So you're saying every town should have an Adolf Hitler street?

No. Google just took the Pixel device trees out of AOSP and is not publishing them elsewhere. Alternate OSes for Pixel devices just died.

Some ideas don't require lengthy exposition, but SEO demands longer articles, and that leads to this. In a reasonable world an editor would have ripped half this article's guts out due to redundancy.

Linux is just as vulnerable, and believe me I've tried it and it's not better than Windows for day-to-day use.

The issue is the modems. If the firmware can be modified, it can be made to exceed legal transmission power limits, or behave badly on the network in a way that affects other users.

The same is true of WiFi, but the damage tends to be more limited. Screwing up a cell tower can affect thousands of people.

"DirecTV Will Soon Bring AI Ads To Your Screensaver"

No they fucking won't, because I don't use DirecTV, and if I did I'd drop them like a bad habit.

But since I don't use DirecTV, this move only ensures that I'll never use DirecTV.

So, yeah congrats to DirecTV for alienating at least some fraction of their untapped audience. Truly forward thinking in reverse.

Before Secure Boot, rootkits were common. Back in the day I fixed a huge number of machines that were infected by malware that modified the Windows SATA/IDE driver. You couldn't remove it from inside Windows because the modified driver hid the files from AV software. You had to connect the drive to another machine, or boot a Linux live CD, remove the malware, and then do a refresh install of Windows to replace the deleted driver files.

Secure Boot put a stop to that and many similar attacks. It is a very, very worthwhile security enhancement.

Modern Thinkpads let you disable access to things such as USB boot with a password, and by all accounts it's decently well protected.

They also let you encrypt the boot drive with hardware encryption (no performance loss). Managed at the UEFI level, before the OS bootloader.

While a powerful attacker could still compromise the machine by say adding a hardware keylogger and then returning to collect your password, the reality is that unless you are up against state level adversaries that's not a realistic threat and the protections that Lenovo offers are more than adequate to protect your data even when someone has physical access.

It was that way here until the oil crisis, which shrank cars for a while. Now they are inflated again, but as things are getting crappier here, smaller vehicles are returning. If you have lots of space and fuel is cheap, larger vehicles are lovely. If neither thing is true, they are just more trouble and expense than they are worth.

Vehicles being higher up has little influence on how far their headlights cast, especially given safe following distances they are the least relevant thing. They are just commonly poorly aimed. I thought Europe had inspections for that kind of thing, though? In the US we theoretically do, but I see misaimed headlights constantly.

Our healthcare system right off the bat adds between 10 and 15,000 to my cost as an employee. This means I have to bring a shitload more value even before accounting for the wage differences.

I have lost opportunities to both Canada and London and if you're reading this you probably have too. My personal favorite although technically I wasn't going to apply for this was seeing a project in a call center I worked at go to canada to access the cheaper employees thanks to the single-payer healthcare system.

That project was Fielding calls from Americans for a American private insurance company. Basically Canadians telling Americans they got denied.

If we had a single pair of healthcare system it would create millions of jobs but the problem is the Private health insurance industry is worth hundreds of billions of dollars and the last time there was even a small chance of a single pair system they spent half a trillion dollars scaring you with death panels.

Meanwhile we have private death panels all over the place. But those are okay for some reason.

Technology is the answer, though. I don't plan to learn another script, though I might learn another language. But why should anyone have to? Computers are actually good at recognizing text and doing translations now. That's two legit uses for "AI" that have actually come true. For example I've successfully OCR'd Chinese documentation and translated it and had it not come out in broken English. This really makes one wonder why anyone is still doing bad documentation and ads, but I do still see them regularly. So weird.

It's time for you to come up with another word for it.

You know how you used to call it bleeding hearts but then it became political correct and then it became cancel culture and then it was woke? You guys tried dei but I think that was a little to iso complicated for the sort of person you're trying to appeal to.

I'm just saying that your material is getting stale and just like how cracker barrel had to change their logo you need to come up with some new branding for a new generation of keyboard warriors and Russian bots networks

The other religions tend to keep their heads down a little here. We have Christian nationalists in charge right now so those other religions while they will go about their business and try to get converts and tiths they usually aren't quite as politically involved here as the Christians

The scientologists would like to be but they've been dropping off the map as their members fade away. There is also the Moonies but I think they compete a little too strongly with Christian extremist evangelism here so they have a hard time getting a foothold.

The Hindus and the Muslims both kind of keep their heads down. And then that just leaves the smaller religions like paganism and whatnot that aren't enough to have any noticeable impact on politics.

Ordinarily Microsoft would be violating the law if they bundled their AI bullshit with their operating system. That is a classic antitrust violation..

But since we stopped any semblance of antitrust law enforcement 25 years ago that's right out the door and we can all just suck it the fuck down.

Never mind the fact that there are absolutely no viable competitors to Microsoft besides Apple and if you play games apple is not a viable competitor...

The bullshit they are pulling in Windows 11 is exactly why antitrust law exists but we are all so terrified of bureaucrats we forgotten that bureaucrats is a white collar cop.

Ironically we defunded the police it was just the police that took care of criminals like Microsoft. Your ass is still getting a ticket if you're 5 over and the cop needs to make quota this week...

And while Einstein's contributions were enormous he wasn't the only one working on general relativity.

I guess my point is we don't necessarily have to or certainly do not want to wait around hoping for a super genius to make a big leap for us.

What's more the next super genius could be out there but getting crushed by our brutal Dog eat Dog capitalist system that doesn't feed hungry children.