This is obvious theft, lock up the perps and let them correct their illegal practices if they want their managers released.

This will certainly work fine

Because "security" has nothing to do with this law, just like it had nothing to do with desert storm 2.0. It's all about seizing the illegal prohibition on travel imposed by the states and misappropriating it instead to federal permitting.

We're still pretending that bearing arms is an actual right, at least in the federal sense, so they can't seize the illegal regulation on that right away from the states just yet.

You're just bitter and too old to accept change. Surely the MBA's wouldn't replace the tenured engineers with foreigners for greater control through indentured servitude, and value the opinions of beancounters over experience and superior ideas. They wouldn't achieve a rank of Master in business administration if that was their only trick.

If your phone isn't stolen, or associated with the account of a user who didn't pay their bill this is exactly how most activations work, US or elsewhere. The detail is that ultimately the carrier gets the phone unique id, and can arbitrarily decline to activate.

Yep, and this highlights another issue that all the usb-c critics have failed to grasp. The USB-C connector provides much higher throughput and power than does lightning. It's other problems aside, comparing the wear on the connector/pcb between the two is silly.

Several of the cards terminate before reaching the edge of the heatsink/fan assembly on that side of the card. Nvidia still put the connector there for many of their rtx2000 cards, but this complicated disassembly with extension cables and glue to ensure they didn't come unplugged.

The standards for graphic card mounting are so old and outdated that there are problems no matter how things are manipulated. I'm not sure I buy the critiques about bends near the connector either, as it appears that half of the current-carrying pins were burnt in the user-posted pictures.

Mobile ads typically block the whole screen, with a tiny x in the corner that is also often a click-through. The "mobile gaming" space is just full of scams and disappointment by design though.

I may be too kind, but I think the reason for bringing up "the government" was to make a connection implied by users where some authority is telling them what they can and cannot say.

If there were any journalists working at bloomberg, they might have pressured MS to explain exactly what they intend to do about the "fake news" problem in place of censorship. If we read in between the lines I'd guess they're experimenting with accompanying articles and shadowbanning to limit the problem without bringing the negative aspects of more explicit censorship.

Hard to say exactly what's the story here since bloomberg replaced their article with javascript begging for subscriptions. The only disjointed quote from MS goes like this: "I donâ(TM)t think that people want [tech companies] to tell them whatâ(TM)s true or falseâ.

This is true, but more so there's limits to what a "platform" can do to censor users without defamation, or the alternative which is an arbitrary and opaque moderation policy. If the platform chooses to display the "truth" alongside a falsehood there's significantly less risk than the alternative of (sometimes) incorrectly mislabeling something as false.

No, let's do talk about it. The 1070ti had 95% the shaders/cuda cores of the 1080, but this "4080" doesn't even have 80% the cores of the full 16GB model. I'd expect this wouldn't even measure up to the traditional 70 model. It appears that they're also limiting the 12GB model to only 75% the bus width (192 vs 256bit), and that marginal clock difference is unlikely to do much to make up for either large performance gap.

I guess relative cost position matters a lot more than model numbers, but it would be nice if there was some more transparency rather than less.

The reason is likely mutual trust from interactions in the tech youtube scene with their resident OC propagandist and stability consultant "Kingpin", who has participated in OC competitions and other "extreme" computing events with both GN and Jay. There's likely a bit of familiarity bias here, but when your business is falling apart can you really be blamed for being less objective in your decision making?

It was kind of funny hearing Steve talk about the work before releasing their video however, "spent a week writing this story", and all that writing effort could have gone towards a more concise press release with some simple follow-up questions.

Which part of the "supremacy clause" says that treaties are above the constitution?

Yeah, a lot of content distribution problems could be solved by a broadcast model, the last time that was really attempted was VBI on TV channels, which unfortunately never really caught on.

You could probably do some time cycled delivery of popular content on shared last-mile cable media, but that would require some major upgrades to user owned storage and of course the software to go with it. This also unfortunately won't help at all for the biggest problem area which is 20+yo last mile phone lines that can't even reliably run DSL.

He was paying google, although only for their MVNO phone service. I don't know the details of it, but there's likely more legal limits on sabotaging someone access to a phone system vs and an ISP than as a provider of free email/cloud services.

The real problem here is the degree that google accounts are linked to android and the near impossibility of disentangling them. Even projects like LineageOS which was intended to degoogle Android now includes gapps, because the OS doesn't work correctly without them.