I'm not talking about what would be best for society, I'm talking about what would be best for Sony.

It does seem that way, since they probably would have expired otherwise, since they weren't able to execute. And neither can Intel. But since TSMC was able to advance process technology, we know it was possible, and therefore it would have been even better for AMD if they had been able to do that instead of divesting.

Widely? No. Divergent? Yes. Run the same query multiple times and you'll get different answers. The more input you give, the more subtle the differences are likely to be, but there's always a chance it will go completely off its nut and follow some line of "reasoning" that goes someplace utterly unrelated to what you asked for. This is less likely in special-purpose models, but never impossible.

But this is exactly where AI can actually be useful — so long as you don't depend on it to identify all of the design issues. It can review mountains of information and find things in it you might not have caught. You just can't assume that it will catch everything it "should" — that is, what it should be capable of catching is not necessarily what you are capable of catching.

Meanwhile, that periodic report has requirements, so you're going to have to ask it to write the report, then to review it to see if it met the requirements, then to review its own statements about whether it successfully met each requirement, because it won't do any of that sanity checking without being told to do so.

That's only even half of the stupid. There's no sense in a refrigerator even being able to be set to a temperature above about 70 F, as there's really no scenario in which you'd want to do that. You would just turn it off. Why on earth do they even allow these insane input values?

Is it just me or is it sick when Wikipedia doesn't even mention the singular thing people notice most about her, ostensibly in the name of political correctness? There's a way to write that section without violating their standards, but it isn't even there.

Cell was fabricated by IBM, so... No.

"because SSL makes it impossible to generate static content."

What SSL/TLS prevents is a caching proxy without doing any work. (Even that can be done, but it takes more steps.) You can deliver static content with encryption. If you are doing a lot of that, there are accelerators.

Have you seen this Supreme Court in action?

Both of these approaches have been used. Some vehicles have both things. For example a Sprinter T1N always has glow plugs, but a block heater is an option, but an Espar heater is actually more common! And when equipped, it comes with a timer, not just a knob controller like you would get with the cheapest install kit.

Of course people should beware. Anyone who has a problem with Flock is surely aware that they are only a fraction of "the problem," though among the more visible.

I'm concerned that some Flock haters might take us down a slippery slope to where you can't have a camera in your house if it looks out onto the street, or that you shouldn't be allowed to record cops, or that I shouldn't be allowed to have a camera attachment on my Manhattan apartment balcony telescope that I normally just use to furiously goon to the good people of NYC who don't close their curtains. (Oops, forget that third example.)

I can't say I'm a fan of Flock but if their rights are infringed in a way that might possibly expand to everyone else, then they will need to be defended.

That said, I have a modest proposal for the law-enforcement-related problems of surveillance vendors. Require non-warrant sharing with LE to be unreliable. For every geo search, remove a random half of the applicable results and replace them with deliberate, randomized false positives, so that LE will know the data shouldn't be taken too seriously on its own. If cops act without confirmation while KNOWING it's _at least_ 50% likely to be wrong, that'll help with the civil suits for false arrests.

You really think your vote matters? It doesn't.

You really think the average person should have a say in the economy? The average person is an idiot.

You really think the bad guys are on the other side? Every side is filled with sociopaths seeking more power. (yes, even "my side" for whatever that means).

More hardcoded passwords and the like in the renewal processes where people have been doing them manually and don't know how to automate them correctly. These people should be outsourcing this...

You can't. You won't. You will outsource all of that to your web provider. Mine handles renewing my cert for me automatically. I could provide my own, but I don't have to. Instead, they handle getting it... from Let's Encrypt. I will not even notice this change, because they will continue to do so.

I have done my own self-signed certs and whatnot, I have installed certs from Verisign professionally yada yada, but there's no reason for me to do anything other than this for my vanity site. But there's really no good reason for most companies which can't afford to have an IT staff to do anything else either. They are not dependent on their website to do business.

I see them ditching their consumer line, since it's too hard to differentiate there now, and focusing on pro equipment. Their camera line is very successful.

Ahem