Anubis can also be bypassed just fine by a bot. The main thing it does is increase load on the bot runners.
The emergency broadcasting system in North America is in its deathbed
You can use a commodity portable Ham radio to do AM radio broadcasts. There is zero chance of it becoming impossible to do an emergency radio broadcast.
they'd mandate receivers for the NWR weather bands between 162.4 and 162.55 MHz
That would require car companies doing new R&D to add something like that. They all already have AM receivers in their vehicles. It's a lot cheaper to just keep AM radio available.
I think this is absolutely about emergency radio broadcasts. Knowing that cars have at least an AM receiver means the government (or whoever) can reach almost anybody with a vehicle if needed.
I think this is actually a really nice thing to see happen. It's not every day that the government actually wants people to have access to non-enclose-of-the-commons'd technology.
And emergency broadcasting. If cell towers go down, what other means of communication are there? AM and FM are long-range and simple technologies. It would even be easy to set up low-power portable radio stations if necessary.
The point is the writing is on the wall. If they don't have the legislation, companies are going to strip out AM and FM radio to cut costs by a small amount. But if we move to a world where there aren't handy broadcast radio receivers, emergency communication will be more difficult.
Cell towers can go out of service easily. Maybe they could do emergency cell towers, but cell towers have much shorter range and aren't as reliable. AM and FM radio provide a way for the government to set up emergency broadcasts if needed and it's dead simple to scan for a radio station.
EV makers have led the charge because the electromagnetic interference generated by electric motors can affect the frequencies used by AM radio. Automakers have argued that this interference degrades the AM signal and audio quality.
A lot of words to say "it costs us an extra $10 per car (plus R&D) to have an AM radio.
Rivian’s new R2 SUV doesn’t have an FM or AM receiver
wtf.
I think a bill like this is great. Obviously it should include FM as well. These car and software companies absolutely want to move to an entirely subscription-internet-based world where they have total control over communication with their vehicles, and companies can sell more analytics.
nice
I have a feeling it will be killed in the Senate though.
I guess I was mostly thinking about it from the user side of software, not in-house software. If it's in-house there's a cost to any kind of software changes. But keeping someone else's software up-to-date usually involves running some backups and migrations, updating configuration, planning out deployments and so on. Still takes work and planning, but the more frequent the updates, the less work it is. Of course, things become end-of-life and then you have to potentially have to make "in-house" changes that take a lot of work. But it seems like a lot of companies are on LTS versions of things just because they didn't take the time to plan how they were going to do upgrades. So because they don't have the processes in place themselves, they outsource that to Microsoft to maintain the existing versions indefinitely.
yeah that's the problem. Companies shouldn't be maintaining old software like this. We know this as an industry.
I think at a societal level that is a bad business model. It makes no sense to maintain old software just to delay the work of upgrading (which only becomes harder over time). Software isn't a car or a building, there's almost no cost to frequent updates and modifications.
New versions might be better if they didn't have to spend 50% of their budget maintaining 10 year old software for some random US company that has such a messed up and underfunded IT/software department.
Of course it would help if Microsoft hired more people...
Is Excel 2024 the same as Office 365? Otherwise that's another extra version they're maintaining.
I have also heard, as you said, that they've "downsized" their QA department.
Regardless, Microsoft seems to have an unfathomable amount of software that they maintain. Like, why is Microsoft Server 2012 still in the extended support window? The fact that even today they're still doing major long-term versions based on year seems completely antiquated.
They keep bending over for these antiquated companies that have a terrible development process that traps them on old versions of software. At some point, the US government needs to step in and force all these companies to modernize and invest in tech.
Companies are basically offloading the cost of maintenance onto Microsoft in a really inefficient way (keep maintaining old versions with patches), instead of just upgrading and staying up-to-date with the latest version.
1.1 million healthcare institutions holy moly. Basically one per 1400 people? I guess that makes sense.



