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Submission + - BMW Blames Young People for Loss of Real Buttons in New Cars (caranddriver.com)

sinij writes:

In an interview with CarExpert, Vikram Pawah, the CEO of BMW Group Australia, said that young buyers prefer the newer controls. “We can see that voice and touch are becoming more and more common,” Pawah told the outlet. “Maybe it’s a generational thing as well. You would see that a lot of the younger generation, maybe 45 or below, they’re tapped into these technologies at a faster pace, using voice, using touch.”

This would be somewhat believable if this design only affected cars targeted at young buyers. It does not. Many of BMW are targeted at affluent boomers and Gen X due to high price.

Comment Re:What can be done in case of a positive test? (Score 0, Troll) 45

Ironically there are treatments that show efficacy but they range between not FDA approved and illegal.

You can go to Mexico or the Caribbean for some of them (or find underground psychiatrists).

Getting lots of regular sleep, exercise, and going ketogenic can dramatically slow progression but there is a tau prion aspect that is difficult to halt. Lots of Omega-3's can keep your astrocytes healthy.

Some evidence supports ultrasound treatment but it's probably the higher harmonics which are not well characterized or even understood outside a few labs (ASU, et. al.).

Use protection as the tau prions don't stay in the brain.

Comment Re:This reads like fake news (Score 1) 36

We deserve better psyops.

If the reporter had read Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent they could have done a better job but let's not give them any ideas.

BBC has always been in the business of narrative construction in service of the powerful to control the population.

And also Benny Hill.

Comment Re:Haha "particles" (Score 1) 40

The mid range of the standard distribution thinks particles are real physical objects.

One end of the curve thinks that sounds like nonsense - the other end knows they're mathematical abstractions with no intent to claim a physical description.

Some people are working on a physical model (bounded surface area / Pauli exclusion) but in the odd world of Mathematical Physics the physicists Interested in the physical are sneered at.

It's reminiscent of "that bitch is so ugly" heard from the mids about the prettiest girl in the room.

Comment Re:Years and years (Score 1) 18

I have a mug from a conference Startpage sponsored about a decade ago.

It's been in my Firefox at least since then. Did I add it manually?

I am actually surprised this is new!

I guess Mozilla was being paid to not do this? Ages ago we had Altavista, Excite, Yahoo, and even Google as options. I really had no idea how deep the anticompetitive tying had become.

BTW, if you want to search for anything counterculture Yandex Search will have it on the first page while the Western engines will gaslight you into believing you misremembered something.

Even 20 pages deep.

Comment Re:AI will rot our brains (Score 2) 49

I don't think ignoring AI and remaining relevant is an option that is available to Debian, at least insofar as Information Security. AI code analysis in search of vulnerabilities is a significant force multiplier, to the point that we are flooded with CVEs for almost every major commercial product. AI's ability to identify vulnerabilities in existing code is already working very well, ability to preemptively fix these issues during AI-generated code is still being worked on. As such, very soon AI generated code will be a lot more secure than average human-generated code.

Submission + - Simulated shopping sites (www.cbc.ca)

sinij writes:

The cart is full. The items have been picked. The checkout button is waiting. You click "place order" — and then nothing happens. There’s no delivery driver on the way. No charge to your credit card. No package waiting at your door. And that’s the point.


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