"Mature technology" can mean different things. Batteries hold a LOT of energy which can usually be released very quickly if the battery is damaged. We want batteries with more energy and less volume, so pack that energy tighter. And as time goes on, we get companies which... don't follow every single safety precaution (because that's expensive) in design and manufacture of the batteries, especially because the components of the batteries are made by many companies, then assembled by other companies, then sold to other companies for use in products which were ordered by Apple, Samsung, etc for sale to us. A few battery issues are hard to track back, and companies which ignore safety are usually happy to fold and reform with a different name when lawsuits appear.

News sites have been able to do this for decades; a simple robots.txt file will do this. But no news sites wants this. They want Google to send traffic to them (and only them, but not their competition). And they don't want Google to add any value. And, oddly enough, that's not what consumers want. If consumers wanted to read "nothing but Daily Mail" they can do it... but they don't do it.

There are a lot of problems with the profit model for news sites. The sites are part of the problem; consumers are a large part of the problem; Google is part of the problem. But sites like the Daily Mail have helped create the world that they find themselves in by pushing political narratives and avoiding facts, so I'm not feeling bad for them.

To be fair, when I see a verbatim paragraph on multiple news sites (usually meaning that none of them wrote it), I'm not really feeling bad about their copyright on their "borrowed" content. This happens a lot. And the term "victim" is debatable.

As opposed to being deported to a death prison in El Salvador when you're not from El Salvador with no legal recourse?

Look, I'm not interested in a game of "there exist shittier people in the world, so I'm completely justified in being a piece of shit". The point is that many places have decided the visitors (both legal and not) are EVIL and treat them badly. And nowadays, the US is one of those places. Sure, there are even shittier places, but you have not expressed any problems with our current behavior which implies that you support the US being "shitty, but less shitty than the worst places". You and I have different desires for the Land of the Free.

Nobody cares about idiots wearing a billionaire's branded merchandise. The problem is that a number of people traveling to the US either for tourism or business have been stopped by border control for utterly pointless reasons and sometimes deported back home. Why would you visit a country for a vacation when there was a reasonable chance that you and your loved ones will be stuck in a "holding facility", then sent away, your vacation plans ruined?

And while the SCOTUS won't allow it yet, there are plenty of voters which would happily vote for "a death penalty for homosexuality". Remember when we were the "Land of the Free"?

They've clearly been doing it incorrectly forever. The unemployment should be 2.1% whenever a conservative is president, and 80% whenever a liberal is president. Anything else is clearly, by definition, ipso non-facto, inaccurate!

Put another way: if reality disagrees with Trump, then reality is incorrect. Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

The person Trump fired reported the data; they did not produce it. But that data has been accurate. Perfectly accurate when you compare the collected data with the reported data. And still quite accurate when you compare the collected data with data measured a year or so later.

But a problem with blockchain is that all of the problems it solves can be solved in other ways. Provably unchangeable data existed for decades before Bitcoin. And unchangeable data isn't really a GDP-generator. This is a "rah rah cryptocurrency is SO COOL BRO" story, not a "this is how the administration has improved the country" story, and the only people excited about it are the "Trump is SO COOL BRO" people.

This will give Waymo experience with more weather than Arizona and California provide. Though NYC taxi drivers will be cranky. Overall this is good IMO.

I wish more companies were as good at self-driving. Competition will make everyone better, but there is not much true competition.

Yes, this. All communications should be secure. All official communications should be recorded, just like all officials who interact with the public should have those interactions recorded. Those communications should NOT be controlled by those who would be embarrassed by them, though this is a hard problem without a complete solution (and may be unsolvable). We should be able to approach a good solution though this requires pissing off officials and powerful/rich folks.

The current US administration has decided to protect police no matter how corrupt they become (executive order from April), so if you voted for the party in power, well, you now have the police state you wanted.

Many years ago, on the Stargate SG-1 TV show, an advanced race (non-human) found that one of their leaders had killed someone and had messed with official records to hide this. Another leader mentioned that messing with the records was considered a far worse crime than the murder or possible treason. THAT is the world I want to live in.

Do you have a reference for that? All I've seen is visas for the ultra-rich.

Besides, since trump has been happy to cancel student and work visas for people who say things he doesn't like, more visas would not help.

Both can be true, actually. As an aside, Russia truly lost in Ukraine in the first six weeks; most of their goals failed. Even if they were to take all of Ukraine, it would be so Pyrrhic as to not be a "win".

But, for the two statements: First: Russia cannot win in Ukraine. "Winning" is defined by history. There are lots of ways to end the war that will have Putin apologists claiming 100% victory, the best victory, everyone walks up to him and talks about his great victory, he's so powerful! So Russia is unlikely to take large amounts of Ukraine now; they have already taken the easy parts and are stuck on the medium parts. But if you change the "win" condition, he can easily win just by claiming victory (and having enough gullible fanatic to parrot his lines).

Second: Russia (well, Putin) will not want to stop at Ukraine once he declares victory and finds a few more Georgian votes. That seems likely, but he may have to stop, since Russia's military and economy is in terrible shape (as always happens after a long war). Putin is old, his allies in Russia are unhappy with the war, and his ability to wage war is far less than it was before he invaded.

As others have said, Thread is IPv6 so it is theoretically addressable from the Internet (though current border devices don't allow that). But since "protected subnet" is not the primary security mechanism for Matter, we'll likely avoid Skynet Over Thread.

If I understand you, you believe that IoT is the biggest threat on the internet? Uh, no, the internet has way worse threats. And you think that I hurt your security by installing them?

So, I think that you are terrified of things you don't understand, and "things you don't understand" includes most technical issues. So, you screech and whine loudly about those things. "Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand". Also "those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves." And Thread is not even in the top 20 current issues covered by that song...

Sounds good. Thread is available for anyone and is a mesh, so the more you deploy, the healthier the network becomes. Matter gives actual security, not "you can't easily get to the network so we assume it's safe". And it all works locally, without needing to talk outside your house. Plus, matter + thread controllers/routers are available in all Amazon/Apple/Google controllers, so you don't need Yet More Random Devices to make things work.

If you don't want smart devices in your house, no worries. Please stop moaning and whining every time they are mentioned; we know. And the world has so many real problems that we don't have the bandwidth to listen to problems solved by "well, I won't install any and I'll shut the fuck up." But if you do want convenient control over your house, and are willing to trade off some security for some functionality, this is an improvement.

Ha, businesses would just assign them to individuals with revokable contracts, and SCOTUS would side with the businesses. Besides, corporations are people, my friend. Honestly anything up to about 30 years is fine; much longer will give the same problems we have now.