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I’m no biologist, just seems easier to “infect” blood with someone else’s DNA than to make it from scratch.

Sounds like they’d get lots of subpoenas.

I’m waiting on a court case with a fingerprint as key evidence for conviction, in which the defendant brings this up. Might not pass reasonable doubt muster, but what if somebody sold fingerprint forgery kits online that made it push-button simple? Just supply an image or two, run it through some ML to reconstruct the print, laser etch a latex glove or similar…

I wonder if you could use CRISPR or “lab-grown meat” techniques to do the same with DNA evidence…might be something that would get you a contract with the CIA/NSA.

When rednecks find out what “instant full torque” means the Lightning will sell very well.

The grid in rural areas suck, in general. The reliability is terrible and there may not be enough capacity for everyone to start charging their vehicles when they get home from work. Rural people also tend to drive many more miles (and sometimes much more energy intensive miles), and range can be a serious challenge. If they’re hauling, range is significantly diminished, and it’s not like you can throw a few extra batteries in the bed for when you’re out of juice. With a diesel, you can throw a 100gallon transfer tank in the bed for under $1000 and make it clear across the lower 48 without stopping (though that’s not normally what they’re for).

All that said, electric has promise. Longer vehicle lifetime and less maintenance is a huge plus.

Well if you walk to your car and someone is stealing the CC they often have an armed accomplice. Should you not have the right to get in your car because someone else is implying violence? And if you want to get in your car, and they’re going to potentially kill you for it, don’t you also have the right to defend yourself? Would someone (say, a lone woman in a dark parking lot) be unreasonable for assuming violence was imminent if she walked to her car and found people stealing the CC from her car? I’d have a hard time blaming her if she shot them both on sight, even if they were unarmed.

I got out of the software world a long time ago but when I dip my toe in and see FOSS projects with proprietary software/SaaS used for dev coordination I lose my shit. Email, forums, and IRC will take you a very long way. Can’t say I’ve ever needed trademarked services to coordinate. You only lock yourself into the limitations somebody else sets for you.

Title reminds me of a coworker I had that would rip up and throw away a newspaper after he was done reading it so others wouldn’t get for free what he had paid for.

I can accept the touchscreen for its broad utility, but poor UI is intolerable. Like how Android keeps covering up the dial pad button in the phone app with inane messages about duplicate contacts. When I want to dial a phone number, sometimes I need to do it “right now”, and I don’t care about duplicate contacts or whatever stupid thing it wants to nag me about. Put that shit in my notifications so I can deal with it in my own time, or just swipe it away.

Don’t get me started on text selection on iThings.

This is necessary, but how do you expect people to do this when a lot of climate solutions puts them out of work? We need a coordinated effort that addresses the immediate economic problems of the working class created by taking serious climate action, because that’s where a lot of the resistance comes from, among voters. Somebody who has worked their whole life mining coal can’t suddenly pivot to working in a battery or solar panel factory without very specific conditions being met by the economy and regulators. To say otherwise is handwaving.

If we go along with the idea that gun makers are at least partly responsible for school shootings*, then let’s make Apple at least partly responsible for stalkers using their products to stalk. Let them figure out the rest, including solutions for people without any electronics.

Maybe they need to give everyone on request a device to detect them, but even then you have to know what Airtags are and know to (and how to) request this device, so it’s still an imperfect solution.

Maybe they ought to do a background check and have Airtags registered to your name, that you’re legally responsible for. This sounds crazy now, but it may be the discussion society is having in 10 or 20 years.

At the least, they shouldn’t release an app to detect these. They should release a white paper so everyone can have their own implementation of Airtag detection.

As for me, I’m fully prepared to see my ass bearing down on a toilet as I’m about to take a shit in a toilet paper advertisement. We need strong privacy laws. Technology has upended everyday life and there’s very little room left for you to not be monitored by stalkers^W marketers^W the rest of the world.

* I’m not saying this is a good idea, but it looks like Remington might legally bear some liability for Sandy Hook.

I can’t help but feel like this article (and a lot of articles written these days) feel like they’re building up to something but end up finishing abruptly and not really going anywhere. Kind of like a TV show that wants to hook viewers, but the writers don’t know where to take it after season 1.

Makes me wonder about how Teslas will age. IIRC they have lots of small batteries placed throughout the car and I’m not sure they were designed to be replaced after wearing out.