I think that has more to do with using due process, actually focusing on the criminal element, not roughing up and shooting citizens, and having ICE agents un-masked, trained, and properly identified.

Not losing track of where the kids went probably helped too. That and not making stupid claims about eating people's pets.

We crapped our pants and we're gonna KEEP crapping our pants until it becomes fashionable! THHHHHPPPPPPPPPPT

Same problem in the Atlanta area.

Also an incident where a Waymo got confused on the interstate, which it is forbidden to even be on.

Stablecoins sounds like a polite term for that which must be shoveled before putting down fresh hay.

Ski jumpers cheating by looking at porn before being scanned for their suit.

Use a modern filesystem like BTRFS or ZFS that takes care of that while mounted.

They probably spent more in development cost making sure locked features stay locked than they did on the features.

I'm trying to find out the needed codes to be sent on the CANbus for unlocking so I can add a cheap and secure embedded device to let my phone unlock the car. If I get the right codes, it will cost less than $50 to implement as a one-off. They could do it for a lot less in volume without involving a server in the middle at all.

The thing is, they WANT to maintain a server in the middle so they can force subscription fees.

When I need GPS, I generally start it before leaving my driveway. I don't need to touch the phone while driving.

I would do the same with an in-dash GPS. I find any touch screen interaction distracting since it can't be done by feel.

At least with my phone, there's a better chance of voice commands being implemented before the car is worn out and replaced.

It's not short sighted though. It's a failure of market competition writ large.

In theory, stiff competition should force manufacturers to keep margins low. This represents just throwing additional manufacturing cost at it and providing no benefit to the buyer in the case they don't take the option. They could have, and competition should have forced them to either leave out the hardware to get the manufacturing cost down OR make the feature always on to justify the higher cost driven by the higher manufacturing cost.

That should also apply to programmable engine performance or any consumer electronics where the high end features are always there but disabled either by flags in the firmware or jumper settings.

Value pricing == market failure.

They accessed Slack, as they were permitted to do. This is just cowardly management wanting to can people but not wanting to own up to it.

0) nobody knows what the hell to do with it from a cinematography standpoint. There's only so many paddle balls and things you can throw at the screen to wow the audience.

See here.

It's still the case today:link

Note that the mainframe would be a facillity.

Harvard, like all universities with a mainframe back then claimed rights to anything developed on their mainframe. It was part of the agreement signed on admission.

Some had pre-paid for Altair BASIC and it was months late. Gates didn't pay for the mainframe time used to run the emulator Altair BASIC was tested on. Technically, the code belonged to the university, but that legal term was never enforced. Several bugs were fixed before it was distributed.

The various manufacturers are doing everything in their power to avoid switching once and for all to propane as a refrigerant because that one isn't patentable. Zero ozone depletion and 3x warming vs. CO2 (while R32 is 675x warming). And, of course it's much easier to dispose of. Capture it as usual and then cook burgers with it.