Why do Excel/Word/Outlook need access to your location/camera/mic? Are you sure they're not asking for permission because they aren't using them?

Yeah, but who are you going to believe? Wakeboarder, or those wankers at NASA?

Buying a new one every two years, and you don't have to get a POS HP laptop.

These decisions are being made by people actively trying to destroy the United States from within.

I'm not saying that the orange idiot and majority of his cabinet are Russian stooges taking orders from Putin to destroy our country. But if we knew for a fact that he was, what exactly would he be doing differently than he is doing now?

And for fuck's sake, if I click on one of those news articles, open it in my default browser, not Edge!

Hasn't Exchange offered this for decades? Wasn't that one of the main "benefits" of locking yourself into the MS ecosystem?

What was so bad about the single player game? It was fine, and a lot of fun. It didn't get all of the additions that online got over the years, but considering the stupid shit like flying motorcycles that was added, that isn't really a bad thing.

Unless I missed one, it msmash got the trifecta. Maybe EditorDavid can get the superfecta?

Maybe slashdot editors could use AI to scan for duplicate stories that are on the homepage at the same time?

My experience with Waymo is that they're really good at navigating through areas like this. The sensors do a great job of knowing where exactly the car is, and how to maneuver around stationary things, or other traffic that's moving predictably around it.

This is where they shit the bed. It's going to get confused, stop, and just completely block the road. The last time I took a Waymo, it was about a mile trip, I was just curious and wanted to try it. I was honked at three times, and as it was pulling to the curb to let me out a valet driver pulled away from the curb, which caused the Waymo to freeze and it told me to get out in the middle of Grand Ave. in downtown Los Angeles. It did helpfully warn me that a car was coming and to be careful though... After I got out it proceeded to sit there for about a minute, blocking the lane as it tried to figure out what to do. It was honked at again multiple times before it finally pulled away.

Some parts of their tech is pretty cool. But it is very much not ready for prime time.

I have. It spent about 5 minutes waiting to turn down a closed road that was barricaded off for a farmer's market before it finally called tech support and had a human route it to the next corner. Also have you seen the stories recently with Waymos driving down light rail tracks, through police standoffs, and onto active fire scenes? They do have some impressive tech, and have good reflexes to avoid immediate accidents, but they're not remotely ready to be running loose on our public streets. Not to mention they get confused and just essentially shut down if power knocks out traffic signals, and will just completely stop if someone places a traffic cone on their hood.

Lol, no they're not. They're not even close.

I haven't seen them in years, but you might like the Capsela toys.

Used to watch that with my dad. We actually stopped by his shop in NC (?) and my dad got to meet Roy, it made his vacation.

Ah yes, America "thrived" because people went to church, not because it had a secular constitution, independent courts, free speech, science, public education, and a government explicitly barred from enforcing religion. Correlation solved.

A religious population!= a religious state. The U.S. succeeded because belief was optional and law wasnâ(TM)t written by clergy, which is exactly why the Founders bothered with the First Amendment in the first place.

And invoking Iran as the only example of religious governance failing is cute, but unnecessary. We can just look at any place where religion actually runs the government and compare it to the least religious countries today which, awkwardly, are doing just fine.

If church attendance were the secret sauce, Mississippi would be an economic superpower by now.

Any international company or foreign government that isn't currently working on a move away from US based computing/storage/OSes/Office suites is setting themselves up for failure. We've shown that we can't be trusted with their data.