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Get out the macro lens

In Trump hands they seem normal sized.

I believe it is called a classical education

What in china?

A better solution would just be to require them to have a decent (any) backup solution then they could just wipe the drives and carry on.

Well I mean obviously.

God, what an awful thought

No company ever sells games with the disclaimer that they might stop supporting those games at some arbitrary point in the future they sell the games with the understanding that you are purchasing a product that you will own after you give the company the required amount of money.

They are not selling you a limited term license, they are selling you a product. They should not be allowed to then change their minds after the fact without compensating the customer.

That’s the funny thing about all of this it wouldn’t cost the company a single penny. All they’d have to do is open source their code that’s it.

Even if you just looked at the screenshot it’s pretty clear that’s not what the petition is about. Could you go away and do literally one seconds worth of research, and then come back and explain why you made such a brainless comment.

One of the big problems about the original petition was that it had a focus on gaming. But this is a problem in the entire software industry, and as much as gaming is probably the more serious concern for the majority of people, it is considered by the government to be somewhat unimportant. Corporate software though has a more mature image, and so is more likely to be considered.

Any software that is sold by a company should be open sourced if the company chooses to end support. Either because the company goes out of business or because they just decide it’s no longer profitable to continue updating the software, and yes, this does include older versions of iOS.

A rising tide and all that.

Finally, it encourages people to do the minimum, because the alternative is to compete for bonuses that are only going to the people who meet the highest appearance of productivity metrics

Oh yeah they called them “STAR awards” or something to try and make it look like some great achievement.

Smoke alarms contain small quantities of radioactive material. You can also bulk buy smoke alarms on Amazon. You can also buy hazmat suits on Amazon.

Good ol’ Zorg

My parents have an induction stove like that. If it gets any moisture on the panels at all it thinks the buttons are being pressed and just starts doing random stuff. Because who thought that water would ever get on a stove top?

I still use the exact same washing machine that was in the house when I bought the house. I have no idea how old it is, but I bought the house in 2017 and I can’t imagine the owner would have left it behind if it was new.

The only problem with it is that the door sensor is broken, so It will actually turn on even if the door is open which it shouldn’t do according to the operating manual. Won’t make that mistake again though so it’s not a big problem.

As far as I can tell battery research seems to consist of mixing every single element with lithium, and seeing if it makes a battery.

They really should because the law has already decided that AI isn’t an independent entity, and is essentially just a computer program.

So whoever initiated the AI is ultimately responsible for its behavior, they can’t claim the AI malfunctioned because they chose not to bother having any human oversight, they knew that this was always a possibility and still they took responsibility for it.

It’s not destruction of evidence though because without a warrant the information on the phone isn’t evidence, it’s just stuff on a phone. Stuff which is your stuff and you have every right to delete it whenever you want.

They would actually have to arrest you and acquire a warrant, try it to getting you to unlock the phone for it to be “evidence”.

The police would have a very hard time in court saying that there was evidence on the phone when they can’t produce any documentation to indicate they had any reason to believe this to be the case. Think about the exchange with the judge.

“Your honor this individual wiped their phone, thus destroying evidence”

“Very well, may I see the warrant?”

“Yeah… Er… Well about that…”

It doesn’t matter what the police may think you have done, if they don’t go via the process the case will be dismissed on a technicality. They hate doing that but they don’t really have a choice.