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Comment Hopefully common sense will prevail (Score 1) 136

If I were an arbitrator or judge, I would be asking "how long would a reasonable consumer who purchased the game expect it to be playable" then order pro-rated refunds. Absent any reason to think otherwise, "how long" would probably be the supported life of the hardware it was designed to run on if it's tied to a particular device (serial #) or type of device (make/model), which is rarely more than 10 years these days, considerably less for some types/genres of software-as-a-service (which is what this game is).

Comment Hybrid has the worst of both (Score 1) 88

Fully remote, I have all my equipment at home. Fully in-office, all of my equipment in the office. Hybrid, I'm lugging around equipment most days. Why?! Don't have equipment? Just a laptop? Great! So fully remote, I'm on zoom/webex/teams meetings most of the day. Fully in-office, I can actually meet people face to face in meeting rooms! Hybrid? I get to commute, be in the office, but still sit on zoom/webex/teams meetings most of the day. Fully remote, or fully in office (with allowance for special one-off days where you need to WFH). This 'hybrid' of X days a week in the office is killer. It really is the worst of both worlds, I wish companies would stop entertaining it.

Comment Price controls as a condition of aid (Score 3, Funny) 30

Sounds reasonable to me. If some state agency or state court says forcing providers to lower rates is against state law, the court should rule that providers in that state are ineligible for the aid until the state law is changed.

That would put all providers in that state on the same playing field: None would get the aid, but none would be forced to lower rates.

Submission + - IBM QRadar - When The Attacker Controls Your Security Stack (CVE-2022-26377) (watchtowr.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Today, in this iteration of 'watchTowr Labs takes aim at yet another piece of software' we wonder why the industry panics about backdoors in libraries that have taken 2 years to be unsuccessfully introduced — while security vendors like IBM can't even update libraries used in their flagship security products that subsequently allow for trivial exploitation.

Comment Re:Honey, I'm Home! (Score 1) 88

If the latter, there is probably some clause about the mortgage being invalid and ownership reverting to the bank if the application contained lies.

Did you mean "the outstanding balance is due and payable immediately, and the bank will foreclose on the property if no payment is forthcoming?" Because "the bank gets the asset outright" isn't a thing.

Comment Re:Actually... (Score 2) 60

this is how the boomers screwed us. They built a socialist safety net for them (Social Security)

I was this many years old when I learned that a generation that started with births in 1946 is responsible for the creation of Social Security in 1935. It would be helpful if you could amplify on the above and let me know which time machine they used? Was it Doc and Marty's, did they hijack the phone booth from Bill and Ted (though I've gotta tell you, that would be more of a Gen-X move rather than Boomers), or did they go the long way using Professor Farnsworth's one-way machine?

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