I think you're thinking cars from last century which only OTA infotainment. Today's cars OTA update all the software that performs automatic braking, ADAS or even self driving. However, even old car with only infotainment update have had serious breaches (lookup Jeep remote hack from circa 2016 which chained together a bunch of exploits to pretty much own the car, including steering, braking and accelerator).

Now consider what happens 15 years later, when the car is still on the road, but the manufacturer is no longer offering any security patches to the car that is still connected to the internet. How many 15 year old phones or PCs still get security updates today? How hard is it to compromise an 15 year old Android device today? Now imagine that device has all the capabilities you just mentioned, including becoming a 2 ton, self targeting missile.

Loud noises, cold water spray, perhaps a mild electro-shock, and if passenger does not respond, by all means, driver them to a hospital (potentially faster than calling first-responders). Maybe even equip autonomous taxis with emergency lights, then bill the rider for an "ambulance ride" to the hospital.

I hear you. Z80 was my first CPU too. I started with a borrowed ZX Spectrum as a kid (family couldn't afford to buy one, but a neighbor had one, and my father could borrow one from work over the weekends from time to time). I quickly got bored of playing games (loaded from a Grundig cassette tape player - that one we owned), learned BASIC (built-in), then assembly, spent some time hacking games (think unlimited lives, or invulnerability hacks, some of mine were even published in a national computing magazine). Eventually saved up enough money to put together my own Z80 based computer but only calculator display and calculator keypad - a lot of fun to play with (yea, I cheated a little, used the borrowed ZX spectrum to write the code for it - also managed to get my computer to load code from audio tapes, copied the ZX Spectrum algorithm with some improvements - mine was faster, higher effective baud rate). Then moved onto 8501(a 6502 relative) as my father managed to acquire a Commodore Plus 4 which was a huge failure for Commodore (primarily because it was not compatible with C64), but because of it we could afford one being liquidated from some store. And on, and on...

But despite our nostalgia for the Z80, I doubt many people of future generations will experience any of it. The vast majority of future computer engineers will never be exposed to much beyond vibe coding. Take a random grad today, ask them to code a game which can run in 16KB RAM (not a typo, actual base model ZX Spectrum RAM size, which could play games), they will look at you with pity - "You meant 16GB, right?". As I write this, Chrome tells me this tab of the browser, containing nothing but your reply and mine, uses ~100MB of RAM, not counting shared based Chrome code of course. ZX Spectrum had 16KB - 48KB or RAM, my Commodore Plus 4 has 128KB of RAM, and they had games, spreadsheets, word processors. Commodore Plus 4 was only able to access 64KB at a time (switching between 2 64KB banks - most of the software never used even the additional 64KB at all).

It really should be like winning the lotter to anyone falsely flagged and detained. Say 100,000 for each detention, a million a day if they are arrested and it turns out to be a false positive, plus all legal costs. This would make the stores more hesitant to finger people, and police work a lot harder to confirm the identity, and be in line with western legal system values of "better to let 9 guilty people go free, than imprison an innocent". If a business calls police on 85% certain identification, they will need insurance for the 15% of times they finger the wrong person. Perhaps the tech companies doing the identification will provide some indemnification.

LEDs can actually be used to measure light as well as emit light (PWM it for both). Meta glasses could measure the light using the LED, then compare the light readings against the camera measurements. They could then detect a damaged LED (unable to measure) or covered LED (much less light). Heck, they could even use that measurement to control the camera exposure (cover the LED, all your recordings become overexposed until the algorithm detects the discrepancy and shuts off the camera).

Of course they can. A billion dollar penalty per kid that slips through will cause a company to spend millions to keep out of the country, or require overkill authentication (e.g. charge each UK resident $10K for manual age validation, where someone will visit in person to validate user's age).

I hate enshitification. I go out of my way, even pay more to avoid cloud connected devices which don't have any cloud related features that I want - e.g. dishwasher, it costed me a pretty penny to get one with enough on-device controls so I don't "have to" use a phone app (and cloud connection) to use all of its features.

However, in this case I have to give Meta credit - they are doing it from the get-go, so anyone buying their product is going in with eyes wide open to the fact that this product will require monthly fees for all features, current and future ones. So all Meta glasses customers have been warned ahead of time - Meta sets the price for using the glasses, and has the right to revise this price at any time without any restrictions. If the user doesn't pay, the glasses are useless.

Personally I don't want such a product, unless maybe if the glasses came for free and I could choose what features I do or don't want to pay for, ranging from none to all.

Full disclosure: I have never had a Meta account (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram), never saw any benefit in creating one. I am not one to ever say "never", but at this time I don't foresee any future need for any Meta services.

Ok, so you can't do net zero, but zero problem with net one goals (say 1g of emissions per corporation per year), correct?

I come up with some of my best engineering ideas while in the shower. I don't know why that is, but it happens to be a fact. No, I would not allow my employer to track me in there, at least not for any reasonable compensation (an unreasonable ask example would be to give me a billion dollars per second of footage - I'd be all in for that, may even be willing to negotiate a lower fee).

I get his confusion, he is a parent and he represents the government. However those are supposed to be two separate functions, unless people want a paternalistic government which always knows best and is never wrong (like North Korea). Perhaps communism would work great in UK, everyone works to the best of their ability, gives all their earnings (100% tax) to the government, which will in turn dole out allowances according to each person's needs, enforce curfews, feed them only foods best for them (and their productivity), etc.

How could they have "carefully looked at" something they didn't find?
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A more accurate a label would be "Envisioned in the USA". Someone in the US envisioned painting a Chinese phone gold color and selling it as an American product.

Does your preference disappear if you ride a bike in an open parking lot, if you wanted to do as tight of a turn as possible?

I've always found I felt more comfortably in control drifting a bike through a turn, or a car, when turning left. Same for turning on skis or skates. I could never explain why. I thought for a car it might be because the steering wheel is on the left where I drive and I somehow like being in the inside of the turn, but tried it once with RHD car, same left turn preference held. I can turn in either direction, but one just seems more comfortable.