There were camera glasses on the market long before Google Glass was released, and yes, making them look like they don't have a camera in them was a secret to there not being a backlash against them. Not figuring this out ahead of time based on their example was indeed a massive mistake.

Claiming people don't like science because they believe that words have meanings is both antiscience and anti-communication. Smog is used colloquially to mean pollution you can see, your goofy and self serving claims to the contrary.

"Anti-monopoly laws are supposed to protect consumers. Are consumers clamoring to have five different app stores on their phone?"

That's irrelevant. Apple has fought to prevent it, which is anticompetitive, which is illegal for reasons of protecting the customer. If Apple hadn't taken this anticompetitive action to begin with, then additional app stores would have had traction by now.

Also, although it is not relevant to whether the action was anticompetitive, yes there are some users who are demanding this (some go so far as to jailbreak their device so that they can do it) and they should not be hamstrung either by Apple's quest for more profit or by the ignorance of other customers which was fostered by Apple.

Finally, the fact that Google allows loading of additional app stores (and since Android 12 they can do everything an app store should be able to do including silent upgrades) and yet this has not created massive security problems nor has it stopped them from having the dominant app store for the platform) proves that it is not necessary to prevent competing app stores for any reason.

You're not wrong, but somehow the only people who ever made a flight horrible for me by screaming are infants, and by kicking my seat for fifteen minutes straight, children.

I don't question whether adults are capable of the same, of course they are. They could even try to hijack the plane! But in practice, children (and those who are teaching them to raise hell for attention) are the problem.

When you declare that facts don't matter, you've lost me.

No, I'm responding to a person who responded to a person who responded to that bot. This is another case where you don't seem to know how to slashdot. Are you using something other than the classic interface? All of the others are misleading trash.

Fuck that "words mean whatever I want them to" bullshit.

There are people for whom it holds true, and then there are people for whom it doesn't. The reasons are many and varied, but some of them are deliberate. Most of us live in or near cities. If we need cars it's because those areas were designed around the car. America was unique in this until recently because of its young age. Most of our nation wasn't built up until after the invention of the automobile, so we had the opportunity to do that. We built on a larger scale (with larger zones, blocks, etc) because we were designing cities on the scale of the car, not the human.

People think the car allows them to go where they want, when they want, and that seems true until you realize that your average car is completely worthless the second it gets even a few yards off of a road, and roads themselves can be compromised in a whole bunch of ways. People who are sure that their cars will serve them in an emergency, for example, are ignoring that the gas pumps run on electricity and the largest, widest roads can easily be clogged by just one or two incidents. In inclement weather, you can run out of fuel just trying to stay warm or cool while waiting for the road to be cleared.

It's terrible to live where I live (Humboldt county, CA) without a car, but there is a rail line running right through the county. Unfortunately it's abandoned and overgrown, and it would cost billions upon billions to reactivate it now for light rail. I live in a not-particularly-remote part of the county (this city is only ten minutes from a better served city) and the bus only comes here every other hour. But I can see the rail line from my back yard! Thankfully, I am able to work remote four days, which saves me almost $300/mo in fuel alone and I drive an econobox.

Could we replace cars with rail for everyone immediately? Of course not. They will continue to make sense for rural residents for the foreseeable future. But for everyone else, it makes a lot more sense to do rail for long parts of trips and shuttles or even smaller vehicles for the last mile, especially when self-driving tech gets up to par. The cars have their place, but we don't need as many of them, they don't need to be as large and long range for most users, and we don't need to be designing our entire culture around them. It should be the reverse.

Oh good, teenagers can learn to do a job that will probably lead to suicide.

Maybe they should train to be firefighters instead? Then they can have almost as high a risk of dying from cancer as they will from suicide.

I've been taking first responder medical classes with one of the local VFDs, which I get to do because I'm a member of my local CERT, and this is something we discussed. We really treat first responders like trash in this country. They are paid like shit so they can't afford to take substantial time off, and they typically don't get any meaningful mental/emotional care so they really desperately need to be able to do that.

No, it is NOT. It is not subsidizing anything. That's grants, not loans.

MAYBE you would have a point if the loans were interest-free, but they aren't, so there is NO subsidy occurring. The students who take out the loans have to pay those loans back, they are NOT income and nobody (not even the federal government) counts them as such; not on your taxes (where you can write off the interest), not for public charge, not for eligibility for SNAP or Medicaid or Medicare or SSI.

Yeah! They should love rapist racists who attack our country!

It was both things.

The military? The VA is the largest part of the federal government, with 20% of the federal work force.

These days there are two year degrees specifically for transfer ("for transfer" is even in the name of the degree programs) where all of the academic units are transferable.

Why don't you assume best intent for people who point out falsehoods? Especially when his subsequent replies make it clear that he's in denial about it? Falsehoods harm others when propagated.

Can we please, please, please also start holding accountable the people who make the decision to implement half-assed security?

Also, can we maybe not just lock people up for nine years at our expense when some other solution will do? This locking people up for profit shit has got to end.

And their fourth EV is a rebadged GM, they didn't even bother to do anything to the interior so it has all GM controls in it, which are cheaper and look and feel nothing like Honda controls in general.