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If your human bus driver crashes you place all the blame on that guy, fire him and move on with your business. If your AI that is used to drive every vehicle your fleet screws up you're potentially looking at grounding the entire fleet and running an extended PR campaign.

At the very least you'll need to stick a human behind the wheel to take the blame when the technology fails like Tesla does. You can't remove humans from the corporation centered blame shifting society because you remove available scapegoats leaving the company without a blame shield. Perhaps they'll hire third world people for lower wages to remotely watch the AI car feed all day and auto-fire them in the event of a crash.

This is all still a worse deal than Uber hiring humans to do it all, they outsource all of the maintenance and liability onto some rando that they can ban from the app if they get uppity and then take a cut of the profit in exchange for running a data center and some ads.

> Can someone explain to me why, over time, democratic states tend to drift into mass surveillance ?

Democracy, even a flawed democracy leaves the status quo power structure vulnerable to being changed by popular political action. Mass surveillance allows the existing players to identify any nascent political movements that may eventually grow to threaten them and undermine or destroy these movements before they ever become a threat.

I'm not sure they really can leave whenever they want. I think once you're far down the education track you will probably feel like you're trapped into continuing even if you decide you don't want to do it anymore, because the education loans will kill you and you need the big income on the other end to fix this. That probably contributes to the creation of a lot of miserable and crappy doctors.

It is like when you start listing the insane things the CIA actually provably did and still end up looking crazy.

They'll just say it is a bug when it is turned on.

Not to mention all the dark pattern lying nag dialogs that will trick you into turning it on, or just wear you down.

Valve basically tried the later approach with the initial Steam for linux push which included steam machines and the steam controller. It did have some level of initial success but clearly had lost momentum and the developer support it had seemed to fade after a few years. There were quite a few direct ports during that time though. I think they would have preferred that approach but ultimately decided it was a bridge to far.

I honestly think the problem can't really be solved because of the adversarial relationships involved. But if there was more than one search engine with significant marketshare maybe it would be easier to route around the problem.

You can just tax tires. And collecting the tax has the added incentives of being much easier to administer and not privacy invading.

The Delorean was chosen because it's horrendous 0-60 times made the acceleration to 88mph a believably difficult to achieve goal for the protagonist.

Copilot still tells me I've commit a content policy violation of I ask it to generate an image "in Tim Burton's style". Tim Burton has been openly critical of generative AI.

Real great gag from the company that hasn't had a reliable local file search since Windows XP.

Do they not numb you up for this?

> BTW I think I heard about some motherboard which had two AGP slots, but the second one was AGP only physically/electrically, running over a standard PCI bus. But maybe my brain is just making things...

I've not personally ever seen a board with dual AGP slots, but there were a number of AGP and PCI-e supporting oddballs during the transition period. I recall one of the more terrible ones doing something like basically just allowing an AGP card to hang off the PCI bus. There were some AGP/PCIe chipsets that were quite good during this time as well, but many of them seemed to be crappy hacks with performance limitations or compatibility problems.

Also interesting were the graphics cards that used Nvidia's AGP -> PCIe adapter chip which allowed them to keep selling older hardware on newer platforms.

Microsoft once sued a high school kid named Mike Rowe for trademark infringement for having a website mikerowesoft.com so anything is possible.

I can understand his feelings somewhat since it seems electric cars spearheaded this malicious idiocy but rest assured it is already here for ICEs and getting worse. Rejecting electric vehicles might feel like the only way to signal distaste for this behavior if he needs a newer car.

I believe he's talking more about external 2.5" drives. Their low power usage means they can be run off a port with no need for an annoying wallwart. SSDs are definitely encroaching into this space but 2.5" HDD still have a cost advantage.

Is there anything stopping an employer from pretesting you to avoid adding a potentially expensive employee to their roster?

Not recently but I recall an intersection where I used to let my car roll back down the hill a bit in neutral if no one was behind me to quickly trigger the light. I didn't understand the mechanism at the time, just that I could reliably get the trigger doing this.

You could use Workstation Pro to directly assess VMs running on an ESXi server, so maybe the idea is to make company's more dependent upon the central infrastructure where they can squeeze.

You could actually cajole the free player to do this with ESXi but it was definitely not license kosher.

I think their ability to remain functional indefinitely in populated enemy territory without a support network and increased attack range are the broader implications here. But yeah, you probably could have them all get into position and blow all lines at once using the range and loitering ability this affords.

And 10 years from now when it fails it will be a $1200 repair.

I have a Subaru Outback and the back up camera is basically useless during the winter. I'll clean it before I leave in the morning and it will be covered in filth the next time I put the car in reverse. Even rain seems to cause it grief. Maybe they've improved the design since 2019 though.

When the backup camera isn't covered in grime it really helps with parking though.

I bought one of those well reviewed mirror dash cameras and it replaced the center rear view mirror. I hated it and returned it because this extra visual burden and couldn't understand why anyone liked these.

When backing up out of a parking space I much prefer the turnaround method since I lose all my periphery vision that keeps from backing up into the path of other vehicles or people, etc. My back up camera even has a warning for that basically saying "be aware of your surroundings while backing up, because this tiny cone of vision on the screen definitely won't help you with that". Of course modern cars are so high up I can't see anything directly behind me without the camera.

There's usually an attack defense asymmetry of effort on these things (attackers only need to win once whereas defenders need to always be right) so I can't really see it being anything but a net loss. The fraud detection will also increase false positives because those are never zero.

There's no way to disable the wifi on my LG smart TV either (any guides I've seen seem to point to a setting I don't have) although I've been meaning to pop the back panel and just yank the module which is on a card. The oven probably is more likely to have separate wifi card than my TV.

Gas obsession is fascinating to me since it isn't even the main expense of owning a vehicle in estimation.

One of the execs at my company that has since retired once spent 2 hours waiting to fill up his BMW when the local gas station had a free $20 of gas promo. Always boggled my mind how that guy thought it was worth his time to do that, but I guess it deprived some poor person he edged out of $20 so it was worth it in the end, lol.

People already do this, at least if they're smart.

I wish they'd just sell/rent little trailers with a charging engine on them you could take on long trips.

I never understand this argument. If feels like saying there is no reason to wear just a helmet in outer space because you'll die without a space suit anyway. Yes, there are other methods of fingerprinting that can track your with varying degrees of accuracy that you should be aware of. But IP still remains a highly effective one. And just like the space helmet, it isn't an either or. You'll have to wear both the suit and the helmet.