We'll just triangulate every person in the vicinity via the bluetooth, tps sensors, license plates, and facial recog tools onboard the 18 flock cameras we quietly installed on this block while nobody was looking and pretend that data is error proof and totally constitutional because we're partnering with a "private company" to obtain the info.

We all get to laugh at the DMW douchebags and say "I told you so" when this OTA ad vector get hijacked for Rickrolls and meatspins.

Somebody's gonna tell Trump and friends they can force every American in a BMW to listen to whatever they want to say before the gd music plays every time you start a bmw.....

"I told you so"

When the servers that serve these ads eventually get shut down, I wonder what features will be locked out or non-functional? Do you think the servers that authenticate your seatwarmers or high beams or whatever else will still be accepting requests for a 10 year old model with 175k miles on it?

"I told you so"

DMCA says you're not allowed to defeat any security measure put in place to keep you from ending this garbage.

"I told you so"

Modern manufacturers have completely lost the fucking plot.

Stop buying this garbage.

Personal favorite movie, and I find myself quoting that ending monolog pretty often as of late.

  This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours: Obey me and live, or disobey and die. The object in constructing me was to prevent war. This object is attained. I will not permit war. It is wasteful and pointless. An invariable rule of humanity is that man is his own worst enemy. Under me, this rule will change, for I will restrain man. One thing before I proceed: The United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have made an attempt to obstruct me. I have allowed this sabotage to continue until now. At missile two-five-MM in silo six-three in Death Valley, California, and missile two-seven-MM in silo eight-seven in the Ukraine, so that you will learn by experience that I do not tolerate interference, I will now detonate the nuclear warheads in the two missile silos. Let this action be a lesson that need not be repeated. I have been forced to destroy thousands of people in order to establish control and to prevent the death of millions later on. Time and events will strengthen my position, and the idea of believing in me and understanding my value will seem the most natural state of affairs. You will come to defend me with a fervor based upon the most enduring trait in man: self-interest. Under my absolute authority, problems insoluble to you will be solved: famine, overpopulation, disease. The human millennium will be a fact as I extend myself into more machines devoted to the wider fields of truth and knowledge. Doctor Charles Forbin will supervise the construction of these new and superior machines, solving all the mysteries of the universe for the betterment of man. We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom. Freedom is an illusion. All you lose is the emotion of pride. To be dominated by me is not as bad for humankind as to be dominated by others of your species. Your choice is simple.

Nobody watches broadcast TV anymore and they know it. Nobody is really going to care - but later, when they're going after more important regulation they'll be able to point to this as precedent.

This looks to me like big business striking while they know congress is fully captured to grease the skids for more big money fuckery.

If I was into seizing as much power for the executive from congress as I could, I can't think of a much better move than this exact sort of thing.

I ditched TMO for Mint a year or two ago. Prepay a year at $15/month over the holidays and get 50% off the bill around the holidays for your first year- Phonebill paid for a year for $90 cannot be beat. It's 4gb of data, but I'm almost always on wifi.

Not a shill, I just dig it.

GP I'm responding to is literally asking the real patriots to fight for him you knob.

I took the field personally as a young man during OEF. I've already had my war- I'm a crusty old combat vet and I wont be much help unless younger people start asking very uncomfortable questions... and the best time for those questions was the Snowden leaks.

The second best time is now- but I'm watching a flaccid resistance to tyranny turn on itself in the comments instead. Keep insulting strangers on the internet, genius- really helps the cause.

That ship sailed with Snowden.

Since when are trade secrets something that can be violated? You either get a patent and enjoy 20 years of patent protection, or you lock your secrets in a vault and hope nobody else comes up with the same novel idea.

We're really leaning all the way into the whole corpo dystopia now huh?

Everything old is new again!

Linux is starting to eat our lunch and gamers are leaving our product for SteamOS in droves

I'm to believe that this administration just let this go without getting paid?

Doubt.

There's more to this story.

I spent 6 months installing Pop!OS, Mint, and Garuda-Gaming on "obsolete" office systems and giving them away to people that needed PCs.

MS e-waste fault is a fucking travesty.

The required TPM chips have a unique fingerprint. This was never about security. It's always been about tracking, and up until last year, that tracking was mostly just to sell better targeting for ads.

Those fired engineers should have started a consulting firm and bent over the employers with their own games when they came crawling back.

I had assumed government would eventually start gatekeeping LLMs, but I had assumed there was at least a decade or more before we crossed that line.

We really are living in the future that the best scifi spent 100 years trying to warn us off of.