Just make the fan bigger...

The CCCP (essentially Russia plus Ukraine) used to put 20 mm aircraft guns in their Salyut and Mir space stations. So there has been weapons in space for a long time.

>"Will the old trick of outlining your license plate with a bunch of high power IR LEDs obscure your plate from the camera, while still allowing human eyes to read them....?"

1) That won't work in the daytime.
2) Many States have laws against anything that would tamper with the ability of cameras to video/photograph plates (and I am sure more laws will be coming).
3) Flock and others are gathering non-plate fingerprinting so they can get around depending on the plate. Vehicle make/color/accessories, bumper stickers, accident damage, WiFi/bluetooth/TPMS broadcasts, etc.

This is a fight that you cannot win, other than making the surveillance, itself, illegal. And I fear that is going to be a losing prospect as well.

>"Unfortunately that give the police a reason to kill you."

An outcome that is statistically almost zero, if you follow instructions and common sense. But I guess trying to escape, run over officers, fight officers, and/or brandish weapons (or look like it) makes more sense.

Your chance to resist/correct/fight law enforcement is in court, not on the street.

>"Russia's Foreign Ministry issued criticism of America's move, saying "In pursuit of its narrow self-interests, Washington is ready to completely ignore the catastrophic consequences for humanity of any armed conflict in orbit."

Yeah, I don't think we care much about Russia's take on this. They have little to no moral high ground when it comes to "humanity" and "armed conflict". And China has been, no doubt, moving forward steadily with weapons in space.

Anyway, killer space satellites and sentient AI possibly coming... has there ever been a more clear indication of Sykynet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

An EMP nuke in space is not very useful, since it would destroy your own equipment also. It reminds of the so called Backyard Bomb that can destroy the whole planet - probably only deemed useful by a crazy Iranian mullah. Small targeted EMP/microwave devices are useful and used against drone swarms for example.

This is about creating stock price volatility so they can make money off it and about creating new barriers to entry for newcomers.

Well, strategic business growth is very important

Iran is destroyed - the UAE is the new dominant power.

The Epp files are on the web site of the Senate Oversight Committee.

Shadowy organizations are paying influencers to spread doomer nonsense.
Monopolists want to kill the competition from open source and local AI, so they fight for heavy regulations that only they will be able to afford.
There is nothing to fear from AI itself.
There is a lot to fear from people who use AI and want to control it.
We need to focus on the real problem.

And if you still don't own US oil company stocks, then you are really special

Iran is disarmed - what more do you need?

That might be on by default in later versions. But it can be disabled and will remain disabled. And that doesn't mean it isn't being "private."

Some people don't want automatic updates, or automated checking. It also depends on which OS and which Firefox you have installed. For example, under Linux, Firefox from the distro will typically have zero notifications or updating because it is handled elegantly by the distro updates.