In a dealership you can sit in the various models available and do test drives. Not sure how that'll be possible buying direct. Also what happens when its service time? Will the manufacturer come and pick it up from your home or will you have to take it to them whereever that maybe? Perhaps they'll be happy giving independents all the info they need to do servicing but I won't hold my breath.

"He wasn't a product guy, and you need a product not just raw tech to sell. Selling stuff being somewhat important for a company."

Check out Clive Sinclair - he was an engineer and did pretty damn well selling his computers in the UK. Maybe Woz couldn't have done that, but it doesn't mean Jobs was the one required to help him, any competenant marketing type could have done the same. Vew few people could have designed the hardware and software that Woz did at the time.

Jobs gets all the accolades and fame but he was just a pushy sociopath in a suit, plenty of others could have done what he did. VERY few could have done what Wozniak did and its a damn shame that not many people outside of the tech world have heard of him.

And you wouldn't check it first particularly if it had to run as root? Oooookay.

Yeah, and? They had their parents and grandparents as examples.

Anyone who just cut and pastes a string of shell commands from some random web page or email into a terminal without checking them first frankly deserves what they get. If you're this dumb stay away from the command line.

The people working in the labs at the time would have grown up post WW2 when there was still very much a can-do attitude in the west, now , not so much. I'm not saying that was the only reason but its certainly one of them.

Some parents don't know or don't care what their kids do and this would be just another thing to screw with their kids heads.

"We don't go around banning cars to nerf the world for our children."

No, but we do ban drugs, don't sell kids cigarettes and have a minimum age for drinking for a reason - they're children, not small adults, they don't think the same way as adults and don't yet have those mental tripwires that stop them doing stupid stuff so we have to stop them doing it.

"Spawning crotchgoblins doesn't give you any special insight."

Wrong, it changes your perspective. When you're out of short trousers you may understand that.

"Raise your damn kids and stop expecting the internet to do it for ya."

Whoooshh....

"We apparently live in a world where a bot writing down sexy stories is a bigger concern than blatant bait-and-switch."

Yeah, it is. When/if you reproduce your priorities will change.

... ever thought this was a good idea in the first place?? Arn't the tech companies in enough of the brown stuff as it is without realtime AI porn being added to the mix? FFS, fire them before they do any more harm.

" There is no intelligent Life in the Universe. Anyone who believes otherwise is under-educated."

Given the universe could be infinite in extent that seems unlikely.

Hmm, a choice of thick idiots making up stories or aliens landed and hid behind walls. Tough one...

Believers gonna believe. They're not interested in rational explanations because if true it proves they're gullible idiots and no one wants to face that.

You don't need avionic grade electronics for something that only lasts a few minutes after firing. I worked on an air to ground missile project and the electronics were automotive grade. Also there was the bare minimum heat shielding internally too - by the time the boards had got hot enough to fry it would have hit its target anyway or the fuel would have run out so why add extra weight.