Wouldn't pretty much everywhere in the universe undergo the same initial formation, though? Saying 'life came from SPACE!' just pushes the origin to somewhere we can't really test or even pinpoint.

How about decadely reports, then? It's so much hassle reporting all the time; just do it once every ten years!

Sometimes it's really hard not to consider these people NPCs whose script doesn't include the concept of death for some inane reason.

Reminds me of that infamous quote from Zuckerberg when Facebook was just getting started. Paraphrased; "I just asked them to give me all their personal information and they did. The suckers."

If you live paycheck to paycheck you can't suddenly start paying a second mortgage.

Yeah, I distinctly remember seeing sequences of photos taken as a cat was falling from a certain height, ready to absorb the landing impact well before hitting the ground.

At a very low point of activity you can always determine it, though. If you can swap out USB keys before and after a single person votes, then the swapped key contains only one vote. When you decrypt it you'll know how that one person voted.

> He may even have to appear in other courts around the world to defend this deal with Google, and Google gets to make sure his public statements are supportive of the deal from here on out.

No contract to star in an ad campaign goes that far, as far as I am aware.

It's more about actual compelled speech by contract. It sets a ... highly uncomfortable precedent. It goes way beyond "I'm not allowed to discuss that subject" into actual lies in support of something.

You don't remember the SG1 episode because it was an Atlantis episode.

I've seen a case of a placeholder voice having been generated by AI, but since it was for an ingame AI the fans actually preferred it to what the 'real' lines ended up sounding like, and the company went back to the generated voice. That's a very specific usecase, though.

And it's going to be clamshelled somewhere that'll break the entire TV if you so much as think of going near it. And if you DO manage to disconnect it without breaking the TV the TV will just not receive a confirmation packet when turning on and default to a "Something is very seriously wrong! Take your TV to a repair shop IMMEDIATELY!" screen with no access to being used as, y'know, a TV.

Theoretically yes, but you'd have to go through a LOT of code to make sure there's also nothing to secretly turn it back on, or to later get an update to turn it back on, etc. At the end of the day a level of trust is required.

That's the catch. They use AI to report AI usage statistics. So when you turn the AI off nothing gets reported about your usage; ergo 100% of reports show AI usage.

Honestly I think No Child Left Behind failed this guy big time.