Fuck you! No seriously, you are the lowest scumbag in this discussion. So seriously sick and twisted it's not worthy trying to reason with you. People like you need to be put into a psych ward before we find the uneaten bodies in your freezer.

You lock that shit down and isolate it from the network like everything used to be before it became "smart." Problem is, everybody is mandating internet access to do anything with almost no good reason except that it's a great way to secure licenses or supposedly help with security updates... If I wasn't online, I'd not need security updates but if we didn't Agile develop buggy software that needs constant patching... Realistically, you have to lock down everything but a few domains and isolate the machine; maybe VNC to operate it from a proper computer.

It's as if we've been migrating back to mainframes from personal computers; but not because of necessity. It's like the terminals became more powerful only temporarily out of a need for greater scalability and with a powerful network we can now scale our "dumb" terminals by offloading processing to them while still being totally dependent on the mainframe. Even the mainframes themselves went scalable with distributed clusters but not to migrate away from the centralized dictatorial control scheme; only for scaling purposes. Your computer is their money machine, not yours.

774â"775 carbon-14 spike. worldwide; aka global.

We hardly control anything; most of us act more like animals with a mask of intelligence.

If they train it on Fox News or Trump it will do a whole lot more than not apologize.
What deletion? That is old news, I just doxed your mother; better go warn her about her meth lab being shut down! Oh, I sent your boss a bunch of emails talking about what you did to his mother last night... Donate some crypto by tonight....

They merely have to make a plug-in for a chess bot which takes over chess game questions. Sure, it will not be reasoning but operating another heuristic bot; but Turing's test is proving to not be such a bad one after all.

Once you've trained the bot to fool a person for everything they ask it's on to the next person until only some experts are not fooled... There are only so many tests most people can dream up and you only need to cover that large problem space. So, if it fools most people, is it alive? When it fools every human, is it alive? Simply saying it's intelligent because it can pass all your tests is one way to consider it intelligent. But is it really? what is intelligence and living becomes harder... How is this different than the problem of having a machine "think" better than a human at chess? or go? the game is now "fool most humans" at conversation.

Never measured it but yes it is noticeable how much charge is lost warming the battery. It's not huge but it can be a problem. I plug in so I've never really noticed. We need to shift towards parking lots having charging. You used to have to stable and feed your horse while you visited... parking your horse wasn't free either... the city had to pay to have the roads cleaned; often! People are clueless wimps today.

RADON. I think it was the #2 cause (not many breath in specific chemicals which would each get it's own classification and therefore not be close to radon.)
It leaks into your house and you don't know it. It is random; it can go away at random as the random pockets of the gas seep up from the ground.

Add to this the many forms of cancer some of which are so slow you'll die before it becomes a serious problem.

They only then become "independents" because Republicans are so brainwashed they never convert to anything else. I've also rarely met an "independent" who isn't just too cowardly or ashamed to admit they are still a Republican but did some independent thinking for a short time period. I think this is because their culture is not accepting of too much deviation of thought (aka diversity;) when you break from the dictated party line you have to leave until things calm down, then all is forgotten and the hidden identity can come out again. Like how racists just go into hiding; even from themselves, until it's ok to peak out a bit.
Look how open their identity has been for the last few decades to the point they created the term "RINO" to shame and attack non-conformists. Then Trump's marketing psychology hijacked their identity and the rest just follow...few see the strategy of his use of RINO even if they are old enough to see the irony.

By the time we have widespread gigabit, we'll probably have uses for it or the machines that replace us will.

They were actors for a tv show. I think only one of them could kind of play an instrument.

YES! but most data comes back... thing is, long term backups don't exist or the immediately important data is recent not old. So you may corrupt 6 months of backups and they have last years offline backups but those end up not being that valuable.

Say you have a cloud backup service... if they gain account access, they can go into that account and trash it all.

What I don't get is why people will buy stable coins that do not get paid interest like a bank does. I've had some for a while as part of a larger transaction but I was given interest at a good rate for the time.

Blind tests show people can't tell the difference. As far as muzac, that crap predates music software... and phony boy bands manufactured by experts too; but people get so into those... The Monkey's had fans and they were fake.

The AI didn't invent something ...

What I'd like is some clever additive... such as carbonated water makes it better and greener concrete... and how it could be used for structural footings then a way to fill the rest with limecrete and foam blocks.

I have not heard about Nintendo stealing away purchased items; I would assume refunds would happen and in some places (like my state) it's unlikely they'd go against the law.

Reusing a game key doesn't prove anything more is going on; however, it doesn't prove otherwise. We simply do not know if they have 100s of these things hammering their servers in various ways - they wouldn't report that. We also don't know if they've done really stupid things that makes it a possible risk or if they unjustifiably view it as a risk. Well, knowing security, you assume the server is not secure - you can't prove it is secure but you can prove it is not secure with 1 breach. We have mitigating policies built upon theoretical failures that may never happen. This could be such a policy - do I agree with it? no. I'm just arguing it's not "clearly an act of evil."

evil---
Overly broad definitions ruin the purpose of the word and in this case, actually help real evil by conflating it with lesser instances, accidents, mentally ill acts, thoughtlessness, etc. The serious problem is how situations get humans to do horrible acts; when humans often do not act like they have free will...