The problem is that bait packages typically have booby traps in them - like exploding dye packs. That's the part that's problematic. Bait cars don't do anything but induce anxiety when the car stops and the doors lock. If the bait car tased the thief or a dye pack went off, it would probably be a different thing altogether. Bait packages with an AirTag in them would be a good idea, but depends on the police watching the package and nabbing the thief before they rip open the package and toss the packaging/AirTag out the window.

"The policy applies to employees within 50 miles of a Zoom office"
In other news, Zoom mystified by sudden trend where employees move 51 miles away from the office

Exactly this. When I saw the cartoons of an EV stuck by the side of road connected to a gas generator, I thought - why not just add a small gas tank and build the generator in, so when you get low of juice, you push a button to start up the generator which starts refilling the batteries. Then you effective range is whatever your batteries give you, plus whatever the generator can top off. Preferably, the generator can add power faster than the EV uses it, so you can continue driving with the generator on, but it's useful even if you have to pull over for a while.

Maybe no other CITY has done this, but it has been a thing in the DC suburbs (Northern Virginia) for some time. The HOT lanes going in to DC can get as high as $40 if congestion is bad enough.

I've had several experiences with GPS errors. It's always something where the GPS cannot figure out the name of the street I gave it, so it takes me to the center of the city. Or if the street does not have a address of 5536 my street, it will take me to the center of that street. Sometimes, it's not a bug deal, one time i was driving in a snowstorm and it took me way far away. The problem is that the GPS is trying to be helpful, but failing miserably. What the GPS needs to do instead is tell me that it doesn't recognize the address and then i can double check it and fix it. This doesn't happen often, but when it does, it's infuriating. It's just like chatGPT - it tries to be helpful and will tell you that it knows the truth and it is absolutely sure of it, but actually, it has no clue - but, GPS got there first - it says "oh yeah, i can find that for you", tries its best, but sometimes fails astoundingly. What both of them need to do is tell the user that they are unsure and not pretend to be the all knowing oracle that they are not.

And once the cost of living goes up enough, the digital nomads find someplace else to live, leaving the local economy inflated, but without the influx of money to support it.

Speaking for myself, a lot of it is inertia. If Cox Cable had been happy just taking $150/mo from us, we would not have gone looking around. Once it went past that and they stopped offering heavily discounted bundles to keep people, we started looking. But we had one deal breaker - whatever we got had to have TCM - which was over 50% of what we were using Cox for. But none of the streaming services had it and it did not have its own streaming package (and Criterion just wasn't the same experience). Until recently -- when we saw that YouTube TV had TCM. So we switched and cut our TV/internet in half. But since TCM has turned to crap (it's been getting worse every year since Robert Osborne died), we may kill YouTubeTV as well and just stick with a handful of streaming apps.

They already do this - its called a "sin tax". source "Excise taxes can be employed as Pigouvian taxes, or sin taxes, to price in externalities. An externality, in economics terms, is the side effect or consequence of an activity that is not reflected in the cost of said activity. For instance, excise taxes may be employed to reduce consumption of cigarettes or sugar-sweetened beverages, to curb pollution, or to reduce traffic congestion."

Maybe not so much amateurs as lawyers. I'm guessing that someone on the team thought that there may be a way to monetize the name in the future. And the way to do that is to take control of the name now.

The last time I recycled a computer at a Best Buy store, the website said that they would not accept it if the hard drive was still in it.

From the NSA's front page:

Our Mission

Cybersecurity

NSA Cybersecurity prevents and eradicates threats to U.S. national security systems with a focus on the Defense Industrial Base and the improvement of our weapons’ security. Through our Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, NSA partners with allies, private industry, academics, and researchers to strengthen awareness and collaboration to advance the state of cybersecurity.

Government's answer to everything - create a new bill to supplement the 2000 others that supposedly already did the same thing, or create a new federal department because another one isn't performing their mission.

People i now that have the iPhone SE want it for Touch ID - works better for them. Sad that they won't have a Touch ID option left.

Lots of places to trade your gift cards for something you can use - https://money.com/sell-trade-g...

The previous story has the answers -- just ask CoPilot or Fixie.ai what to do.

Exactly! It's been years since either I or my wife has gotten a paper prescription.