But treating their algorithm like it has feelings will keep their stock price from collapsing before the IPO by convincing potential buyers it's something it's not.

It's a stock ploy, pure and simple, though I do wonder how many of their execs actually believe what they're shoveling.

Defrosting happens at any temperature above freezing. 50F is a perfectly reasonable max temp for a refrigerator. 50C is not.

First, they are refrigerators. They do not need to be connected to the internet and should not be, period. You want to remotely manage them? Use anything but the internet.

Second, why would you make them remotely accessible FROM ANY IP ADDRESS? Do you not know what a firewall is? A whitelist? Conditional access?

Third, why the fuck would a REFRIGERATOR need the ability to COOK anything? Did someone forget the difference between Fahrenheit and Celsius and give them a max temp of 50C when it should've been 50F?

Fourth, vendors should be held liable for this shit. Manufacturers who provide always in fully connected devices should not get a "get out of liability free" card by saying "you should always upgrade to the latest firmware" and should be held accountable for producing REFRIGERATION units that can be turned into OVENS.

Fifth, and finally, as per the norm, I did not RTFA so maybe it mentioned this, but I'm willing to bet there were default passwords still in use. Yet another thing manufacturers should be held liable for. It shouldn't be possible to hook it up and start using it without configuration that requires setting reasonably secure credentials.

Only if that NFT, itself, is delivered by carrier pigeon.

Sure I did. Everybody knows what a clueless loser you are, son, with your r(etared)silvergun(shooting blanks) sock puppets are. But if it makes you feel like your penis isn't quite so small to lie to yourself, you be you.

Not run along and have some sock puppets downvote me, and maybe your Chinese mommy will give you a cookie.

Red Kool-Aid and blue Kool-Aid both taste like bitter almonds. And the food coloring used is the only difference between the two.

I included a link for a reason.

But I suppose that's too subtle for some.

For roughly $60 you can buy a RPi 3 model B+ with a power supply, heat sinks, case, and SD card. Load it up with pi-hole & unbound and you needn't worry about any of the big players like cloudflare blocking DNS you want and you can block as much DNS you don't want as Quad9 or more on your own. You don't even need the RPi. If you have an old laptop or PC laying around you can probably run it on that. Just remember to use BOTH pi-hole AND unbound and don't point pi-hole at Google or cloudflare or quad9 resolvers.

The best way to teach them the perils of trusting government is to encourage them to do so.

As they're learning, slowly and painfully.

It is one of life's supreme ironies that today's left so ardently wants to emulate Tail Gunner Joe.

Founds the commie insurgent.

Irrelevant, when the work it not copyrightable to begin with.

Star Trek established 50 years ago that computers should have women's voices, because a computer with a man's voice would turn on you eventually.

The actual science on the "pay gap" says that it comes from two sources:

First, women negotiate differently for pay than men. Men generally negotiate primarily for money, consistent with the traditional societal role of being the "breadwinner." Women negotiate more for flexibility, consistent with the traditional societal role as caregivers for family, especially children. In short, women are, on average, more likely to negotiate for flexible hours so they can take the kids to school, than men.

And second, women take more time off after childbirth, by enough of a margin (often a few weeks vs several months or even a year) that a woman of a given age will have less seniority than a man of the same age in the same job.

Taking the second into account, a lot of the pay gap goes away.

Censorship is speech that causes considerable harm to the both the victim and the one doing it.