Now I agree "mass surveillance" is creepy, but we can have Flock without mass surveillance.

Mass surveillance is the widespread collection and monitoring of data on large groups of people, usually without specific proof of wrongdoing. This is exactly mass surveillance.

You are arguing that there a benefits to mass surveillance and we should accept them to feel secure in our lives. I disagree with your opinion and think you are naive for thinking mass surveillance won't ever be abused.

No.

AI is a tool but it is sold as intelligence. It is a tool but it is not intelligence.

To be fair. this is a University with a 90% acceptance rate. It makes Greendale Community college look respectable. No offence Todd.

What voice assistants rely on is enunciation. You making an announcement doesn't help Siri.

Besides the abuse of power, and the Constitutional violations via unreasonable search and seizure, this monitoring causes a chilling effect amongst those with dissenting opinions. The protest may go unimpeded but your opinion has you targeted and monitored by the government for not agreeing.

Which part of this is lost on you?

The majority of media companies are seeking profit. Profit for media companies has been driven by algorithms that promote outrage via clickbait vs substance. What you are suggesting is that the media companies are owned by politicians who control the message and how it is presented. I do not believe that is how it works. Sure a politician will gladly accept the distraction and may provide some misinformation (the CIA has done this for decades) but they aren't the media. Media companies decide what to publish and how they monetize, not the politicians. This is the same for all parties.

They (Thiel and Musk) haven't had any involvement in PayPal for 24 years. Currently there are parties to assign blame and concerns to that make sense. Besides being owned by Ebay then spun off there has been eight presidents of the company. What in your opinion do Thiel and Musk do at PayPal for the last 24 years?

I agree and probably 90% of the price increase is greed. Apple not being able to bully the memory suppliers probably had them showing toothy grins at the negotiation table. What do you predict RAM pricing was prior to this RAM scarcity?

Broadcom has been sued by AT&T. Fidelity and the UnitedHealthcare. The first two companies reached settlements with Broadcom. Why would Broadcom settle if they had no legal requirement to honor prior contracts?

You do exactly this. The c suite (the ones making these decisions) are incentivized by triggering the stocks to move. They get that motion by any action that can move the stock price during their tenure. Will it leave a husk that is ready to implode in 4-5 years time? It doesn't matter... they did their job and it triggered their stock incentive payout and golden parachute. They are already gone and moved on to the next company where they can claim that under their reign the stock jumped 20% at company X. This is why after a long enough time as a publicly traded company they all become shit, lose what made them great and sows the seeds of their own devolution.

My current laptop is a touchscreen and i find it useful. I tried using a surface and a surface book and they both were awful experiences/ This is on a dell XPS and it has been useful. That being said i do not use it every day

The alarming rate at which 505k employees burn through the annual token allotment with little to nothing to show for it except some super wasteful reports that are likely cheaper to produce in meat space will be the topic of a future article posted here in Early 2027.

The tasks AI is capable of are not six figure salary tasks.

Extract data from an emailed AP invoice attachment and let some low paid grunt review the metadata for approval and applying corrections. Saves manual entry time. Maybe it can cut the cost of processing an invoice from $5 to $2 per invoice and at scale can help free up the AP Admin or keep from hiring additional staff. Currently AI is decent enough for assisted back office tasks. If the prices of the AI tasks increases like we are seeing then the same process can be farmed out to low cost labor overseas.

Investors matter to a public company like Microsoft. They grew from a 300 billion dollar company to a 3-4 trillion dollar company under Satya. By that metric he was a success. Did any of this trickle down to a better more secure corporate environment? Not even a little. Windows is absolutely an afterthought to MS these days, and it has gotten worse with each update as it tries to push paid services on the end user.