... can other pedestrians and drivers detect the truck in the dark? So the Aurora Driver can detect a pedestrian at 450 meters. But even if they step out of the landscaping strip in the median 15 yards in front of the truck?

I know where all the hobos hang out and I'm prepared for this kind of stupid shit. Same thing near bicycle trails. Are the trucks that smart?

I think the PP was implying that the cars owner might park it for 45 days. Is their telemetry always on?

On a related note: There's no cell phone coverage where I keep my car. If I don't come in to town within 45 days, what then?

Just fire, revoke clearances, and prosecute all employees who have a non-empty account on Linkedin. Bragging in a bar that you're working on secret stuff is a criminal offense -- and instead of a few patrons, they decided to publish this info for the entire world to read.

Not using a particular social media service is not a big job requirement.

I fully expect, in the years ahead, to start hearing bozos talking to ChatGPT from a bathroom stall while taking a dump. I mean, I already hear occasional phone calls...

As I understand it, a large chunk of train operations (in the US anyway) are already largely automated, with human oversight.

And most of the horrific train accidents in recent history have involved trains where the aforementioned automations had not been implemented.

I'm not sure I'd like to be on waterskis on the same lake with a self-driving motorboat...

set a course for adventure, your mind on a new romance!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photophone
Invented, in part, by Alexander Graham Bell.

I used to work at an outfit that had a big conference room, with big beautiful windows, that faced out across an airfield into a wooded area (good hiding places). In order to mitigate such optical surveilance, the windows were equipped with small piezoelectric speakers. Driven with (I'm guessing) white noise.

I spent the day on the back 40, mending de fence.

It wants to personally thank President Trump for giving them another chance.

I'm pretty sure protecting his own ass is always priority #1.

Remember, this is the guy that stood at a cemetery in Normandy and reportedly said that he didn't understand what was in it for them to die liberating Europe from fascist occupation.

Personal sacrifice is a completely alien concept to that cunt.

There are lots of things that eat insects like mosquitoes. Extincting mosquitoes reduces the food supply at the bottom of the food chain, causing ripple effects (i.e. unanticipated secondary ecological damage) throughout.

How about we don't do that? We've done an awesome job of fucking up the planet already without that kind of effort.

They won't make VPNs illegal, because that would be absolute lunacy that would be mocked along the lines of Senator Ted "series of tubes" Stevens.

What they will do is have the Department of Justice sue the large VPN providers into oblivion for conspiring to enable mass copyright violation or some shit, highlighting their refusal to block these sites that a federal judge has determined should be blocked under this law. This is the first domino that allows them to have a legal crack at the VPN providers, which is what the media industry really wants crushed.

Corporate VPNs and site-to-site tunnels will still be just fine.

Yes, these laws can be easily circumvented with existing commercial services.

Speed laws are easily circumvented by pushing your right foot to the firewall. Watch them tack on criminal charges for embargo evasion, and use that as a back door to legal action against vpn providers getting similarly blocked if they don't enforce the embargo.

I might be cynical, but you know it will happen.

Epic has an opt-in for sharing your data with other independent-but-also-an-Epic-client groups. I'm guessing that, at some point, you probably did check that box. At least, I know when I changed docs a couple years ago, my new doc tried but could not access my previous info - until I went in to the system myself and enabled it.

Another possibility is that the two independent groups are either subsidiaries of a shared parent, or else both are getting their Epic access from a single source.