The Agent was wrong, when humans hit a certain critical mass we develop medicine and education for women, which drastically drops birth rates. It's still a race between various parts of human nature to see who wins out in the end.

Yeah, but there are so many people who only believe what they see themselves, it makes statistics useless. It's either a personality trait, or just that their school was too poor to do actual science experiments so the students mostly didn't learn how to understand the bigger scientific ideas themselves. I didn't believe in bacteria smaller than the eye could see until my Mum borrowed a microscope and I put creek water under a microscope. There are So many small things living in creek water!
There was a little blobby creature with six leg-like things moving around, I pressed the slide down and suddenly there was a side profile of a miniature flea-looking thing...
It could have been two different creatures, but it's wild how much variety of stuff there was, it certainly explains us humans getting sick from untreated creek water :D

I'd say the biggest factor discouraging parents from being more involved in their kid's lives is time, too many people working long hours, commuting long hours, etc. Too many employers demanding on-site work rather than remote, because they made complicated land/office use deals that have nothing to do with their core business operations. If a person can complete 8 hours of in-office tasks in 3 hours at home, pay them for the work and let them do their own thing, like raising kids, or planting carrots.

I suspect that's more about the US phone companies not wanting to invest in new equipment without significant Gov subsidies as there's often not really a lot of competition in their markets.

US phone companies were charging people to send and receive SMS long after other countries stopped.

But surely we can build a global society that doesn't have hostile groups that'll encourage hacking against their enemies as grey warfare, right? We can do that as a species, yes?

Sorry, I'll go back to writing utopian fiction

Exactly, finding security gaps in these kind of iOT devices (while damn common) is part of pushing companies to actually make them Kind of secure, up from 'free data/hardware access if you know the default admin password that's published on the internet in plain text'. So Hari is doing good work for the global community.

It's for a different model of robot cleaner as far as I can tell, but Hari probably now knows a lot of stuff that'd make him a great contributor to VacuumTiger.

Don't forget to add a 'shiny new thing' multiplier for using whatever kind of new cool thing was recently invented so they stand out a bit, for about five minutes until everyone else does the same thing.

Exactly, why spend huge amounts of time and money on something that's still going look uncanny when you can spend less time and money and stand out by Not trying to be perfect ;)

"You Will be rage-farmed and you will Like it!" - Zucks (probably)

I agree, it's getting much less useful and fun to use. I just don't know what those of us *cough* over 30 would actually like using instead.

I've seen quite a few friends get their profiles scraped and copied and Friend requests sent out to everyone they know, FB now often takes them down before I get a chance to report them. But the scrapers are now making the regular name just symbols and putting the real name in as a display name. And now they're rotating the profile pictures too.

FB doesn't seem to see a profile with a different main name And a rotated picture as a scam, or perhaps they're hoping that the details are different enough that us humans won't trust it.

Yes, too many people assume that consumers will automatically understand why the new product is better and want to buy it, but if they don't know that it exists, or see the need for it. no sales.

Aren't there already websites for that kind of thing? Medical and, uh, not staffed by medical professionals.

The breach happened on or before the 18th, the patch was released on the 19th (from the summary).

Which is why we need to rely on things other than just patching, which they (mostly) did.