I thought the re-fix was worse than the initial move. Now if I swipe up while on a call I run the rock of accidentally hanging up.

Keeping the center clear was better in my opinion.

To the uneducated (i.e. me) a lot of those sounds like "cost of doing business" charges that are itemized in an attempt to pass the blame to somebody else. 'September 11th Security fee' 22 years later? Really?

Not really, because the thieves are stealing things they can convert to cash. They don't need that blender but a local appliance store also sells it and does cash returns so they can "return" it there for cash. Or they pawn it. It's certainly not going into their kitchen.

Using AI to do this won't happen, because AI generates content based on what's fed into it.

People CREATE content based on their life experiences and interpretation of the world and creative "a-ha" and "what if" moments.

AI has no imagination, no emotion. It's all math and algorithms. The same input will generate the same output. People have imagination--some more than others. The same input may not give the same output when it comes to creative art.

That's the best way I can put it.

Color me cynical, but I see a lot of service areas being put under this "higher than average" umbrella via some very creative accounting.

Who says you have to remove it?

You make the RFID tag some very long number to ensure uniqueness. When you check in to your flight without a tag, a tag gets added and the tag # gets scanned and linked to your reservation, and scanned/released when you claim it and leave the airport with it. If you already have a tag, it gets reused.

I chuckled out loud at your reply. Please do post it! I'll go make some popcorn.

"Day After Trinity" is another movie from 1980 about Oppenheimer and the development of the atomic bomb. A documentary, the filmmaker interviewed numerous physicists, mathematicians, and others who were there when the bomb was built and tested. It also serves into the postwar developments and his troubles regarding his political views.

"Cruise and Waymo say city officials have mischaracterized their safety track records. Their driverless taxis, the companies say, have lower collision rates than human drivers and public transit. Their self-driving cars, they argue, help improve traffic safety in San Francisco because their cars are programmed to follow posted speed limits."

Ok that's wonderful, but you're missing the obvious here...your car ran through a street barricade. There was an object in the street intentionally placed to stop traffic and you took it out. The simplest of things to trigger a stop and it didn't happen. Just own the failure and be honest about it; "hey our car didn't perform its job correctly so we're going to look at the data, figure out what happened, and fix it."

Of course insurance companies and lawyers will advise against that.

Seems to me that divesting the excess office space is the better solution instead of reducing telecommuting. If the work is getting done and the infrastructure cost can be trimmed, sounds like a no-brainer to me.

The cynic in me says this is just a tactic to force the workforce to reduce itself, betting that a sizable fraction of the workforce will quit rather than return to the office.

"Sirius XM wrote in its comments that one proposed requirement -- that companies maintain records of phone calls with customers -- would cost the company "several million" dollars a year to comply with."

Don't they do this already? Sounds like they are complaining about having to do something they already do.

Fair question. Our EVs have about 240 miles of range and our driving habits have changed since we got them. Now, we use most of that range a couple times per week, so it turns out to be a good fit.

I don't think it can or the line item veto wouldn't exist. The items were line item vetoed and then the altered bill was immediately signed into law; there is no bill to veto.