More socialism? Nah, pass.

I've been a developer for about 20 years. I've done desktop, web, and mobile (Android). I've worked with assembler, C/C++, Perl, Kotlin, etc. I do miss doing a lot of it by hand (I'm still doing some for now).

It seems to me the issue on the code + unit tests is that you:

(1) Need to do TDD with red/green refactor -- so it can't cheat by optimizing the test code to pass the written code.

(2) Need to have different agents for each

I'm still learning a lot of this, but that's what seems to be the direction to go from all I've researched so far.

This is how dangerous policies and laws start. They start with sophistry and move into something mandatory and sinister later. There's nothing to applaud here. Let parents do their jobs with the tools already available (Google has Family Link, Microsoft has their own app, there's Bark and many others). Let the free market handle it, not politicians who either have an agenda or are clueless about those with an agenda who will abuse their efforts.

It's amazing how many people glossed right over this. They saw a blurb about Trump and their TDS kicked in. Trump has only deported a few million at this point (including self-deportations). In a nation of 330M+ people, we should be able to easily overcome that and still have a population increase.

That still doesn't negate what I said. Do you think if they're taxes went above the $9B from before that they'd keep price the same?

I wish we'd stop the nonsense about businesses paying their "fair share" nonsense. They are going to pass the costs of taxes onto consumers and clients. Period. Full Stop. They aren't paying -- YOU are.

So, the woman disrupts a church service and is an agitator, and you equate that with taking people away without warrants or due process?

Do you notice how very few of the MAGA types seem to comment on Slashdot? Have you noticed a large percentage of comments on /. would be in agreement with you? I'd say it's because the vast majority of them are functional adults and get tired of the malicious vitriolic comments like these. It's very close minded to assume you have all the facts and they don't have a clue.

I still believe there's good intentions. But, that's still not my main point... I think the better laws to implement are to stop Big Tech from creepy vendor lock in & draconian control of devices.

I am concerned that age-verification laws, while well intentioned, will create unintended problems.

I'd much rather they come down hard (at the federal level) on Google, Apple, and Microsoft about things like developer registration & restricting app installs to verified developers. That's draconian and dangerous. I'd rather have the freedom to install apps and risk malware, then Big Tech censoring apps I can install or not.

Any gun deaths are tragic. But, the rates in America are actually extremely low considering the size of our population, the amount of firearms in America, etc.

Pew says there's about 55% of annual firearm related deaths from suicides. More gun control won't stop a determined person from committing suicide. So, as tragic as suicide by firearms is, I don't think we should focus on that vs firearm related deaths from homicides and other causes, since it's so easy to do outside of a firearm.

So, by my math, that was 6.1 people dying by firearms per 100,000 in 2023 in the USA. That's less than 1% of 1% of the population. And there's more firearms in the USA than there are people.

Years ago, I looked at some CDC PDF online, and if you excluded suicides, the rate of firearm deaths per year were less than by automobiles and some other causes.

So, with what "little" gun control the USA has, it seems like it's not comparatively speaking.

Pew Research Link

OK, I said my piece. Let the leftists on /. begin their efforts to comment and shout me down or mod me into oblivion. It won't change the stats, but it's a predictable response from what I've seen over the years.

Yes, but that still gives Google too much control in the process. As the owner of the device, I should have complete control over my device, even if it's not what Google wants. I'm accepting the risks & dealing with the consequences.

We cannot coddle/protect everyone from threats without giving up essential freedoms. There's protecting users from themselves and then there's draconian levels of control. Google seems bent on crossing the line.

What Google is doing is dystopian in nature, regardless of the spin they give it. It was also dystopian to see them remove drivers from AOSP for Android 16.

It is my hope that the USA and EU will crack down on this nonsense for Google, Apple, and Microsoft at a minimum.

I'm not a fan of what Google did with the Android 16 AOSP drop this year. I don't like them trying (I believe it is intentional) to quietly break GrapheneOS, LineageOS, etc. That's a subtle way (at least to the uninitiated) to cause more vendor lock-in. I'm concerned both Google, Apple, and Microsoft are trying to lock down their software in Orwellian ways myself.

It's slashdot. There's a clear liberal/progressive bias and has been for decades. Thus, TDS and other such afflictions are to be expected in the comments.

He's one of the main guys getting Trump to pull out of Ukraine?

Are you serious? Trump campaigned on ending the conflict between Russia and the Ukraine. He mentioned it frequently. Vance isn't "getting" him to do so. It was a campaign promise.