1984 wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual. We should also be keeping an eye out for them adding, or separately mounting, corollary surveillance items. We already see Flock, and I'll guarantee other vendors are looking to add it as well, SIGINT to the cameras. That means even if they can't see your plate, or even your car very well because you rented a trailer, they can track you by WiFi/Bluetooth to a few feet. We should also be keeping an eye out for them to roll out facial recognition integration. They have it all set to go, and may even have live near you. Axon has it. ACTi sells long range zoom cameras with it. There are even vendors that add it to Flock as a software layer.. There are a few thing we should do: 1) Make it a state felony worth a 5-10 years in prison for law enforcement to abuse the cameras. No warrant? Congrats snowflake you just caught a MINIMUM 5 year sentence in prison with no early release option. When they whine about the penalty, remind them that they say you need hefty punishments to deter crime. When they inevitably whine about the warrant remind them they say "this isn't mass surveillance" and "this isn't real-time surveillance" so waiting a few minutes on the phone to personally affirm to the judge under penalty of perjury isn't a big deal. You're only looking backward in time. 2) Put vendors on the hook for not following data retention / sharing limitation standards. That latest update flipped a switch that changed a customer's share settings? Congratulations snowflake, you just caught a fine worth 10 times the original contract, per day. 3) Make it illegal to repackage and sell ANY data from the cameras, or other sensors, to anyone. I mean, seriously folks, how long do you think it will take for the companies to start selling? That is, if they aren't already under the table. Police and many politicians will whine. You can be dang sure the companies will screech loud to the Calvinball Court. I don't care. Not only is this stuff reek of fascism it's a national security nightmare.

The guy admits he saw the price on the screen and charged anyway.

But EVgo confirmed the charge was valid. The dealership's charging machine displays the pricing on its screen: $5 per kilowatt-hour and $5 per minute. Kpenkaan said he never saw those prices before starting the session.

Do that retarded thing Airtags do where they start beeping if they don't see your phone for a while? Half the point of these things is to track stuff if it's stolen, which is completely invalidated if they start beeping so the thief knows where they are.

A. Coward, you keep saying that, but it does not mean anything. You show no understanding, just repeating words you think fit.

So how about defining some terms then? What is understanding, if we are going to try to apply it to non-human intelligence? For decades we have been applying these questions to animals. Mirror self-recognition, theory of mind etc.

The problem is that most people have really actually thought about it, so do not have a meaningful definition of "understanding". Yet many of them make confident pronouncements anyway. I call this "Natural Stupidity". But they can't help it, they are just a bunch of neurons firing according to simple rules of electrochemistry. There is no such thing as emergence.

just how long will an EV owner drive before running face first into that five-figure maintenance bill? Will that be before or after the 7-year auto loan is paid on an asset that has depreciated like milk..

Waymo did not specify the average mileage at which it swaps out batteries or retires vehicles from service. But Waymo robotaxis drive around much more each day than the typical EV, which means the Waymo fleet is likely to experience faster usage-related degradation of battery capacity over time.