This note is backed by outdated hardware that hasn't been upgraded yet?? Could this actually be what's keeping companies tight fisted around IpV4 and not upgrading to IpV6?

If everybody was on IpV6 there would be no value to IpV4! What am I missing here?

OTOH if this system was required in every car sold, the resulting economies of scale would likely push the costs down fairly quickly.

At the risk of moving the discussion away from amusing reductio ad absurdums and in a constructive direction... the actual question to be asking is: "are the benefits of mandating this technology worth the costs?"

The benefits here are obvious: reduced deaths, injuries, and property damage.

The costs are: increased vehicle prices (to compensate for the development costs and materials required by the new technology) and potentially some accidents introduced in cases where the technology performs poorly enough to cause an accident rather than preventing one.

My intuition is that the technology is mature enough at this point that it makes sense to mandate it, but that's only an intuition; the NHTSA doesn't operate on intuition, it operates on extensive studies, so its opinion here is worth a whole lot more than mine.

A former employer used to tell the story of trying to sell facial recognition to the country's federal security service. They set up in airport with a list of 1,000 faces they wanted, and started scanning passengers. When they finished the first thousand of them, they were very very disappointed: that had got a huge number of false positives...

For each of a thousand people, they did a thousand comparisons. That's a million comparisons. Even if the error rate was only one percent, 1% of a million is 10,000 errors. In other words, it reported a false positive (or, horrors, a false negative) for everyone. When it identified someone's grandmother as a male member of the Baader–Meinhof gang, they packed up their equipment and slunk away.

Facial recognition is a guaranteed fail for airport security

There is but one audio emoji and it is typed as Control G.

Unless you're on a real VT100 (not an emulator) in which case there is also ESC [145q (which would turn on the 145th keyboard LED but instead does something else, as there are only two keyboard LEDs).

It kind of is a different OS, but it's gestating inside of Linux, growing every year, and at some point it will start deprecating Linux out of the nest and eventually we'll all be running SystemD-OS (which used to include Linux, back in the day).

He's not in charge any more, but a bit of web search says he is the largest single shareholder of the company, at about 207 million shares, or about 2.8%, or about 82 billion dollars worth of ownership. Three institutions own more of the company but it is diffused ownership, Vanguard, iShares, and SPDR, and those institutions aren't asking for any specific changes, only profits.

He doesn't need to be in the corporate boardroom with people directly reporting to him while still maintaining a strong influence -- an 82 billion dollar influence -- at asking the company to follow his wishes.

Suuure and "your mom" is different from the vast majority. People like almost all of those here: https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/c..., and here:: https://markellisreviews.com/t..., and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?....

So again: Very highly doubtful but I'll add in probably untrutful because you have failed to explain what you and "your mom" are doing that is different from everyone else.

It doesn't make sense to pay $199 for another set of hardware that does the same things as the hardware you already paid for and carry around with you.

I hope that clarified things.

Hasn't it occurred to anyone that the The Foreign VPS Incentive Act will cause domestic VPS vendors to lose business?

Very highly doubtful. Apple's better memory management through compression & faster access to the on-module RAM have made the expectations of those used to x86 laptops overestimate the RAM needed for all but the most demanding workloads, as has been seen time and time again by those who actually used one. Come on admit it, you're basing your opinion on a win/linux PC & not through actual use of a M1/2/3 Mac with 8Gb.

Every time I go past the In-n-Out Burger and see 40-50 cars lined up to talk into a scratchy intercom and wait half an hour to get food, I think how much more convenient it would be if all of those people could just park their car wherever they wanted (or even not have to get into their car at all), enter their order into an app on their phone, and have their food lowered down to them by a drone.

There'd be no more congestion issues, no need to spend 30 minutes idling in a slowly-advancing car lineup, and no need to repeat your order three times so a teenager can still get it wrong. You might have to deal with gangs of crows trying to intercept your order mid-delivery, though.

I've been using Ubuntu for about 5 months now and as far as "basic computing" goes I've had very little pain in figuring out most things. There was some weirdness because I'm so used to Microsoft being non- security oriented. For example, it took me a minute to realize you actually have to tell Linux that you actually WANT to execute that shortcut on your desktop before it will actually let you. If you game kids, there's a partial but growing library of titles available through Steam. Of course there's also WINE, but I don't consider that "entry level"

I've also heard good things about mint.