And nobody knows how to do that, and if they did there's no guarantee the car would keep working. I bring this up to prevent the quoted statement from making someone think that "disabling your car modem is a thing" people do... it isn't, despite many -- like myself -- very much wanting to do so.

Not sure this is really news. Well, except that Texas has stopped buying American.

Free speech includes lying.

Have a little faith, everything will be fine! I have not yet read an account of AI doing something awful for which it failed to offer a heartfelt apology afterward.

"I'm sorry. I seem to have burned down your house, despite your clear instructions not to do so. I'm very, very, terribly sorry."

I wonder what the ven overlap would be of the categories "capable of running offline model" and "likely to fall in love with chatbot".

It's the time change that's the problem. Otherwise being near the timezone border would be an issue.

Merit should always consider strictly value.

Oh, no, it's perfectly "legal." You "agreed" to allow your TV to be used like this in the EULA when you installed the app. ( https://blog.includesecurity.c... )

The $5K a year just gives you a $300 per person per visit discount. So pays itself back in 15 visits or so.

But that's not what a bunch do. For example, Comcast adds a "regulatory recovery fee" which is NOT any tax or externally-paid fee, it's just a fee they pick that's supposed to cover their cost of them following the laws. It's very much taking a component of their own costs for providing a service out of the service's price and then adding it back as a small-print fee, just so they can falsely advertise a lower price.

Plenty of us nerds can afford this and want to see news about this.

I don't have that, but maybe because my utility is a municipal-owned company. They changed billing systems last year, which did result in one new line, the fuel charge for electricity. The utility's electricity rate is set (changes have to be approved by the city council), but they buy their electricity from TVA, which charges a fuel fee that can fluctuate from month to month. In the past this wasn't visible, but now it is.

This is a case of an external cost outside their control, and IMHO is reasonable to display for clarity.

For most businesses, they have to price all their products and services to include all their costs. For some reason, telecom companies get away with taking on "cost of us doing business" fees like crazy. For your grocery comparison, it'd be like picking up a $5 box of cookies, and getting a $1.27 "accounting fee" and $0.69 "stocking fee".

The ever-popular "regulatory recovery fee" is just a "you paid most of our employees through the service price, but we're going to hide paying our accountants". It's absurd; the price of the service should cover ALL of the service. Showing taxes and external fees is okay (although they need to be clearly presented with the price); that's how most US retail works already.

SCO and its successors struggled to survive, but interested parties kept the lawsuit alive [ ... ]

You misspelled "Microsoft."

Speaking of which: Is Micros~1 still shaking down companies using Linux for royalties over unspecified patents they allegedly hold?

Even if repairing the damaged A380 is not feasible, but an A380 is still desirable for the route, there are dozens of A380s that have been retired or are in long-term storage (a couple of dozen more have been scrapped already). I expect any of the owners of those planes would be happy to get them off their hands (assuming that none of them are already owned by the affected carriers).