Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are quire safe then.

Yes, because more photos and videos of space are bad.

I'm in my late 60's...they've been saying this since I was born. The difference is, back then it was just the U.S. & the USSR. Now, if some rogue country like Iran sets one off, it will be like the movie "War Games".

Here's an idea...get up off your lazy rear end and go buy it at the store. Delivery drones...can't wait till one falls out of the sky for whatever reason and injures or kills someone. The lawyers will have a field day!

Until they don't need 3-5 people to pick it up when it falls down, say on NOT flat surfaces, little to worry about a "robot army" to destroy humans...FOR NOW.

Kids under say 16 shouldn't have "smart" phones. Just let them have dumb phones. No screen, no texting. Just calling if parents think they have to be able to reach their kids 24/7. Good lord, society got along without having 24/7 access to their kids for hundreds of years. Yeah, I know the world is different, but LET KIDS BE KIDS. There isn't any reason kids should have smartphones until at least driving age.

Tim Cook had a brilliant career, but he had to embarras himself by sucking up to the orange utan.

Enjoy your retirement TIm Apple, you nauseating man.

I can understand all that, but it still doesn't say why acting deserves special treatment.

Coders enjoy coding. AI has taken a chunk out of that, and people treat it as beneficial. It's taken a lot of translators out of the picture. They enjoy what they do. It's taken a slice out of countless jobs that people enjoy doing, and there's been a bit of a murmur about job losses.

Then we get to acting, with a famous actor being deep faked into a movie with the consent of his estate, and everyone is up in arms because actor and celebrity.

The sad bit is yes, this obsoletes many aspects of human engagement, just as the industrial revolution rendered a lot of manual work. It will continue to do it. The question is how we as a species adapt to it, and utilise it to our benefit.

Yeah... let's not.

I'm old enough to have zero fondness for old computer shit. Vintage is for those who haven't had to suffer it to do actual work.

It's not just a child. It's a child plus a network of organised crime that specialises in tooling for illicit compromise, which said child has access to, plus contacts with compromise experience to learn from. This changes things significantly.

Cybersecurity is a hellishly expensive thing if done to the degree that's found in financials and the like (where a bad compromise could have serious international ramifications).
Most places don't have the budget to hire enough of the right staff to protect against a dedicated attacker with up to date compromise tools. It only takes one flaw for things to start going very wrong indeed.

It's a case of "Taking security as seriously as you can afford to" as an operational expense, and keep insurance up to date for if you're ever compromised.

Use the power to heat up molten salt and store it underground, using the heat to run turbines for baseload in winter.

> Even that still seems a bit high.

That's the statutory limit for willful infringement.

> I realize the damages are based on potential lost revenue,

Statutory damages are not based on anything except the statute.

And you can 100% bet that there will be a backdoor in the connected software that they can switch them off at anytime they want. "But I'll disconnect the software so it can't connect to the internet". Yeah and you think they will allow the vehicle to run without being connected?

It is not rocket science

- Reduce prices on weeknights to get people in the door.

- When things feel over-priced, it greatly harms the experience and results in less return visits. Reduce margins on snacks. The prices are insane right now and literally out of reach for many families. Two parents and their kids with basic popcorn are looking at like $150+ to see a movie right now in some markets it is INSANE. If prices were more reasonable, then a lot more people would go and you'd make it up on volume, more importantly they would leave with a POSITIVE experience.

- Figure out other ways to lean into the experience. Partner with restaurants to offer "Dinner and a movie", and make the showtime conducent to that promotion (see next suggestion)

- Air family movies at times that make sense for families. I can not even count how many times we have not gone to the movies because the only options are either too early or too late. People in North America eat dinner between 5 and 7, movie theatres should be smart enough to plan around this.

Will be when they can replace the hollyweirdo types!