Don't worry, they're gonna eat themselves doing shit just like this. It's not a matter of if, but when.
"AI" has it's uses (medicine, engineering, etc.), but 99.99% of the snake oil they're selling are just gimmicky cash grabs. Classic cases of Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
It's probably just personal preference and the door lock issue is probably a security precaution. One of the big ways people are breaking into or stealing modern cars that use "smart" keys is with a mirroring attack. They use a long-ish antenna (1m or so) to pickup the FOB inside your house, then mirror the signal to the car with a phone/tablet. Once they're in your car, things get even worse. Honda's for example used to store their security codes in the OBD computer (I don't know if this is still true). Meaning thieves could plug in a technician OBD tool (they're like $1,000 on Amazon), then program a brand-new virgin key for your car, right there in your driveway, hit the start button and drive off. All in under 30-seconds. The non-smart keyed cars were even worse, since the alarm doesn't go off if you pick the lock (no joke lol)
It's the marketing hypertrain in action. The only real advantages Tesla ever had were their motors (the one designed by the 2 real Tesla founders) and their deal with Panasonic, which allowed them to manufacture batteries in house, bringing down the cost. The car itself was just a plastic shell for the two.
That time has now come and gone. All the other auto companies make competing, if not better motors, and all the other battery companies are also making "tabless" batteries. BMW is even rocking true solid-state batteries in some of their newer cars.
Oh, and the dumpster fire that they call "self-driving". Can't forget about that.
He's very well spoken too, just has a natural authority in his voice and never fumbles over words. In fact, he was supposed to teach one of those microchipped monkeys Quantum Physics. But he's been so busy lately, that'll have to be one of his later Gifts to Humanity.
The Fourteenth Amendment does not provide any procedure for revocation of United States citizenship. The Supreme Court in Afroyim v. Rusk held that loss of 14th-Amendment-based U.S. citizenship is possible only under the following circumstances:
Fraud in the naturalization process. Technically this is not loss of citizenship, but rather a voiding of the purported naturalization and a declaration that the immigrant never was a U.S. citizen.
Voluntary relinquishment of citizenship. This may be accomplished either through renunciation procedures specially established by the State Department or through other actions (e.g., treason) that demonstrate an intention to give up U.S. citizenship. Such an act of expatriation must be accompanied by an intent to terminate United States citizenship.
as it is a government funded report and you have to release it on request.
Do they though? The Trump administration isn't exactly known for obeying the law. They'll probably spout some nonsense about "other taxpayers bearing the cost of the paper" or something.
That's true, ICE & Co. are also all over Mexico right now because of the cartels. The whole border lock down and immigrant round-up thing is only half of their current force. And one of the big things they've been doing down there is monitoring/tapping their communication networks.
So yeah, never mind, probably not a good idea. If it was just for torrenting or something it's probably fine, but beyond that I wouldn't push it.
I'm honestly hoping for a repeat. Hopefully Microsoft goes down this time too, since they're heavily into AI. Twitter, Meta, Google and Amazon too. It's really just the worst of the worst.
It's more about the latency since it's right over the border (<30ms). It's also a full 10Gbps so I can let family/friends use it and don't have to worry if a few of them are pulling the full 1Gbps from home connection. Doubt I'm gonna be able to match both of those with a Chinese VPS :/
Honestly looking at Mexican datacenters right now. Some are basically the same distance, just in the opposite direction lol
lives in the unincorporated community of Coral, a part of Maple Valley Township in Michigan’s Montcalm county
I'm not going to dox him any further or anything. But holy shit is that "community" small. For those that don't know: Unincorporated means they're not legally considered a city, town, community or anything. Literally just a group of people living in the middle of nowhere, rocking the name of an old lumber camp.
A few tidbits from Maple Valley Township's Wikipedia page:
The racial makeup of the township was 97.70% White, 0.19% African American, 0.14% Native American, 0.29% Asian, 0.10% Pacific Islander, 0.29% from other races, and 1.30% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.82% of the population.
The Coral post office, with ZIP code 49322, serves most of northern Maple Valley Township, as well as portions of Pine Township to the east and Winfield Township to the north.
So... teeny-tiny "town", in a county that's 98% white and the best thing they have going for them is a Post Office and a real-deal, big-boy ZIP code. Yee-haw!
Yup, not surprised one bit that this dipshit is spewing the garbage he is. I'd be upset too if the only entertainment I had was chasing the mailman around town.
Edit: Poked around some more on Google Maps. Just want to add that they also have a volunteer fire department, 1 bar, 1 restaurant and a gas station. So someone needs to update their Wikipedia page, cause they moving up in the world.
Airbnb said he had been warned for violating its terms and told he would be removed if there was another similar report. The company told him that it could not verify the images he submitted as part of his complaint.
Um, yes you can, those are verifiably altered images and this is verifiably criminal fraud. Now stop beating around the bush, grow a spine and take some direct action. Cowards.
Perfect for letting your buddies outside know when Tony's wife comes to visit. Tony's the guy you've been beefing with over your tater-tots every Tuesday btw. Oh hey, what's this, his exact address too? Sweet!
Even worse: They're going to start creating 2 separate astroturfed campaigns to sell competing ideas, that both actually work in their favor. Which gives the illusion of choice to the uninformed public who lack all of the real context, like you mentioned. You're seeing it right now in the Republican Party over the whole Epstein Files issue. Half of them pretending to be outraged and the other half making excuses for Trump. When all of them are really just watering the issue down, and buying time while he continues to buttfuck the country.
It's a basic post-Soviet, Russian Propaganda tactic. And it's a shame we (the American people) never learned to spot it.
As a long time Frontline, NOVA and News Hour watcher: Fuck these people. They're literally killing some of the best investigative and science journalism we have. They're clearly just trying to make this country dumber under the guise of cleaning up the budget.
Don't worry, they're gonna eat themselves doing shit just like this. It's not a matter of if, but when.
"AI" has it's uses (medicine, engineering, etc.), but 99.99% of the snake oil they're selling are just gimmicky cash grabs. Classic cases of Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Let them burn their money, I say. Fuck it. Just sit back and enjoy the fire.