An inalienable right is one that "is not transferable or that is impossible to take away"

It appears that the EU has recognized you right to consent to whatever meta is doing as inalienable.

Not every right to say "no" by withholding consent is an inalienable right. However f-ing is an example of something that is.

You can pay someone so they will let you f- them. But you still need their ongoing affirmative consent the whole time.
If they say stop or they lose the ability to maintain affirmative consent (like they pass out or freak out) you must immediately stop f-ing them.

Meta is the same. They see you as a prostitute and they have decided that your €250/year is actually theirs.

They will pay you "their" €250/yr by letting you keep "their" money. To them that means you have consented to them f-ing you.
But it doesn't matter. Whether or not someone pays you, they still need your consent the whole time they're f-ing you.

OSs didn't have ip stacks built-in. We needed novell netware or trumpet winsock for that newfangled "ethernet" stuff!

Paywall for me also. Anomaly is reproducible.

When I was a kid I wrote a little BASIC program to draw the Mandelbrodt set. Yes I know, interpreted BASIC is about the *SLOWEST* thing you could run in these machines.
Anyhow....8 hours later it was about 3/4 done with the picture!
6502 we love you!

Interactions with AI are already protected in these cases by compliance with RFC-3514

Yep this is an absolutely IBM move
They would prefer that thoes targeted quit; they don't want them to return to the office

When I was in college my best friend's dad worked for IBM. He received an ultimatum: relocate from Washington State to New York or lose his job. So he relocated. At that time the company was generous enough to pay for said relocation.

When my friend's dad got his W-2 he discovered that the relocating expenses had been valued at about triple what they should have been and reported as income. Cost him significantly more in taxes than it would have had he paid for it out of pocket. And completely screwed my friend's tuition assistance that year.

IBM did not want anybody in this guy's division to stick around. Those that tried to were severely punished as an example to anyone who would dare fail to take the hint. The division, by the way, was typewriter repair.

The root problem is not line jumping; it is capacity.

It seems like one of Walmart's business units main function is to provide services to criminals.
If I was an accountant or an IT guy for the mob I bet I'd be indicted along with the rest of them.

There are those that the law binds and there are those that the law protects.

Larry Niven was always really great when he collaborated with Jerry Pournelle.
It's too bad he never got around to writing that story with Frank Herbert...

The Ark is blindingly obvious. Right smack in the center of the picture there's even a little house in the middle.
All snark aside when I see stuff like this I remind myself that the human mind is a pattern recognition machine. We are very good at picking out patterns whether they exist or not.

When I was a kid I used to stare at the static on the TV screen when it was tuned to a channel it wasn't there. After just a few seconds-- far less than a minute-- I would start to see shapes in the noise.

I expect people far smarter than myself have already done some sort of statistical analysis to show that the pattern that we see is likely something other than just noise+brain. I hope they keep in mind that when flipping a fair coin any sequence of heads and tails it's just as likely as any other, including all heads or all tails.

He who knows and knows he knows is wise; follow him
He who knows not and knows he knows not is ignorant; teach him
He who knows and knows not he knows is asleep; awaken him
He who knows not and knows not he knows not is a fool...pity him

I still haven't seen any slowdown casually watching youtubes using the following:
ubuntu 22.04 / brave / ublock origin / sponsorblock + a vpn (or not)
android 1 / firefox / ublock origin + a vpn

If it's something I want to watch later (even after youtube decides to "disappear" the vid), then 3dyd under wine. Also no slowdown.

You need to learn how Corporate real estate works.
Closing offices is exactly what they're trying to avoid.

Whoosh...

How much revenue do you think Amazon can realize by selling influence to the summary? And do you seriously think they will leave that money on the table?
The summary for your product can become more...favorable...
Maybe by cherry-picking reviews or shilling or just making stuff up. That last one is an AI "hallucination"; we've all heard of those. Definitely not a deliberate lie.

Saying "AI" is an absolutely wonderful way to dodge accountability. Nobody can control exactly what the AI says; we don't "program" it; we just train it.
Amazon's lawyers will ensure they're covered. They told you this was an AI and not accountable. They told you this was just a summary. The original reviews are over here...
But very few buyers will read the original reviews, it's going to require effort. As much effort as necessary to ensure that very few buyers read them.