My first introduction to these sketchy claims was with the DOS based Clarion database language, which came out in the late 80's. All of their ad copy was about "Write a database application without having to write any code!" Yeah, you could piece together a really simple database without really knowing anything, but for any practical real-world use you had to know programming. The product still exists through who knows how many buyouts, but they still make pretty much the same claim.

He's going to explain the universe with a glorified Google search?

"You're not even required to have a smart phone."

In front of a nearby restaurant there's a city owned parking space with an EV charger. The city will give you a parking ticket if you're parked there while not charging your car. The only way to activate the charger is with an app that you must install on your smartphone. There is no other way, you can't swipe a credit card, you can't deposit cash into a slot.

So yes, in this instance, you are required to have a smart phone.

The effects on the neighborhood is why we have restrictions on, say, running a hog farm on the lot next to your home. As long as I run that hog farm in compliance with building codes and whatnot, you should have no problem with it, right?

Federal prison doesn't do probation. She may get some time off for good behavior, but she's still required to serve %85 of those 11 years under federal rules.

I guarantee you that there are people at HP that have tossed this idea around. If they could make it happen, it would have happened by now.

My current Brother HL2360DW B&W laser printer (the previous one lasted almost twelve years) has wired ethernet and it works just fine with whatever brand of toner I can find cheapest from Amazon. Other than the toner replacement and a few paper jams it has given me no grief.

Not from what I've read. Supposedly the rudder on the Titanic was far too small for a ship of that size, which contributed to them being unable steer away from the iceberg in time.

How about if I were to break into your home, tie you and your family up, steal your belongings, shoot your dog, pee on your rug, and then set the house on fire?

Why should I be punished for that? What would society get from sending me to prison from life?

It doesn't matter whether you fly on a commercial flight or a private one, you will still have to go through customs when you get there and will still need a passport / visa.

Hewlett Packard was maybe the first big tech company in the Silicon Valley area, literally started out of a garage. Their first product, as I recall, was an audio oscillator built for the Disney company that they needed when they were making 1940's Fantasia. I remember that same model lasted well into the 70's. It had a unique circuit element, a simple incandescent flashlight bulb used as a feedback resistor. If the oscillator stopped working we were invariably told to replace the light bulb.

Hewlett and Packard each famously had an open office door policy.

I doubt the same can be said for whatever fly-by-night CEO they have this week.

I've only played around with it a bit over the past few days. I asked it about the history of a particular ocean liner that was in service from the 1920s until the 1950s. The subject was interesting to me only because it's the ship that my parents emigrated to America on.
It spewed out a couple of paragraphs about the history of the ship but got the date of its scrapping wrong by twenty years, according to Wikipedia and multiple other sites.
I corrected chatGPT about the date and got "I apologize for the error in my previous response". So, I asked again when it was scrapped and it got the correct year but the wrong place, stating that it was scrapped in Scotland when it was actually scrapped in the U.S. in Delaware.
I pointed out the error again and again it apologized, but now stated yet another year in which it was allegedly scrapped.
I don't think chatGPT is to be trusted for much of anything.

I've been an electrical engineer and software developer for forty years and I refuse to allow stuff like this in my house because I don't believe that any perceived benefit is worth the associated risks.

Want to lock the door? Get up off your ass and lock it. Want to turn on the lights? Ditto.

It's very expensive. These buildings were designed to be used as office space. A few clusters of restrooms on each floor and a whole lot of open office floor, that sort of thing. Converting it to residential housing would require major work since now each apartment unit would need it's own restrooms and you're also adding additional water requirements for showers & kitchens. That in itself could kibosh the whole thing. Also, apartments need windows. Tenements from 100 years sometimes were windowless, nobody wants to live in anything like that. So, If it's a building with a large footprint there may be a lot of square feet that can't be used for anything.

So swear on a cocktail napkin from the local drinking establishment of your choice. It's just as good.