I can also set my virtual card to work only for a single transaction, altho I think it is automatically deleted, meaning I would have to create a new one for every transaction. Maybe workable (albeit with a synchronization/timing hole) but starting to get ridiculous.

I thought someone said you could have a personal payment card as long as there was one other setup to be shared. That would make this work fine because I would just lock the shared one. But if as you say that's not true, I'll be continuing with the status quo for my family. Send me a link and I'll order it. I guess I'll find out sometime between now and Oct 1.

My virtual credit card is tied to Amazon and won't work anywhere else. So I don't need to lock and unlock between uses. Never had it fail in several years of use.

I believe the rule was only for children as students. I know for a fact that lots of us resident Americans do zoom based English tutoring for adults with unusually high voices. Translation: These days Chinese parents just register themselves as the students and their kids take the online tutoring.

It *IS* fraud because I never gave them this credit card to charge me on. Saying it's not fraud would mean anyone I buy something from could charge me on any credit card they wanted, not just the one I gave them.

Late last year I cancelled a Citi credit card dues to come actual fraud charges. A month later, a charge appeared on the replacement card from an organization that had been billing me monthly for something. I flagged it as fraud in my online console, noting I had given the new card number to nobody. I got an immediate temporary credit. A month or two later, the credit was permanent. Worked as expected.

During the pandemic there seemed to be nurse shortages in every major city as nurses reported being severely overworked. Half of what a nurse does for me at a doctor appointment is simply transcribe answers into a computer form. Something a high school student could do. I don't think I'm willing to take much medical advice from an AI yet without confirming with a real nurse or doctor, but I think an AI could educate me quite a bit before I talked to a nurse or doctor in person to confirm. Well within a few years at least, but reviewing and confirming with a real person would catch AI errors.

An AI might take over these low level tasks and leave the ones requiring nursing skills to real nurses. This would help alleviate the shortages and might also raise the wages of nurses by making them more productive, in terms of doing more work that really needs to be done by a nurse, not a well trained high school graduate. A quick search will show lots of articles out there on a nursing shortage.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/b...
https://calmatters.org/health/...

Don't forget about the Terrifying moment massive lightning bolt strikes London-bound Boeing 777 carrying 400 passengers moments after take off in Canada.. (this week -- Boeing)

According to this, 11th generation with Iris graphics support DP4a.

You and HP have inspired me. I have also used Brother printers exclusively for over a decade. Never thrown one away - just passed on to someone else. But I buy cheaper third party ink which works great. My New Year's resolution is to buy some Brother cartridges to reward them for their products that are good citizens and dnot acting like HP printers. BROTHER INC, if you're listening, give me a donation link and I'd even give you a few bucks every time I buy a non-Brother cartridge!

Since the Concorde stopped flying in 2003 and French patents are good for 20 years, you would think they're not sitting on many patents any more.

Based on my own recent home sale experience, the estimated prices on Zillow (the Zestimates) do seem to be systemically higher than competitors like Redfin, although OpenDoor ended up paying us something in between Redfin and Zillow. So there is plenty of competition and Zillow is not controlling anything.

That said, as an inflation gauge, I don't really care if Zillow's price is systemically too high or too low. I only care about how much it changes over time.

FYI, Redfin has their own scam going because they not only offer to buy your home at the low end of price spectrum, they try to up sell you to their consumer real estate agent if you think you want more than the Redfin cash offer for your home. They get commission either way. Zillow on the other hand, apparently found the iAgent market unprofitable and is exiting the business. Over-estimated prices make it easier for their real estate agent business, still going, to attract customers but I suspect made it harder to buy properties at a price enabling them to profit from the flip.

Perhaps they don't care about you. But they do care about audio of nearby conversations by CXO and engineers of competitors to Chinese companies, politicians, etc.

But what if they use facial recognition to identify CXO's of major corporations, politicians, and engineers doing interesting R&D at competitors to a big Chinese firm first. (Engineers would be easy to identify based on pictures/video taken at technical conferences where everyone wears badges with their name/company.) If the TV identifies anyone interesting, it records audio and video and sends back to China where they transcribe and data mine before passing off the translated Mandarin version to a human. That could be VERY deeply interesting to the Chinese government.