"If floppy was the only interface, the only way to get malware on to [the computer] would be via said floppy disk. That's quite a limiting factor for the attacker..."

After a big EM pulse explosion, trebuchets may be in big demand.

defaults to vibrate.cum

GOP had a hissy fit when Obama tried to boost solar panels. Yes, I know the Solyndra thing was poorly managed, but that was only a small part of solar investments. GOP successfully spooked voters about it; they shit on anything green out of habit.

> The US auto industry has always lobbied politicians to prevent having to compete.

The Chinese gov't does subsidize certain industries. Asking American manufacturers to compete with subsidize companies is a tall order.

Also, It's often difficult to verify how much the Chinese gov't subsidizes, being it's a closed society. We can tell them: "Become transparent, or munch our tariffs".

...I suspect because a bigwig wanted it, maybe even Tim Cook, and few employees want to tell the Emperor that their ad has no clothes.

I always get cars with sun-roofs or side-vents to allow venting while parked, as I never trusted that funny plastic-y smell.

...sticking MS-Bob stickers over them. I've since mellowed. ..mostly.

Correction: "too hot"

So if we here in CA get too cold, all we have to do is trigger a 60's-ish beehive hairdo trend in China, and all that hairspray will warm us back up.

while (humans.exist()) { humans.selectRandom(10000).kill(); }

"Side-effects include failure to understand statistics"

Indeed. Having AI reinterpret photos to "clean" them could be a problem, introducing unwanted artifacts when it guesses wrong, and probably shouldn't do it in real time anyhow, but in a later edit stage if and when user wants to tweak them.

Instead of 6 fingers per hand, ImprovedGPT will draw only 5.5.

The proper way to do is to have random spot-checks of the work of inspectors, and also of surveillance video to make they weren't playing Solitaire on Windows.

> Meat is good food, and humans evolved to live on a diet high in meat content

That's not true. Even before mass agriculture, meat was roughly 20% of a human diet. Mass agriculture made it more like 7%, and our biology did evolve around that because agriculture was a population multiplier.

Lots of whole grains with a smidgen of random fruits, vegetables, and bits of meat is what human stomachs prefer.