There was a recent episode of NCIS where someone did this on purpose for stock trading purposes.

The US has a smaller slice of a larger pie, for a net gain.

That is, it is better to have 30% of a Watermelon then it is to have 60% of an Orange, because the Watermelon is more than twice as big as an Orange.

1) People with Alzheimer
2) People with brain damage
3) People that work for VISA
4) People that are stupider than people with both Brain Damage and Alzheimers.

If I am heading home and I want to stop and buy food, I buy food that is already made from a restaurant.

The kind of guy that buys a wine fridge is going to obsess about things like what he is out of and which wine pairs best with the current meal.

Honestly, most people that buy a wine anything like wine but do not know a huge amount about it. So the AI seems like a perfect fit.

But I know of no person that wants this for the normal fridge. That seems like an answer looking for a question.

There are 3 types of regulations:

1) Evil: These consist of regulations designed to protect businesses (make them profitable), appearance, or to hurt 'enemies' of the current political ruler. Licenses for cosmeticians/barbers, lawn neatness, requiring cars be sold by a local dealer, or outlawing certain religions from an area.

2) Safety: Stopping deaths/injuries. Seatbelts, anti-lead rules, etc.

3) Ethical: To prevent unethical business practices including but not limited to: anti-discrimination rules, truthfulness requirements, disclosure requirements. anti-monoply requirements.

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In this particular case, the issue was Amazon, not iRobot. IRobot was not the only robot producer, they have competition. Amazon is a voracious monopolist company that wins not because of price but convenience. No one wants to spend minutes looking for a seller online, they just want to go onlne and buy it. Amazon is cheap enough (though you can get cheaper), so they use it.

As much as I love the convenience of Amazon, I know they are unethical.

iRobot should have gone to Walmart, or someone else. They should have recognized the problems with the Amazon deal and went looking for a better buyer.

Drones are plastics, motors, battery and computer chips.

Most people know the batteries are more expensive. But most do not know that the motors are also surprisingly expensive to make in the US.

China took over that business when they started making toys and appliances. It used to be unimportant and required labor not brains.

The plastic and the computer chips are not cheaper in China.

When I was growing up, gifts for geeks were cheap junk. That has changed over time, but it isn't mature. Geeks came into their own about ten years ago, but not everyone has caught up.

This is how I know AI are over-educated morons. They know the things they are taught, but can not deal with new issues.

The total inability to do anything they were not expressly trained to do makes them totally unsuited to replace a human - except for Congressmen. :D

So will cameras in your bedroom. (and create a wonderful new side industry for the government selling access).

Also, letting the cops get DNA of everyone in the US will also help you stop crimes. (and cause quite a few divorces).

Furthermore, letting the government read the emails of all businesses will cut down on fraud. (And hurt all those small companies trying to compete with the big ones).

There a ton of ways to reduce crime while doing tremendous damage to innocent people.

I assumed you were not an idiot. Because if you knew it is possible to add an AI via an extension, then you knew your proposed solution would not work. You knew that removing the AI functionality would not stop other people from adding AI back in.

Which was why Firefox put in a button that lets you know the AI is off.

Congratulations for insulting me for thinking you were not an idiot.

When the company has an ongoing cost - such as they have to make new content every year, then it makes sense for you to pay an ongoing cost each month.

But when the company has no mandatory ongoing cost it makes ZERO sense to pay them rent.

And fixing the mistakes in their software is not a mandatory ongoing cost. It is at best an optional one - and by some standards should be free. When you are fixing your mistakes you do not charge others for it.

The issue is that crappy companies that made sucky products saw people getting paid each month - without realizing they were doing work each month. They wanted this 'better' business model without realizing the extra costs. So they said screw it they won't pay the extra costs.

Any company trying to get into the subscription business without doing monthly work is a scumbag company that should be rejected.

That includes many car companies. Seat heaters, radios, etc. are not things we subscribe to - they are things we buy.

And yes, you can buy a seat heater that sits on top of your car seat and plugs into your car.

Bad idea. You are assuming all AI will be in one extension and that no one unconnected to Firefox will create other extensions.

Better for Firefox to assume there will be multiple AI extensions and to design the browser to turn off all AI, not just the one extension they know about.

Yes, this depends on extension builders to abide by the rules, but that always is a requirement.