I agree. There are jurisdictions that don't require the consent of everyone to record private conversations, but are none that don't require the consent of anyone.

Their defense, of course, would be "you gave consent in the click wrap TOS you didn't read," but such abusive terms have been declared unconscionable before.

All a pipe dream, though, regardless of who is in the White House or controls Congress.

At which point, it will probably look for alternate open WiFi that's not restricted.

Best to not buy a smart TV at all.

I remember getting my first 9600 baud modem and using macros in procomm plus to spam middle finger ansi art on dialup BBS in the late 80s knowing most users were stuck on 1200 or 2400 bauds still. I thought it was so funny at the time.

I used to be such an asshole. I mean, I'm still an asshole. But I used to be one too.

And? Whether or not there's some other element involved doesn't change the fact that the other element alone isn't enough. It also needs the building blocks.

Good start.

But then you completely miss the point. This isn't about "life came from space," this is about "the building blocks of life came from space." There's a difference, whether you can understand it or not.

Illegal doesnâ(TM)t mean I donâ(TM)t have the right to record, tho. Government doesnâ(TM)t give rights.

Neither is erudite language. Grow up.

Apple has died before, to the point of having to let Microsoft bail them out. Most large companies go through up and down cycles. Sometimes, those cycles yo-yo wildly, even to the point of the down cycle killing the company for real.

Odds are, however, that regardless of how much damage this does, they'll bounce back again. And, eventually, take a dive again. Lather, rinse, repeat, ad nauseum.

And that pretty much sums up Wikipedia. A popularity contest for factoids, actual facts are irrelevant by policy.

If it actually works as claimed, it would have to pay less because the ads you see are more relevant to the search, which means fewer ads for random shit like you get now.

Of course, most of those ads will be made up slop.

And when the threats and stalking start, and they will, as the people behind this intend, there should be capital charges followed by executions for treason or insurbordination.

It does if the button in question is the on/off switch of the power strip it's plugged into.

Unfortunately, there are a significant and growing number of people who, if they threw their phone away, would have no life left, and no ability to ever create one. By deliberate choice.

Nothing new about that. It's been standard marketing practice for decades.

We're running a business here. We need real software, not toys created as a fun weekend experiment with a chatbot or burning money to run an agent and get 50% (or more likely 5%) of the way there.