Or with a router that lets you save access logs, track the host names the fridge accesses, and add them to a custom host table that maps them all to 0.0.0.0 -- and if it uses direct IP addresses for their ad servers, put them on a block list. If the ad connection attempt fails to exit your local network, you don't get any ads.

The price being what's marked on the shelf tag isn't the problem; the problem is going to the supermarket at, say, 0600 on a Tuesday morning and the 28-ounce container of Maxwell House coffee is $14.99, but if you shop at 1100 on a Saturday, the same product is tagged $16.99, because there are more shoppers and more demand. Or, in a more excessive case of fearmongering ridiculous scenarios, using AI hooked to the cameras that are all through stores to track shoppers, judge their financial status based on their appearance, and scale prices accordingly -- not only would this require a great deal more discrimination on the part of the AI system than they seem to be capable of now, but has the additional overhead of tracking the tagged price for the customer that took the product off the shelf and link it to the register -- and it doesn't account for trivial counters like person A doing the shopping, then turning the cart over to person B for the checkout.

It's not the chemistry or physics that will determine if it gets done; it will be the economics of it. The power will have to come from somewhere, so even if a government uses taxpayer funds to pay for embedding these inductive charging circuits in the roads, it will need a secondary system to identify who's getting power from those circuits so they can be billed for it.

And from the image showing the package just being dropped out the back, it's perpetuating the account I recall from many years ago about MIT shipping a recording accelerometer to CalTech via, IIRC, UPS, with it recording periods of weightlessness punctuated by accelerations of up to 30G.

Using AI is training AI to replace you. If you can be replaced with AI, you will be, and should be.

If you don't use AI, your peers will be, and you will be replaced by AI anyway.

Good Luck

Lying to yourself is the biggest danger for trying to stay Anonymous. With enough patterns to recognize, the idea that one can hide is a delusional take.

The only way to win, is to run EVERYTHING you post through an AI that changes the tone and words used in all your online activity. But even then that may itself be a lie.

Yes, because burying an identification that essentially broadcasts to every site that a computer connects to that the user signed into the computer is underage couldn't possibly be used to target underage users for nefarious purposes. This sounds like an upcoming entry for another in the ReasonTV YouTube channel's "Great Moments in Unintended Consequences" videos ("Sounds like a great idea! With the best of intentions! What could possibly go wrong?").

It's Not Enough to "Caution Against".

That language is TOO PASSIVE.

The correct and appropriate phrase is "HELL NO" and start tossing out 1st, 4th, 5th amendment claims IN COURT.

My first thought reading the article was to snicker at the mental image of people saying "This office productivity suite that isn't Microsoft Office is worse than Microsoft Office because it doesn't look/work exactly like Microsoft Office" and wondering how they managed to get themselves so deeply grafted into the look and feel of Office that they're unable to cope with the concept that a different program will almost certainly have functions in different places.

I read that and was simultaneously laughing and angry. I'd call it a load of horseshit, but that would be insulting to horseshit.

What a bunch of windbaggery. Meaningless, feckless corporate speak.

We know. They know we know. We know they know we know. They don't care.

Nothing says "fuck you" like a "well worded" press release. It was only missing the AI EM-DASH.

Climate is notoriously complex set of wild interactions that are unknown at best. Predictions of climate crisis have always been wildly off, because the goal is to scare people into action.

But the boy who cried wolf is a cautionary tale that climate people failed to learn.

I have to wonder what these unnamed foreign countries did to the Peace Corps that has made them want to create an entirely new branch within their organization for the specific purpose of inflicting AI on them.

The problem, as I believe the YouTuber 'Loyal Moses' (if I'm remembering the name correctly) has pointed out in his uploads, is that once a platform is put in place where there is a central clearinghouse where STL files have to pass review before they are printable, is that this makes it easy to add new categories of 'banned' object geometries, where the prohibition is extended from an issue of fabricated public safety and extended to commercial convenience -- putting in a provision to make the printing of objects protected under intellectual property provisions, so an STL for a bust of, say, Iron Man would violate the copyright on the likeness of the character, and suddenly fails validation and becomes unprintable. Washington's proposed legislation would require STL files to be submitted to a verification service to be approved before they could be printed. Suppose you're working for a company developing a product using 3D printing for prototyping; is your company going to trust that the 3D designs you're required to submit to this verification service couldn't be obtained illicitly by a competitor and used to get a competing product out the door faster?

Unfortunately, they don't need to know anything about the subject of their legislation. All that's necessary is that they push bills that they can subsequently point to as proof that they're "doing something about the [insert subject here] crisis". And in some ways, it's even better for them if their bills get defeated; that way they can point to the group that was most responsible for their loss and demonize them as being against [insert justification for the bills] -- that way, they get to puff themselves as being behind making it safer for the public and slap down their opponents for failing to recognize the seriousness of the crisis.

This is the most California thing I've ever read. Unconstitutional, unenforceable, and a massive increase in costs and bureaucracy; they hit the trifecta! I wonder if printer manufacturers that bake their own bread will be exempt once their checks to the governor's presidential campaign clear.

Incidentally, this is the kind of stupid shit that helps Trump and people like him get elected over and over.