Anything more to add? :-]

Before all cameras were phones, and before all phones had beautifying AI filters, you could always refer to a believable original image... Right, I understand this adds some sort of device-linked cryptographic signature, but... this Big Feature deserves a Big Meh from me.

> No reason why actual antibiotics requires long and careful testing to make sure they are reasonably safe. We can do away with all that now!

Some of the more modern antibiotics can melt your liver or cause you to rip your tendons.

You definitely want these things to be thoroughly tested.

Nixon started the cancer moon shot 50 years ago and during that time we have learned that cancer is not 40 diseases. It's 400.

All my Rokus are now infested with ads but the Roku stick is even worse since it seems to take an absurd amount of time for it to just connect to the wifi.

(my real Rokus are all hard wired)

I'm sure they all get subjected to the same annual corporate ethics training courses. Some policies apply company wide even in megacorps that employ 300,000 people.

Why did Commodore die in the first place?

No, it was not the price of their computers (they were _very_ cheap for what they were, always!)

No, it was not the quality of their computers (maybe not top-of-the-line, but not bad!)

It was the STOOPID business decisions they insisted on doing, over and over.

Ever heard about QWERTY keyboards?
No, I also think in this era of electronic computers, they will soon disappear into oblivion.

I started lurking in 4K enthusiast groups to see if they were all cracked up to be. The arguments about relative quality of various BD/4K releases isn't even the most interesting part.

It turns out that there are a lot of issues with set top boxes playing particular disks. The disks themselves also seem terribly fussy.

again, false statement.

the remote ops do NOT 'drive' the car 100% of the time. what percentage? we dont know but I'd guess its less than 10%, probably even lower.

nothing is level 5 yet. get that in your head. no one claims level 5, either.

what I'd like to know is how often waymo needs 'help' remotely vs tesla vs any other.

I suspect that tesla that is sensor-poor needs 10x as much help as waymo.

(I used to work in car biz, in a self driving car co.)

Let me add to this, I've never seen in the whole world any law as stupid as USA's holy Second Amendment. Yes, maybe it made sense for a period between 1774 and 1800, but after that... it's just keeping your beloved homeland anchored to a period long gone, with consequences in its culture (how come it is normal and customary to own a gun, FFS) and in the danger to its society.

"Al tirtzah" (as the commandment says) means "you should not murder".

"Al taharog" would mean "you should not kill".

And, of course, there are many other verbs that could be used instead (i.e. slaughtering animals).

I find the issue to be even worse... Presenting two years of slop as if it were research carried out with actual knowledge and intelligence is even worse. Of course, I won't be surprised to know the researcher had submitted and was approved for publication at various journals.

Particularly when the screen writers are Gemini, ChatGPT and their friends.

Most of us Spanish-speakers are as American as any USA citizen. If you are going to set up a gringo ban to Europe, we don't want to be left out. Leave the USA to USAmericans, and leave the rest of the continent gringo-free.