I donâ(TM)t see an air taxi service succeeding for short range trips, esp commuting, if it canâ(TM)t be depended upon. Normal (not extreme) weather events have very little effect on commuters. You can still drive or take a taxi or a train even if it is rainy or windy.

The ones doing nothing are less damaging than the ones who are actively screwing code by not understanding the problem they are solving or just not being able to code worth a damn. Over my career as a consultant I’ve more than once had to tell a customer I could fix a particularly bad piece of code with several days effort or just rewrite it properly from scratch in about 1/3 the amount of time.

This is beyond stupid. Software is written and written things are copyrighted. Putting a patent on software would be like putting a patent on the concept of a novel that’s a mystery with a female detective. Then no one else could write that exact kind of book.

The CFOs job seems much more structured and rules driven than the CEOs. They also seem to be the most dispassionate part of the C-Suite. It would seem like not only the CFOs job but much of both their organization and treasury should be relatively straightforward to replace. I’d look seriously at everyone in the organization with an MBA as a likely candidate for replacement.

I wonder if they use more of a check-in approach? The machines could phone home every so often. If they donâ(TM)t have a successful call home they try again with an escalating level of urgency that culminates in a disabled machine if it goes too long without success. If it is not a reversible event(ie it destroys components) then it would need to be an interval at least long enough in normal times to allow for proactive efforts in Taiwan and the Netherlands to prevent problems when everyday operations are affected (outside of a war.). If I ran the company in the Netherlands Iâ(TM)d also have a contingency plan to protect my employees and their families from kidnap and coercion if such an invasion happened.

Think about it. They made a terrible investment when they bought 30,000 Teslas and nothing is ever more important than the bottom line. Most customers probably never notice the charge (esp corporate users) and they blow off the fee that do. All the while the bottom line recovers a bit more. Itâ(TM)s great for everyoneâ¦well, everyone named Hertz.

A backup is not a backup until itâ(TM)s in at least 3 places.

Our education system has abandoned most 'life skills'. Those include things that everyone needs to know (basic cooking & cleaning; how to change a tire; how to manage money; etc.) But we're going to have a high school teacher (who usually can't code their way out of a wet paper bag much less design a ui or debug data access code) 'teach' students programming.

This will probably set the students programming skill back rather than helping them.

I could see if they wanted to focus on teaching students how to use typical UIs; how to use their devices securely; how to protect their identity; understanding (at a high level) how networks and routers work, etc but having people who can't code (or write user specs or write functional specs or design UIs or test cases) teach students who have no interest (or probably aptitude) in programming is a joke.

By the time most kids who really want to program have gotten to HS they will have already figured out more than than a HS teacher can teach.

We continue to degrade our education system a little more each year.

This should make the users of PWAs happy.

Now both of them will have a nice day.

That would be like requiring people to buy replacement software if they switched platforms from windows to macOS or Linux or to switch fuel types if they moved from an ICE vehicle to a diesel one. Why would anyone put up with abuse like that? Seems like governments should prevent such tragic things from happening.

Support for advertising is an integral part of the RCS standard (no surprise since its basically a Google creation.) That has led to stories like Google disables RCS ads in India due to flood of spam from businesses.

I do not look forward to unsolicited, multimedia ads playing in my messaging system.

It sounds like this will be integrated into imessage. If so, I hope thereâ(TM)s either a way to disable ads or disable support for the protocol.

If Apple is forced to add it then hopefully it will be an optional feature.

The whole messaging 'problem' is pretty much a ploy because RCS exists primarily to provide Google with another channel to push advertising on us. If it is forced into messages then I would certainly not consider activating it on iOS devices if I could avoid it. I would not enjoy providing Google with a mechanism to shove unsolicited ads into my phone without my permission or participation.

There are basically zero issues with exchanging plain text SMS messages interoperably between iOS and other devices. You don't get guaranteed delivery or read receipts but neither of those is a particularly valuable feature. I definitely don't really feel like I need to notify senders that I read their text. Sending multi media may complicate things for some people but there are lots of other tools for doing that.

As much as possible, I want to keep my phone from increasing Google's advertising revenues.

Me too. I have tried super hard to avoid Sony products since the root kit episode. It bothers me that their sub components are in other brands devices that I purchase.