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Comment Re:Slam dunk case (Score 1) 108

What if the plane is replaced after the ticket purchase?

Notify customers and allow them to change seats. If it is too close to departure when the swap happens, automatically refund any extra paid for a window seat. Easy.

Who is supposed to maintain this csv file?

The airlines who already know the exact layouts for every model of plane and already own the plane.

There are tons of ticket resellers, are there APIs?

The airline just needs to publish the data similar to how they already do, just more accurately. Ticket resellers (of all types) shouldn't exist anyway.

nothing is ever easy

Anything can be easy when your smart enough to understand the problem and see the possible solutions.

Comment Re:Slam dunk case (Score 1) 108

The work required to ensure that every single seat is marked 'window but not really' vs 'window' and then all of the plane schematics are adjusted according to every single airplane is insane and may not even be technically possible.

Not only is it very possible, it's also very easy. Could be as simple as a CSV file:
window, middle, aisle, aisle, middle, window,
wall, middle, aisle, aisle, middle, wall,

It could get knocked out in a few hours. If Delta uses the exact same layouts for each model of plane, than it should be even easier.

Comment I don't want to talk to my computer for everything (Score -1) 123

Fun fact - I prefer just filling out that bland web form rather than trying to talk on the phone to someone or an AI.

That was one of the great things about the web, people didn't have to deal with that slow process anymore, you could just got fill out the form without talking and be done.

I DON'T WANT YOUR UPSELLING AGENT.

I haven't wanted it for the last 30 years, I don't want an AI powered one for the next 30 years

Comment Re:How do the trackers work? (Score 1) 103

Anything external can just be removed and left in the transit country. The hardware itself is unpowered and the shipping containers are steel, which is a conductive metal. It should be obvious, but a non-existent radio signal is not going to make its way out of a Faraday cage.

The only way to do this is install a virus in the chips that would infect the host computer (maybe the driver) and then connect to the internet. Alternatively, the host computer can be infected by other means, which will then scan for the chip.

It won't be easy to get past the Chinese equivalent of the NSA.

Comment Re:Let's ruin the economy! (Score 1) 144

Plenty is being sucked up by crypto and other kinds of financial voodoo.

Our country will continue to lose competitiveness as long as the smartest people go to Wall Street to suck money out of other people. At least with tech and AI, they're making something useful.

Comment Re:Good luck (Score 1) 138

Their voice to text software is actually pretty good, i'm using it to type this comment right now.

Of course, they'll have to do more than voice to text to make this useful or something other than typing up a comment on slash dot. I'm not sure how one would go about selecting or interacting with things on screen. It's an entirely new UI paradigm.

For the record, that's supposed to be "I'm", "useful for something" and "Slashdot".

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