Far from it in my opinion. I suspect you don't like it because he is not taking a scientific argument, but a philosophical one. It's the same argument as Plato's Allegory of the Cave, and Descartes's Discourse of a Method.

It seem his argument is we're living in a simulation, so it doesn't matter if our software captures something different that what our eyes perceive. Claiming the camera produces a "fake" image will not win this argument, because there is no reality.

To win this argument, it should be stated that the human eye is considered the standard by which all cameras should be measured. This technology does not move closer to reproducing the images the human eye does, but instead moves farther away. By that standard, this technology produces low quality images.

Cory Doctorow should read up on Lina Kahn and her work at the FTC.

AM radio is far from bulletproof. Any EM noise makes it unusable. The auto makers want to kill it because it's so fragile, not because it's "bulletproof".

There is a spec for All-digital AM, which has the potential for AM range with the robustness to noise of a digital signal. However, I haven't found much info on it. It at least has the potential to be the bulletproof technology every one is after.

Without AM radio built into the car, people will stop listening on a regular basis. If people don't listen on a regular basis, the stations won't make money. If they stations don't make money, they will no longer exist.

Yes, this is about the stations.

A few months ago I was stopped at a crossing while a freight train went by. Half of the containers looked like they had been pried open. I have no idea what kind of tool they used to do this, but it was impressive. Those big steel containers were all bent out of shape.

I found the summary confusing. This isn't another version of the Switch (there are three versions currently, Switch, Switch Lite, and Switch OLED). This is a new console, similar to the Switch, and often referred to as "Switch 2".

The news here is they won't be using an OLED screen for the new console. This can be viewed as a step backwards from the Switch OLED.

We already have a cancer vaccine. It's called GARDASIL 9 and it's clinically proven to prevent several types of cancer.

Why create a cost function? Just increase the actual cost when the chargers are busy! Same as Uber surge pricing.

The problem with building more chargers is that they aren't used 5 days each week. When people commute to work in gasoline cars, they still need to stop for gas during the week. EV commuters charge at home, and don't use public chargers at all. The problem only exists during certain hours on the weekend.

I call this the "break room microwave problem". 99% of the time, the microwave in an office break room isn't being used. However, between 11:30 and 12:30, there is a long cue, and people get frustrated.

It's hard to make a business case to buy more of something that spends a majority of it's time unused. Perhaps they could do some sort of "surge pricing" like Uber does.

That's actually part of the problem. Most non-Tesla charging stations in the US are owned by Electrify America. They were created as punishment for Volkswagen's "Dieselgate" scandal. Volkswagen therefore put forth the minimum amount of effort required to fulfill the agreement, and now we are stuck with 27% of the chargers broken at any given time.

This explains why they have been trying to extract as much cash as possible from users over the past year or so.

It's like the whole world forgot what cookies are and how they're used, including Slashdot readers.

When you browse a website, you are given a number, called a cookie. Whenever the website asks your browser for your cookie, the browser responds with the number it was given when it first connected to that page. Using this number, websites can keep track of you. Usually this is for things you want, like online shopping carts, or to keep you logged in to Slashdot. Other times cookies can track you like Big Brother.

Incognito just deletes the cookies for that session the moment you close the browser. It doesn't stop your browser from accepting cookies, because that would break the functionality of a lot of websites.

My company required return to work, and then announced that cubicles would be shrunk by 40%.