Owning several old phones, this does not seem to be an issue with any of them.

Nor is it widely reported in Android circles.

Random restarts sounds like a hardware design problem, not a battery problem. Or just an excuse to deliberately hobble old phones because you haven't ponied up £1,000 for a new one in more than a year.

This is pretty much the only way to stop this... Make the companies financially liable. Full refunds for every copy sold.

This is why Stop Killing Games is so important, it starts with games as it's easy to dismiss that as "they're just video games" but if this kind of behaviour is accepted there, it'll slowly move to consumer and business software until the frog is well and truly boiled.

"Bomb" is so 1991, these days we use Improvised Explosive Device (not to be confused with an IUD) or if you're really advanced, Contraterrene Device (CTD).

Blaming AI, especially as it's not Elon's AI is easy.

If American politicians really wanted to do something about shootings and suicides they'd look at introducing meaningful firearm controls, most notably penalties for misuse, stop glorifying guns and violence (fix the culture behind the shootings) and do something to help the mental health of Americans (starting with the bullying that has become endemic to American culture)... But that's all way too sensible where you can just blame the right AI for all the ills because shootings and suicides weren't a problem before AI or Altman skeezed onto the scene?

Right, guys. right?

Hey ho... just more thoughts and prayers then because that's been working fantastically so far.

Yes, but the "AI good, worker bad" narrative must be maintained. If they can blame remote work for something remotely bad they will.

The problem is American exceptionalism. The idea that America must be better than everywhere and anywhere else in the universe (including all of the black holes) is drilled into them from childhood. The problem with this is that things have become so bad in the US they now have to engage in huge, collective fantasies to make other places seem even worse than the US.

As mentioned, no-one in the UK is in jail for hate speech. That isn't a criminal offence, they're in jail for actual offences such as threats or harassment (yes doing it "with a computer" does not magically make it not a crime). Committing a crime with a hateful motivation is a modifier in court, known as a "aggravating factor" and often leads to a harsher sentence (especially if they don't even fake remorse, which is a "mitigating factor").

He could buy a pardon and still have $39 million left in gold bars. The Grifter in Cheat likes gold too.

The thing is, most managers come from sales, HR, et al. rather than engineering or technical careers so they know that their jobs can be easily automated... this makes them think that all jobs can be replaced by AI.

Case in point: Boeing, look what happened when they replaced their engineers with MBAs. Airbus still has an engineer in charge and is going gangbusters.

Being Jewish does not preclude one from having Fascist tenancies... Or philosophies based on racial superiority. Ticks both the boxes on Nazism.

That being said, I don't think Meta or Zuck are fascists or racist, they're crony capitalists who don't care who or what they destroy in the pursuit of wealth and power. Arguably that's not much of an improvement.

This kind of thing comes from American Puritanism on the internet.

Most countries can handle the word "death" or "dead" being used but the US for some reason cant so American companies move to automatically censor these words. Just look at BBC programming, Top Gear presenters regularly swore (oh cock) and this was screened at 8 PM on a Sunday (one of the most popular time slots on UK TV). I expect this to get better as the US loses relevance.

And that's a huge part of the problem.

Here in the UK we see little Canadian content despite being quite culturally similar and very close allies, I expect Canadians see little Australian content (as we also don't see much here in the UK). UK is a bit different as the UK has the second most powerful culture outside of it's own borders, it's not unusual to find Union Jacks on things in Europe or Asia where as a maple leaf (or southern cross) would be quire rare. Australia is better known for its animals (Kangaroos and Koalas) as a symbol than our flag.

This is largely due to the overwhelming and oppressive amount of US content. Even though the likes of China, France or India would kill to have the cultural dominance of the UK it's still a distant second to the US. It's so bad that a lot of British and Australian actors have effectively started playing "professional Americans", in the words of Idris Elba.

Hardly anyone really knows about this ruling. Any reputational damage to Airbus or Air France was done and over with years and years ago. With Airbus filling their order books almost as fast as they can open them they're not really that concerned and I suspect Air France isn't doing too badly either with 1.7B Euros profit last year. It was all so long ago that the events of AF447 have long since fled our collective memory and are only of interest to those of us with an interest in aviation.

To me this seems more like "someone had to be blamed" in order to completely close the case as most actionable items have long since been done (like modification to the pitot tubes (I believe this happened before 447 as the icing was a known issue and it was an older A330), pilot training updated, et al.) hence the fines are essentially slaps on the wrist, it was really just dotting the lower case j's.

Posted this earlier in the thread:

For somewhere like Arizona the difference between summer and winter daylight hours isn't that great. If you live in Maine it is. I live around 51 N (UK) and mid summer the sun is up from 4 AM to 11 PM (and I mean fully up at 4 AM, it starts getting light at 3), in mid winter it starts getting light around 8 AM and is dark by 4 PM (and I mean fully dark, like my mood). If we didn't have DST the sun would either be rising at 3 AM in the summer or not rising until 9 AM in the winter (which means both your commutes will be in darkness).

DST helps a lot when there literally is an 8 hour difference between summer and winter daylight hours.

This is the thing, it should be left up to the individual states.

For somewhere like Arizona the difference between summer and winter daylight hours isn't that great. If you live in Maine it is. I live around 51 N (UK) and mid summer the sun is up from 4 AM to 11 PM (and I mean fully up at 4 AM, it starts getting light at 3), in mid winter it starts getting light around 8 AM and is dark by 4 PM (and I mean fully dark, like my mood). If we didn't have DST the sun would either be rising at 3 AM in the summer or not rising until 9 AM in the winter (which means both your commutes will be in darkness).

The arguments for DST definitely apply if you live further north than California.

No it isn't.

Its just that some people in the US have gone so far to the right... Also they tend to call anything they don't like "left", even when it's other right wing concepts they just don't find right wing enough.