Of course, Android's other great theft prevention feature is "being an Android phone."

There was no cause for this insulting snarky statement to appear in the summary. It's a story about Android; it's highly likely that a majority of those who choose to read it are going to be fans of Android to one degree or another. Insulting in this way is childish.

Without qualifiers and context, this is an observation that one should stop finding useful or relevant to their view of the world by their early twenties.

Yes, organizations of people acquire power and then use that power to the degree that they believe themselves able to without putting said power at risk. Like .. whoa dude.

Is 10000 supposed to be the preset kill limit per killbot?

while (humans.exist()) {
      killbot = new killbot(randomname, 10000);
      killbot.kill(humans.selectRandom(killbot.kill_limit));
      killbot = null;
}

Talk is cheap. The reason you would never do this is the exact same reason nobody else is going to do this.

It is an engineering failure. And we're working diligently to fix it. It's just a hard fix.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-re....

"Can kill you" and "can kill you with a few moments of inattention? Name them? I'm looking around and I don't see anything.

My outlets are GFCI protected and have child protection shutters. So even if they pulled out a cord enough to touch both prongs the GFCI should kill the circuit before they get killed.

My windows have locks on them so even if a kid tried to open them and crawl out they would be stopped by a toggle out of reach. The furniture is anchored to the wall.

The most dangerous would be crawling up onto furniture and taking a swan dive onto your neck. But there's no possible engineering solution yet. But if there was a cheap, effective solution, why would you oppose that!?

That's like looking at car crashes and saying "Welp driving is dangerous!" instead of saying "Hey, people are dying a lot in dangerous car crashes. Let's develop automatic braking, lane keeping, airbags, seat belts, padded dashboards, crumple zones..."

I almost feel like I don't need to add a comment to point out how stupid this comment is.

But for your benefit because you wrote it... 8 years is a long fucking time and 8 year olds aren't usually the children who die from coin cell batteries.

Have you ever tried to reason with a 10 month old? They might actually have more common sense than you but that's not saying that they can be reasoned with.

I don't know. I tried setting up a cheap weather station to get weather data for my thermostats. You know what? They sucked. Were super unreliable for disconnects. Temperature monitoring is hard to keep properly ventilated and shaded.

I went back to using internet data. The internet occasionally goes out but far less often than self-managed sensors. The same has been true of my Bluetooth LE sensors. Home Assistant drivers keep messing up every 4-5 updates in weird and inconsistent ways. My Matter/Zigbee sensor has been way less reliable than my Kasa cloud connection. Wifi + Internet has been rock solid except for the very rare internet outages.

I view cloud servers as a huge plus now when shopping. Local is lower latency and I like to have a local connection option. But reliability has been much higher for wifi+internet IOT devices.

Difficulty breathing resulting in the need to intubate? That could be Covid.

The MRSA, on the other hand, he likely caught at the hospital, as a result of the intubation and a weakened immune system.

No reason it needs to be any more than that.

That's very nice of you to provide a demonstration on how to be an idiot. My key takeaway on your demonstration of "how to be an idiot" is to act super duper smart but be incapable of reading.

When you are found guilty of willfully violating a trademark, the next time you apply for a trademark the courts will require extra review with far less benefit of the doubt as to any possible violations than if you had just started from a place of compliance.

E.g. if you name your search engine Noogle you can't just change it to Noodle and re-apply even though it probably would have been acceptable if you had started with Noodle, because now you have demonstrated that you weren't acting in good faith to come up with a unique, non-confusing trademark.

I feel like EU regulations are going to be similar. Apple claims they were just looking out for consumers, not trying to defend a monopoly. The EU gave them the benefit of the doubt and wrote rules which allowed Apple to protect their users while ensuring more competition---and Apple used the rules to explicitly suppress competition without any benefit to consumers. I think these bad faith "compliance" actions by Apple are going to bring down the ban hammer hard. I can't for the life of me understand why Tim Apple would approve this course of action. This is clearly going to be far more harmful to Apple than simply complying.

Coal is one of the most expensive sources of power now.

The Coal lobby has been promising "Clean Coal!" since George Bush's 2000 presidential campaign.

They've had 25 years to implement their solution, this rule gives them another 8 years to put up or shut up...errr down. Considering coal usage has dropped by about 30% in the last 15 years and is only 15% of the remainder it's not unreasonable to give 8 years to install this magical equipment that they've been promising or for utilities to replace the lying industry with a real working product.

TCP/IP is way older than the 1990s and you know it.

Yes, that's not surprising that there's nuance that does beyond the headline. There always is.

Ironically, it's is more of an argument for them. They were not saying there would be no more updates, be them major or minor to windows, but rather than they wouldn't have "numbers" and transition into more of an OS as a service model.

The market doesn't like the sound of that. That's fine, but it's not like if Microsoft stopped numbering their releases they wouldn't be doing the exact same thing: sunsetting older versions of windows and pushing users towards newer supported versions.

I know some people think they should be able to "buy" an OS and stay on it forever, but the internet has rendered that largely impossible. If you want to air-gap your PC and stay on whatever version of Windows you want, go for it, but as soon as you're connected to the internet, they're doing the right thing trying to push people off of codebases that no longer support an economic case for security updates.