I say let it happen. If someone is dumb enough to fire all their workers… They deserve what will happen next

Oh right, I forgot you Europeans didn’t have a first amendment

That’s actually pretty scary for the Internet.

Please wake me up.

I mean, many many organic compounds, like solvents or plasticizers, get you high. Similar to ethanol.

It’s all poisoning you, we just have a good way to metabolize ethanol.

It’s going to become this horrible game of cat and mouse, for anyone who actually values privacy.

Sure, you could open the device up, remove any antennas. You could add powerline filtering. You could find the jtag or debug ports. You could find a way to hack it. Jam a signal. Make an ultrasonic white noise machine. Wrap the thing in foil. Cover the cameras.

The individual has to block every channel of “attack”. The data miners only need to get lucky once.

This is going to be such a nightmare as smart devices become the majority.

Didn’t connect your TV to the Internet? Don’t worry, it’ll spy on you by connecting to the neighbor’s tv. Or the built-in WiFi in the modem. Or the power company’s smart meter via powerline-networking.

Products are going to be engineered to sell backdoor access at a hefty price, if they aren’t already.

Things are going to get scary.

To be fair, there was no definite link for babies born with birth defects to parents who worked at Teflon and PFOA plants. Despite having a rare birth defect…

It was hard enough for the “radium girls” to prove a link between their occupation and resulting ailments. Many of them were dead by time the suit was settled.

Like you said, that causal link is going to be near impossible to prove. But we shouldn’t let companies off the hook because there’s a 1% chance that they could have gotten cancer without the exposure.

The problem lies in how we determine legal liability.

Kind of funny to me how the role of operating system has evolved.

We’ve gone from “low level software to manage memory and hardware” to “bloatware that will let you use our hardware with your hardware”

Someone let me know when personal computers need TB of RAM

It’s not a new idea. They used to do RF transmitters back in the 90s

Local outages are a lot different than grid failure. But yeah local power lines are probably needing an update too.

The difference is in what the voters want.

Both parties wouldn’t be for it, but liberal voters would be for it. Conservative voters would be against it.

Back in the day a lot of us didn’t have smart phones or computers. But we did have consoles with Internet.

Nintendo Wii had a browser too. Tits in their 480p glory.

Bro you used that too

So wait. If I bought a game they can just brick it down the road?

Everyone carries around a device in their hand that does that. All your apps track you, at least one sells to China.

Let’s say company C pooled their resources to pay for lawyers that could reduce the penalty to a profitable level, but A and B couldn’t individually.

Lets use coulomb hours or electron-per-second-hours.

With housing the way it is, and AI driving being a possibility, we’re going to see a huge influx of people truly living in their cars. Add remote work into the mix?