Good News: There's recording equipment to help protect your Tesla from vandals and it's being made public knowledge in hopes of preventing more incidents.

Bad News: It's an unmarked, public video recording system that may break laws in some places. Also, people who plan to vandalize those cars will simply mask their appearance since they know there are recording devices installed.

I wonder if the self-admitted vandals got lesser punishments because they turned themselves in?

Someone could conceivably sue for the public humiliation of the posted videos.

And, no, I am not a lawyer. However, in a country that has had McDonalds successfully sued for people spilling hot coffee on themselves, this will likely not be the end of such things...

Some of us certainly wish that this reflected a move away from the current business model of training management using the 2-step process of Bleeding them of All Traces of Humanity and Teaching them Accounting.

We have all seen the results of that management system, and it's ongoing affect on the employed population, as well as the economy.

Maybe the system needs to turn back to employee satisfaction, a fair, livable wage, and decent benefits to support health of mind, body and finances?

I guess I'm the only one dreaming of such a system....

Now that #45 has repealed the Net Neutrality laws for his buddies in Big TelCo, so they can throttle and filter to their wallets' content, we'll all see more buffering messages or outright lack of functionality for Streaming Services

Netflix slow?
Hulu buffering a lot more?
Streaming sites simply not loading?
That's the ISPs doing what they can to get you to buy their own programming tripe
And it will only get worse as time goes on.
Netflix will have to sue a bunch of them for "Anti-competitive Practices".
Sadly, that will only work for a little while, then the IPS will tune things be functional, but not optimal.

Anyone notice their Netflix buffering a Lot more than usual over that last few days? Particular the 4k content?

First, "we" (humanity) thought that Sound was the fastest thing.
Then we found Light, and declared that to be fastest.
Perhaps there's something faster than light that we simply haven't been able to perceive, or record yet?

Basing our "fastest" on things we can perceive is a classic scientific principle, sure. It's also a bit flawed.

People already have little reason to believe anything in the news much anymore.

Deepfakes have been out there for a while.
Other sources of edited news have also been around for quite a while.
Having the POTUS declare "fake news" on anything he does not like, does not help the situation.

I truly wonder how long it will be before a fully-fabricated piece of critical "news" gets run, and then society as a whole just blows itself up.

Not too far away, IMNSHO.

Maybe some of us that never link our device to any form of online account, never go to facebook, twitter, instagram, or any other form of social media with our phone, might actually get some decent use out of it.

If only there were a batch of decent little productivity apps that weren't so ad-filled, account-linked and bandwidth-hungry that we could still get things done without signing our privacy away, that would be great.

Sadly, too many people can't live without checking into facebook every 5 minutes, updating their status, posting their meals and reading tweets, that they don't realize what they've given up on.

Yes, I am a self-professed dinosaur.
I will not EVER willingly use "tap-and-pay" on my debit card, nor will I use any form of phone-based payment system.
They are all far too vulnerable, and I want none of it.

So many phones are vulnerable because nobody reads what their apps want access to and permissions for.

Sure, make the OS more secure in that regard.
Please do!

People still need to be more aware of their apps and the surrender of their privacy for entertainment and convenience sake.

Removing the Bloatware from the OS is a decent start, but only just a start.

After all, why does a "Flashlight" App need access to my contacts, anyway?
Solitaire apps need internet access? Really? And my Internet History, to boot?

Not on My phone!

Good thing I never have a Data Plan, so I never have to worry about being sent a stupid virus through email or malicious text message.
1 more layer of security.

After all, my phone exists for MY Convenience and to serve My needs in communication. If I choose to ignore a call, it's my prerogative.
Didn't get a reply within 5 seconds? You're a little too twitchy, my friend.
If you can't be bothered to leave me a message, I guess it's not too important.
Maybe you should have texted me instead.
A Plain Text Message.
Not some emoji-riddled, GIF-infested multi-media message, either.

And, NO, I do Not want MEMEs of Cats messaged to me on my phone, EVER. Period.

Messages from friends like that are called Meatloaf (if I'm being nice).

I don't like it from friends, so seeing it edited out of my OS pleases me greatly.

Now, if they could collectively make some way of auto-blocking robo-calls. Especially around election times...

If the Federal Privacy Laws were just as stringent as the CCPA?

Having the effort backfire against the big lobby would be so fitting in todays' day and age that it could cripple their efforts to circumvent the right of the people, and provide sweeping reform to the oppressive corporate over-reach.

Yes, I know I'm just dreaming.

That is, however, something that could quite possibly happen, if the right people were to truly get involved.

I wonder what the big lobby would do it it backfired on them?
The old "Be Careful What You Wish For" defence.

I thought that there was something in the works that was going to make it illegal to strip people of their right to a fair and impartial trial to resolve things.

Making it so that you can't go to court is inherently wrong on so many levels.

I can understand things being limited in sensitive areas, like law enforcement and the intelligence sector, but ISPs? Sorry. I don't buy it.

These companies need to be very careful, or they will get sued themselves for trying to strip people of fair legal proceedings and other civil rights.

Another example of the Bottom Line being taken over what's best for employees.
Well, if universal health care becomes a thing, then this should be irrelevant in the near future.

It needs to be truly Affordable to the Masses (IE, people who really can't afford to drop over $30,000 on a car).
Also, it needs to be able to function Without being connected to the internet constantly.

If it can be both of these things, it might be worth having.

Silicon Valley has been running on a social/technological caste system for years now, with job placement, social behaviour and performance all part of the mix:
Not driving a BMW?
Not Drinking Starbucks?
Not wearing the "Right Labels"?
Not connected to the right social circles?
Not drinking juiced kale and such for breakfast?
In general, not showing the Right signs of affluence?

You're a Social Pariah! Don't even *Try* to get a job at certain places, or go to certain clubs, or even shop at certain stores, or you will be treated poorly/shamed into leaving!

Been happening for years, and few people outside of it have been paying attention.

Just the mobile techno-serfdom of the area should tell everything about it. They can't break into the "good" jobs, so they can't even afford basic housing, because the cost of living has been inflated to such a level that you have to make darned near 6 figures to have a basic apartment. That's why they live in trailers/vans/cars, and have to shuffle around from burb to burb like serfs under the grace of the local nobility.

I wonder what would happen to The Valley if they all went elsewhere to work, and left the locals high and dry?

Oh, wait. They can't.
They don't have enough social credit to do that.
Never mind then...

It's already here, just not in the same format.

Yep. Another shining example of why Algorithms are not the best way to actually remove content.
Maybe (just maybe, mind you) if they used the algorithms to Flag things, and those flagged items got reviewed by Human Operators (oh, the cash involvement), maybe there wouldn't be half of the problems.
This is assuming that the reviewers have a modicum of intelligence and respect for both content providers and consumers alike.

It's only a matter of time before some unscrupulous government (or terrorist organization) "tries" it out on human targets.
A country like China, that is facing great uprisings for terrible treatment of their own people, and well known for their "unfiltered" use of crowd control, is the most likely culprit.
And it looks like I am not alone in the prediction.

"Why the Blender Foundation took nearly a decade to revise the software's UI is anybody's guess."

Here's my guess: Copyright Infringement of the IT involved in the UI of other (usually commercial) software.

After all, Blender is doing it's best to be non-infringing of existing software design. The easy way to get it to behave more like other software is the customization of the interface.

That said, who is really going to go through all that work?

Exactly.

So, someone else has come up with something that make the Blender UI more like others.

Let's hope that they don't draw the legal attention of the commercial counterparts, and let Blender simply use the available aftermarket UI package to become an overall "better" system.

Cheers to the authors of it! It's been a long time coming, and will likely be a welcome addition to the user base. Might even allow for more people to switch to it.

We'll all have to watch the results, I guess.

This is simple: If there are more workers than jobs, then the wages offered will be lower.
After all, if "you" are not willing to work for those wages, there will be someone else desperate to put ramen on the (tv) table and start making payments on their student loans, waiting just outside the interview door.

I have seen this way too many times to count.

Local colleges and universities crank out a new batch, and the recruiters are there to pick them off, preying upon their desperation and empty promises of high wages "after your probationary period is up," only to drop them for the next batch of graduates, also starting at minimum wage for jobs that have been touted as 6-figure positions (according to the college recruiters).

It doesn't matter what industry, either.
Around here, we have a lot of Nursing graduates.
There is an industry wide cry for qualified nurses, but none of them are willing to pay what nurses are supposed to be worth. This causes a Lot of them to look elsewhere for jobs, and move out of the area.

And the employers continue to cry over the lack of nurses!

Anyone remember the Great Push for M.C.S.E. in the tech industry?
The vast majority of them got jobs in Call Centres for minimum wage!

And the cycle continues...