10 million people within spitting distance of America who now have a *renewed* reason for revenge. This administration is filled with geniuses.
You mean, the people who are willing to ride a piece of driftwood across the freakin' ocean because they'd rather live here than in their communist hellhole? Okay.
To continue being produced long term, games need to succeed, not just be beloved.
Time for some C.S. Lewis.
The game is to have them running about with fire extinguishers whenever there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under. {...} Cruel ages are put on their guard against Sentimentality, feckless and idle ones against Respectability, lecherous ones against Puritanism.
The big problem of our civilization and age right now isn't that we are going to get too harsh or guard too much against people who rip off stores.
The $5K a year just gives you a $300 per person per visit discount. So pays itself back in 15 visits or so.
Humans can also coordinate with each other when things aren't working. You can't communicate with a Waymo to coordinate, they don't pick up contextual cues from other drivers' behavior, and the way they 'fail safe' really depends on everything else around them working correctly for the 'safe' part .
Having both failure modes at the same time is very likely to be a much bigger shitshow than merely panicky drivers.
Now the engineers need to work on exception handling.
I mean that sincerely. These things only work when things are normal. Power failures, unmapped blockages, a roman candle in the street, even crowds turn them in to traffic blockages themselves.
Just wait until there's an actual mass casualty event - earthquake, terror, something like that, and these all things go comatose in intersections like they did in SF last year.
It's simple addiction, based on a very low-entry, socially approved neural anesthesia.
Think Trainspotting writ small, played out in public where every time the family stops moving, Mom or Dad (or more often, both) pop out their phones to "just check some things".
Ah, but you may be mistaken about the point.
If you're talking about the simple physical reality it accomplishing the task of detection, well sure, it might be impossible. But if you recognize the point isn't to detect nukes but to gain nearly infinite streams of funding based on ok-perhaps-it's-implausible-but-hear-me-out -nukes-are-scary, well sir that certainly is within our reach.
RFS is dead. Like his wife.
Plenty of us nerds can afford this and want to see news about this.
What could possibly go wrong?
Apple is becoming more MS every day.
This is network nerd territory, overriding a well-functioning system with your personal policy preferences. Doing so is implicitly taking responsibility for any breakage, and The Masses are simply not competent to do that.
Joe Random doesn't know what an autonomous system is, and a tool tip isn't going to educate them sufficiently to make an informed choice. Non-nerds are likely to shoot themselves in the foot doing stuff like this, not realizing some transitive dependency on some random Facebook thing means they're blocking something they depend on.
Put it this way - if you have normal, nontechnical users on your network doing normal human stuff, banning Meta and Alphabet ASes will almost certainly break something they use. I'm a strange old nerd, going out of my way to break social media surveillance. That is... pretty much the opposite of most casual internet users' goals.
echo '-i origin AS32934' | nc whois.radb.net 43 | grep '^route:' should get you started if you want to go that route.
You do so by blocking AS32934. Block AS15169 as well and you start getting closer to a decent internet.
Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it. -- Heisenberg
