Eugenics is a dirty word, but really: we should be making some effort to guide evolution. At a minimum, discourage people with genetic diseases from having kids. Ideally, encourage people who are healthy and intelligent to have more kids.
In fact, we do the exact opposite. More successful people have fewer kids, less successful more. That is true both within individual countries and also on a global scale.
How the heck is a printer supposed to recognize the purpose of a particular object that it is printing? Anyway, building your own firearms is (afaik) entirely legal - you just aren't allowed to sell them.
Want a stupid-simple gun? Start with a piece of iron pipe, with an iron cap on one end. Drill a small hole in the cap, put a nail through it to serve as the firing pin. Voila: an incredible primitive gun. Are we going to outlaw plumbing supplies and nails?
M&A is a disease. Behemoths like Alphabet, Meta, Google and Amazon should be broken up. They certainly should not be allowed to buy up other companies, thus eliminating competition while making themselves even bigger. Remember 2008? "Too big to fail"? These companies are bigger than any banks ever were.
Set two thresholds for annual, global turnover. Exceed the first, lower threshold and M&A is forbidden. Exceed the second, higher threshold and divestment or break-up is mandatory. Violating either rule results in criminal charges. No long, drawn-out anti-trust cases. Just simple numbers that lead to automatic consequences.
Amazon's DRM has changed a couple of times. If you want to get purchased content out of the Amazon eco-system, using an older Kindle is easiest. I suspect that's the only real motivation here.
We really need legislation around the client/server issues. There is no technical reason (other than DRM) to disable these devices. Similarly, game studios that choose to stop running servers for non-profit able games. What does it mean, to "purchase" a client that can be disabled st the whim of the producer?
This. We have SSO, and yet when I open Teams, it is Gettings things ready" for fscking ages. Only to eventually tell me I need to log in. Which I click and - surprise - I am already logged in.
But the worst thing is Tem's trying to do everything. You can message there, store files there, etc, etc. I don't want yet another "Eierlegende Wollmilchsau" - sorry there's no English equivalent really, that's a very negative "Jack of all trades".
"so, just because it's a person of color, or a woman, we have to list their degrees and qualifications when they get a job?
Unfortunately, yes. That is the direct consequence of DEI. If you hire some people due to their gender, or race, or whatever? Guess what, you call the qualifications of *all* such people into question.
Trying to hide their involvement, while pumping $billions into lobbying. No surprise that OpenAI is doing much the same. Bet: So are Google, Microsoft, Apple and other tech giants - they just haven't been caught yet.
The question is why? Why do the tech giants want to force ID checks in order to use basic service, or even to log into your own computer?
There were articles about the amount of microplastics in human blood and tissue. Then they discovered that some of the lab equipment had plastic parts that contaminated the samples.
tl;dr: When you're measuring tiny particles in tiny amounts, contamination is very, very difficult to avoid.
Totally not a gimmick. Totally not incredibly easy to bypass. Totally not a bunch more e-Waste in the making.
But someone expects to earn good money with it, so...
If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. -- Stanley Garn
