Nods. Sadly, it's probably not enough to bankrupt them even if this company wins, but it's a good start.

No, they would not. Obviously, criminals carrying random-looking data over borders will be lying about it not being encrypted data. You assume this needs the border control agents to understand anything. You assume dead wrong. The analysis software will make all those determinations and it will do so in the worst possible way for you.

All these morons believing in magic are getting on my nerves.

Sure. Lots of things can be done in the name of freedom that aren't sensible.

You're free to go put on a t-shirt, shorts and flip flops and go for an all day hike in Death Valley

You're free to pick up a rattlesnake in the SD badlands and give it a kiss

Freedom in the legal sense sometimes bumps up against those other pesky laws of nature and physics, and when you do, those freedoms you're trying out suddeny aren't very free.

...because they merely expect AI to replace existing tasks. Whether it actually does is more nuanced. For example, many employees pressured to use AI say it makes their tasks harder by creating AI slop that needs cleaning up. They have to deal with mistakes that wouldn't be in a human draft or in existing time-tested templates. If and how fast employees will get better models or learn to prompt better is unknown.

It's essentially management's gamble. Those in the C-suite often don't spot or are slow to understand front-line patterns, as nobody likes delivering lackluster news to higher-ups. They'll typically hear, "There are a few learning curve hiccups, as expected, but we're making progress" even if the productivity ship is taking on a little water.

It's only local to China in the sense that they choose what {packages/CCP poison} go in there.

For all values of u, Linux is local to u in the sense that u chooses what packages go in there.

"Houses" probably predate homo sapiens. They my just have looked like lean-tos, but they did the same job, just not as well. And if you demand mortared foundations, they didn't show up until the very late stone age.

The thing is, when you're mobile rather than settled, a house is a very temporary asset. And they have defects as places that house lice, fleas, etc. So you usually prefer to keep moving. Agriculture is what probably caused what we think of as houses to be created, but the first "permanent" houses were probably organic developments of the pre-existing "temporary shelters".

P.S.: Look into the construction techniques used by Chimps and Orangutans. These are called "nests", but they aren't trivial constructions, and as they're in the trees, their requirements are different from ground based constructions.

Being pro-Iran is, indeed, as silly as being pro-Israel. There's not much moral justification for either. Once upon a time there was a bit of economic justification, but as governments have changed that has mainly evaporated.

That is "la Nina". You must be from la Presidenta's alleged administration. Care to put your money where your mouth has been and load up on parka manufacturer's stock?

In case you have not noticed, the two things most people excel at is stupidity and denial.

What a deeply hateful comment. Well, I guess you are a full-on psycho with no compassion and no human decency.

How will that help here?

Legally not really different from what was done here. Now if you had two working braincells and just erased all problematic data before you got to the border ...

Yes. The only sane thing is to NOT carry any problematic data. But many tech nerds are too stupid to understand how things actually work in the real world.

In case you have not noticed, the average US "adult" is a mental child these days. Clueless crypto-nerds are worse.