At least unsold cars might be moved to somewhere else if there's a perceived demand somewhere else. They might even be exported depending on the sorts of trade deals that the country has internationally.

Real estate by its very nature is fixed into place. If there's no value in it in-place, then the only real value is the proceeds from dismantling and carting-off whatever's there. If there are environmental regulations involved in that process, or if the materials have no reusable or recyclable value, then the real estate can have a negative value, ie, it's a liability exceeding its benefit.

China seems to be speed-running three centuries' worth of social and economic problems in under a hundred years, and without shaking-out or solving prior problems as thoroughly as other societies have done before the next set of problems come along. Prior unresolved problems may well contribute additional aggravation to new problems too. China's GDP per-capita is somewhere between 1/5 and 1/2 of American GDP per-capita, but I seriously doubt that it's proportionally less expensive to produce electric cars there versus anywhere else. Sure, it will be somewhat cheaper due to reduced wages, but not so much cheaper that the average Chinese could afford at the same rates as the average American could. That poses a real problem when there's the sort of overproduction that a centrally-managed economy enables.

Mmmhmm. A misspelled word is at least not the real word. But I would say that they cannot enforce IP for the real word homonym/homophone when it's used.

I'd be much more concerned that if the buses are also tunneling back to the polity's network that there's now a vulnerable IoT device that allows using the method to do maintenance to then hop into another network.

This seems like something that doesn't need to be in a vendor cloud.

There was an Outer Limits episode where Michael Dorn played an astronaut who was taken-over by such an alien and the other astronaut had to make the decision to suicide himself or to live and let the the alien reach Earth.

Having a whole lot of free time and very likely having reduced mobility to actually get out of the house could also be major contributors.

Be careful of the tax-incentives offered to big business to set up shop cheaply in small towns. If from a bottom-line perspective they have little invested, then they have little reason to abandon those investments, leading to a boom/bust cycle for the town next time the big tech vendors concoct some new 'best practices' scheme to try to cause the businesses dependent on them to buy more crap.

If the business has spent a lot of money out of their own coffers to build, they're more likely to treat that buildout so dismissively.

Nice.

It's actually pretty funny, you mention WiFi only for the cameras, but I would love to have a good wifi-capable commercial-grade outdoor all-weather security camera that didn't basically rely on some other entity's wifi adapter, particularly if it could run off of power as varied as 120V to 277V.

And that is a fundamental problem.

Even in a professional setting, it takes real time and effort to devise IoT policy that actually works. Some IoT only works with like-appliances from the same manufacturer. Some IoT has to work with like-appliances, and has to work with general purpose PCs or phones or tablets. Some IoT works with industry-standard protocols and has interoperability with devices from other manufacturers. Some IoT is cloud-only. Some is local-to-other-devices and cloud. some is local, local to general purpose devices, and cloud.

And that's just reachability rules. That's not including things like security vulnerabilities due to the device manufacturer having ceased software support for hardware rev 1.5 six months after hardware rev 2.0 debuted but the durable goods that the controllers are embedded into have another decade of expected service life.

For the average person who isn't an IT engineer or hobbyist, they're going to basically have to subscribe to yet another service in the form of a cloud-managed firewall that the manufacturer supports for whatever amount of time the hardware is considered good for. That's going to be expensive as hell.

I guess it's difficult to be particularly sympathetic when a publication or service that is rather important-to and dependent-upon the research that has brought us what they're currently calling AI is swamped with low-quality, low-effort garbage generated by the same sorts of systems that their service has enabled.

I'm still wondering how/why this happens if one presumes that the names of researchers are associated with any academic papers. It seems like the reputational harm that should be done to someone publishing hot garbage would be enough to get them blacklisted from publishing altogether if their abuses were too frequent.

Given the sheer number of people that will make choices or take actions that are clearly and obviously against their interests, I simply must disagree.

Unless my original comment that started this particular thread stands.

And yet I can buy repair parts for a Kirby Classic III...

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I've met plenty of biological beings that didn't seem to be particular conscious. Particularly when driving.

So where did the cup of tea fit into all this?

"...I think I'm gonna have a heart attack and die from NOT surprise!"