Personally, I find AI tools great for small tasks that are repetitive and easily verified. Helping write out a bunch of DAMP test cases? Great! Better ranking of autocomplete suggestions? Fantastic!

LLMs attempting to generate more than a line or two of production code? No thanks, code review of gibberish is way harder and prone to dumb mistakes than writing it myself.

Obviously no one wanted or expected manufacturers to expose safety critical functions over the internet. Looking at this summary the "run diagnostics" in "may access to retrieve mechanical data and run diagnostics through a mobile-based application" might have been a mistake, but the NHTSA could have stated that only read-only access was allowed.

When I voted for the bill I expected manafacturers to make some horrible JSON or XML dump of the diagnostic data. Instead they seem to have convinced the NHTSA that the bill would require the CAN bus to be exposed to the internet.

Which makes me wonder how existing telematics are implemented, and glad I never had a Starlink subscription. (Subaru's Starlink, not that I want Musk's either.)

"Blackout" isn't racially charged; it references the loss of lighting during a power outage. Similarly "whiteout" isn't the opposite of blackout, rather limited visibility in a snowstorm.

Compare to the problematic "blacklist"/"whitelist" terms, which are ascribing bad/good qualities to the colors (and are less descriptive than blocklist/allowlist).

Joining in the fun stories to support the claim, our local transit police used a cardboard officer to deter bike theft: http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2013/08/14/cardboard-cop-prompts-real-drop-crime/twoZrFoyg1qrPQCVLtnF8K/story.html

And was released over a year before Office for Windows.

From the guy who chose to base Safari of KHTML: "But I chose the engine we used — with my team’s and my management chain’s support, of course —"

Sounds like an engineering-led decision to me.

Just out of curiosity, I'd like to point out that all search engines are ad supported. And, for that matter, Slashdot. You don't want to be able to use Google or Bing (and by extension, pretty much any other search like DuckDuckGo), or do you have some other business model to propose?

Guessing they haven't figured out what that configuration is.

At some point you have to trust someone. You can't eliminate all third parties and yourself. If you don't trust Yahoo or Google or any other OpenID provider to be paranoid on your behalf, you're going to have to trust yourself. Or not logging into things could also work.

Hmm, the first product of Applesoft could be a BASIC Interpreter!

Amusing that name has actually been used by the two companies.

Let's say I want to buy a copy of Windows, because it doesn't come with my Mac. I'm not even going to splurge for Ultimate, and settle for Windows 7 Home Premium. Newegg has it for "$189.99 was: $199.99". Yes, you can get OEM versions for half that, but saying $200 for a Windows license is certainly not out of thin air.

Where you went wrong: you assumed our drones use encryption ;)

DRM isn't implemented in Silverlight (for obvious reasons), so it can't play Netflix. About all I've ever seen in Moonlight is a notice to update my version of Silverlight.

Moonlight works (but only as a Firefox plugin?). However, DRM isn't / can't be implemented, so it's useless for Silverlight's main use (aka, Netflix).

If I ever become a billionaire, I'm going to hire a blimp with "PROPOSITION 65 WARNING: THE SUN IS KNOWN TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TO CAUSE CANCER" to float up and down the state. Stupid proposition system.