It's the aporkalypse!

Yeah, the specs of one laptop are low, but imagine a Beowulf cluster of them!

Yeah, if they can turn them off they'll plant evidence, then turn on the body cam and mysteriously 'find' it.

The sounds of typing and handwriting are both distinctive enough that you can reconstruct what's being typed from what's being written

https://people.eecs.berkeley.e...

https://www.researchgate.net/p...

(or a reverse proof of concept for handwriting here https://www.youtube.com/watch?... )

Alternatively, the way your hands move when typing on a computer also interferes with wifi signals in a predictable way, making it possible to reconstruct what you're typing based on that

https://threatpost.com/keystro...

No, it cannot. The theoretical idea is to use a mesh network, and not only do mesh networks introduce massive latencies, but - crucially - the satellites lack the hardware necessary to communicate with each other in the first place, and there isn't an affordable ground-based antennae array capable of tracking them.

So they don't have the hardware and they certainly don't have the software. Given Musk's past history of lying to regulators (including getting hundreds of millions of dollars based on claims that the tesla batteries can be hot-swapped), there's no reason to trust him on this vaporware

Oh don't worry, when you write stuff down physically each letter makes a distinct sound, so they can spy on that too

https://www.researchgate.net/p...

Other responses:

"No, skip this one."

"Yes. This book will give you more background information and make your Star Wars reading experience that much more pleasant."

"Question: Should I keep reading Star Wars: The Wrath of Lando?
Answer: No, don't read this book.

Answer: No, I am not kidding. It's both a terrible idea and a dumb one. (Actually, almost all questions to your random Internet rando make me want to punch them in the face.)

Question: Okay, so let's get to it. Why is Han Solo so chill?
Answer: His extensive train wreck of a relationship with Princess Leia is, at its heart, pretty standard in the Star Wars universe. It's also painfully, perhaps even horribly, familiar to the reader.

Question: Why is Luke a space fugitive?
Answer: He's driven by revenge."

You might want to try experimenting with talktotransformer.com

Its text generator is two full generations behind the current openai model, but is fully capable of answering nonsense questions with plausible answer. For example, let's ask about a nonexistent star wars novel.

Example I just generated (first shot)
Question: Should I keep reading Star Wars: The Wrath of Lando?
Answer: If you like how the adventure reads, you probably will want to continue reading it. The adventure's overarching plot does a great job of picking up the flavor of previous episodes and tying the plot together into a compelling story.

The next response was "I find that the books are a bit thin and not very exciting when I read them from start to finish. I'd be very interested in seeing what J.J. Abrams makes with the movies."

Third one:

Question: Should I keep reading Star Wars: The Wrath of Lando?
Answer: Yes.
Question: I read a bad book about Star Wars . Should I buy the new Star Wars movie?
Answer: Not unless you are a mere lowly foobar or have a rare condition where the only way you can be more entertained is to hide your mental illness.
Question: Will the next Star Wars movie have lightsaber combat?
Answer: We'll just have to wait and see.

You're misunderstanding how the system works.

You have a lifetime limit as a gifter which is currently somewhere north of 11 million. That's money that you can give as gifts and not be taxed.

IN ADDITION, you also have a yearly waiver of $15,000 per person - if you give somebody 15000 in a year, it doesn't count towards the lifetime limit. If you give them 16k in a single year, you lose 1k off your lifetime limit.

I'd argue it counts as a gift, which means that the donor has to pay the tax (not the donee). And the current lifetime exemption on gift taxes is $11.58 million, so unless Forrest Fenn did eleven other of these he doesn't have to pay a dime.

The suspected mechanism is that it helps strengthen gamma waves in the brain, by providing a constant 40 hz input through the eyes and ears, which produces 40hz waves of activation in the cerebral cortex. In EXTREMELY broad strokes, basically like a pacemaker for brain waves. So not really a chemical thing.

Rollback also requires a heck of a lot more processing power by default; it's a lot of additional complication and effort, not just a turnkey solution.

it blew up on twitter a couple weeks back, google must have finally hot patched it

For instance, if you translate 'wash your hands' to French, it comes out as 'lave t'es mains'.

Which is screwed up - basically coming out as "wash you're hands". And this is a common phrase being translated from English to French; one of the best cases for google translate, because it has a ton of source data and they've been working on the translator for over a decade.

And we all know Microsoft is always aboveboard, and would NEVER try to eliminate their competition by doing anything underhanded.