When they are slapped on by the Orangutang in Washington they have no market value, but are childless tantrums by Trumplestiltskin.

so don't do charging stations, do battery replacement stations. Hot swappable batteries does away with the charge time and makes a whole new subscription business model for the service stations to move to and not die. The Govt. could specify a standard battery compartment and hookups, allowing for a HUGE 3rd party market. Just imagine the AmazonBasics[tm] battery line that catches fire as often as AIs hallucinate.

The problem for law enforcement (assuming theres an incentive to even catch it, which currently for the US there is not), is a lot of this influence stuff is domestic. Well funded right wing think tanks notably those around the heratige foundation (The motherfuckers behind project 2025 which is largely the blueprint for a lot of the current insanity) and the koch network, putting serious finances into disinfo campaigns. Theres not a lot that can be done about that because the first amendment doesnt just protect your right to speak truth to power, but also your right to lie through your teeth on behalf of despots and use shady techniques to land your lie. And in fact, somewhat mysteriously, with companies being given quasi-personhood and money the status of speech, this appears to even extend as far as doing some pretty corrupt shit, to get there.

As an Australian I kind of miss... 2 years ago?... when the ritual of waking up didn't involve turning on the news to see what terrifying madness the americans have inflicted on themselves in the preceding day.

Unfortuantely a lot of things have to go right at the same time to get a situation where you guys can be finally done with trump after november. And well. "lots of things going right at the same time" hasn't seemed like a thing the US does for quite some time now.

Thats literally who "Epstein class" is refering to. The billionares and tech bros. Many of whom are in the files (Though Musks entry is very amusing, with him pleading to be allowed to visit because of GIRLS and being basically told 'lol no')

I think the man pages need a graphical UI update and at least 1 AI function in order to attract the "modern" programmers attention.
/sarcasm

This attempt to manipulate public opinion seems remarkably similar to the US corporate media outlets strategy every 30 minutes of every hour of everyday. I imagine the "Media" is going to have to do something about that. It is not like they can stomach having competition, it might cut into the Masters' profit margin.

This won't go away, Flock is just the first and the one that made the mistake of getting in the public eye. When Flock goes bust, several smaller companies will pop up offering the same technology but with NDA's. The info is too valuable to no be sold by some greedy sob with no morals. The government is gonna want this any way they can get it to go with the echelon phone data. Once the genie was out of the bag it is just a matter of time. Our grandkids will wonder how we survived without Uncle Sam knowing where we were at all times.

methuselahs children

For roughly $60 you can buy a RPi 3 model B+ with a power supply, heat sinks, case, and SD card. Load it up with pi-hole & unbound and you needn't worry about any of the big players like cloudflare blocking DNS you want and you can block as much DNS you don't want as Quad9 or more on your own. You don't even need the RPi. If you have an old laptop or PC laying around you can probably run it on that. Just remember to use BOTH pi-hole AND unbound and don't point pi-hole at Google or cloudflare or quad9 resolvers.

The world ended in 1987. Everyone worth anything was raptured. Those really bad got sucked into hell and the rest of use are cursed to wander forever in a AI induced hallucination shaped vaguely like our world.

That's it.

Bah. I want a nuclear hand grenade. It'd be a hell of a way to shutup that stupid neighbor who keeps complaining to my landlord about my drinking.

The job posting was created to itemize the exact skillset this developer had, and the exact job duties this developer did

The oldest trick in the book. I learned quickly not to bother applying for jobs at universities with overly specific job requirements, because these are almost always just designed to hire a specific graduate to continue previously unpaid research whilst getting around public service (australian universities are usually govt owned) laws that require new jobs be advertised. Its a technical workaround that *probably* borders on corruption, but gets ignored because academia has an obvious interest in letting graduates continue the research they did for their PhD into post-doc.

An example would be that I applied for a job once at a local university doing computational genomics. It was an unusually specific set of requirements and I thought "Im probably the only person in the southern hemisphere with this specific set of skills!" aaaaand didnt get it, and found out later on from a collegue the job went to a postdoc and was intended to let them continue their PhD. I could have thrown a fit, but it'd be hard to prove and I dont actually want to deprive some poor kid of their promised job when I had about 5 other offers on the table anyway.

Unity isn't necessarily a bad engine but its use rules and cost sure promote a huge amount of slop games mostly from Eastern Europe. Now that it can generate slop without even needing to understand how to program it is only going to get worse. Steam is overrun with such games. They go into those cheap A$$ bundles that no one needs or wants but you see on Humble...

Exactly. And Vmware's calculus is that as long as it has a dozen gigantic clients (governments, huge enterprises) that it can charge whatever it wants, then the small fish aren't worth it.

You are going to be able to heat your house with this, just in time for the next massive heatwave.