...But on closer review, even she realized she would never create such a thing for such a price....

Tangential knee jerk thought regarding Waymo.

What happens when Amazon creates their own driverless vehicle (or joins forces with Waymo). You now have driverless vehicles with robots capable of bringing the packages to your location, and they replace a large part of the delivery people with people who handle "rescue" scenarios....

I would -=almost=- consider doing a "dine n dash" if they forced you to pay for the meal through their app

My last company they took it a step further and did stuff like "suggesting" that the teams had to incorporate technology/platform XYZZY that they called out.

One of the teams showcased a really neat system that could have (given some additional effort) have led to some major cost savings, but ignored XYZZY--this was just a "suggestion" after all. The judges pretty much on learning this didn't touch their pet platform unofficially disqualified them.

After this if memory serves, they "clarified" the rules---so that teams understood that they needed to incorporate the next wiz bang platform/tech--and I promptly lost any further interest in the hackathons (most of the folks I worked with expressed a similar distaste)......

There is in fact, the two tools to check into are
* Trufflehog: https://github.com/trufflesecu...
* BFG Repo Cleaner: https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-r...

Trufflehog handles the scanning for credentials. BFG handles cleaning up the repo once a discovery is made (for instance the history clean up required when you find out a credential/key was checked in 2 years ago)

Sort of reminds me of the "Disney Edit" covers of bands like Slayer or Slipknot when the lyrics are sung cleanly with no distortion--no "cookie monster." These covers in many ways come off being even more brutal than the original version?

The only time I use something like this is the voiced prompts to engage with my phone via Android Auto.

"Hey google play XXX" or "Hey google call YYY" is a lot safer while driving, (and I avoid getting a ticket)

Once disconnected from the car, the phone itself doesn't have an assistant turned on.....

Given the fact that Mint Wireless was just acquired by T-Mobile....I suspect my family and I will be moving once they jack our rates up as well....

My kids' school started issuing these to the kids (grades 7-12), and they are a royal PITA. Not only are they horrifically underpowered, but if you look at them cross eyed, they refuse to work, and after that are further crippled by the security policies forced on them.

I've also lost count the number of times my kids had to submit something, couldn't get the things to cooperate, and had to resort to using their personal devices (usually in the form of a photo of their assignment, emailed to the teacher).

Then there is the district wide midterm and finals which are computerized, and they mandated that the kids are to take them from their shiny chromebooks.

Finally, I am dreading when my kids hit 12th grade, and are on the same device they were issued as 7th graders (I'm fairly confident the district does not have a proper refresh policy in place), with the original battery.....

When Fuddruckers directly linked to another person's content...they retaliated by redirecting that traffic to something decidedly less kid friendly:

https://developers.slashdot.or...

Or Amazon's utter garbage when it comes to starting back on episodic content from the last time you streamed vs starting you on the most current season that you streamed content....

Like "hello, another family member watched the series, and now I'm playing catch up....

Other than Reddit makes it extremely difficult to delete anything now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (Louis Rossman Reaction Video)

Regards to teaching my kids how to dress appropriately: I thought teaching my kids how to tie a tie (vs a clip on) was for them (and me) a rite of passage?
I remember that my dad taught me, and now I'm teaching my own kids...

-OR-

When this system finally goes bankrupt, will they send out a kill signal and brick every single one of these devices

They don't charge fines, but they do have a policy to disallow any further materials from being checked out, which seems to be a good middle ground. I'm also guessing that the librarians may like this as well--they don't have to be "the bad guy" or deal with grumpy patrons who have to pay their fines