With the amount of whining I heard about how this version of the Odyssey was woke race treason engineered to poison western civilization I would have expected Elon to move faster than the copy cops when it showed up on his precious everything app. Is he developing a tolerance to the stimulants? Renting out datacenter space making grok sluggish?

Today I learned that 50k/year, in New York, is what Bloomberg considers "middle class".

Were they just hard up for anecdotes or is some sort of expectation management in effect?

Scaping has never been stealing, of course. It wasn't then, and it isn't now, even with all of the whinging people are doing about AI training data.

The giant brass cojones on Google for suing over that, though...

Wait, uneducated people can't get high now? Things sure have changed since I was young. Back then, it was mostly the uneducated kids getting high. :-)

Some famous Frenchman once said: Give me ten lines, written by the most innocent man, and I'll find something in them to hang him for.

Once the government becomes oppressive, there is no such thing as non-problematic data.

Corporations never, ever (pinky-swear) destroy evidence. What they do is destroy data before it BECOMES evidence. That's the whole trick. It's what they try to argue here: As soon as they asked, destroying the data they had asked to see became illegal. I sincerely hope this gets thrown out.

Can we please pressure Apple and Google into making duress passwords a standard feature on all OSs?

We need this to become common.

I don't know if it's plain volume or some more subtle characteristic of the noise; but I'd suspect that there's more to it than noise alone; given how rare(and often slightly disconcerting in practice) genuinely silent environments are and would have been in evolutionary history.

Even in totally undeveloped areas where you and your little teeny band of hunter-gatherer pals are the only thing going the wind is always up to something; some combination of birds and insects will be doing their thing depending on temperature, if there's a body of water of any size or moving water you'll hear some flow or wave action.

Could be pure intensity; a lot of modern noise is quite intense close to its source; could also be something about how it is interpreted and how readily it is or isn't discarded as background vs. forcing some amount of constant active attention.

If even a quarter of what I've heard about Oracle's offerings being over-budget, never-on-time, never-on-spec shitshows is actually true,

In general this is NOT for Oracle services...this is site wide (for all of DOW) for enterprise database and other software licensing....

There are contractors for each branch and project that use and maintain databases and most of them are Oracle....lots of legacy systems and always something new on the horizon....but Oracle generally is NOT doing any work.

'79 928 says "Hello."

Ah...that sounds nice.

Do you still have it?

I lost my 930 in Katrina.....at one point on Google Maps I saw the black monster floating in my back yard....

:(

Reminds me of swapping out the radio in cars. Maybe people could bring that back? I did that on nearly every car I've owned.

Indeed I remember doing that...and used to LOVE to custom configure my cars audio system.

I research and save and save and get a new head unit, then save...get the amp, new speakers...etc.

I dunno...I guess today's youth isn't as interested in audio fidelity...but I sure miss it.

OnStar systems detect that a collision has occurred and dial 911 for you. The phone can't do this as well, though it could perhaps do it.

I believe iPhones do this too...?

I believe they call it Crash Detection.

Both of my vehicles are still stick shifts, a 5spd WRX and a 6spd Tacoma. You'll take them from my cold dead hands!

In my rather long life to date..I have never owned anything but 2 seater sports cars with manual transmissions.

Ok, the '86 911 Turbo Porsche "technically" had rear seats, but you couldn't fit more than a couple bags of groceries back there, so I don't really count that.

If I were to buy a new GM car...first thing I'd do (actually while researching the car)....is find out how to disable the fscking cellular connection and cut the damned thing off from the mothership completely.

I don't want over the air updates at their choice, nor telemetries, etc....

Hell at this point, I just may only be buying older cars if need be and keeping them in good running order.

I prefer manual transmission anyway....those are hard to get new. I'd love a new Vette, but a sports car with no manual transmission? A waste...

In addition to what other people said, some companies use it to screen out people who are going to cause employee conflicts, ie, are you using it to make controversial posts and comments and say things that violate the social contract, or do you use it to communicate with family and talk about your hobbies?

If you don't feel some attachment to your past and want people to be able to find you and contact you, in this age without phone books, are you going to be a company person? Or do you just want a paycheck?

I guess I don't see social media the way you do....I've never thought of not having social media as the same thing as "no feeling attachment to past or want people, etc".

I've never done social media, yet I'm in almost constant touch with friends over 45+ year I've been with...we text, phone call, email...and actually try as often as possible to get together in meatspace.

Anyone that needs to know where I am...knows where I am.

And not sure about....company person? I mean, the ONLY reason I work...is for $$$.

I've contracted 1099 and done W2 over the years.

When I go to work, I follow the rules, I'm very amiable with co-workers....I do work stuff at work and when the door hits me on the ass on the way out, I leave work fully behind.

As a general rule I do not associate with co-workers outside of the office. I have real friends for friend actives and needs....I have found over the years, it keeps things professional and keeps problems at bay.

Frankly in the litigious society we find ourselves in today....I do believe employers are looking more for a person like myself...little to NO threat of interoffice conflicts or lawsuits.