If it was some hidden gem, wouldn't we have heard about it? It probably sucks, fails to live up to the hype, more scams. Maybe its the name? Have you tried using Brightdrop in a sentence? Its bizarre. If they rebranded it and dropped the price to less of a scam, maybe that'd make up for the lack of govt enablement?

The allegations against Hunter and the Bidens was that they were taking money for political influence, being paid off, taking bribes. 10% for the big guy.

I just figured out how to widen my scroll bars (or how I like to put it, return them to how they were before someone messed it up). To borrow an AI slogan, it changes everything. Every task is easier. Now if that happened for a whole bunch of people at once, no matter how geeky, that's something isn't it? Well on the other hand maybe not to those that if something doesn't work right they go under the hood and fix it.

At the cold steel circle of jobs old ideas?

I notice a big slowdown from Android 11 to 12. They don't program like they used to. Imagine the flabbergasted eye rolling from the old assembly programmers from the 80s and 90s?

Whatever it was, maybe its time for specific travel lanes in the sky, for safety and security. Think of drones and ultralites as pedestrians and bicycles, much slower traffic that has a right to be there too. Maybe this object was grandma flying her bird watching drone, doesn't she have just as much of a right to the public airs as folks going on vacation? The jetliners, small planes, helicopters etc have to learn to share the sky, and maybe they should slow down and fly only in limited places as we go on in the future. Look at ADSBexchange, Radarbox, or any of the other plane surveillance systems and see how congested the skies over America are, imagine what it'll be in a few years. What if everyone started flying 1950's Cessnas around like its a free-for-all? We need stricter aviation regulations to avoid these kinds of collisions. Start with more enforcement and courts for handling the caseload. Next, regulation on any unregulated area, double regulation where behavior has been a problem. Slow the aircraft down to safe speeds. Restrict areas where airplanes can fly. Enforce ATC orders with police aircraft in the sky. There is no right to fly, and if there was, it wouldn't be unlimited, but well regulated. And everyone has as much of a right to be there as anyone else. Common sense plane control is what is needed (as well as banning dangerous planes).

Sounds like planes are going too fast. Maybe there should be a aviation speed limit for safety? I see planes doing wild maneuvers frequently. Maybe we need a crackdown. Fighter jets with blue lights that can pull over violators. 20mph over what ATC directs = loss of license, with escalating penalties. And we need someone not in bed with the industry, maybe we need diligent watchers like the ATF under previous administrations, where they hire attack dogs that want to end the thing they oversee.

Someone a few posts up wrote

Sounds relevant. If they find a bug, is it like an ant that for every one you see, there's a hundred you don't? By patching the instant a patch is released, you've patched that hole. But security is whack-a-mole, next bug pops up soon (by your own admissions). Vulnerabilities everywhere, in every software from every vendor. Kind of seems like the issue is keeping the system online despite it being an insecure idea. Back in the days of the Apollo program, programs were well audited to make sure no bugs existed. They didn't have a "we'll fix it in an update" attitude like Microsoft and everyone else today. Turning everyone into beta testers. Might work for johnny gamer, but for US nuclear missiles, why are they connected to anything? Please tell us there's a air gap somewhere, that our nuclear missiles aren't part of the IoT.

They have to be always online, to get updates. Catch 22 isn't it? Despite the rant by the AC below about how you should update the second its available, if the computer never saw the internet, none of this would matter.

Are you new here? ;) The thumbnail for Microsoft posts on slashdot used to be a picture of bill gates with borg implants. Maybe not always gross negligence, some people using Microsoft products are very aware of their insidiousness. If you want someone to use NSA backdoored spyware, what better OS to put people on?

They got permission in 2018 for this and now you're complaining? Interesting timing, considering how liberals are turning on him since the election because of his desire to make govt efficient. Did you complain when some random company got permission to put up 48,000 satellites, at the same time that Musk got permission to launch 30,000? https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

Any evidence for your paranoid rant? I'm no fan of Musk but why would he do this? Or are you just mad his crew is cutting govt and scapegoating? I'm probably one of his harshest critics but there is nothing to this. Given the list of agencies hacked (ICE...), its probably more likely a leftist. Nice try though.

Not true. https://i.postimg.cc/RFZqZv3w/...

What a load of bs. Go back to articles in the late 90s and early 00s on this very site, then scroll down to the comments. They're no different than today. Well, maybe the addition of AI slop rants. And the CIA spooks took a liking to this site at some point, so they're probably here running their games screwing with people and politics. https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/...

Web forums were a mistake to begin with. Why have something on a site like slashdot where a few people decide the content or if the plug gets pulled on a whim, when usenet did all that? Only problem with usenet was the spam and crossposting. But the upside was you didn't have centralized power that vanishes when the profit or motive wanes. But being decentralized, its hard to monetize like ad laden websites. This isn't Rob Maldas site anymore its some conglomerate, he sold out (like everyone eventually does)