No they aren't. "Remote control" is used only in disengage scenarios. This always results in the ride pausing while a person takes over. Go look up how often that happens, and maybe read that transcript again.

The centre in the Philippines has zero access to drive the car. Zero. None. No remote control function what so ever. That is done from either Arizona or Michigan. Maybe read that transcript again.

I don't want idiots on Slashdot, but we can't always get what we want. Case in point: your post.

Except all those self-driving vehicules [sic] drive far better than the average human. They may not drive as well as the *best* human, but that's just you colossally missing the point.

Your school bus example is a good one. There's a reason why those signs exist: humans zooming past those signs have a tendency to turn kids into a red streak smooshed into the bitumen, whereas Waymos have yet to hit a person in any condition.

Rather than dreaming of a future of self driving cars, maybe reflect on a past where you didn't pay attention in statistics class.

*time. Hard time. Not has hard as posting on Slashdot before the coffee has kicked in.

Since when is a felony associated with hard crime? I mean I know one guy who has 34 felony convictions and has never seen the inside of a jail cell.

It's not even a case of "software working this way" as much as it is a case of "Buying" or "Purchasing" isn't limited in any way to the act of getting goods. Historically the term has very much been used for both services and IP. And goods, services, and IP have always had contractual components.

Some lawyer convinced their stupid client to part with some money I guess.

In Chernobyl all three of those groups were fine and trustworthy. They weren't the source of the problem. Bureaucrats in the soviet union were.

You're relying on a very loose interpretation there. France is not energy independent. They have a lot of local storage to ride them through troubles but they are 100% dependent on other countries even in their nuclear energy sector. Most of France's uranium for example comes from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Namibia which represent 50% of total uranium supplies.

They did. And that industry exists today due entirely to a massive government bail out of the sector which went bankrupt years ago. It's easy to say you have employment when it's socialised.

I agree with you on waste though - the concerns there are stupidly overblown. I'd just wish that nuclear was financially viable instead of being the single most expensive way to produce energy (yes even in China, this is not a western problem).

In the world of dynamically assigned resourcing there's always an ability to shutdown everything everywhere at once. Not one major tech company has to date not had a major global outage (typically short) caused by some configuration snafu which replicated across the globe.

Because American tech giants keep coming in and buying out any European tech initiative and shutting it down to eliminate competition.

Why aren't you a member of the billionaire ruling class yet? Hint: it's because they are stacking the deck against you, just like any tech giant does to a not giant regardless of where they are from.

Posted from my Finish made OS,

What has an update broken for you recently? What "workflow" do you have on your phone that is breaking? I'm genuinely curious here, because 99% of the time I apply an update and can't even figure out if anything has changed at all (mainly because I hit the skip button when the popup asks if I would like a tour of new features).

Except that isn't solved by a wired connection. The context switching problem remains using wires as well. The OP postulates a scenario where a Bluetooth device being on doesn't mean it should be used, the same scenario exists for a wired device, cable in but doesn't mean it should be used.

In fact it's clear that Bluetooth here is copying the previous behaviour of the wired devices.

That is a very strange situation. The number of times I've wanted to switch to Bluetooth is exactly 100%, because my headphones and earbuds aren't on unless they are on my head and I find auto-switching a godsend.

Not that I'm gaslighting, I fully support the idea of this being a toggle feature so it can accommodate everyone. But really I find your complaint perplexing.

So deny a right to education? Look someone will always benefit from something more than you, does that mean you should be locked out of doing said thing through an insurmountable paywall?

You're almost right there. Scholarships are a great idea, we should give them to *everyone*. Education should be available to *everyone* who wishes to pursue it without financially crippling them.

It's not up to a college to make you money. It's up to a college to get you a degree. If that degree renders you unemployable that has nothing to do with the college or quality of education you received.

False. Given that student loans can't be discharged through bankruptcy it's one of the lowest risk loans out there. It's a loan that follows the person for life and turns into a nice paycheck.

That's a good one. Though even if you do argue that students need to go into debt, the question is why this has anything to do with private lending. Why isn't this a standard government loan, indexed purely to inflation and recovered via taxation of income like in many other countries?