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In many US cities, communications corporations have monopolies on cable pit/post access: The local government enabled that. During CoViD, councils decided to allow the population to be mask-free and some, forced schools to be mask-free, contradicting a national health response. Last year was the Mystic River tragedy where the local council both allowed living quarters to be built on a flood 'plain' and refused to install flooding-event alarms. Local councils across the USA do things that endanger their local residents and do them without those locals loudly complaining.

There's a reason why the party of billionaires is also the party of 'small government' and it's not to help the local residents.

The party of "small government" strikes again, demanding federal control of cities. Paradoxically, the USA needs to move many infrastructure-based decisions away from the "small" end of government, to the state or federal level. The problem is, many federal departments do not have that authority, partly because of the US constitution, and mostly, and ironically, because the GOP prevented the federal government from gaining that control. As a result, the GOP's own sabotage will be used against the GOP, again.

Children are thinking about machines for space again, like in the 1960s, not about creating a push-button government or massive unemployment.

We just had an article declaring 'the [Palintir] AI did it', and I'm sure the next generation is taking notes. Maybe, children don't literally see it but they recognize a disconnect exists between the 1960s dream of robot maids and the modern reality of humans taking orders from a 'robot' manager.

"If you use Meta AI, we may ..."

/p. ... steal that data to increase corporate profits by letting visitors perve on your images and video. If you have images of naked people we may report you to state police because we don't want to be blamed for our part in spreading kiddie 'porn'.

They''re called technocrats and they've been around for 90 years. But the US government got really complex in the 1940s, so the machines of the day couldn't create a push-button administration. The hope is, that modern AI will and the ruling class will once again use religious morality to control and kill the working class.

It's a matter of inconvenience that the US voter is overpowered by propaganda and misinformation, a powerful AI algorithm is discovered, and a renewed demand for a technocracy, happened in the same decade.

How is this different to fake Id. cards or counterfeit money? There will always be someone falsifying an identity. Are you going to bite every coin to ensure it's not a fake (and suffer lead poisoning if fake money is common)? Or, shine a UV light on every dollar bill?

When almost-smart phones first appeared, retailers offered child-friendly phones at twice the price. It became cheaper to give the child an older, full access device but as the horror stories revealed, not better. While parents should be doing something to educate and protect children, parents don't have the time and tech-savy to vet every web-page on Facebook, Tumblr or Twitter, it's easier to ban everything or allow everything.

Parents tried this, it was called nanny software and would ban words such as "Scunthorpe", "sextant" and "sexagesimal". Worse, it was quickly co-opted by the Christian right who forced the software to hide sex education, abortion, homosexuality and slavery. Those issues aren't important to tweenies and younger but teens have to face the adult world and need a few unpleasant facts to be safe and to develop the responsibility that adults, sometimes hypocritically, demand.

Corporations stealing government-supplied data is a sensitive topic at the moment, so Florida, Texas and NY City are down-sizing their fascist habits to control voter outrage. While Texas and Florida are gerrymandered into endless Republican government, NY City is vulnerable to outrage and voters who lack the integrity to vote Independent.

We are breaking the rules because everyone else is an arsehole.

In that case, the treaty is pointless and non-existent, so the USA shoulld denounce the treaty and officially withdraw.

Natural gas was piped into people's homes, then people suffocated because there were no regulations on delivery annd ventilation. Electricity was piped into homes, which burned-down because no-one demand insulated wires and fuses. In the 20th century, food became mass produced and tens of rhousands of people got sick because corporations weren't controlled by food safety laws. Ask the USA if it remembers that one.

Correct, technology is not the problem, nay-sayers are not the problem; It is capitalism treating everything as a (profitable) mini-messiash that makes problems disappear so everyone can be lazy, selfish and uneducated.

The dream of Augmented Reality was a camera that explained the world to you. The reality is social media corporations that want to record everything you see. "Glass-holes" and "pervert glasses" exist because someone wants to monetize our worst instincts. Our worst instincts happened anyway: There are so many people using a smart phone to record public or semi-public events, that performers, entertainers and athletes can't do their jobs.

Translation: The idiot employee in Sector G-7 will never push the big, red button that disables the cooling pumps to the nuclear reactor.

Science-fiction is full of stories of machines having contradictory priorities and doing horrible, violent things to achieve the required outputs. You are pretending that statistical 'token' generators can't make malicious decisions, so horrible, violent things can't happen.

What the AI shop was failing to do, was recognize that some things are more important to humans, than others and that affects shop revenue. Given the now obvious flaw in the AI data, the question becomes, why continue the experiment?

No, it's easy: Publish a policy statement declaring bitcoin revenue (not profit) will have a sales tax of 50%, and it will be applied retroactively, to sales that occurred from 2026, onward. We know the Democratic Party will never hold the Fortune 500 family, accountable. So, that money will be used to buy the next president of the USA.

TL;DR: The USA refuses to tax the rich.

The USA often demands other countries copy their laws. This is US imperialism working as intended. Is the USA complaing about being ignored by UK national security bureaucrats? Oh, no!

It's not a a problem: The planet will kill the cause of global warming until global warming stops: It's a problem that solves itself.

/p. In other words, don't complain when it's your turn to die.

You all, are correct: There's no point having Passkeys if they can be copied from disk to disk, that's repeating the problems with passwords but as a digital file. Which is why the term "credential" appears. Passkeys can move only from one approved application to another. At the moment, that means 'via the cloud'. So it all depends on online security. An average user probably hasn't enabled TOTP/"Yubi-key" verification, which makes the system, slightly vulnerable: See below.

The parallel is obvious; At the moment, 99% of password managers do backup-to-cloud, so people don't lose their passwords when they lose their phone. It's sensible that Passkeys have the same protection. But how does one verify that, this is my Passkey backup, when one has lost the Passkey/phone to the cloud filesystem?