I cite the First Law of Chaos Theory: Anyone citing chaos theory must do so in a way that discomprehends chaos theory.

Good point. There was traffic in both directions, and I was in a series of cars passing the obstacle by slightly crossing the center line. None of us were signaling; we were all just "getting along."

I drove a car with lane assist in Pittsburgh, downtown and around Oakland. I kept having to cross the middle line to get around trucks that were unloading, etc., and had to fight the lane assist (not much, but a bit) to avoid hitting stuff. Eventually I disabled it. I do think this is a good idea, but it needs a lot of experience in urban environments.

"[I]f not for our FBI's ingenuity, some luck, and hours upon hours of time and resources, this information would have remained undiscovered." Translation: If not for police work, we would not have figured this out. Forcing companies to create a system that they can compromise means that these companies will have to work harder (designing a system to be highly secure for banking, etc., but also easily defeatable is much harder--perhaps impossible).

I know nothing of Calculate Linux other than the name, but I assume that is enough for me to extrapolate wildly and note that this will finally be the death-knell of those stupid TI calculators they sell at the grocery store. At last we will be free to calculate on the same machine we use to watch parkour videos and play PUBG (that's right, suck it Fortnite!). The future is now! NOW!!!

Dang. I can only assume this means no more Halo games. What else could it possibly mean? So sad...

I must immediately install this and port my bookmarks and settings, then browse to Slashdot and leave this comment, and the (probably) never use it again. What an age we live in!

If anyone other than the intended recipients can read your encrypted messages, you should assume *anyone* can. And then what's the point of encryption?

Zork. It is addictive, makes you afraid of the dark, and promotes witchcraft. Witchcraft!!!

So far, this one is winning. But only just. https://soundhound.com/hound

This just in from Australia: Robots do not prevent sex.

Certainly, because nesting the declaration and if statement in curly braces to use the existing scoping rules of C and not pollute the syntax space is completely impractical. Much better to solve a specific instance of a problem than to use the existing simple solution that solves the entire class of problems.