Power outages vary each year but the overall number and length are not significantly worse than in the past. 20024 was worse than most but not much worse than 2017. When you have more infrastructure you have more damage. The number of homes built in places with potential bad weather like Florida and Texas have increased so the number of power outages go up. Not surprising at all. Here is a link to outages over the last 10 years. https://www.eia.gov/electricit...

The market does its best job meeting the needs of the people with the fewest rules. Government rules screw up the market and make it less efficient. Anti gouging laws (price controls) lead to shortages. Rent control Housing shortages. Licensing lack of competition. What government needs to do is help provide reliable information, promote truthfulness in advertising. Aid those harmed by bad actions to recover damages. Make it easy for competitors to enter the market. Instead most of the rules and efforts of government seem to favor established companies and prevent new participants.

If you worry about impacts between thousands of tiny communication satellites causing the Kessler syndrome just imagine thousands of kilometer wide mirror satellites filling the sky. Dodging one of these things would take a crap load more fuel than moving a few meters to dodge a communications satellite. They would also block or reflect communication signals in unexpected ways. Think of the light of a city being reflected a few hundred miles away or TV signals bouncing off the mirrors. This is a bad idea in so many ways.

Why in the world is it legal to use different font size on license plates? This is the root cause of this whole FU. If it is legal and happens then why in the world didn't Flock engineers know it was and train their AI to understand that? It reminds me of the time I was developing a system to aid in the design of headlamps. I asked one of the designers if the system needed to handle a specific circumstance. He said No that almost never happened. Meaning - yes it happens. So I included it.

Cars will be waiting on on ramps for up to 4 minutes? How badly will that back up traffic in surrounding areas? Optimizing one part of the system does not optimize the whole system. What is needed is alternate routes. But with the government bureaucracy and NIMBY that will not happen. Just wait until the cyber cabs flood the area with empty cars zooming around everything will be so much worse. Elon needs to dig some Cyber Cab only tunnels to carry the empty Cyber Cabs around the city.

If AI companies start having to pay up for the false and imagined stuff they produce it might force them to figure out how to eliminate the lies or more likely they will just lobby the government to create a legal loophole for the lying like puffery has enjoyed forever. Truthful AI's are what we need. I do not understand why anyone would trust the output of an AI for anything other than entertainment when the users agreement clearly states the AI will lie to you. They use Hallucinate so it does not sound like what it is. Most users never even read the users agreement.

This does nothing to protect people from scammers. The scammers use voice over IP which has virtually no controls that allows identifying the person initiating the call. It will also dramatically advance the desire to steal someone else's phone tying innocent people to crimes they did not commit. Changes to VOIP to allow tracking would be a better way to attack the problem. Also beefed up enforcement of do not call list violators.

Google??? When did Google get involved in engineering the environment? How does this serve their corporate interests? Are they just doing this around their data centers?

Yes this is my understanding as well. This has been tested in court. AI generated materials cannot be copyrighted. Legal Precedents: Cases such as Thaler v. Perlmutter have cemented that AI systems cannot be listed as authors.

Another case of science fiction for telling the future. I remember this the plot of a movie. I thought it was called Soma but cannot find any reference to that. So I may be mistaken.

Israel has publicized that they do not waste interceptors on missiles that are going to land on unoccupied land causing zero damage. Anyone who would bet they would intercept missiles that would not cause damage is just stupid or uninformed. Who ever set the resolve rules for that wager must have known that and bet on a missle "Hitting Israel" knowing it was a sure thing.

Movie length has gotten so long that they need to bring back the intermission. I miss the intermission. Who wants to buy a big drink to enjoy with popcorn and then be uncomfortable for the last hour of the movie. If I wait until it comes out on line I can stop the show and take a break get a snack. Why go to a theater where you have to get up and miss part of the show to relieve yourself? Theaters screwed themselves when they eliminated the intermission. It cut the profits of extra concession sales and drove most viewers home for comfort.

Well yes AI may have done all that but why would you store everything in folders controlled by the AI? Where is the offline backup of the work? Have we learned nothing about possible loss of data. That is like rule one of working with computers. Make a backup!

Sure everything is encrypted End to End it's just they have installed a backdoor that lets them decrypt the conversation if needed. Most likely a requirement of at least one government that is not publicly acknowledged. Once implemented in oneplace it is available in all places. Would not be surprised that is the case for all digital communications across all providers.I remember the Europe/UK? had proposed something like this a while back. Then the idea was "dropped" probably not just made secret or created as a test to see how it would work. It worked good so they kept it just didn't tell anyone it's there.

Why convert sunlight into electricity and then into infrared light to beam it to earth where it is converted into electricity again? Very energy inefficient and expensive. All you need is a mirror. Just reflect sunlight to earth to the solar farms. Small mirrors that can rotate like a giant mims projector. Would need analog control not digital tracking speed would not have to be very large. Of course it would also be useable as a giant directed energy weapon so a little scary. Might also be useful for extending crop growing seasons or directing weather patterns. Pump a little extra sunlight and steer that hurricane out to sea or that thunderstorm to the drought stricken field.