The next step will be Microsoft patenting their "innovative" "invention" to protect it from dastardly Intellectual Property thieves.

My prediction, raising prices even to break even will cause "interest" in AI to plummet.

But without AI, how are the automatic doors going to sound authentically self-satisfied when they say "glad to be of service"?

Gen-X. Check your math.

I was in 2nd grade then. We loved it, in part for the novelty and in part because we were allowed to take flashlights to school (relly cool when you're 7).

Unfortunately, that in itself is a punishment. You miss time from work, often have to pay through the nose for an attorney, etc.

It may be the only recourse left, but it can be a costly one that wouldn't be necessary if law enforcement would be more conscientious.

The root cause here was a cop more interested in having a power trip and dumping on someone than in actual justice, law enforcement, or keeping the peace.

It's kind of a knock-on effect. *IF* we could actually trust cops to look at the evidence before they go accusing, threatening, and inconveniencing people with this bs, it might be something like acceptable. But we see over and over that we can't.

And that's BEFORE we consider the nefarious uses that could be made of the data. Unfortunately, we sometimes see evidence for that in the news as well.

See also, high school kid with a bag of Doritos.

That's the point, No I do not. Bitlocker protects against the wrong threat.

I know of a few people who lost data due to bitlocker and regretted using it. I know nobody who has protected data due to bitlocker and was glad they used it.

So there's that.

Alas, many (or most) of the people laid off weren't managers. Interestingly, many of the people laid off supported AWS in some way. One wonders if the loss of experienced people in AWS has something to do with the recent outage?

Personally, I don't want to be anywhere near AWS when they are finally schooled by reality that AI is actually much more expensive and less effective than a few good people.

Always interesting when someone answers a question that was never asked.

Years ago I owned a highly renovated one room brick schoolhouse (ground-source geothermal heat pump, radiant floor heating, two stories). The attic was cooled with a power vent (at some temp (I think it was like 115f) a central fan would come on and push hot air through a single top vent and pull it up through the eves). In the summer almost every afternoon when it was sunny you could hear the power vent come on.

About 10 years into ownership I installed a metal roof with a slate-like look. The company claimed that the roof would make the schoolhouse more energy efficient by reflecting a lot of the incoming solar heat. Well, the power vent *never* came on again in the 3 years after I installed the roof. At one point I even checked to make sure it was still working. In fact the A/C would only come on maybe a couple of times per summer instead of almost every day.

The install cost was about double what shingles would be, but next time I have to install a roof I'm doing the same thing. These things have a lifetime non-prorated warranty unlike shingles which are prorated. I don't have the house anymore and I'm not affiliated with the company in any way.

They can call it Landru.

Or since it needs so much power, call it Vaal.

It probably would. The bot might do it's actual job once in a while.

There's the problem. If that law existed here, you know RFK and Trump would be immune.