I never revealed who I voted for.

But I will point out that voting is just a popularity contest. The politicians that make the best promises are the ones that win, not the politicians who are most qualified or make the most realistic promises. So, lying is a necessary strategy for winning.

So, yes, they are all liars. They might tell the truth once in a while if it just so happens that the truth benefits them in some way. Or if they have reason to expect that their lies won't be believed. But other than that, lying is basically a reflex for them.

For me, price is not the killer. Even if it were $50, I wouldn't. Or even free.
AI + camera toothbrush? No thanks. Far too many ways for data to go awry.

>"Dyson is entering oral care with the $499 CameraJet, a smart toothbrush that uses a tiny camera and on-device AI to detect gaps between teeth and automatically blast them with mouthwash"

$500 for a finicky device that does a poor job trying to replace what it takes pennies of money and under a minute to do with floss. No thanks.

>"The brush head oscillates nearly 1,000 times each second while the angle of oscillation is constantly changing to improve the effectiveness of your brushing"

Yeah, I have a $50 Sonicare that does that job just fine after I floss, thanks. And I can get low-priced replacement heads at Costco in multipacks that regularly go on sale...

a smart toothbrush that uses a tiny camera and on-device AI

How about no? Does no work for you?

A camera that reports on people who don't floss. They could sell the research data to dentists.

from your walls? no.
from every rack in every rural exchange? sure, if it wasn't already done a decade ago.
from nearly every last mile? makes a lot of financial send. Easier done if you're already in there to pull new fibre or if the copper can be pulled with the duct and winch method. You could have a handful of crews working full-time and every day they work they'd recover more copper than it costs you to pay them.

They should pull a Bezos. Jensen and Lisa can buy TIME so they will write better articles about them. Since time is an obsolute way of thinking, Jensen can rename it "Speed of Light" or SOL magazine.

1973 The Good Life in Minnesota: Governor Wendell Anderson
1981 Cats: Love'em! / Hate'em!
1990 (Dan Quayle) No Joke - This man could be our next President
2006 Person of the Year is "You" - Yes you. You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world.

Then my wife mentioned that perhaps he's concerned about his own comings and goings being tracked...

He's more concerned with trying to explain away his diverting of $10 million obligated to pay for health insurance for poor kids that inexplicably went to two PACs then the Republican Party of Florida, all without anyone knowing who diverted the funds, including the people who were charged with managing the funds.

Sad I could justify dropping $20k on a Mac Studio if one was available north of 128gb these days (check the site all above 96gb are gone)

I believe they are advertising the 512's gbs are coming in a few months.....

The reality is Apple very much positioned their product line as fashion items,

Having an Apple product hasn't been a "status' symbol of any sort for decades now....

They're just commodity products, nice ones....but commodity products and no one buys them or sees them as a fashion or status symbol purchase...

That's been a thing of the past for quite awhile now...

How can you tell when politicians lie?

Their lips move.

if you get the roof replaced, get in-roof solar that replaces the tiles with panels,

Maybe we're using different words/meanings....but if we both consider a tile a "tile"...then in the US, most house roofs are NOT done with tiles....in fact I'd only seen roof tiles on old houses when I moved to New Orleans....it isn't common to see roofs with tiles.

Asphalt shingles are the most common roofing material in the US.....when I think "tile" I'm thinking like terra cotta, or the like and that's not common. You used to see wood shingles too back in the day, but not so much anymore.

So, not sure if a solar 'tile' replacement type thing is really offered here in the US (it may be)....but if it is, I'm guessing it would be sky high in price for materials and then add on specialized labor would be $$$$.

Let's remember that Trump was always a east coast Democrat who opportunistically jumped into the 2016 election as a Republican because it was an opportunity for self promotion and free press. Nobody - including him, I believe - thought he'd win.
When he did, his liberal friends turned on him with their typical viciousness, which hurt his all important ego. They spent 4 years in (essentially) permanent impeachment hearings, based on information provided by Russia, which in his simplistic view, entrenched his victim complex and obsession with revenge.

Couple this, then, with the triumphalist left who felt when they defeated the wicked witch, they could do no wrong, and so decided to spend 4 years taking a Victory Shit on everything they could, from inviting 30 million illegals into the country to having trannies flop their frankentits out at the White House on Easter.

Trump is an exponential narcissist, childish, crude, and frankly rather dumb.
Think how odious and repellent the Left have to be to lose to him TWICE?

The previous poster likes to frame it as a vast right wing conspiracy but the truth is never quite that convenient. Most organized churches & clergy in the US are now about gay priests & rainbow banners, actively spreading and refuting their remaining few hyper conservative rural congregations. Democrats have always been a majority in the US, since the Republicans were formed to get rid of slavery. The only reason any Republican ever wins is that enough Democrats get tired of their own party's bullshit and vote right. In the last election EVERY SINGLE DEMOGRAPHIC BLOCK SHIFTED RIGHT (aside from, predictably, white women). Think about that. Blacks & Hispanics - in particular black men - voted in unprecedented numbers for Trump. Or, more accurately, against a Democrat machine that has milked them for votes for 70 years. The election wasn't really (by modern margins) that close.

Don't let the ideologically captured slashdot fool you. The country, having seen Trump as president once, and offered another 4 years of Obama-Biden-Harris said "No, thanks, we'll take the nutball instead". Instead of swallowing the party line of your own European media, maybe ask yourself why. And unlike Democrats, don't just start with the assumption that anyone who disagrees with you must be stupid. That's an ideology for a child.

I don't even faintly dispute that Trump is a shitty, egotistical president. He is. And he makes some really walk decisions. But he is really what the left made him, and I suspect that only a colossal who like his would have been able to buck the malignant insider cabal of both parties. In this case the medicine is unfortunately nearly as bad as the disease.

Having talent in the industry that knows how to write secure software isn't enough. The managers need to prioritize the work and allocate sufficient time for it. There is *always* deadline pressure, with real money and consequences behind it, and so engineers need to present a compelling case that their more expensive secure way to do it is actually necessary.

Businesses love to ignore security holes if something else in the code prevents them from being exploitable. They often don't accept "well future code changes may expose this vulnerability." And they won't accept "this more expensive way of doing it is the industry best practice" if they think the cheaper way of doing it is secure enough.

Getting the bean-counters on board is the real victory. Once they actually care about security, they will be interested in hiring people who can do it well, which in turn will motivate technicians to study up on it.