People will wise up eventually.

Well I want at least a free phone and $50 per hour for the ads they force on me.

I no longer use my Samsung phone for the Internet - the experience is horrendous. If I don't have access to a Linux/BSD machine, I don't use the internet. I am not going to upgrade my phone till it breaks. Probably then I will use a dumb phone.

Please EU, lets have an EUtube!

Replacing them with something infinitely worse!
Bugs as we don't know them. That are impossible to find, let alone fix. With every possibility that using AI to fix them will make them worse.

And a douche bag of a president who drops bombs next to schools and kills 135 kids . Should resign on the spot for that.

Look up "human shields", the practice of siting military targets among (or in or under) large collections of non-military civilians, in order to deter strikes against them or produce propaganda claims of atrocities when they're attacked anyhow.

In such situations the fault for the "collateral damage" is assigned to the side that set up the arrangement, not the side that hit it.

Nevertheless, it should be noted that the US has been trying very hard to use precision munitions and extreme military intelligence to take out military targets with as little harm to the innocents they're embedded among as possible, with impressive success. Compare the amount of collateral damage in this war to any of those conducted in the 20th century.

He's doing the bare minimum sniff test of verifying that *you* are the guy whose name is on the bookings and not someone sneaking in on someone else's name who can't even pronounce the name on your fake id.

At least in the case of people claiming to be returning citizens I've been told that they're comparing your accent to your claimed residence (or residence history).

Different words are acquired at different ages, and many are pronounced with regional variations. An expert can talk to you for a few minutes and come up with a pretty good age-map of where you lived as you grew up. An agent with a modicum of training can detect a mismatch between how you pronounce certain words and your claimed residence and pass you through quickly or keep you around and drill more deeply. (If you now live in an area with a regional accent wildly different from where you grew up it can help to answer a where-do-you-reside question with "Footown, but I grew up in Barstate".)

I presume they are doing something similar, though no doubt with lower resolution, on the world-wide level for visitors from other countries.

or possibly
"No".

YMMV

But if you work on five different computers over the course of a day, customizing will get you beaten up by five different people every day.

Because a significant percentage of Americans are illiterate, and MS thinks America is the whole world.

Hint for MS: Illiterates probably are not using a word processor.
(Unless preparing word salads for Trump to eat).

Bill Gates is right - AI will destroy 100% of Microsoft jobs - it is well on the way already.

But companies providing decent goods and services will probably flourish if the competition is totally focused on flogging AI slop.

https://archive.is/uyPhk

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Anthropic is prepared to loosen its current terms of use, but wants to ensure its tools aren't used to spy on Americans en masse, or to develop weapons that fire with no human involvement.

The Pentagon claims that's unduly restrictive, and that there are all sorts of gray areas that would make it unworkable to operate on such terms. Pentagon officials are insisting in negotiations with Anthropic and three other big AI labs â" OpenAI, Google and xAI â" that the military be able to use their tools for "all lawful purposes."

It's probably stuff like the age of the account. If it's 10 years old, the chance that the owner is under 13 and registered it as a toddler is quite small.

Can someone please tell this to Ebay.
They regularly sent me emails in which they thank me for being a user for more than 21 years, but request I use a credit card to verify my ID to prove my age if I am trying to buy a tool with a sharp edge. (including a pair of scissors with a blade less than 1" long).

I live in the UK, and do not have a credit card. I do have several debit cards. Ebay does not seem to understand that some parts of the world are not in America.

https://livingwage.mit.edu/met...

Typical annual salary, according to MIT's Living Wage Calculator for the NYC Metro, is $84,860.

Poverty wage is $7.52/hr (no kids) and minimum wage is $15.50 which, according to the calculator, should cover 1 adult with 3 kids.

The Brearley School, regarded as the best private school for girls in the nation and charging around $70K, is a non-profit.

What shareholders?