I wish we could just press a single button and it would feed their genitals into a wood chipper.

Nah, it's just that a whole bunch of people simultaneously tried desktop Linux... then, right afterward, most of them immediately gave up.

Also don't forget the film and TV industry settled there in large part because of the reliable climate - it doesn't matter as much with inside studio recording, but there's a lot of exterior filming that happens on those huge back lots for pretty much every show and movie. Compared to SoCal, Texas heat is absolutely brutal - and Geogia/Tennessee heat + humidity + thunderstorms + tornado warnings + whatever will make it miserable - not to mention the very real costs related to all those delays that will need to be factored in.

Oh, and he'll probably need the target state to donate a lot of land to replace all those back lots Paramount currently owns...

Are there a bunch of down-on-their-luck ski instructors cold-calling people in France for some reason?

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They die more often (and at a younger age) from gunshot wounds and traffic accidents.

I kid, I kid...

One of these things is not like the other
One of these things just doesn't belong
Can you tell me which thing is not like the other
Before I finish this song?

Actually, the article states that the AI agent was "asked if it was possible to move him to the top of the list" (the guy was initially fourth on the list). So yeah, it was actually asked to "seek avenues around it".

The guy (who, by the way, sells AI products and probably sees all this as PR) didn't seem to have problems with cheating.

Yeah, setting everything else aside... it's pretty obvious whoever developed the website did a piss poor job of it. If the only validation happens in at the client end, it is definitely going to get abused at some point, AI or no AI - and perhaps that has been happening already, quietly, before now. Same issue with a REST interface when the access isn't restricted or allowable interactions aren't limited.

Where do you suggest we shoot them, then?

We've seen enough stories about national government misuse of these camera feeds to assume there's no "exclusive access" provision in these contracts.

I'm old enough to remember when Japanese products had this exact same reputation. I'm really surprised at how short-term some people's memories are - especially a lot of our leaders, who are old enough to also remember it.

In our department, the vast majority of our staff do 90% of their work in a web browser. A handful use a separate email program (Outlook, unfortunately), but most are in Gmail. They also occasionally use MS Office, but that software's crappy interface is equally bad regardless of platform. So I have a hard time believing switching them to Macs or Linux boxes would have any deleterious impact on their productivity, except perhaps in the very short term as they learn the OS' interface.

And, since we do have a number of users on Macs already... it's not as if our desktop admins would be dealing with an unfamiliar management setup.

Our group's desktop admins are considering making this switch right now, actually. It's got nothing to do with "increasing productivity", it comes down to per-unit costs plus positive experiences with those staffers who are already on Macs. The group has been long-time Dell customers on the Windows side, and what I'm hearing from them is that Dell's business laptops have gotten more expensive than the equivalent Macs. FWIW they have various reasons they've rejected Dell's competitors in the Windows space.

... and (assuming this happens prior to 2029) then it will get banned in America. But at least other countries will be able to buy it.

Given she was guilty of Driving While Black, it's somewhat surprising they didn't shoot her during one stop or the other.

Hopefully that's also how you feel as well about the $100 billion in refunds of Trump's tariffs, which were ordered by the Supreme Court - not a problem, just resets the clock. But it certainly didn't seem to be how Trump felt about that.