... 100% of AI is total garbage.

Bill Gates is right - AI will destroy 100% of Microsoft jobs - it is well on the way already.

But companies providing decent goods and services will probably flourish if the competition is totally focused on flogging AI slop.

It's probably stuff like the age of the account. If it's 10 years old, the chance that the owner is under 13 and registered it as a toddler is quite small.

Can someone please tell this to Ebay.
They regularly sent me emails in which they thank me for being a user for more than 21 years, but request I use a credit card to verify my ID to prove my age if I am trying to buy a tool with a sharp edge. (including a pair of scissors with a blade less than 1" long).

I live in the UK, and do not have a credit card. I do have several debit cards. Ebay does not seem to understand that some parts of the world are not in America.

Wen I was doing this in the UK, I was asked "what is the worst case scenario?"

and the correct answer is ...
Fully armed fighter jets fall on central London, and YOU get the blame!

A Datum is a single data point.

In UK English, data can be a collective (uncountable) noun (like water). It does not have to be.

If you have two data sets, and fling them all in the same database. What you had in the database before, and what you have after, is still just data.

My understanding is they used to change the lights to green in the direction of the emergency service vehicles. But what if emergency service vehicles are coming from more than one direction?

They then decided it was better to just turn all the lights red, leaving junctions clear for the emergency service divers to sort it out amongst them selves.

It is DEFINITELY BETTER this way.

I think I was told that the emergency service vehicle turns on something in the cab to make it happen, but I may be wrong about that.

It should be possible to open the door from both inside and outside the car in case of complete power loss.

Anything else should be treated as kidnap AND attempted murder.

Is FVWM95 still a thing?

systemd legitimately CAUSES a lot of problems in Linux.

If you have on-site name servers, every time you upgrade, name serving ceases to work, so you cant login to the non-working machines to fix them!

And a load of other problems.

Systemd is the software equivalent of plague, and belongs in hell!

someone will write some code that disables this function.

Long before that, a hacker will write an app that invokes it, causing havoc on highways near you!

40C is hot where I live.

These people need to get out of the lab occasionally!

if you lease a car from a dealer, you can still chose to fill it with gas from any provider>

Shhh... you will give them ideas!

Here in the UK, we do not have locking. I bought a Samsung phone on contract, and shortly after bought an Oppo phone. I swapped the sim cards between them because it suits my use patterns better. No problems here. In the past, I have sometimes swapped phones with my partner, both keeping our sims, because one of us wants an upgrade when the other is due for one, but is happy with their old phone.

The only thing I can see sim locking do is lose sales in these scenarios.

Trump's brain pretty much a fiction, part of it owing to not understanding anything at all

FTFY

no way should movies be altered to deal with idiots who can't bother to watch what they are watching.

Making movies that people don't watch might initially appear stupid, but the more discerning of us realize that if the viewers can't be bothered to watch, then the movie is probably repetative garbage already, and making it more repetative is probably not going to help.

Some movies should never be released. Probably quite a lot of them.

very intelligent, yet very stupid and bad people

Are you referring to the US Government?

"Though it had the appropriate level of cartoon exaggeration"

You have not worked in many offices, have you?