EVs are now a direct replacement for ALL consumer use cases. If you need to tow your shitty trailer home from London to Prague twice a week then bad luck. Charging stations are common enough now.

"It is clear Flock has aspirations far beyond ALPRs to become a digital platform for policing," [emphasis mine]

They misspelled, "Orwellian suveillance and harrassment."

Law enforcement officers are already abusing Flock's existing capabilities for stalking. This will not improve matters one iota.

To be perfectly honest, I lost track of who I was replying to and who the idiot was. I guess it's me for delivering snark without proper target identification. Apologies.

Latitude is not the only factor. Geography and topology also matter. Although, understanding that requires a high school level of science literacy and as the other guy pointed out, this is a US website after all.

Ah yes. This being a US website means we all have to pretend that the rest of the world doesn't exist.

So... Orban mismanaged the weather?

Just because something is unknown to you doesn't mean it's unknown to everyone. We're not all as stupid and uninformed as you.

Unusual heat and cbold aren't the only ways a broken planet will kill us.

See that's the narrative that Americans love to tell themselves. But in reality the Chinese know that hidden backdoors don't stay hidden, and their national interest is best served by making software and devices secure for everyone. They don't need to spy on their citizens with secret software backdoors when cameras are on every corner and social credit records are openly implemented.

They saw the idiotic attempts the Americans made with stuff like the clipper chip. They won't make that same mistake.

That's true to a certain degree in all countries. But let's not pretend that the couch fire that is the EU is comparable to the entire neighbourhood burned to ashes that is the USA.

Trying to tell an American to stop screaming shit about socialism is like trying to tell a small dog to stop barking.

The expansion pack is currently available only for the platforms listed. If you own Quake from GOG.com, the Epic Store, or own the original CD-ROM, you are, for the moment, SOL.

Zymurgy's First Law of Evolving System Dynamics:
Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to use a larger can.

So. Who wants to bet that no one will point out what abysmal sysadmins they are, letting internal servers run amok all over the open Internet, only finding out days afterward after someone had to tell them.

And who wants to further bet that the AI grifters will respond that the only way to prevent this from happening again is to give them trillions more dollars so they can build bigger, "hardened" datacenters?

Is there no level of rank incompetence they won't excuse?

Now, AI advancements — and pressure on executives to show they're embracing the new technology [ ... ]

#include <goose_chase_meme.h>

"From who?

"...PRESSURE FROM WHO, M*TH*RF*CK*R!?"