911 also gets automated calls from alarms, some of which are false alarms.

Just like social media, 911 is also stuffed with bots.

You're assuming he has brain material left.

It's chewy brain-jerky for zombies

Okay, but were other companies blacklisted for similar leaks?

Talking about the President reading briefs shouldn't be a question. Yet, it reportedly is for this President. What I have seen reported is that he doesn't have the patience or reading ability to do the reading in order to make an informed decision. He relies on bullet pointed summaries that better not go over one or at most two pages. If correct, that is wrong for any sitting President.

I don't think that any person would debate that the issues the President is addressing are potentially very real. Foreign chips, dependence on foreign suppliers for critical items, and probably even a very small number of products in trade should indeed be handled. But the ways he goes about solving them are shortsighted and wrong. There are very few companies which are going to do much more than lip service to claim they are investing in America, and hope that saner heads in 2028 will prevail and they can get back to business. Nobody in America wants to pay for what "Made in America" as opposed to at most "Assembled in America" would cost them. They're having troubles making ends meet as it is and are perfectly happy buying "Made Elsewhere".

I'm a Republican, by the way, and proud to say I have never voted for Trump. I also haven't voted for candidates who are rabidly pro Trump at the federal level either. For state offices, there frequently isn't a choice as many times there may just be one Republican candidate on the ballot and a slot for a write-in. But Congress needs to find their collective spines that they were issued at birth and rein in the idiocy spewing from the White House.

...it acts increasingly drunk over time until it pukes all over your open apps and files one random day, either forcing you to reboot or self-rebooting via crash?

...even more monopolish. If there isn't such a word, there should be, as it keeps happening.

and 6 of those 7 are probably bots.

The extreme left has gone way beyond UBI and Universal Healthcare. They are now advocating outright Communism, praising Chairman Mao, etc.

All 7 of them.

More likely, they're producing installations according to the specifications they are given to bid from. In most all municipal jobs, the lowest bidder is going to win. If you bid in all the extra layers that should be there, you'll lose the bid. That isn't the way it should be, but good luck changing the process. If you want to point blame, look to the people writing the specifications for bid.

But also realize that most water and wastewater infrastructure is old. It may be internet connected, but the threat surface was perceived to be much different when those specifications were written. 20/20 hindsight is a great thing. In the early days of the internet, your IP address meant something. Today, with virtual server farms located around the world, they don't mean much. Everything should be written or updated to the security problems we have today. No utility has the money to upgrade - they're just trying to build out more infrastructure to serve more people that needs to be compatible with the existing SCADA system - not a new and improved SCADA system that is more resilient.

Most of the long distance stuff was done over radios. They had line of sight issues, failed frequently, had their own security issues, and dealt with congested spectrum. Sometimes it was dial up, but the telephone companies are abandoning analog as fast as they can. You have to go through hoops to handle phones in elevators compared to the old days.

They certainly should be doing better internet security. But the old technology had lots of problems as well. Combine that with the need to do remote security in many spots, requiring live video feeds sent back to logging devices and running a separate radio or dial up connection for data is a very hard sell.

It has been a while since I visited Canada, and then, it was a couple of provinces in western Canada. But at that time, French was very much a Quebec province thing. Yes, there are scattered patches elsewhere, primarily in areas near Quebec. Implying French is universal in Canada just because it is predominant in Quebec is just wrong. And to be fair, the hostility between western provinces and Quebec has been real for a very long time. At least it was the times I was there.

I loved the people I met and have great respect for Canada. I'm not a fan of the current US leader's desire to annex everything to get everyone's attention off of his family business dealings, or many of his other ideas for that matter. There are many in western Canada that would like to be independent, at the very least from the eastern provinces. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't want to join the US, especially as poorly run as the government has been lately. But ignoring the leadership issues, the people of western Canada have a lot more in common with the people of the upper midwest and western US than they do with Quebec.

...because they merely expect AI to replace existing tasks. Whether it actually does is more nuanced. For example, many employees pressured to use AI say it makes their tasks harder by creating AI slop that needs cleaning up. They have to deal with mistakes that wouldn't be in a human draft or in existing time-tested templates. If and how fast employees will get better models or learn to prompt better is unknown.

It's essentially management's gamble. Those in the C-suite often don't spot or are slow to understand front-line patterns, as nobody likes delivering lackluster news to higher-ups. They'll typically hear, "There are a few learning curve hiccups, as expected, but we're making progress" even if the productivity ship is taking on a little water.

I never activated Sirius, but twice a year they have a free week or so of music as a promotion. I don't do anything with or about that, but "weather alerts" start popping up. It's naturally windy in my neck of the woods so I get bajillion alerts that require pushing Dismiss while driving, but often cannot turn the alerts completely off because the Weather Alert "Off" feature is only available some of the time, but I cannot tell when without going into the menus, which present music options first. If it's not stealth spamming it's crappy UI coding. Either way, it sucks. I contacted Surius once and they said it cannot be fully deactivated. I may have a mechanic cut the antenna wire to Sirius but am afraid it would break GPS also.

but I can't track it down. Memory usage and disk/SSD look fine. I suspect either GPU or some weird OS stack gets full or confused. Windows 10 has a secret bladder that needs a diaper.