The rival explorers are probably not copying it all over telemetry to the mothership.

You have to spend the money to retain the top management talent, it is the only guaranteed route to success. That is what they keep telling us.

Is this "known support system" before or after all the support department was replaced by a chatbot?

People also use astrology. It is a whole industry.

Every time I/we pay extra for more screen real estate, it just gets hijacked for advertising, on-screen controls and other crap obscuring the content or the stupid website breaks the content over several pages and refuses to flow or size text.
Samsung should get all those idiots to chip in and buy me a three grand phone if they are the ones getting to use it.

I am laughing at the idea of Steve Jobs screaming and ranting at the AI and threatening to fire it if it doesn't work harder. Not sure AI is a drop-in replacement for human engineers in that kind of development environment.

That is going to be even more infuriating, knowing the data is in there but being prevented from seeing it.

"Find me the fastest route to the statue of liberty!"

OkAy, pLaNnInG ScEnIc RoUtE tO DeAtH vaLLeY cAlLiNg aT EveRy BURGER KING oN The WaY!!!!

Well, he has two thirds of a business plan. He is only missing Phase 2. Once he has Phase 2, he can proceed to Phase 3 : Profit

I assume it will be supplying 200V at 37Hz with lots of DRM to prevent any non-Gates-licenced devices connecting to it.

They spent tens of millions on shareholder dividends, executive bonuses and expenses, conferences and meetings in order to imagine those parts of the mission. No engineers were involved.

That content is now mostly ads, interspersed with AI hallucinations. Put up as many paywalls as you like.

Advertisers have moved away from tracking everyone ? I believe that as much as a believe the content of their ad copy.

Searches are increased because of AI ? Yes, because they are using AI to make searching more difficult.

You seem to be saying that using something dozens of times an hour causes no appreciable wear compared to not using something at all.

I would think that if a starter motor has a design life of 100,000 operations, it is better to spread those operations over 50 years than maybe 18 months.
Your driving conditions may vary, mine have the start-stop operating a hundred times in an hour's commute. Yes, my vehicle slows to 0mph a hundred times on an hour's commute. Yes, the traffic planners are well paid.

That is less than reassuring when the start-stop system adds a few dozen start-stops every journey. A start-stop every red light, every junction, every time the queue moves and that 100,000 cycles may be 3 years or less.

Just to provide a contrary example, I have had, in different vehicles, the automatic stop cut the engine in the few hundred milliseconds when I am dipping the clutch because the lights have changed or traffic has started moving.
This is doubly hilarious because the stupid thing will not then automatically start and forces you to turn the ignition off and on with the key. Such fun.
There is a sensor on the clutch which should inhibit this behaviour, but sometimes it happens. Peugeot, Merc, Ford and Renault if I remember correctly. Maybe a dozen times in a few years, but memorable each time. Beep beep. Ha ha ha.