>Leave them there permanently but give them a way to access TikTok so that they can live cover from the scene to other disbelievers.

Like Stanley Kubrick did in 1969, but without TikTok. Authenticity for the win.

is the heart of a planet-destroying weapon system.

Other countries aren't putting US-registered SIM cards on their daily missile attacks.

Because Virgo sounded too much like Virgin Galactic and Cancer sounded exactly like "DO NOT WANT."

At least in some places, phone numbers have to be re-used after only a few months of non-use because of demand.

"Short, easy to remember" email addresses are also scarce, but you don't need a "short, easy to remember" email address to function in society. Most people do need a phone number.

I'm not feeling any sympathy for either Disney or Google on this one.

For the viewers caught in the middle, yes, but for the giga-corps, not so much.

The ads I get when I load up this submission's page and turn off my ad-blocker are, you guessed it, ads for AI products and services. Sigh.

It's a hard, if not impossible problem to solve for 100% of people 100% of the time.

On the other hand, if society is willing to live with "you will probably have to show ID if you seem anywhere close to the age limit" then the problem becomes a lot easier.

If the age limit is 12 and you have a 4-digit Slashdot ID, it's pretty safe to say either you are over 12 or the ID wasn't yours when it was created.

Likewise, if your overall "user behavior" is has been consistent with that of someone well over 25 for several years, the odds of you being under 18 are pretty slim.

As a real-world analog, most stores where I live demand ID to buy age-18-restricted products if you LOOK under 30.

It will cost the government more to process the return.

If everyone did this and they made it clear to their representatives WHY they were doing it this way, it might "move the needle."

>barescent skor motion

Nice.

"An hour of HD video streaming generates about 42 grams of [carbon dioxide], while a chatbot prompt is around 0.1 grams."

Basically, what this is saying is an hour of HD video is equivalent to 420 chatbot prompts, or 42 chatbot image-generation prompts.

How many chatbot prompts does a typical person give per hour in a typical session with a chatbot? 5 text prompts in 5 minutes? Yeah, it's less energy-hungry than watching an HD video. 5 image prompts in 5 minutes? The opposite. If it's a robot doing the prompting at full throttle, it will likely outpace video-watching by far.

Remember these?

Now I can read Tolkien in the original Middle Earth languages and Star Trek novels in the original Vulcan.

Or at least a cheap facsimilie thereof.

>So I'm flipping through cameras, and there were cameras in pretty weird places. Like the playroom for the children in pediatrics. Really, I don't want to know.
Either because parents wanted to be able to watch their kids, because of liability insurance reasons/fear of lawsuit, or because something you don't want to know about happened in the past/fear of lawsuit if it happens again.

I'm hoping it's the first one. It's not something I would encourage today due to hacking potential, but 10-20 years ago it was the "new shiny thing" for day-care centers to have cameras the parents could log into so they could watch their kids. Sadly, too many of these used easy-to-guess passwords or they had other ways to let just anyone peek in on the kids.