Something extra stupid like Alexa on my PC or phone? No thanks. I use AI almost daily, but I can't think of a scenario where I'd want a local version that's nowhere near as capable as the cloud based tools.

Unfortunately for Microsoft you are correct, the rest of the world cannot trust any USA company for critical operations due to the polical dangers. Besides the obvious data concerns, an angry dictator might suddenly add 1000% export taxes on software, or demand it be broken or hamstrung, etc. So I don't blame other governments for moving to Libre. I think a company like Microsoft might be better off headquartered in a stable democracy.

You got that right. From a practical perspective, it's the best tool for the job most of the time. With one exception, Google Sheets is better when when many people are collaborating on the same sheet. Excel seems to choke a lot when its shared.

I prefer SQL too, but I'm never going to let end users touch sql. a SQL Data connection Query Into an Excel sheet, is a quick low effort way to provide those results to end users. One of the reasons I find Excel especially useful.

They aren't trying to deny liability, they are simply claiming that should someone die in an accident, it won't be the END of self driving cards providing those accidents are at a much lower rate than human drivers. I would agree, and add that when a self driving car does make a mistake, they have the opportunity to find the root cause, and fix it going forward. Already their safety record is freakishly good, and knowing those numbers I would feel safer in a Waymo. (Other brands however, I'm not yet sold)

I bet that's going to be a HUGE problem for them. lots of 'accredited' traditional medicine practitioners. Much like the USA has lots of 'accredited' chiropractors, and DOs.

Plenty of crackpots have credentials, the whole anti-vax mania was started by an actual doctor publishing false studies. But I do hope this helps, I know in the USA you cannot tell people what they can and cannot say, but you can hold them (Or if we tweak our laws, perhaps their platform) liable for harm caused by their false information.

That's just somebody gambling with other peoples money. That's hardly a company.

They better have their cybersecurity straight, or I would think anyone who needs goons might be a sitting duck if the 'when and where' they need guards was for sale on the dark web.

There are a lot of machines that don't meet Windows 11s TPM 2.0 requirement. Since it's not something a user can typically upgrade, Windows 10 is going to be around a very long time.

It's not a silver bullet, but Stir/Shaken does make caller ID Spoofing a lot harder. It's hard enough that, more often than not, when I get a scam phone call, it often shows their actual number. So now they have to jump through hoops to get throw-away phones, etc rather than just spoof various numbers. This makes it a lot more expensive for the bad guys.

Because I think those provisions stand in the way of warning others of a crappy company.

Where stuffy British politicians argue over what is 'non-conventional' without blushing.

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