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All devices should have circuitry to limit current to an acceptable charge rate, and be fused to catch surges.

A common problem during summer months.

> It’s not clear that Musk was involved in the account’s suspension, but Rocketto and Nellis aren’t all that crazy to think that the X CEO might be behind it.

Good question... what's the real story?

> ... roughly as intelligent as a 7 year old kid.

Maybe a 7 month old, but surely not a 7 year old.

Great article and explains very well the reason that AI should be renamed PSI... Poorly Simulated Intelligence.

There's a reason for everything.

The hysteria over TikTok is laughable. If anyone believes there is something of value siphoned from the silly videos posted there, they must suffer diminished intelligence.

If two executives talk across a table during lunch, is it required to record it? What if they sit across the table from each other and send text messages over Signal instead of talking... is that somehow different where it would be required to record the conversation for all to see?

Where does personal privacy start and end?

Greed is not a requirement of Capitalism though.

The problem is that complex systems have not made us more knowledgeable and capable, but instead they have become a crutch.

https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/06/01/complex-systems-wont...

Interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

I think that's pretty normal for companies to spend money in an attempt to protect themselves from government overreach. I have never used TikTok and probably never will, but I take exception with the attempt to ban them, because the whole thing doesn't pass the smell test.

>Why are us officials trying to ban TikTok? US officials warn TikTok's management is beholden to the Chinese government and fear Beijing could use the social media app to influence the 2024 US elections, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told a House of Representatives intelligence committee hearing in March.

I guess we need to ban all search engines and social media too.

So Tesla is just following the local laws. What is news worthy here, I'm just not seeing it.

There is an appropriate time and place for protests, but apparently these protesters weren't able to figure that out.

SanDisk is still SanDisk and I don't consider them to be Western Digital. Their products have always been dodgy and I still have heartburn over some of their thumb drives where it was impossible to remove the shovel-ware installed on them. It will continue to be nothing other than Samsung products for me in the foreseeable future.

There is no love lost between me and Google, but then I have zero regard for "news" organizations that are attempting to strong-arm funds from Google for their failing business model.

Thank you :-)

There are many other EV's on the road, but you only ever hear about Tesla's and quite often it's something with a disparaging tone. It makes me wonder if it's Tesla's competition using guerrilla tactics.

Is there a way you prevent them from identifying your scraper?

I agree mostly, but there will always be the fringe lunatics that will need mod intervention. And then there's the spam issue.

It seems that it would be fairly easy to support both clientele.

I'm pretty sure Google has multiple levels of redundancy and still failed.

Redundancy can fail.

I might also note that Comcast is a legal monopoly.

It seems to me that excursions into various websites has increased this past year. Every day or so someone else reveals that they have been compromised, and these are usually only higher profile sites. One has to wonder what might be the total number of sites that are compromised on any given day.

>States and the charger industry blame the delays mostly on the labyrinth of new contracting and performance requirements they have to navigate to receive federal funds.

So, in other words, it's wrapped in a blanket of bureaucracy.

>“We believe that the threat actor may have then, in violation of our terms of service, accessed 23andme.com accounts without authorization and obtained information from those accounts.”

It's funny that they had to note "without authorization".

Tipping in the US has become an obligation or entitlement and is rarely associated with the actual service anymore.

Just like so many organizations within government, universities have no accountability... status quo rules.

This views it somewhat as a system of dependency.