Points in case:

- Obviously supercooled.
- We do not get to see how much it dips with passenger. Hence it very likely only carries its own weight, which may be almost nothing.

This thing is no hover-board, it just looks like one. Levitating superconductors are nothing new. The only thing cool or noteworthy is the clever misdirection by Lexus.

I believe the problem here is that they thought they could get away including the "lawful interception" (i.e. "immoral and dangerous backdoor") key just by the ordinary mechanism instead of compiling it into the sshd binary.

This is a designed-to-be vulnerable (by idiots, but still) thing. They only pay for unintentional vulnerabilities.

Because that is frankly the only thing that could be done for pregnant women in a wireless router...

Some understanding of the technology and science required though, as usual. Anybody that thinks in terms of "radiation" does not have that understanding.

US flags are available everywhere! You never know when the US has (again) pissed somebody off enough that they want to burn some US flags publicly. Would be a shame when such an expression of public free speech failed only because no US flag were to be had.

That shows one thing: This is _not_ at all about doing the right thing, this is a pure PR move with no moral aspects whatsoever being a driving force.

I did not. But this shows one thing: On Kickstarter, reputation is everything. That means everyone going to kickstarter with a good reputation (like Brian Fargo or Neal Stephenson) will want to make damned sure said reputation stays intact even with a failed project.

I really think kickstarter is the future for anybody that wants quality, as in story, gameplay, fun. And if there is the occasional failure, I will not hold that against the makers _if_ they can either provide a good explanation or refund. That some thinks on Kickstarter must fail, is a given. It is part of the idea. You can only do innovative and experimental things if you accept some chance of failure.

Good to know, thanks! That makes pre-ordering much more sensible on Steam. I have to admit that I only pre-ordered in a moment of weakness.

No. The problem happens across all possible hardware configurations.

I pre-ordered months ago, but got a full refund at 1.5h played, no questions asked.

Kickstarter for games usually breaks even at about 50% delivery of something good. Anybody smart understands that. I have been lucky so far and got 80% with the missing 20% still possible successes. To expect 100% on something like Kickstarter is pure insanity. And there is a reason you only pay something like 50% of what a finished game costs (where you still could be buying a lemon).

The difference is that Kickstarter allows successful creation of good games that would never have found publishers. Of course you need to look with a keen eye what they can actually realistically deliver, but that is a skill any buyer needs to have.

I preordered on steam, I played for an hour, I asked for and got a full refund. Steam may have something to do with this move by WB.

Well, if the computing resources were "sufficiently sophisticated", this would even be true. At this time, there are no such resources available though, and they never may be. Because most students (85% or so) need the presence of a reasonably good teacher with a personality in order to be able to learn, nothing less will do. I do not see technology being able to supply that anytime soon, if ever. And if AI can ever do that, it may just demand the same or better salary as humans do today...

In short, the students are being ripped off here.