Thanks but I felt perfectly 'connected' to my apps when they were files on my Harddisk and click away on my Start Menu; I don't need any more help being connected thanks, and importantly I don't need you trying to convince me my copy of $APP-2013 isnt good enough every-time I open it.

By which you mean add to them be constantly subject to pressure to move up to some higher tier? Because I don't know help managing in any other sense and neither does anyone else unless you've gone out of your way to make things hard.

Why can't you just send me a e-mail to remind me I am about to auto-renew for another month/year whatever and inlcude a link to the 'my account page'? Toss another line on there to warn me if I need to update my pay-card onfile?

By this of course you mean extra steps to make sure other people are not locked out of my account don't you? Because bitlocker recovery password and the subsequent ability to overwrite the SAM are the only things any consumer should reasonably want in terms of account recovery. All other cases are really just abuse cases.

Right and as Citizens we should demand this little detente be dissolved or blown up; however painful that might be in the short term because it means total destruction or at least a lot more pain in the long term.

This entire lets couple our economies so we don't go to war with each other theory is working well. Except that it is working so much better for China. Either we break the co-dependence or this ends with American being culturally consumed by China.

The current ruling uni-party is a party of nihilism and selfishness. They either think it does not matter if American and its traditional values survive either along side China or prevail over it, or they care more about their personal comfort and wealth or both. Either way its a deep and warped sickness, that we need route as soon as possible. Step 0 is stop voting for people lecturing us about 'saving democracy' while the fall all over themselves to trade away our national sovereignty via Treaties and trade agreements with a very undemocratic China.

No they should send a nice little not over to the State Department detailing their evidence and what laws the threat actors have already broken. The state department should then recommend the FBI prosecute these individuals and assist them by arranging for extradition if that diplomatically makes sense. In other cases the State Department should hand the information off to the CIA or DoD to for them to take some offensive steps toward threat reduction.

Nobody should have any problems with the DoD or NSA burning down the IT infrastructure of some criminal actor in a hostile jurisdiction. Any more than we have no problem with the Navy routing some pirates.

That is what a government that was actually trying to do its job for the American people would do.

Which is why he needs to follow through and make the elimination of any self governing Palestinian territory a fait accompli.

That was our mistake with Iraq; the point should have been to destroy Al-Qaeda. Thoroughly. That should have been done WITHOUT REGARD for where they were; Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, New Jersey..

The mission should have been kill or capture ALL of them, and the message to the local governments there should have been help, get out of the way, or will kill and destroy anyone and anything you put in the way. We should have just got it done. That is what Netanyahu needs to do now. He should if anything tell Blinken he is persona non grata and refuse him a visa to even meet.

I don't see what is so exciting about that as feature. It was an extremely kluge-y fix for the fact that web rendering code was buggy as hell and leaked memory all over the place. Also the old NAPI style plugins could introduce a ton terrible code into browser process, and multiple process enable surviving bugs in those.

That isn't really the case today at least in the WebKit -> Chromium lineage. I have not seen a "tab" or browser (safari) actually 'crash' in a very long time. I dunno or seen anything to suggest either leaks memory badly at least as an end user; I am not running valgrind on a custom build or anything...

So now multiple processes just represent a bunch of needless complexity in terms of RPC and I doubt represent much advantage. If anything it should be rolled back.

In this case its really not. Chrome malware. Its a shitty wasteful architecture, and it spies on you!

If you are on a Mac you really are probably best off with Safari. I fully embraced when it became clear Mozilla just can't keep up. Safari is a really nice browser. Its fast and clean and does not consume all the memory on the system.

On Linux I use ungoogled-chromium mostly at this point. Its a sad state of affairs, I'd really rather use something not Google, but they have as nearly iron grip on the Web as IE did in the IE5/6 period. I will not run Chrome proper, on any platform; but outside MacOS/iOS there is really no useful non-chromium alternative.

No, getting fired for insubordination is not retaliation.

That is a terrible solution in terms of privacy and the right to travel in general.

You don't have to tolerate accidents, lots of states have annual inspection requirements and worn tires mean no vehicle registration for the year. Driving a vehicle without tags - arrest the person, tow the vehicle at their expense.

The problem is 'safety' does not mean anything any more. Its a blanket term that can now mean anything from broken skulls or chemical poisoning, to financial fraud, to Bobbies feelings are hurt because you pointed out 'a boy without a winkle is a girl.'

In anything tech related once the word 'safety' gets trotted out its take like turn stupid up to 11.

The printing press was heavily controlled early on for 'safety' that sure helped make things safe for autocrats and certain institutions like the Church. It might have helped make things safe for the King and the Pope but not so for the rights of his subjects or even the Christian faith.

AI regulation will be the same. It will make it so handful of tech oligarchs how can afford audit and compliance to decide who gets to use AI commercially and for what. Meanwhile the really dangerous people like foreign(probably domestic as well) intel agencies and criminal gangs who already have open source models will do whatever they like.

Your small business, you're getting flagged as 'AI generated content' and will have watermarks on all your ad copy and the taint for fraud when you did nothing wrong. The guy who created the fake pictures of your wife he is threatening to publish if you don't pay him, not water marks for him. Putin generating videos of $candidate doing blow of some hookers rear, no watermark for him.

This is the world the Regulators of AI are seeking to make for us. F'them!

There is a third far more likely option. Corruption inst widespread but some agent has a bug up his but because you hurt his feelings at the school board meeting and decides to fishing and pull your records.

if he had to explain to judge the need to investigate you for terrorism comes down to you having complained that a history lesson on aboriginal smoke signals was not an appropriate use of geometry class no matter how interesting or more inclusive it may have been he'd be laughed off. However without this he gets to crawly thru your facebook history and cherry pick things posted in private groups; because meta sold it to them. He can find some post that says something like: "we should riot - but seriously we need to keep this peaceful" truncate the last part and charge you with some kind of incitement crime.

The simple reality is that is how typical FBI agent thinks and operates. I have known many. They think they are 'better' the regual cops, they don't see themselves as citizens or any part of the community. They belive they are watchmen and if anyone suggests ever that someone ought to watch them, well that person is a agitator/commie/traitor/cultist/insurrectionist/ whatever the favored deamon of the week is.

Yeah, agreed, with one exception. EA. The EA guys are not all there, IMHO. They abandon all short term goals in pursuit of longer term goals that may not happen. You have to plan for short, medium, and long term outcomes that all align with your ethics. Bad things happen when you only focus on the long term regardless of how good your intentions.

Wanna talk real world. Arafat and his followers had multiple reasonable peace deals and rejected them all.

The simple reality is the displaced population of Palestine (they don't really exist any more that was two generations ago now) over played their hands, they thought they'd play the rest of the Muslim world against Israel in hopes of getting their wildest revenge fantasy fulfilled and when it did not worked they raised previous generation in to be steeped in hatred a bitterness. That group 20 years ago now chose terror and compromise-less war. They were determined to treat the Israeli state and population with hostility and yes to some degree as a result have been met with hostility.

Its called natural consequences, the present groups suffering and dying now are doing so because of the choices their parents and grandparents made. If they want it to end, they need to depose Hamas, and until they do they will continue to suffer and die and watch their children suffer and die, not because they 'deserve it' or anything like that but simply as a natural consequence of their actions or lack of action. Israel has a right to defend itself; it IS JUST for them to do so, that defense means Palestinian deaths and always will until they abandon the vendetta of their grandparents. Its not about 'fairness' there is no fairness, no 'equitable solution' for everyone there is only might-makes-right and perhaps grace, charity, generosity if people chose to put down their swords rather than fight to the last.

Roads should be funded by taxes on tires. That would reflect wear on the public's property the road better than fuel.