nyan

Based on his track record, Ford loves to pass laws that later get smacked down by the courts. (I voted orange. It didn't help.)

It seems like an interesting piece of kit. (Not $1500USD of interesting for me in the current economic climate, though, especially with no indication of Linux support.) Would be nice to know the cost of the consumables beyond the "starter ink bundle". Would also be nice to know more about how the prints are expected to hold up long-term, and what the "nearly" part of "nearly any surface" implies—are there common substances it won't print to?

Or a white box. Or a purple-and-pink gradient box. It was always the most reliable method anyway, since it ensures that there's no real information within the bounds of the box to be recovered. As far as I can see, the only reason for the popularity of the filters is that they look a bit less jarring.

Well, except the one who's taken over the dojo, but I doubt we'll see him very often.

The lab might also be sick as a dog. :rimshot:

If so, it's a fitting way for them to die.

test takers are [only] told which of four tiers they fall into, from highest to lowest — relative to other people taking the test at the same time

Which means that you could theoretically take the test twice, give exactly the same answers, and score in the highest tier one time and in the lowest tier the other. How is this a useful tool for evaluating anything?

Not a lot, maybe, but in cases where someone else is paying for the flight, there may be some. And there are a fair number of older people who may be able to afford the plane ticket, but carry a dumb flip phone because that's what they understand and can operate.

Does that mean it might be possible to trick Musk and company into investing in steak sauce instead of AI? Even if we end up with a whole bunch of unwanted condiments we then have to destroy, that strikes me as a win.

There can’t be that many anti-vaxxers, can there?

Some are likely immigrants from countries where vaccine availability is less. A few probably just have lazy parents who can't be arsed to make the necessary appointments without someone pushing at them. And yeah, some people are just drinking the kool-aid and making their kids pay the price.

Used to be that the health units vaccinated kids who hadn't been jabbed yet at the schools unless their parents made an effort to opt out. Maybe we should go back to that. Not only does it reduce the effort the parents need to make, but normalizing the vaccination process that way might have an effect on parents who are wavering on the edge of the antivax zone.

I question why we even have them.

To give lazy reporters something insubstantial to talk about. It's half a step up from standing on a street corner shoving a mic in people's faces.

Alas, this doesn't cover the ancient-but-amusing case, "Your washing-machine-sized hard drive is boogeying it across the floor like it thinks it's at the disco."