Trump advisors have already stated point blank they are actively working on ways to end run the constitution and have him run for a third term. Besides that, he hasn't paid any attention to the constitution up until now, and his base is totally fine with it. We're in a very interesting era now where the constitution, and the rule of law, no longer applies to the most powerful (unless of course they fall out with trump). If Trump runs for a third term, I can pretty much guarantee he'll run for a forth, fifth, etc, until he dies. And I fully expect he will announce his successor at some point.

Meanwhile a combination of Democrat incompetence and the culmination of GOP efforts to subvert voting through gerrymandering and other underhanded tactics (see North Carolina for a recipe) means we are unlikely to see any Democratic president for the foreseeable future.

If Trump bows out as he should, the next guy is definitely going to use all the power that Trump amassed, along with presidential immunity from law, to its full extent. That is very scary.

If we knew how to deal with nuclear waste we would have done so. As of this moment effectively none of the US commercial nuclear spent fuel has ever been properly disposed of. In 77 years it adds up to a lot.

While China's CO2 output is the highest globally, per capita its output is just over half of the US. That's even without considering that much of China's output is as in this article, manufacturing pollution imported from other countries. The bill for this pollution should fall on the country that consumed the manufacturing output.

These aren't the emergency cutoffs, these are the ones they operate every takeoff and landing. Aorbus forces you to throttle all the way down before cutting them off, which might be enough to wake your brain up to the fact you are running the wrong checklist, but if you are in that state of erroneous automatic action there isn't a lot you can do from an interface design standpoint. The right answer is to run the checklist as a checklist each time very intentionally, but people, even pilots, aren't good at that. There are very few cases where shutting off the engines at that altitude on take off make sense, barely any, so you could prevent it entirely, but then when it actually is the right move it will ne your fault for preventing it.

Of plague?

Everyone knows the best response to an epidemic is to move your family onto your yacht - no doubt the doctors will be prescribing this.

Apple has been steadily moving their hardware into Vintage and Obsolete over the last SEVERAL decades. When a device hits 5 years old, it turns Vintage, which basically means they don't promise to have all parts available anymore, and some may be restricted to "repairs only, not stocking". At 7 years they turn Obsolete, and Apple sells off their entire inventory of parts. In both cases, Apple retains a small number of parts for repairs in places like California, where manufacturers are legally required to carry parts for longer. (10 years in cali?)

So I don't know if I'd classify this as "news", more like a minor update in an ongoing process. "City fixes another pothole, news at 10." I assume most manufacturers have similar policies, but a lot of them are either secretive or aren't so consistently applied. If anything, Apple's doing a much better job for the consumer, with their very public and consistent policy. Now go and try to find out how long Whirlpool is going to carry parts for your dish washer.

Sidenote: I recall a few rare cases where someone REALLY wanted their old mac repaired, and I asked "do you know anyone in California?" I suggested they ship it to their friend and have them take it to a local apple store to get it fixed. AFAIK that plan worked.

I was also known to, from time to time, order a bunch of a part that was prone to failure just before it crossed into Vintage territory. That way we had parts on-hand to repair a common issue when nobody else did. There were a few parts we never ended up selling, but there were also a few that were like gold, with people driving klong distances to come pick up a part not even Apple had anymore. It was a bit of a guessing game. My manager questioned my stocking the last 23 iMac G5 power supplies Apple was willing to sell us, and it took several years, but we sold our last two to an APPLE STORE 100 miles south of here. We probably should have started marking them up, but we never did.

Hopefully the NTSB's tier 2 people are ready; since they did in fact try turning it off and turning it on again and there's still more to the situation.

So all we have to do to vindicate our investment in glorious AI is keeping firing the expensive labor until we get the team down to people so ignorant of the code that their guess is worse than the bot's guess; and they'll have no reason to doubt the bot's output?

Sounds like a win-win to me!

>the Nokia feature phone business from Microsoft, which had in turn bought the ailing brand in 2014.

No mention that Microsoft sent executive Stephen Elop to dismantle Nokia as its CEO in 2010. Nor that in 2014 as part of the deal to acquire Nokia's phone business leaving the rest of the company to soldier on, Nokia insisted that Microsoft repossess him.

So any resume that lists Washington University immediately goes into the shit can with no further consideration. Thanks for the warning.

If this Superman is the DCCU's last gasp, then the DCCU is doomed. From everything I've seen of the trailer and other snippets, this movie is terrible.

The sooner the culturally inevitable decline of the US is accepted the better rest-of-world can succeed it. Needing the US for anything is a long hangover from WWII destroying real and potential competition.

The world should be doing its own research to keep the fruits thereof from Wall Street's grubby tentacles. I grew up through the space race but now see no reason the US deserves to hog research it can only use to benefit our owning kleptarchs.

Cloud all the things! turns out cloud computing costs real money. There's no reason these need to be cloud connected. They can do the same thing with the phone over wifi without spinning up Lambdas and all kinds of serverless resources. Or bluetooth. or both.
Some of these devices are 10 years old. Most of the WIFI connected devices I've bought stopped working after the first few months if they ever worked at all. I'm looking at you, Wifi light bulbs.

The dumb thing about most things IOT is that nobody looked at long term maintenance costs and said "oh yeah this is stupid"
If the devices all magically died at a fixed date, well then the AWS or AZURE services they're consuming can just auto-scale down to nothing.
I'd like to see the kind of compute/storage costs these WEMO things are racking up.