This still doesn’t solve the security problem though. For instance, someone without breasts who is flagged as female can apparently smuggle stuff in their bra, and similarly for those without penises who are flagged as male. So the system is still unable to catch this sort of contraband, and the misgendering has no…

Character decisions need to make sense too though. They can’t just choose to do whatever and we just go, Ok fine, people do stuff. Some things are consistent with a character, or indeed any thinking human, and some aren’t. A child is drowning and a mother stands there despairing right next to a life preserver she can…

Better would be to follow Netflix’s other example, and have Apple start its own investigative news team. We need more newspapers, not cheaper newspapers. 

Has there ever been a laptop that was a greater step backwards than the touchbar MacBook pro? I yearn for all the ports in the previous model, to live carefree and dongle-less life; I’d love to have actual functional volume, brightness and escape keys instead of these things you can brush by accident, that can take a…

I don't blame Obama particularly for drone strikes, but the comparison to air strikes is mistaken. It is far easier politically to have some quiet drones dropping bombs in a half-dozen countries than to be running manned sorties in 6 different theaters. The exact same reason that drones are safer for us is why they…

So the Green New Deal asked for a new committee with suppoena power, and instead not only did they not get that power, Pelosi denied their proposed committee in favor of reviving an older committee, filled it with non-GND democrats including a moderate leader, and is also refusing to give that committee suppoena power…

The party of cheaters and liars. NC, Georgia, Wisconsin, White House -- top to bottom. 

Sharing Netflix, Apple, HBO and other such accounts is also illegal. As is buying DVDs to watch and share in your dorm. Basically, our copyright-subservient legislators have made it impossible to legally watch tv and movies without each of us individually spending an arm and a leg. Occasionally torrenting stuff to…

There’s nothing specific to “dangerous” objects is there? This is just a general-purpose scanning method that means that anywhere with wifi can deliver a near-complete inventory of what you are carrying. Which is to say, virtually everywhere. Funny how terrorism and the surveillance state work hand in hand to slowly…

It’s a standard stereotype about western expats in Thailand. The implicit racist assumption is that no one would want to live there who wasn’t attracted to children.

Good god — just wait it out. That rescue plan sounds like madness. Not point running a real risk one of them could die if they can just sit it out with a steady supply of food and batteries.  

I had 5 computers on the family plan, with the main appeal being the infinite versioning. It will quadruple the price to go to Business, or I can double the price with Backblaze but only get 30 days of versioning. Ugh. I’d accept the cost increase if Backblaze just improved their versioning, but for some reason they…

Except now if your pinky so much as brushes it while you’re doing something else, you’ve “pressed” it. It really is much more easy to actually activate now than with physical keys.

Perhaps you haven’t used one much. You can activate a button on the touchbar with just the lightest of brushes with your finger, and it turns out your non typing fingers are often brushing keys and other areas without you even noticing it — until suddenly the screen starts going dark or your music starts blasting.

My version is that once a day I find my screen abruptly dimming, and realize it’s my left hand about to hit command-w or -s, the little fingers barely grazing the brightness control. And of course the reason I have the touchbar in that setup is that the default slide-to-brighten is insanely annoying, including going…

“Anyone naive enough to walk down the street thinking they won’t be punched in the face deserves to be punched in the face.”

So what did they spend the $9 million of pre-orders on, if they needed the $3.5 million investment “to produce and ship functioning cards to pre-order customers”?

I wish they had realized this for all the stupid illogical hoops they jumped through in order to get to that point.

Every year it crosses my mind to be surprised there are no ads interjected into telephone calls. On the one hand no one under 40 uses the phone, but >40 is a huge market. I’m sure millions of them would accept 15 second ads every 10 minutes for $5 off their monthly bill. It’s pure evil that ATT and Verizon are…

I’ve got a magic tiger-repelling rock to sell you. It’s never failed!