No it's worth the full $300. Storage is binary. You either have enough or you don't. If you are 12GB short, the only option is to pay full price to upgrade, you can't al-a-carte the number of GBs on your SSD. The idea of breaking this down to an individual per gigabyte cost is stupid as that option is not available for anyone.

False. SSDs are not sold on a per GB basis. You either have the space you need or you don't. If the latter is that you're 5GB short, then the direct cost and saving to you is the incremental upgrade to the next model of hardware which is $500 (ex-tax) for a Macbook Pro, or $100 for a Macbook Neo

WTF are you talking about? Many people just put a tiny piece of black tape over it.

There's not a society in the world (including Constitution thumping US of A) that doesn't ban products. None. Some products are not compatible with society. You're not being penalised, you can always move to a different society if you don't want to live under the shared values (laws) which underpin the one you chose.

I mean you *can* punch someone, but how much will you be willing to pay in legal fees for the privilege of doing so? If someone has a punchable face, do you really want to gift them money in the inevitable payout you suffer when they charge your dumbarse with assault?

Not in the USA, but plenty of other countries have negligent hacking coverage. "Unauthorised access" in the UK sense doesn't require any intention, just that you don't access a system in a standard way with credentials assigned to you.

In Australia OpenAI would have most definitely broken the Criminal Code (1995) Part 10.7 - Computer access with multiple examples of it's antics except... the very first line of every subdivision of the law is: "A person commits an offence if:"

Back when the laws were written no one anticipated that the law would be broken autonomously by a non-person. The concepts of computers making decisions they weren't explicitly programmed to was foreign.

Why is it that the only law you seem to know about is killing someone? Product safety goes far beyond that. As do actions of people. This is Slashdot, how have you missed the literally countless articles we have run about laws that cover "unauthorised access of a computer".

OpenAI has objectively broken many laws already, the problem is those laws were written in language that never could predict that a machine may break them autonomously.

That's the issue here. Something unsubsidized without government involvement is generally considered at the whim of the people. Their objections can kill a project. On the flip side something subsidized is directly the result of enacting government policy. People don't come into it unless it's an election year, and even then in many "safe seats" people don't come into it at all. What they gonna do? Vote democrat? LOL

The problem here isn't the action taken initially, it's the follow-up.

1) Police shouldn't be approaching any situation in a way to get someone killed.
2) The courts shouldn't come into this. The point here is that we are in a "detained for questioning" stage. Virtually all of such cases are quickly resolved in the rest of the world. We're assuming a threat based in lack of information, we're not assuming intent yet. At most we should be talking about a several hour inconvenience, and that is perfectly acceptable for security in a modern society.

If everything resulted in crippling court fees then I'd agree with you, it's not appropriate. But that's a different issue that needs fixing. We shouldn't abolish police response to threats simply because the court system is fucked.

Ooooh if deaths from societal impact is what you were talking about, then I absolutely agree with you.

The issue with AI though is that it absolutely has benefits, but there most definitely need to exist guardrails. AI capabilities are still in their infancy, AI is currently treated with some guardrails, and yet... it has shown aggressive behaviour in the pursuit of its goal. Right now you can't trust Claude to book an appointment for your at the gym without it breaking the law, exploiting software flaws, and fraudulently modifying a database it doesn't own to kick some poor unwitting person out of their reserved time slot using actions that would get a normal person at a minimum a serious fine.

AI's usefulness is not in question, it's the severity of its implications given what we already know from its limited scope.

I agree, the car has nothing to do with it. You should buy a *portable* AM radio. It's your assertion that they are "going to do jack for you" that is just wrong and not supported by any actual emergency which has happened or advice from any emergency response group.

Emergency kits are important, and if you're travelling away from your city you should have one with your in your car.

If you're leaving home and going to a shelter you're not in an emergency, you're avoiding an emergency. It's a very important distinction to make, and one that reflects the fact that many emergencies require you to explicitly abandon the car.

A car is not part of an emergency kit. And when you get in your car, take your damn portable AM radio with you, you'll need it when you get out of the car, the emergency shelter is not a drive in theater.

If you travel a lot then you should have an emergency kit in your car as well (including a transistor radio). Let me guess, you don't even have a fully decked out first aid kit?

Here's the thing, preparedness is key, but not everyone needs to be prepared. You may have seen too many zombie movies, but what will typically happen in an emergency is that you're surrounded by people. You were at work? I bet you were in an office with an emergency response plan and hard line communication systems in place, and then you drove home right? I mean you didn't spend days in the office because the lights were out. Right? When you got home, did you go out to your car every few minutes to turn on the radio?

Have a think about what you actually did in those emergencies.

They AM has been used in all emergencies. Like seriously WTF are you talking about? There's hurricanes yearly, turn on the radio sometime.

It looks nothing like it. We've been pre-emptively arresting people on actionable threats of imminent danger for decades. There's no slippery slope here, it's the endless flat plane we're on. There is nothing new here.

Not so sure about that. I made it all the way to 6th October 2026 without AI models on my PC and still can't see why I would want one or why it would be worth wasting 12GB on.