Mod parent up, from personal experience. ;-(

. . . . then only outlaws will have (repeat item here).

Kill switch == ambush. Not to mention yet another single point of failure for the already overcomplicated system that used to be just a car.

I am shocked, SHOCKED, that Slashdot would appear to support the paternalistic rights-management censorship attitude that "keeping track of dangerous material is generally a good idea."

You must have some different filtering options than I have, because I see more of a knee-jerk PRO-technology attitude. Newer and shinier === better! The thing is, all of us who work in technology know that things can break. Even a Tesla can run over a nail and get a flat tire. What then?

Not unlike philosophy. When philosophy answers one of its nagging questions, suddenly it becomes math or logic or science.

OTOH the "Fast Track" programs have become more popular (or at least less disliked) because they demonstrably *work*. Close down a line for a long weekend and the job gets done, rather than "overnights only" taking multiple weeks. Some tasks just can't be done halfway.

The union crews work a given number of hours. Assigning them what to work on each day would be perfectly normal.

Isaac Asimov, the Machines in "The Evitable Conflict", 1950. James Blish, the City Fathers of "Cities in Flight", 1957. Christopher Anvil, the Symbiotic Computers of the Interstellar Patrol, various stories, 1960s.

The AI usually takes over. For our own good, of course, in the most loving and paternal way.

"Public Interest" . . . I once sat on a jury on a libel case, in which a financier was suing the Wall Street Journal for having said defamatory things about him. The judge instructed us very clearly that truth is not an absolute defense; that is, even if every single thing in the article was provably true, it would still count as libel if it was (for example) just rehashing old information to defame the financier as he tried to start up a new operation.

If you submit a resume, people check your references, but apparently keeping people from finding out an *executive's* history just requires bigger lawyers.

... because people saying that something is "ossifying" and jumping to the next fad is EXACTLY what makes things "buzzy".

Honeypot? False flag? Maybe the NSA is ignoring the blimp because they know it's perfectly safe, because THEY put it there?

"We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow." - Viscount Palmerston, England, 1848.

Not invented by Kissinger, though his quote is more widely referenced nowadays.

Strange, I thought it was a highly polished way of saying "If we do it fast enough that we can call it a "fait accompli", nobody can stop us. Like blitzkreig."

Or maybe that's getting the reasoning backwards. If you're thinking of killing yourself, then you go buy a gun to make it easier.