Exactly. For example, spreadsheets were often used day to day but the accountants kept the actual books as books and had the final word. That changed over time, only after spreadsheets proved out (and got the bugs out).

Also, humans stayed in the loop. Sure there were occasional funnies like a medical database claiming a few male patients had a history of pregnancy, but humans were in the loop and cited those as obvious errors. There were still backup paper records to fall back on.

But a lot of people when they hear someone say "it's nowhere near ready for prime time" will claim the person is saying "It'll never work".

Back in the day when the "Board of Education" was an actual wooden board.

If they really wanted to serve the user, it would understand "Hey Google, lockdown now" and would power off and require a PIN to restart.

Long press doesn't do anything so low level anymore, it just signals the management processor in the radio that it should force the application processor off. The management processor keeps running.

The power button on the phone really is just a suggestion. To actually power off the whole phone you have to remove the battery (if possible) or let it run down to zero.

This is what happens when you give an AI agency.

You've got questions, we've got cellphones.

In a real sense, the back end recognition that Flock does is exactly stalking on a massive scale.

It's not a matter of not being seen or even not being photographed every now and then. That level of privacy is not available in public.

But even in public, until Flock and it's ilk came along, we had the privacy of being just a face in the crowd. The people who saw you on main street were different from the people that saw you on 2nd street, were different from the people who saw you leaving your home. There was no database and no recognition software to stitch all of the sightings together to form a coherent record of your movements.

It's that tracking and recording that people object to.

It'll be interesting to see what the overall impact is on the cost of Blizzard titles.

This. Madoff didn't get in trouble until he started fleecing people who were richer than he was. Then it became an issue.

$1199 for the iphone 18 Pro. After the initial flurry of people who will just buy anything new from Apple, I'll be curious to see how these sell at that price point. I'm guessing the plain Jane iPhone 18 will come later on.

Had he done those things, you would have heard me complain.

I simply don't remember being hassled to show anyone my vaxination card.

Given the price point of these TV's I suspect 4G or 5G service is going to be prohibitively expensive to enable. I suppose if they thought the total lifetime revenue they'd be able to earn by snagging your data exceeded the cost to gather it, they'd do it.

Personally, I just don't allow TV's to talk to my local network at all. If for some reason I felt the need to do so, they'd be on a separate vlan with no access to a gateway to the outside world.

Google and Amazon are already doing the same thing along with your mobile providers so it's an arms race to limit the phoning home only to services that you want to enable. I doubt the government plans to intervene at all as some of that profit from trafficking your data trickles down to politicians.