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Comment Re: They priced themselves out of the market. (Score 1) 59

Supply and Demand is broken. Companies want X profits and that is that. Consumers say 'ook' and increase their personal debt to buy the price inflated item.

Maybe that behavior is finally about to fall over because people can simply no longer afford more personal debt.

At least in the summary it is not mentioned that the companies had fewer consoles to sell, only that consumers were buying less of them.

Comment Can't wait for the High Frequency Certificates! (Score 1) 94

Why does it seem like the security crowd is losing the battle?

It took forever to figure out that requiring too frequent of password changes resulted in people writing their password right on their monitor with a sticky note.

- moooaar slop! faster! slop! slop! slop!

Comment Re:Time to stop the cuteness and force standards (Score 1) 93

The law is still no more than four forward-facing white lights illuminated at the same time but this is violated all the time now.

Often it is now six lights with fog lights being added to the wall of glare. Many EVs now have that dumb continuous light bar across the front - that is a fifth or seventh light! All they need to do is enforce current law. This is not hard to do as all the enforcing officer has to do is take a photo of the car driving then pull them over, ticket them, and give them a formal notice to fix their nonconforming vehicle.

It would be like free revenue for law enforcement, and most people would support it.

Comment Bump glare is the worst. (Score 4, Interesting) 93

Bump glare is where a car goes over a bump in the road or is ever so slightly higher than you over a hill and for that brief time their headlights are blinding. It seems the Japanese makes are the worst for this, even their daytime running lights do this. Subaru, Mazda, Toyota, and Honda all have this issue. Their lights are too close to the borderline for glare and a bump sends it right into your eyes. It's like they only test their vehicles on a flat surface.

I guess auto-dip or matrix lights could fix it but I would rather the lights just not be so damn bright or poorly designed.

Comment Playing with fire. (Score 2) 35

The AI companies themselves don't even really understand how their creation works. But I don't see why that would make them immune to criminal negligence. Just because you may be a corporation or LLC to protect the people with too much money doesn't mean the company itself can't be shut down for continued criminal behavior. Giving falsified information to the police is breaking a law, just like breaking into a computer.

I don't need AI contained because shutting down the corporations continuing to allow criminal behavior by their own tool would do that by default.

Comment Re:To the non-cutters... (Score 5, Interesting) 51

The NHL and MLB abandoned broadcast TV, so I abandoned them. Same with Nascar. The only thing left that I watch live over an antenna is the NFL - when they abandon me in a few years, the antenna will be useless and NFL will be dead to me as well.

Time marches on, things change, but advertising continues to ruin the experience for everything; dropping broadcast TV won't change that.

Comment Re:Too bad... (Score 1) 76

Door locks only keep the honest people honest. But it's better than nothing.

Browsers have to keep the crooks honest, a much more significant task. More so when the thing is designed to be Swiss Cheese. And on top of that when a web page can also be an app within the browser.

Also that front door is not exposed to every criminal on the planet.

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