It's good Tesla doesn't push forced over-the-air updates. However, many, many other companies do. For example, Microsoft has been known to disrupt surgeries with forced Windows 10 updates. So it's reasonable to fear Nissan will be equally stupid.

Unless Nissan's engineers are morons, there is no risk of copying the file via usb stick. Any rational update file format would contain an internal checksum. Try "unzip -t ". I suppose a corrupted file would waste time, but shouldn't be accepted.

Nobody wants to clean up litter along roads. So it's often assigned as punishment. Prison work gangs and community service are the labor pool.

Do the space equivalent for corporations convicted of data breaches and other criminal actions : Equifax, Yahoo, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Exxon, etc. Instead of slap-on-the-wrist fines, sentence them to clean up a section of low earth or geosynchronous orbit.

It resembles the police car from Blade Runner. https://www.imcdb.org/v012087....

Also consider Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome. About 2 to 5 in 100,000 people have this rare disorder. They have XY chromosomes, but are immune to testosterone, and develop as female. They're sterile, and often have increased risk of testicular cancer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condit...

I've read some scifi fanfic that used the "singular they" to describe neuter aliens. Some of the scenes were very confusing, because I could not tell from context if one alien was acting or several. In the places where I could figure it out, I often had to go back an reread the passage to tell what was happening. It definitely disrupts the flow of the story, and reduces my enjoyment. .

I don't mind calling people whatever they want, but singular vs pural needs to be clear from context.

The fleet of electric vehicles are relatively new. The fleet of internal combustion engines contains cars, or more importantly designs, going back 100 years. What will happen as the EVs age? They're deliberately made very light, pushing the design curve. Will they need more maintenance?

Is there another source for the video? I turned on something like 30 sources of javascript, and it still wouldn't play.

How is it going to tell the difference between a frozen turkey, and a thawed one? Stuffed or not? Will it baste for you? This sounds like mostly a fire hazard.

Are you preparing the ingredients somewhere other than your kitchen? As long as you're there anyway, you might as well turn on the oven. Maybe in the distant future AI will get as good as you suggest, but for now, this is dumb.

It's a countertop oven that plugs into a normal 110 outlet. It's got about a 1 cubic foot volume, kind of like a large toaster oven. They don't have a manual or any online specs, instead they want you to use their getting started page. https://juneoven.com/get-start...

The UL listing program for electrical safety didn't start out as a law. The insurance companies got together and decided they wouldn't pay out if the the source of a fire was in a non UL device. Then various governments started requiring it.

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If the insurance companies got together and said they won't pay out cyber insurance if there is a non certified IoT device, or software, on the network, then this problem would go away quickly. "We're not paying for your ransomware recovery, because you had a non-SUL device on the network. That violates the fine print of our insurance contract".

On the down side, such a certification system would badly slow down patching. Each version would have to be certifiled. Getting UL tested is expensive and slow. It can take months and thousands of dollars. I suspect this would be similar.

Wrong. There will always be little bits of starup code, or bits of libraries, that aren't useful after a daemon has started. It's better for everything if those useless sectors are swapped out to disk.

The newest unit at Indian Point is 43 years old. That's old enough to be worrisome.

A truly free market would happily invest in nuclear. The problem is the maze of regulations, permits, and bribes needed to build a plant. They make it so expensive, that it's difficult to make a profit. If you scaled those back to reasonable safety regulations, companies would be jumping to build such plants.

Crack the salt too, and sell the chlorine to companies that make bleach, toilet bowl cleaners, etc. I'm more worried about how you would keep the pipeline clear. You're going to get algae, seaweed, and other gunk in it. Maybe you could reverse direction and backflush it periodically?