Don't sweat it. He'll forget about the disappointment quickly, especially if you don't build it up.

Odds are, he'll remember this as a weird time, if at all, whereas he wouldn't remember it at all if nothing odd had happened.

It actually wouldn't surprise me if it's possible. It's digital, I'm sure, and receives signaling data - maybe even texts and Bluetooth? Being a low-margin, non-connected device, it's probably never had a code audit, or even a serious look-see. I'd not be at all surprised if there were some low-hanging fruit to be plucked.

That said, it's certainly not worth anyone's time to do it, except maybe bragging rights, so as a practical matter, you're pretty safe.

The entry exists, yes. And it cautions, specifically, against overreaction: "Because of the traditional meaning of the âoeokayâ hand gesture, as well as other usages unrelated to white supremacy, particular care must be taken not to jump to conclusions about the intent behind someone who has used the gesture."

https://www.adl.org/education/...

Things are not generally so rosy in the US.

That was, indeed, an interesting article. It gave me new thoughts on colonization (of the political, founding of the US, sort) and business. Thanks.

Really? *Now* you're going to try that? In public?

I'm not sure "bold" is the word I'd use to describe that.

Among other reasons, because you can't do that with a general purpose computer. A Raspberry Pi, even without it's WiFi and Bluetooth radios, can transmit just about anywhere on the radio spectrum it pleases by manipulating the GPIO pins just via software - no specialist radio hardware or software required.

Now, that's not a very powerful transmission, but regulating transmitters just en total is naive.

I turned that off in less than a minute. Can't imagine having it on all day, every day, & trying to work.

I think part of the pain was the resemblance to "the Battle Hymn of the Republic."

Why do you assume they haven't complained to Amazon support when the post says, "despite multiple calls to check on the status"?

Certainly, with virtualization. Perhaps not mainstream, but my home server is creaking under it's current memory limits if I have the Windows VMs up. Yes, there are other approaches, but this is a valid use for gobs of RAM.

Maybe gaming too? Being able to cache the *entire* game to RAM would seem likely to speed things up, maybe make loading screens a thing of the past.

There's lots of things you can't do with a ham licence, though - like broadcast, or transmit music.

Nah, they've already got cellphones for tracking people. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm sure you're right & they'll track the vehicles, but from a privacy standpoint, that ship has largely sailed.

"Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and BSD. I don't think that this is a coincidence."
-Anonymous

So is US current, Euros, etc - it's just different people telling us they're worth something. This is the power of mass agreement.

It's good they're trying to do something, but the devil is in the details. For example, define "vulnerability". Anyone who's tried to remediate Nessus findings knows what I mean - those Low findings that just. won't. go. away. And do they mean internal or external vulns? etc, etc. And these things won't be determined in the law, they'll be decided by the bureaucrats implementing it. Pray that they're smart.