“anyone who tried to harm the robot would be identified and arrested.”
But what if you sneak up and dress it like a Dalek, maybe with a speaker that yells out, “IT IS THE DOCTOR! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!” That cannot possibly be a crime.
“anyone who tried to harm the robot would be identified and arrested.”
But what if you sneak up and dress it like a Dalek, maybe with a speaker that yells out, “IT IS THE DOCTOR! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!” That cannot possibly be a crime.
The loophole seems to be having an app pinned to the screen (I’ve never done this, but it presumably keeps the phone from locking) while requiring you to have an unlocked phone to use NFC payments. This doesn’t seem to be a common scenario (I can imagine doing this in some sort of kiosk mode, or giving the phone to a kid and locking the app so he can’t wander around).
Maybe all his companies are like this, it’s just the first one that’s been so public and shown his true colours.
I’m not going to look for it now, but there was a Twitter thread from last year that kind of talks about this.
Basically, SpaceX and Tesla are companies that grew up with Elon as an early investor, and have learned early on how to contain him. They institutionally have firewalls in place to keep him from wrecking the real work they’re doing, like dedicated Musk-handlers that slow walk his bad ideas until he changes his mind a few days later.
Twitter basically had none of those institutional firewalls, and could not container him with company culture.
Meanwhile, you have the Elon fanboys still pretending Twitter is doing better than it ever has.
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Well, it is, if you’re a Nazi.
To be fair, those are Mission Impossible chase scenes really disrupt traffic.
And the BBC.
Frankly, all news organizations should run their own Mastodon servers as authoritative sources for their news articles and their reporters. Right now, with the ever changing badges on Twitter, they’re just Star-bellied Sneetches.
“OK, how can we make a web interface more difficult to use?”
But how do you keep the ice cream cake from melting over that time?
I find this hypothetical posed by this social media user to be poorly phrased, somewhat irksome and deficient in interpersonal empathy. I will use my considerably greater mental resources to consider why this user felt obliged too ask this hypothetical, and provide a suitable answer.
One other thought is to use Google Voice.
At least in that case, everything runs through a Google server, rather than through some possibly janky connection between your desktop and phone.
The drawback is that, if you have an existing phone number, you’d have to port it over to Google Voice (or maybe Google Fi can port that number to an actual cell phone; not sure if it can).
“Have scientists found the location of Atlantis? Click here to find out!”
The 127C is the critical temperature. With other superconductors, if you get the material below the critical temperature, its starts superconducting. From the descriptions I’ve seen, the meaning of critical temperature is the same with this material, so it should superconduct at 23C just fine, presuming it is a superconductor.
Yeah, but you can use it for demand smoothing: store the collected solar during the day and use that at night.
There’s a region of Venus that’s not horrible. It’s basically a band in the atmosphere where the ambient temperature and pressure is relatively Earth-like, so one can arguably be outside with just an oxygen mask.
Never mind that a long lasting floating habitat has not been built on Earth, much less thirty million miles away.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161019-the-amazing-cloud-cities-we-could-build-on-venus
The drawback of non-AirTags is that they depend on people consciously opting in to the network (by, say, buying Tiles themselves and running the app). The AirTag network just exists because every iPhone is part of the network, whether or not people have bought AirTags themselves. The AirTag network is orders of magnitude larger and denser than, say, the Tile network.
This vast difference between coverage networks will also push Tiles to extinction, as the Tile network is now far, far worse than the AirTag one, and there’s not much point in buying one. If you’re serious about tracking your stuff, it’s quite possibly worth buying a used iPad just for this purpose.
Oye Beltalowda!
it gets dumber
In six months, ChatGPT will be talking up Brawndo, because it’s got the electrolytes that plants crave.
But someone recently said he revived the NFT market single-handedly, with people making a bigly 1000% return!