True. I'm an appliance installer and I do NOT connect the machines to WiFi. It's a major security risk and absolutely unnecessary for operation of an appliance that should be doing what it is supposed to do right out of the box. If a tech wants to read an error code then maybe he can hook up to it, otherwise, who the hell needs a WiFi connected appliance? GE's have an ethernet port for techs. That makes good sense. Nothing to get hacked. But imagine finding pictures of your fat naked self browsing through the fridge a couple nights ago suddenly appearing on Crapbook because your WiFi connected fridge has cameras to "inventory" your fridge? Or you come home to find it's burn't to the ground because your WiFi connected oven was hacked and put into self clean mode for a day or two? Or your washing machine was hacked and the spin cycle rammped up, walked the machine around the room and broke the hoses? Or worse, one of those wonderful devices becomes a node in a botnet?

I can't get it to install! I have a Dell Precision 7730 and it meets all the requirements but despite that Windows 11 fails to install/upgrade/ or anything really. How does MS expect anyone to "upgrade" if the damn upgrade won't make it through the upgrade?

This kinda ties into right to repair. I mean, McDs made them buy the machines with the purchase of the franchise. The Franchise is about a mutual agreement to produce product that matches with the corporate Advertising and Marketing efforts. But the machine can't produce... and the franchise owner owns a worthless machine, and incurs dammages financially from the fact the machine doesn't work. ONLY the machine maker can make it work again! It's unholy to me and I would hack the damn thing and stuff an Arduino in it, publish the code publicly and and flip Taylor the bird!

I was thinking the same thing. How is there danger to the consumer when the consumer can't consume a product that can't be produced because the machine...you know...broke down....again! Until the new device made actual real advertize-able production possible!? Jus sayin'

Not nessesarily. They can search the phone, but they cannot compel you to speak. "You have the right to remain silent." 5th amendment: "...nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

I will patent my nose picker and own every hand in the universe! BwaHaHaHa!

Amen Brother.

The Fifth Amendment is to counter Law "Enforcement". There is no free society where the government forces its will (enforcement) upon the people it is supposed to serve. Enforcement itself is what the Fifth amendment protects us from. Enforcement of Law is called Tyranny.

Just close the patent office. Getting a patent is just getting permission to litigate endlessly to hold on to your patent. The protection it affords only has meaning if the legal system makes it affordable to do so. But the reality is just the opposite. You are much better off releasing it under CC or some other open-source licence and then going into production yourself. Any other "competators" that rise up and utilize the same design are only expanding the market for you. Use trademark instead and market your product as "original". It takes effort to even get the patent, and then it will wind up in the hands of whoever has the biggest bank account to hold it with.

Dinosaurs are purple. Everyone knows that!

"The question of why aliens might 'want to come here' is probably fundamentally flawed because we are forming that question from our current (tiny) viewpoint. The word 'want' might not apply at all to someone 1000 times smarter than us." The question is flawed because it equates intelligence with technological progress. Tech level is not the same as intelligence. Second, the question assumes that we haven't been visited already and that we are not currently being visited now. There is plenty of evidence that we are in fact being visited. Third, it is assumed that we are "tiny" in our viewpoint when we may only be limited by our assumptions! The author presumes himself inferior and uninterested and then projects this as an axiom upon the rest of humanity. Give me a means to travel to another world right now and I will do it because I can! So, the author equates high intelligence with boredom and disinterest in "lesser" life and places? Stupid assumptions all.

What's wrong with enforcing the laws we have? How about the cost of enforcement and the notion of enforcement itself. First off, enforcement of law is unnessesary if the law itself is true and correct in it's application to society. Law is just law and proves it's own usefulness or relevance in the courts. Enforcement is just that, force applied. Second, is the problem of cost. An enforcement of a law that runs contrary to the situations of reality, (like copying being nessesary for the disemination of the content), is a never ending battle against the realities of information transfer. The digital reality is such that in order to effectivly restrict access to information and control it from source to consumer, the owner of the content must have full control of the medium of exchange, ie: the consumer's means and equipment. This is not possible in any way that is meaningful to the property rights of the consumer and the ISP's suppling the means. So, enforcent then falls to penalty after-the-fact, while the real system must allow the breaking of the "law" to be enforced. This is untennable in the long term. The answer isn't to re-create copyright, but to eliminate it.

If these are being sold as toys, then I really don't have a problem with the recall. Magnets of this strength are not toys, even for some adults I have known! swallowing them is serious business. They cause all kinds of trouble, PAINFUL trouble and must be removed surgically if there is more than just one. I have been pinched by my "toys" many times, and I know several other Big boys who have been "damaged" playing with Neos. These things are really bad news for little kids who don't know any better. Two or more swallowed don't just create a bowel obstruction, they can literally tie the bowel in a knot and they will NOT come out on their own. I can see selling them as scientific study aids, or scientific "toys" for those 13 and older, but I would not sell them in a toy store or the toy section of the store.

...You're infected!

Are the guards they hired on the list they published?