Parents would just use their own IDs to let the kids onto social media. The tech the companies are trialling Kinda works, especially if you combine facial recognition with other methods. The real silver bullet is parents having more time to supervise kids though, in the home at least. I don't know about on public transport :/

But the TV is likely in a common area where other people can check in on what the kids are watching, vs a mobile device app connected to headphones. It's still a good idea for kids and teens to use computers/etc in a common area of the house. Or at least position monitors/etc where an adult can easily check on what they're doing during non-sleep hours.

You really buried the Lede here, SlashDot hid your conclusion (does that mean SlashDot buried your Lede?) because you wrote so much.

What do you mean every hospital doesn't have someone like House who can spend hours/days/weeks diagnosing patients with strange symptoms??

Oh, why bring hard data, going back decades, into an ideological fight about 'Gov Tyranny' vs 'free market heroes (who have golden bathtubs)??

Yup, in the UK as well, classic neo-con tactic, run something into the ground, blame the other party (who hasn't been in power for years) and then privatise it and get more campaign contributions from the profits their pals are suddenly making.

Exactly, but it'll mean less money for HMOs, so their owners lobby Congress to keep their profit margins high.

So is that a non-urgent treatment, or urgent? Because there's different wait lists for different categories, just like in the USA. Also if a GP in most countries says you need a scan then you get one, in the USA a HMO might just say that you don't get a scan. While charging everyone for the HMO's time.

When the Gov is paying all of the bills it can really drive down prices. Too often The Market is full of company owners who know each other colluding to increase prices, or just own the entire supply chain and bilk customers due to lack of competition.

You make a good point, we should reframe vaccine refusers (without health reasons) as freeloaders, skating by while the rest of us do the hard work of keeping the community safe.

But hey, patching requires downtime, and that might reduce quarterly profits! And that'd affect the CEO's bonus right now, they'll have left by the time they get hacked, right?

Spell checking, auto-correction, all these features should be put into WordPad so our lovely super-basic Notepad could be left alone!

Exactly, if DOGE was so great, why didn't it find this huge problem that's highly IT-related?

It's a big problem if the companies were actually hitting the insurance compliance standards and got breached, but there's always a new kind of exploit *sigh*

You'd think a major news organisation would notice such a thing happen. Back in 2022 the NYT says NATO says that China is a Systemic Challenge, but I don't see anything about a 'list of hostile nations', certainly nothing from 2025. So, how will this stop China from getting US chips?