Entirely fictitious boogie-men made out to be real ... just so they can drop more bombs.

These programs are the responsibility of the companies that run them. CEOs need to be held accountable, not just for the damage, but for what it represents. People have been thrown in jail for just mentioning there is a weakness. Yet these companies are scouring the internals of everyone, including themselves, and literally hacking their victims ... all while the authorities aren't saying boo.

It must be time for everyone with some money to get in on the act I guess. It was the AI, not me. LOL.

Red states will be spared, of course.

I suspect "community bank" is not the "greed is good" type Wall Street speculator.

I figured AI speculation had sucked the life out of crypto speculation.

It has all been smoke and mirrors so far. Why stop now?

Yup, and I think that's exactly how the judge has seen it too. And I'd expect the investigation to conclude the lawyer is a lying little shit.

That's called hypocrisy ... do as I say, not as I do. A political strategy to weaken competitors, if that's your thing. Tell everyone else to do the wrong thing while doing it right yourself. In other words lying, and doing it with a smirk.

Oops! MW-h, not WM/h. That was pure dyslexic typing.

Why can't these journos get that right? Either they're talking about 17000 MW of max power delivery rate, or they're talking about 17000 MW/h of storage. Either can be true and each have separate importance and both valuable figures to quote. But it's unlikely both the MW max power rate and MW/h storage capacity are the same values.

is the name I've been looking for. Just calling it brain damage always felt crass.

There's a shit load of so called PTSD label cases that are really TBI instead ... IMHO.

I'd be happy if the opt-out actually did its job. It never will though. What you'll get is tracking that is slightly less in your face.

Governments need to ban user tracking entirely. No opt-ins or opt-outs.

We just have to be prepared to turn everything off. Early warning should give enough time to shutdown power stations. Maybe not fission plants but that's just one more indictment on that tech.

It's certainly not an impossible task. The most important action being to trip all automated disconnects in the distribution network. The bulk of which would be at substations.

It operates without scripting. Which means no tracking scripts. I'm more than happy for that trade.

Show me any social media site that can offer better. Makes Slashdot the most cutting edge, IMHO. :-)

Yep, not hard at all, Just make a general ban on user tracking.

Problem solved for not just end users but also traditional media as well. Puts all businesses back on a level footing.

Bonus, also takes away the driving force behind user engagement and the resulting abuses.