It should be possible to buy a car that has NO network connectivity of any kind, NO GPS or satnav (maps on your phone connected through Android Auto or Apple CarPlay is better than in-built satnav on basically any car anyway), and NO data harvesting (so nothing for the insurance companies to use against you)
The summary says that they did have backups but that the AI screwed those up as well.
Maybe we need something like the "data haven" described in the book Cryptonomicon... Find a country that doesn't give a stuff about copyright or America and is willing to let someone build big data centers full of cloud storage to hold all the stuff.
Having had experience with Chinese cars here in Australia I would definitely pick the models from some (but not all) Chinese brands ahead of what Detroit is selling in Australia these days. (I can think of several Chinese pickup trucks I would pick ahead of the Ford, Chevy and RAM pickups you can get here for example)
A higher up at Microsoft posted on twitter saying the issue was caused by paperwork that these projects didn't do, that all of them were impacted at once because the missing paperwork is tied to a deadline and that Microsoft is working to get it sorted out so these projects can continue.
Plenty of games used things like GameSpy where the online component is handling matchmaking and even though he actual game is peer-to-peer or one of the players is the server or something, they still won't work because the matchmaking servers are gone.
Given the date its hard to know if this is real or fake...
I saw it and loved it. Definitely worth seeing in the big screen IMO.
You can't buy your way to a 5 Star ANCAP safety rating. They actually crash test the vehicles (or in some instances, accept verified validated crash test footage/results/etc for the same model car from EuroNCAP or similar)
Many chinese cars (at least the ones they are selling in western countries) score very high on safety ratings.
Oh and these cars almost all get 5 star ANCAP safety ratings (the highest possible) so they are just as safe as anything from Japan or elsewhere.
Are there Chinese cars that are junk? Yes. But there are a number of Chinese brands (BYD and MG for example) that are actually making decent cars (EV and otherwise) now. No they aren't as good as a Toyota but they are better/more reliable/etc than many things sold here in Australia by western auto companies...
I have family that bought an MG EV and they LOVE it.
We have had digital price labels in some supermarkets here in Australia for a while now and we do not have dynamic pricing or other issues. To be fair we have strong consumer laws and a regulator with teeth enforcing the laws.
Google should not be allowed to put messages on its websites saying "switch to Chrome instead" when you access them with a competing browser.
Apple should not be allowed to deny approval for your app store app because it competes too closely with something apple sells.
Amazon should not be able to artificially push people towards its own products (Amazon Basics etc) over other products.
TSMC has had all kinds of problems getting it's US fab going (and that doesn't even do the entire process of making a finished chip) and Intel with its decades of experience in chipmaking has had many problems with its newest stuff.
It would be great to see Musk build his own chips but it's not as simple as buying a bunch of stuff from the ASML catalog...
The Tao is like a stack: the data changes but not the structure. the more you use it, the deeper it becomes; the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
