We have not yet released GIMP 3.0 so you didnâ(TM)t use it before :-)

Higher bit depths and colour profiles are supported now.

I consider sentience is a prerequisite of intelligence, with one test of sentience being able to make trust judgements.

John Deere tractors drives themselves out the door to avoid license compliance problems.

That is a very extreme position. You judging billions of people as worthless based on the actions of dozens of them.

You would make it even harder for the citizens of those countries to access a diversity of viewpoints, as retaliation for a government funded news site posting covid misinformation.

By the Way, in Australia Murdock owned Sky News was suspended for the same thing, should News Corp be cut off from the internet as well ?

There should be a law that obligates companies to ensure firmware can operate in a fit-for-purpose manner for the lifetime of the physical device.

If firmware because faulty, the obligation should be on the manufacturer to provide repairs, or the means to repair the device.

Similar to car air-bag recalls in recent years, or other physical goods that are assumed safe.

Zombie IoT devices can become a threat to the internet, and everything the depends on it.

Exactly, it would great of journalists and law enforcement had enough understanding of technology to understand the internet cant resolve to the biological level.

And even if it could determine an actual human (not a bot or relay) was using a specific computer, how do they determine the nationality of that individual as opposed to the country they reside in.

Law enforcement are stupid idiots unfortunately.

This was a thing last decade, that guy should get some Venture capital, for betting !!!

From Discovery channel in 2010,
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

Transmission lines can, in effect 'time shift' solar generation so electricity generated from solar is used after the sun goes down.

Example could be connecting the West coast of Australia to the East cost grid, which is a 3h time difference, so strong solar levels from the West coast available on the east coast in the evening.

A similar thing could be done between Australian and NZ.

Read what i said, and think about your response, is it possible you have an anger management disorder ?

But the satellites dont communicate directly with your router AFAIK, there still needs to be base stations and terrestrial backhaul to user.

There will be other significant costs.

It will be a useful addition to internet accessibility, but there is no long term advantage in providing services for fixed locations via satellite, other than redundancy to backhaul interruptions.

There isn't really any proof that Waymo vehicles are driverless, only that the driver isn't in the vehicle. If you compare a dozen dubiously driverless vehicles to a million collecting data every moment and already doing a pretty good job at autonomy, which do you think will succeed?

The fact that the driver is not in the vehicle does not mean that there is no driver.

I believe that this was figured out in the amateur observer community before NASA confirmed it. I saw it go by in my twitter feed. Not sure I can find it now...

Nobody has ever come up with a satisfactory explained of how these "experts" determine the nationality of a person typing on a keyboard.

At best they can track it to a physical location of the source, but even then they would need to have a way to break TOR.

Its all guess work beyond the network stack.

Its obvious misinformation.

Realize that with all the bad things you say about Russia, there is still more justice there than in the US