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Comment Re:Ford did this years ago on the Eco-Boost fiasco (Score 1) 68

I would consider installing software updates that prevent known future failures part of common user maintenance.. No different than lube or oil. The blame there goes both ways. I have a Ford, they do mail and notify your of available updates - to a fault - ignore them at your own future inconvenience.

Comment Have computers ever really made anything easier? (Score 1) 62

So far it seems for every computer needed to make one persons job a bit easier, two more people are needed to maintain those computers and four more people are needed to recover from the inevitable problems that computer quietly creates.

But sure, AI will save the world - just like computers turn a 100 person company into a 10000 person company.... to do the same tasks, but those initial 100 people now have it easy.

Comment Re:Do us a favor and use some common sense (Score 1) 81

Super Tip:They are already monitoring the actions of every account, they might notice a sudden change in preferences, habits, and priorities... When the account is eventually marked underage or suspicious that $5 bill will stop coming - if it anything beyond the first was ever even sent.

Comment Re:this is better (Score 1) 81

So your solution to trolls, thieves, and hackers is to just let them be? No, kick them out and don't let them back in.

If each day a thief comes into your town and steals things, destroys property, harasses people at the cafe, and kicks your dog. Are you really going to sit there and take it? Or are you the type that will just hide in your house and hope they don't bother you too?

If your town keeps tolerating that one thief, more will follow until your town is a dumpster fire
But sure, don't kick out anyone no matter what they do, since you should just let anyone do whatever they want to do to others. This is not how society remains intact.

Comment Re:this is better (Score 3, Insightful) 81

The days of a usable anonymous internet are almost over. There are simply too many people that are not nice, and many more become abusive when they think they are untouchable from the other side of the world.

The party's over. We brought this on ourselves. Mostly through tolerance of bad behavior.

Anything that needs security on the internet is now a war zone, if anything needs busting up, it is the abusive participants' continued access to the internet.

Comment Re:IOW (Score 1) 49

Google can't even do that right anymore. Google used to return 1000s of search results, now its about 10 results scattered within a bunch of product page results. You know it's bad when an innocent search returns mostly products for sale.

Comment Re:BLACK HOLES KILL ATMS (Score 1) 45

If you disentangle satellites from Earth's wobble and rotation, won't that mean they are no longer synchronized to the Earth - that sounds like a bad idea for GPS which only needs to be accurate for on-Earth location data.

If a truck breaks down, it will already know if GPS is working and will have a secondary means of location, the driver could look out the window and phone in their location.

The money bit is absolutely fear mongering and that one sentence alone ruined any hopes of me taking the summary or article seriously.

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