People joke about Linux being unstable, and having usability issues, when was the last time a major Linux distribution completely bleeped home directory access? I've never seen it, and I've been using Linux since 1999, maybe 1998. Let's be clear, you could do through incompetence, but that's of your own destruction, and if you did, you could easily get it back.

Off the top of my head, a RHEL/CentOS 7 update package for GRUB rendered a lot of systems unbootable. SuSE used to use ReiserFS by default, which had a nasty habit of pulling in anything that looked vaguely like directory data when you did a scavenge, so you had to ensure you never had a disk image of a ReiserFS volume anywhere, and hope you didn't have anything that looked similar enough. There have been plenty of breaking bugs in Linux distros.

You heard about this kind of stuff happening in the US before AI. You're a police state - the police act with impunity like this, destroying innocent people's lives and facing no consequences. You should remind all those legal gun owners of their responsibility to overthrow the tyrants.

If a Prius can tow stuff, that's a change from the previous situation. Back around 2007, the Prius wasn't approved for towing at all in Australia.

Prove yo mama's not pregnant!

There were a pile of the usual idiots commenting on every related story here insisting it had to be a pregnancy. Where are they now so we can laugh at them for being wrong about one more thing?

I'm in Australia, too. Politician's faces on buildings happens here, but more at the local government (council) level. Clover Moore (lord mayor of City of Sydney) absolutely loves slapping her face all over things. It's pretty obnoxious.

Have you been to China or Viet Nam? I realise they're both only nominally communist (they're highly capitalist planned economies). But government buildings aren't adorned with politicians' faces.

It lost what made it good years ago. Back in the early to mid '00s, it was a good way to sell random stuff, or buy random second hand stuff. I sold a set of tyres, a set of roof racks, a water distiller, and a bunch of other stuff, and bought a bunch of things. But since then, it's morphed into a storefront for businesses where individuals selling random stuff often lose completely due to the fee structure.

No, PayPal was founded as Fieldlink in December 1998 by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel and Luke Nose, before being renamed Cofinity. They originally made security software for hand-held devices. The PayPal service was launched in 1999. Cofinity merged with X.com in March 2000, taking out a competitor.

In reality, ALL influence matters when talking about a thirteen-year old child taking a human life. But I kinda doubt it was the potential vegan inside that drove that.

The victim was 13. The perpetrator is 64 now, so he was 20 or 21 at the time. This was an adult who had sex with and murdered a 13-year-old child. Why do you keep repeating that the murderer was 13 when even the summary gives you enough information to know this isn't true?

I'm surprised the USA has last as long as it has with a significant proportion of the population apparently being this stupid.

You scan the vendor's QR code on your phone, and then confirm the purchase in the app. This will send a notification that the vendor can view on their phone. The speaker just uses text-to-speech to give an immediate audible notification so the vendor doesn't have to look at their phone.

Xen is Linux-based.

I have JBL 4408 monitors and a Yamaha amp in my family living room. Pretty much anyone can tell it sounds better than the typical compact speakers that tend to be used in home entertainment systems these days.

vi/nvi/vim have used the cursor keys to move the cursor for decades now. I find nano/pico annoying. vim gets the job done, locally and over ssh connections.