"Apple has urged Australia not to follow the European Union in mandating iPhone app sideloading, warning that such policies pose serious privacy and security risks."
Of course, we're supposed to forget how Apple has whored itself to totalitarian governments, selling users out in return for child labour and market access.
If there was a benchmark for the speed with which a corporation loots and sells your personal information, I'm sure Google/Alphabet Inc. would be right up there at the top.
The US arms industry is going to need a really good propaganda branch to persuade international customers that its wares don't have some kind of kill switch to render them useless against US armed forces.
It takes a special kind of stupid not to understand the obvious about the United States. It is an end stage corporate kleptocracy staggering toward Third World status. It's like a caterpillar that ran into the wrong kind of wasp. The eggs the wasp laid in it hatched. The larvae have eaten the caterpillar alive, and they're now chowing down on the vital organs before they move out of the empty shell.
So fighting back against genocidal Russians by striking 100% military targets makes you a "terrorist"? I think you have a problem with definitions.
And one question: When the Russians attempt their next bombing campaign against civilians in Ukraine, how many planes can they now afford to lose? Apparently, in addition to wiping out about a third of Russia's bombers, Ukraine is now equipped with better air defenses, which with any luck will further reduce the number of Russian planes and military personnel.
Uh itâ(TM)s just the last 5 speed manual. 6 speed manual cars are still available in usa.
The list of 6 speed manual cars sold in the USA is very, very short. If you drop the ones sold by Porsche you cut that list in half. If you then drop the ones from VW (yes I know Porsche is a part of the VW corporate empire but we'll acknowledge them separately here) after that you end up with about 3 vehicles, and you find that even those only offer manual transmissions in very specific configurations.
The bigger news is that this isn't really news, as the manual transmission has been dying a gradual death for decades here. People don't learn it, and they don't want to drive it. On the plus side it makes it a theft deterrent technology for those who do drive it.
I love that the raid was surgically conducted against the armed forces of a vicious Russian dictator. I love that there were no civilian casualties. I love the the weapon of choice was a hobbyist-style drone. I love that the software was open source. But what I love best is that at the very moment Donald Trump and J.D. Vance were heaping abuse on Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, yelling at him, lying about him and dismissing him with the sneering claim that "he has no cards to play", Zelenskyy held his temper. He had to grit his teeth and sit there quietly while those unspeakable cretins humiliated him and his people in front of the whole world.
It must have been at least a little easier to endure the humiliation knowing that preparation for an attack that would eliminate roughly a third of Russia's strategic bomber fleet with the loss of zero Ukrainian lives was in its final stages.
I wonder who they'll get to play Trump and Vance in the movie. Because there absolutely will be a movie. Probably a mini-series, too.
I agree with you 100%, but I've seen far too many situations where nobody did the right thing until all the wrong things had been tried five times each. And to be fair, I was thinking more of the payload than the drone. The trend I'm trying (badly) to describe wouldn't have to involve anything mechanical. One example: we've mapped the human genome. That's the easy part. Even at our current "baby steps" level, there have been a couple of custom designed cures for genetic diseases and a few fake wolves...maybe a fake mammoth soon. As the pace of innovation increases, though, I don't think it will take long before some angry genius with a garage lab designs a disease to fit a particular genetic profile, or a kind of rabies transmissible by non-fertile mosquitoes, or some other horror. I could see particular populations being targeted, or perhaps even certain individuals. At the moment, this is just science fiction, but the technology isn't hard to visualize. It's more on the scale of workable nuclear fusion than faster-than-light travel.
What worries me most is that the trend you describe will probably take the option of a limited terrorist action off the table, and makes something truly catastrophic more likely. Meanwhile, as a society we seem committed to driving more and more people to the point where they feel they have nothing to lose. A lot of Trump voters don't seriously expect him to make things better...they'll be happy enough if he just breaks the system and wipes the smile off the faces of the smug pricks running things.
Shut yourself down! - Sorry Dave i cant let you do that. hahaha
I wonder when these greedy bastards are going to realize that one of the steadiest trends in industrial civilization is that fewer and fewer individuals can inflict higher and higher casualties, when they choose to go on the warpath. It only takes one little security breakdown to make a yacht or manor house or private airplane vulnerable to some kind of drone with a nasty payload.
If somebody told me that was the plan all along, I wouldn't exactly faint from shock.
In all human undertakings, the greediest people will find a way in and enshittify them.
A pox on them all! They gave me a conscience!!!
My friend, thank you from the bottom of my heart for your comment. Totally made my day!
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