> Not allowed in EU.

I'm surprised, I know for a fact that some stores definitely have the ability to do that on their hardware.

Utrecht Central Station does this, there are stickers at the entrance notifying the ‘public’ of this. Or its just a sticker;p

Only under strict rules, i.e. anonymized one way hash not relatable to a legal person. It isn't allowed to track a person that way.

and i can commit crimes with my kitchen knives, yet they’re still legal

And they even put a nagware in it to point you to the new notepad. Oh MSFT.

No, no, no, Emacs is a pretty good operating system, it just lacks a good text editor.

Maybe it's just a PR stunt, maybe not, we'll find out in due time.

The thing is, there has been a lot of announcement like that in the past, but when the dust settles, you find out that every other ministry just signed another contract with Microsoft, so yeah.

The DINUM (the state agency behind these tools) just try very hard to be relevant, but in the end, the ministries are relatively autonomous in their choices.

It goes well with their greenwashing "search engine" (API to bing and google).

However, Holywood might like the idea of producing an endless stream of content/music/movies/etc. with little human intervention.

I will never ever ever knowingly consume media written by AI. Worst case, I will only consume media written before some cutoff, 2020 say.

I feel the same. I really wish there was a uBlock for AI content.

Could a gladiator win such a fight? I guess with a long reach weapon like a pilum, the gladiator may have a chance but it would be a hell of a fight.

With a gladius or any other short range weapon, it's just a fancy execution.

Most of the time it was not the church that did the execution. The church was more an expertise if you will and delivered the suspect to civil authorities with a judgement. The civil authorities then did what the law called for.

In the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions, this is a distinction without a difference. Further, throughout much of the European history of the Catholic church, the distinction between the church and the executive function of the state was practically nonexistent.

I'm just saying we shouldn't get on a high horse about "death spectacles".

A lot of things in history, with regards to the negative impacts of religion, have been rather exaggerated. For instance during the Spanish Inquisition a total of ~3,000 people were put to death [1] over a period of 356 years. So that's a total of 8 people per year. And of course that was throughout the entire Spanish Empire and not just modern day Spain. So, in other words, on average substantially more people were killed by lightning per year than by the Spanish Inquisition.

The reason not to get on a high horse over it however is simply because comparing the norms of one time to the norms of another is quite pointless. The Romans did great things and they did awful things. Like pretty much every culture to have ever existed and most likely like every culture that ever will exist. And comparing which did worse, outside of obvious extremes, is not meaningful if even possible.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition#Death_toll...

I could litigate the first paragraph you wrote but we agree about the second one.

I doubt that. Big predators don't quit fights even when mortally wounded.

As the paper notes, when truly fighting, big cats tend to prefer attacking the head and neck of human targets. But the primary bite marks are on the man's pelvis:

> Deaths caused by lions and tigers tend to result from trauma to the neck area, involving the crushing of soft tissue structures and fracturing of the vertebrae, causing suffocation. Both species use their weight to push down the victim, often also leaving extensive damage to the shoulders, arms and chest. Species such as leopards and jaguars focus on the head by puncturing or crushing the skull. [...] The bite marks on 6DT19 are located on the pelvis rather than neck and upper body. Lions and tigers have also been seen to drag their prey away, often by the legs, but lions have also been recorded as causing significant damage to the pelvis of their prey. [...]

> It is proposed, based on the evidence from the archaeological, medical and forensic evidence, that the bite marks on 6DT19 derive from a large felid, such as a lion. The shape is entirely consistent with documented cases of large cat bite marks (such as those presented in [35,46]). The location solely on the pelvis suggests that they were not part of an attack per se, but rather the result of scavenging at around the time of death. The decapitation of this individual was likely either to put him out of his misery at the point of death, or for the sake of conforming to customary practice.

So it was more likely dragging him away (before his dead or nearly-dead body was removed and beheaded), something I don't think it would bother with if it had been seriously wounded. Also, this was likely an execution, so I doubt the man would have had much in the way of weaponry to fight back.

For a time it was a new market, full of potential growth. Then it got mature, every one who wanted one had one and given the nature of the device (low cost/low performance) it wouldn't need to be renewed for some time. Some manufacturers went upmarket (bigger and more powerful devices for more money) blurring the line with their entry level laptops. It wasn't a recognisable market segment any more. At some point, the market must have both shrunk too much and merged into other segments for anyone to care. Mobile devices ate their lunch too I guess.