Except that MS claims Win7 no longer supported. Once MS refuses updates, for a year, then product is nationalized.

You could say same for any copyright or patented product -- becomes public domain after 1 year time.

MS invented the side-by-side DLL's, that enabled compatibility between progs that ran on Win98-Win7, yet when MS came out with Win10/11 and claim
incompatibility betweeen those and Win7 people just bought it and believe(d) them.

Personally I'm for nationalizing and forcing Open Source on products like Win7 and Photoshop5 (& CS5) that software publishers refuse to support anymore.

Let Open Source support what SW publishers refuse to support and certainly strip copyright from unsupported works.

It may not solve everything, but in CA 90% of our water goes to farming + raising cattle. Doesn't matter how much water is conserved by consumers, it will won't make more than a 10% dent.

Like mexico is known for excess water supplies?

Maybe they need to desalinate water from the Gulf? Might not be cheap, but at least they are not likely to run out anytime soon.

FIVE years before action was taken?

Hmmm

with so much free + empty space, it would seem that laws of supply and demand would lead to lower costs for buyers. It seems like a natural end to infinitely increasing prices for real estate. San Francisco has constantly been one of the worst areas for real estate affordability, which, as the consumer market has declined and do to workers leaving high-expense areas, like SF, has been forcing the least profitable businesses out of the area.

While SF has had high exodus numbers, other CA area have had higher immigration. Overall this brings state population increases lower, trending toward more stable numbers in the future. This brings pressure to bare against spiraling land costs and rents. It seems this is a normal result of real estate costs being pushed too high too fast by speculators. This seems to be a market correction, more than anything else.

Isn't (or wasn't? there a DMCA exception for providing compatibility?

Look like crowd control drones in Psycho Pass (anime). Face-recognition was least of the worries -- would read you latent-attitude for criminal
tendencies...

Opera has a chrome-ext compat addon -- how is the new Firefox feature better than simply being able to agnostically install chrome addons/

Why do I not find this type of translation remarkable, given the input and output?

It is facebook that is blocking canadian local news sites -- for inclusion on facebook.

Isn't this only a problem for those who rely on a social platform for their news? The law
taxes inclusion of news on social sites.

If citizens have some emergency, can't they access local news websites directly?

It seems canada is taxing lazyness and trying to encourage direct access to local
news sources, so those local websites have a chance at making money off of ad-revenue
like local newspapers used to do.

Characterizing the law as 'bad', seems like the height of laziness for Canada trying to
get citizens to support their local media directly, rather than through curated links
provided through a social service like Facebook that has been noted for providing biased
viewpoints of topics in the past.

I've never heard of such a trend,, though w/regards to views of experts in various fields, it is well known that the more confident one is in their field, the more it correlates with lower knowledge (and usually performance) in the field. I.e. the less confident you are seems to result from knowing wide the field is -- and thus more knowledge of how much you don't know.

So, with a more narrow grasp (or more conservative grasp) of one's field, it can be seen that such results in greater confidence due too greater amount of not knowing how big their field is.

Except that the so called "liberal bias" you are inferring goes across social and country boundaries -- if it was a doctrine, say of higher education in the US, one wouldn't expect it to be true in other countries, but the same "liberal bias" is seen.

It's not a result of bias from a specific trend that is self replicating, but a broadening of the mind where a greater exposure happens to different ideas of all types, else higher education would extinguish parochial views -- which is notably untrue -- many conservatives have graduated from higher education institutions. Broad exposure to different views only applies a liberal bias, not a liberal mindset. Those who are rigidly conservative don't come out of college or higher education with a new outlook. The liberal bias is notably only a 'bias', not a mindset.

The same type of mindset can be engendered by wide-life exposure to different ideas and isn't limited to time spent in institutions.

No compatibility for your old fonts -- instead you need to purchase them again. How modern.

It's well known that the more education humans have, the more likely they are to have liberal views. Now you take an AI and have it be based on a LARGE language model to make inferences, and it seems it would be more likely to have a liberal flavor to it.

It might be very hard to create AI's with conservative biases, as they'd have to be deliberately trained on 'small' bodies of information.