Since being a small child I always thought this was the planet of the ants.

On an ant related theme there's also a great Philip K. Dick short story called "Expendable" which is well worth a read. Decent synopsis at https://philipkdickreview.word....

Story itself also at http://sickmyduck.narod.ru/pkd... (n.b. ".ru" domain, so take precautions etc.)

And your boobies.

> Our mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful is sacrosanct

I'm sure that was actually:

"Our mission to hoard the world's information, monopolise, and monetise it is sacrosanct"

I had a coworker who did actually use "********" as their password. This was a long time on a non important sysetm but... made me LOL at the time !

“If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.” - Cardinal Richelieu.

Shows how sick the American mindset is. My family's half Swedish and no-one bats an eyelid at nudity. I think every member of the family has appeared nude in photos at all sorts of ages. I've got pictures of me as a baby sitting naked on a setee next to my dad's Playboy magazine, sitting on a tractor with no pants on, in the bath with my mum etc. etc. I was just one of those kids who liked to go sky clad :)

Us Europeans have the totally amazing ability to seperate the act of being nude with the act of having sex. Mainly because we don't live in a totally repressed culture like the US where the mere sight of a ladies "babies bar" will cause a societal meltdown.

It's almost like there's a conspiracy to make you all so repressed you can use the merest hint of getting sex to sell more product :)~

If the problem is that the signal from the actual fob is being relayed to the car then why not have a simple on/off button/switch on the fob ?

Or, if that's too much effort for modern lazy people, also supply a nicely logoed container/pouch which the fob should be placed in after use which acts as a faraday cage and blocks all signals to/from it ?

Seems like a steering wheel lock should be mandatory for "smart" (dumb) cars too !

"Smart" quotes prove the rule.

If something has the word "smart" put in front of it, this is pretty much a guarantee that the thing being decribed is dumb as a rock, badly programmed, over complicated, unnecessary, security free shite. More often than not also a solution looking for a problem.

I just mentally replace the word "smart" with "shite" these days.

When my old "non-smart" TV failed and couldn't be economically repaired I bought an Iiyama signange display (4k resolution, loads of inputs) and hooked it up to a mini-itx machine running Linux, MythTV, Mopidy, VLC etc. etc. (audio goes to a hi-fi amp). This setup's been working fine for years, the picture is excellent, the sounds excellent, no-ones snooping on me, and I can watch pretty much anything TV/film related that either comes over air, via the internet or on an optical disk/other media - if it comes from the internet it's also pretty much ad-free thanks to Pi-Hole.

"Smart" TVs are a pile of shit. Forced ads, forced telemetery, forced obsolesence, (cr)apps that stop working after a week etc. etc. etc. No thanks.

The wider issue is that the whole system of copyright/patents/"intellectual property" etc. was introduced in a world where a physical copy of some sort was required to transfer information (book, paper, tape, vinyl disc, optical disk, clay tablet, wax cylinder etc. etc.). We no longer live in that world.

We now live in a world where any information that is stored digitally can be immediately replicated any number of times. At will. So the whole system of copyright and "intellectual property" is no longer fit for purpose and is unenforcable. You can sit making rules & laws until the end of time but in the mantime the information will be freely flowing regardless.

The only solution is a complete overhaul of the whole economic/financial system in relation to ideas/knowledge. Which leads on to the wider question of how access to resources should be controlled within a modern society ? As the current fiat monetary system isn't working either (unless you're one of the few that are gatekeepers to fiat currency creation !).
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If you've got stuff worth stealing and want actual security you should invest in geese and dogs. Geese to raise the alarm and well trained dogs to deal with intruders (get them on the floor then hold them by the throat)

Unless you've got access to government level funding no technology whatsosver will be anything more than a light deterrent.

Luckily I have next to nothing worth stealing so I make do with a couple of old cats :)

That sport should be named to "American Throwball". The other sport shold be renamed to "Kickball".

All they have in common is they're both a load of boring old crap specifically designed to keep the easily amused entertained :)

> Forget to hand over a critical document or system to someone that needs it overnight
> disappear after making a breaking change and then not answer your calls

No changes whatsoever should be anywhere near production until they've been throughly tested by independent testing teams and all work has been signed off. This includes production/securing of all documentation, all code and anything else that's required.

If you're a medium to large scale organisation and you're not managing your change process then your entire management team needs a kick up the backside.

This is just another symptom of Microsoft (and the computer industry in general) thinking that everyone wants to do exactly the same thing as everyone else on their computer.

Sadly we're seeing the death of the personal computer as every O/S company seems hell bent on turning the PC into a "social media & forced advertising" appliance. Much like a glorified TV.

The only good thing is this should help the uptake of Linux/the BSDs as they still seem happy to let users decide what they want to do with their PC - not withstanding the GNOME project who simply copy (really badly) whatever crap Apple are up to !

Don't they already have a law against "driving without due care and attention" ?

We do in the UK and this would cover that scenario - and any others where some idiot was not paying full attention. There are large numbers of prosecutions for imbeciles driving whilst using a phone, watching DVD players, shaving, putting on make up etc. etc. The fact the car's on autopilot is irrelevant. If you're in the vechile you're in charge of it.

Any moron driving a vehicle doing something like this should just be fined into destitution and banned from driving for life !