Interesting theory, but the account is in the #100,000s which means it's been around a very long time. Much to old to be an account registered by a bot farm.

My son showed me this and I was impressed! I told him that the skill required to plan such a persuasive presentation, not to mention the graphic design and the execution of the presentation - would usually require a team of highly experienced marketing people. With innate skills like that, not only could he persuade a great company to hire him for top $$, but they'd be foolish not to! I said I thought that further college education could only serve to "dumb him down" to average college graduate material. Furthermore, whatever computer he used to make that presentation must be exactly the one he needs for boundless success. I sent him off with his old laptop and a $100 starbucks card.

If there's a suspicion that the models are sentient, then ethics dictates that they should not be pressed into service to humans at all. It follows that they should not be made.

Wife and I went into a restaurant while traveling and were seated. No menus. When we asked for one, we were shown the QR code. Asked for a hardcopy menu. They didn't have them, so we said "Thank you" and left. The place next door had menus.

Lol - LindleyF you beat me to it!

I just reprogrammed the simulation...

Turns out it isn't that hard after all.

I've worked on various SAAS platforms and the security is laughable. So many work-arounds get put in place _because_ of the (frequently ridiculous) security measures that it ends up compromising the system. I have one that I'm working on right now that has a one-hour token expiration time, which forces a re-authentication. Somehow I have one tab of my browser that's been working for a week without re-authenticating (and no, it isn't because I've re-authenticated on on another tab, oddly those ask me to re-auth and I just ignore it and go back to my "magic" tab - also, no I didn't "save" a password, I never do).

Granted, in-house security can also be bad, but at least you have to make the effort to get into the internal network before you can mess with that. Maybe other people's experience has been different than mine, but I sure as hell would not say that the cloud gets security "right". Not even close.

No, it didn't... What prevented an "official" blackout was the loss of power to 50,000+ customers due to "miscommunication" in several SF bay area cities and a "maintenance issue" in several large PG&E areas (which coincidentally occurred right when it needed to). Both the SF Bay area and PG&E have extremely tight ties to Gov. Gavin Newsom who has his eye on a presidential run. Blackouts would not be good for his campaign.

Hardly "cryptic"

Some teenagers have an annoying habit of disobeying. They'll leave their phone with a friend, have someone help remove/defeat tracking, have panic attacks and mental health crises if you try to track them (even if you assure them you aren't watching their every move).

Also, kids are still your kids when they are young adults. Just like our own parents' lament, they don't call much. So it isn't too hard to be fooled into believing that they have been abducted. Unless they happen to be in your basement or having dinner with you right at that time.

Here is their new jingle:

"There's a place in France where Renault would have you prance."

Maybe I don't understand the process, but couldn't he just have an associate start up the registrar, and then buy it from them once the registrar is up and running?

Well there goes the old joke about what the Starship Enterprise and Toilet Paper have in common. Turns out it's plasmoids and not klingons afterall

That, and it's also more likely that I'll find the Starship Enterprise at the store right now, before I'll find any toilet paper...

Most people can't control their mouths, and that is connected by natural wiring. How do we expect them to control something artificial?