Haven't we solved this? There for storms there is an existing list of names and when a new severe hurricane forms we pick a name from the list at random. Why let's do the same for viruses. Sucks if your name is picked (e.g. Katrina Virus) but it seems like the best system we have so far.

The truck industry isnâ(TM)t about looks?

Our entire landscape is saturated by truck ads whose primary message is about how trucks look. Sure the âlookâ is different - itâ(TM)s about intimidation and dominance and fear rather than beauty or cool - but it is 100% about looks.

Because of new features? On the contrary, we are still finding holes in OpenSSL that are many years old.

If you think the mechanisms Rust uses to prevent security issues are "magic," you aren't familiar enough with the technology to comment on it.

Despite many eyes over many years we are still finding bugs in OpenSSL. The appeal of using Rust is that the compiler itself prevents several classes of serious security bugs. That's why it's news (at least among security pros) to see widespread security critical libraries implemented in Rust.

Nothing in your post is true. The default bucket policy is private and the default security group allows no public access.

Ethereum and Monero are the reason GPUs are being snatched up by miners. The value of those coins crashed horribly earlier in the month... to the point where it was barely profitable to mine. But prices have rebounded recently, so you can expect GPUs to start selling out again soon.

When the blockchain "difficulty factor" for ETH and XMR solidly surpasses their record highs, then you will know these ASICs are really rolling out. From there it won't be long until these $700 cards can be found on Ebay for chump change.

You can track the difficulty here: https://www.coinwarz.com/diffi...

My understanding is that it doesn't upload ANYTHING unless you say the keyword "Alexa" first. Then it just uploads what it needs to understand the commands. You could probably verify this with any network monitoring tool...

So it is not a "spying" device; it's a "respond to the commands you give it" device.

People were afraid of barcodes when they first came out. You're the latest wave of that mindset.

If you support the right if people to do as they please with their homes, then support zoning reform to eliminate restrictions on what people can build.

The restrictions on what can be built are what make being an AirBNB host profitable.

On most (typically 80%) land in North American cities, the only thing that can be built is a single family detached, no matter how much demand there is. Cheaper options like townhouses, row houses, and apartments are either forbidden or squeezed into a few slivers of land designated for them.

Allowing people to do as they please means allowing one's neighbor to build an apartment building if they want to, and not giving anyone a defacto veto through consultation.

Without zoning laws there would be no need for AirBnB laws.

All this tells us is that Verio/NTT.net is a crappy hosting provider, not that Giuliani has done anything wrong.

No, it tells us Guiliani failed to perform due diligence before selecting a hosting provider. This negligence or incompetence puts his customers directly at risk.

If robot cars need sensor roads, wouldn't a fair, free market approach say that the people using/buying/selling/building those robot cars should be the ones paying for it?

If history is any guide, this is just step one in a large scheme to transfer public money (in the form of specialized infrastructure spending) from the public at large, to robot car builders (in the form of increased sales from more useful products made possible by those specialized infrastructure spending)

We already saw this play out once in recent history, as the federal government took trillions of dollars and millions of people's homes & businesses to make daily long distance car travel first possible, then required, to line the pockets of contractors, the car companies and the oil companies.

Welcome to motordom 2.0

When you say heavier, I'm going to go ahead and assume you mean, "with higher kinetic energy". A heav car at 1mph can still kill but only if it's victim is unusually slow. A light car far at 100 mph will kill anything in its path.

Do you also support applying this of logic to other objects possessing fatal amounts of kinetic energy? How about bullets? We could just dispense with the whole notion of law and justice and police and just say, "if you don't want to get shot, don't walk in front of bullets"

People choosing to drive are choosing to escalate the energy available for property damage and harm to life. They should bear the responsibility of this, even if that means, *gasp* sowing down.

Thank you, came here to say this 1000x

Why force the humans to beg to cross safely? Why not all green for pedestrians and the machines have to ask permission to cross?

Parking tickets are not a "trough"

Driving is one of the most heavily subsidized personal actions in the world.

Parking fees and fines are a very very small tip of the balance back toward something remotely resembling a level playing field. Just pay for your parking and if you screw up, pay the fine and move on. You're still tens of thousands of dollars ahead of whe you would be if you actually have to pay for all that infrastructure, hit to mention the war and the pollution.

You've got it backwards.

You are being monitored because of your decision to put others at risk by accelerating several tons of metal to fatal velocities.

Unless you're doing it in a private track, you are endangering the public and they have a stake in how you do it,