contact with reality. I've had a major near death experience, it did nothing at all to convince me of the existence of god.

I think you've slightly misunderstood that quote. It doesn't say that atheists stop being atheists in foxholes and stay that way afterwords. It only claims that they start believing in someone who might keep them safe while in the foxhole but says nothing about how or if they believe later.

,,,that some people are crazy
There are LOTS of more useful routes, but they chose this one

It doesn't matter how painful, no ransom should be paid. That is the ONLY way to take away the main motive to attack.

That said, it doesn't mean security isn't just as important, because attacks can also be motivated by politics or just mischief as well.

I would be one who supports laws preventing such payments. And no bailouts either- the corporation should be allowed to fail and all the stockholders will get shafted. And that is the other deterrence- pay now for security and make it count, lest you run the risk of losing everything later.

>"I know there are limits, but when we know the power is out, we could avoid certain activities such as doing laundry (unless everything else is off)."

Without a massive battery, you won't be doing much of anything for the majority of each 24 hour day :)

My generator is only 6KW with no load shedding, so I know how to play the power budget game, myself. It is enough to run the central AC, frig, lights (all LED), computer/router/modem/monitor/tv/TiVo, microwave. Have to plan a bit if I want to do too much else.

>"Those are noisy and smelly."

Noisy for damn sure. At least mine is... very annoying. Especially since it is in the attached garage (with exhaust insulated plumbed to outside, exhaust fan, and with heat shields). And it is all manual.

Smelly, not so much, at least not gasoline or natgas.

Traditionally the poor and homeless gets sent to a new colony. So send them to Mars.