The money goes to the stockholders of a global corporation that makes profits from charging ridiculously expensive amounts of money for weapons that the Israeli govt wants in order to expand its borders and bully its neighbors. Those profits donâ(TM)t go to normal Americans, they go to war profiteers who will do anything to lower their taxes at the expense of the American people having some the same niceties other first world nations have such as Universal Healthcare. Or paid family leave. Both of which Israel has. Our infrastructure crumbles at the expense of a never ending war in the Middle East that the Israeli govt has demanded that we pay for.

You can blind the sensors. You can make the environment so noisy it thinks everything is a target. You can use drones to combat it.

That's not accurate. I have a Samsung TV that grabs OTA guide that without any internet service at all. Is it slow to gather the data? Yes. But there's not backend provider, it's in the air already.

You gotta use a 24-hour clock.

And if you have an ecosystem integrated well enough, it'll even fill in the code received from the SMS itself without any additional effort!

I see a future in robot repair and maintenance.

Come on now... you think Slashdot has an algorithm for stories?!

The We're Not Wrong Podcast has already started something similar to this.

Which COTS?

"so that businesses or governments don't have to spend money to fix longstanding problems"

When business or government end up fixing the problems it will ultimately be you that pays for it.

I'm not sure you're Intel's "customer"....

Pretty sure Big Data already has all your information... whether you wanted them to or not.

...hey Delta, don't go gobbling up low-cost carriers. Stay in your lane.

How long do you think until ads start showing up in Amazon music?

Or maybe you'll have to watch an ad before you get that "free" four-hour delivery included with your Prime membership.

Eventually it comes down to this: you're paying for ads.

Have you not seen the tiny shoeboxes being designed as "affordable housing", where the kitchen is literally in front of the bed?