Even re-architecting might not fix their problem. It depends upon how much their software people are relying upon bot generated code. Given their famous attention to detail, what's the likelihood that they are pushing out code they do not understand because "it worked"? The hardest bugs do not show up in test harnesses. So if they have built up a giant sticky wad of code they do not understand, there's no going through it all quickly if that is even possible. If they re-architect with the same software dependence on bots, they haven't really solved the underlying issue which is the way they build stuff.

I’d argue that slavery wasn’t “legal because nobody banned it.” It was legal because there were explicit laws that created, defined, and enforced the institution.

There were statutes specifying who could be held as slaves, rules that the child of an enslaved woman was automatically a slave, procedures for manumission, regulations on how slaves could be bought, sold, punished, or inherited, and laws requiring that escaped slaves be returned. That’s not a legal vacuum, that’s a full legal framework.

It’s similar to how segregation laws later forced discrimination on people who might not have engaged in it otherwise. The state wasn’t passively allowing something; it was actively mandating and structuring it.

Slavery existed because the law built and maintained it, not because the law failed to forbid it.

I remember those days where it would warn if there was any scripting at all, rather than look for dangerous commands first.
Just as a thought, not bothering if the script cannot reach outside of the document itself. Functions that access other files or documents, email functionality, and such triggering the warning instead would have been more effective.

If speed limits were enforced, they would be abolished tomorrow. They only continue to exist because most people can break the speed limit for years without getting a ticket.

If drivers received a fine every time they broke the speed limit, politicians houses would be burning down the next day and the law would be abolished the day after.

You know why encryption is legal despite Bush and Clinton's best attempts to prevent it?

Because Gen-X kids risked a decade in jail for breaking Federal law to ensure the code got out there and everyone had it. It simply became impossible to regulate because anyone anywhere in the world could download the code and run it.

Today programmers won't even say 'no' when governments demand they ID all their users.

Because it's not about age. It's about eliminating anonymity online.

There were laws requiring that escaped slaves were returned to their owners. I presume you would have obeyed those laws, even though they were immoral.

> You live in a country with laws.

A country with laws, yes. A country with law, no.

It's ludicrous to tell people they should obey the law when none of Epstein's clients have been arrested and probably at least half of the business owners in the country would be in jail if the laws on employing illegal aliens were enforced.

If an escaped slave had turned up at your house in the 1800s asking for help, would you have followed the law and sent him back to his owner? From your post, I'm guessing you would have.

I know a few Christian Nationalists. None of them are pushing for "Age Versification" and most are against it because it's clearly just another step toward The Mark of the Beast where people won't be allowed on the Internet unless they bend the knee to Satan.

This push is coming from the communists and WEF-bozos who want to eliminate anonymity on the Internet. Literally everyone who's been following this for long knows that.

Which is why you see support for it from both "left-wing" and "right-wing" governments. They both have the same hands shoved up their behinds.

We would have to re-arrange society to ease many of the stressors in life. I predict we'll be needing those drugs for a while.

Based on the cost of products from China vs the price of products made in China but sold by non-Chinese companies, I'd say the price well more than covers the cost of everything for practically any product where they also choose to display ads.

They just want more, more, always more.

There will be no manned Mars missions: radiation. The problem is that no one has any doable idea to stop it. And this isn't the milk toast radiation we get around the Earth. This is the really nasty stuff from the rest of the Universe. And if you are lucky, you won't run into a solar flare on the way. Aside from the pretty lights, it is really nasty radiation. Don't forget to protect your space craft's instruments, they are more delicate than even you.

Another reason is that if you send someone up there for roughly a year just to get there, their bodies are not programmed to work very well in extended periods of no gravity. One's heart and other organs were developed in the Earth's gravity. When they get there, they get to enjoy low gravity. And then up to another year later, they are in the right planetary positions to catch the red-eye back. We might get them there and back (irradiated as they are), but they won't be living on Earth. Their internal organs will not take the strain.

Ever lived with 4-5 college roommates in a tin-can for even a month. It won't be pretty. Now we want them married to each other for 3 year years. Yup, that'll work.

So to sum up, I think we should send you. You are dim-witted enough not to understand the implications so you won't experience any angst over the trip or the radiation or the lack of functioning bodily organs. But you'll at least be wanting in a little buddy. I suggest Elmo, he too is dim-witted and is wildly enthusiastic enough to go. And he has the money to make it happen. Go submit your application to him for the trip. Better take a lot of ketamine with you (hint: that's what you will need, not him).

It's also possible that Dolby is twisting logic into a pretzel in order to make this claim. It wouldn't be the first far-fetched theory of infringement to go through court.

The first thing I do on installing Linux is nuke NetworkManager and it's ilk.

Futurama warned us about this twenty-five years ago: Don't Date Robots!

See the episode "I Dated a Robot".