I agree that suicide is a personal decision, so I don't think a person should be criminalized for attempting it. But it's inconvenient for society, so others should be dissuaded from encouraging it. Even if you remove a humanitarian motive, and please don't but this is slashdot so there will be people who will get mad if one doesn't, there are good reasons why the legal system should act to reduce suicide.
Yeah this. Jet Set/Grind Radio looked amazing on the Dreamcast because it didn't render stuff it didn't have to when creating the cel shaded look. Therefore you could have big complex scenes that performed fluidly at all times. I thought that was the point of this game which I haven't played, get off my lawn etc etc.
There's several OSS FPSes built around this concept, but all of them that I've seen have been pretty lo-fi so it would make sense to me that it would take a commercial title to sell it. Finding out that they aren't doing it is not even funny, but just weird to me.
And you don't actually think that having an authenticator on your phone gives your employer access to it, do you?
If you're using your phone for something that winds up being the subject of an investigation, then your phone can be subpoena'd. Even if everything is on the up and up, and everything on your device is ducky, you can still be inconveniently deprived of your device for a time. Therefore you should never use your device for work in any way other than calling in to it, which doesn't leave any traces on your device that it doesn't also leave on the network.
Availability of guns enabled the crime of course, but I don't think that being raised around lots of guns is the whole problem here. Grandma said they're all MAGAs. He was raised around a lot of violent rhetoric in combination with guns. Did he have to be wired wrong, or was being programmed from an early age enough?
You can easily add new bus stops near rail, it's not as easy to add rail near bus lines except by luck.
Safe and clean are going to require some upgrades to society. They would be cheaper than what we've been doing, but then some people would get things for free that other people are paying for, and then lots of people would be mad. And not without reason, but not usually for the reason they'd be mad for.
I have cable, it's expensive and they keep raising the prices while offering deals at now (given how much they've increased our bill) around a third of the price for new customers. I live in a small city so I'm not going to see it any time soon, but fiber is going in somewhat nearby and I'd sure like some of that here.
If it runs on Windows 10 it runs on Windows 11.
A doubtful premise given Microsoft history, as I've experienced all kinds of minor upgrades/updates breaking software on various forms of Windows over the decades. But even given that, it won't all run it equally well, and Windows 11 is festooned with more crap which has to be dodged. They've also dicked up the interface regarding snap and multiple monitors in a way that causes my mouse pointer to warp incredibly unpleasantly, but I don't try to do multimonitor on a system I also play games on any more so I'll be honest and admit that's not affecting me in that way.
At the end of which you will have achieved what? Windows 10 Pro, except with a dodgy non-legal license?
Your point about the legal status is granted. Otherwise, it has a longer support life than Windows 10 Pro. It will be interesting to see how Microsoft supports it when there's more improperly activated users than legit ones. I'm not depending on Windows for anything I can think of these days, but I assume I'll need it to run some configuration utility at some point.
If Linux was as much of a supported platform as Windows is, Linux's market share would be much closer in parity to Windows.
IME "support" is mostly notional anyway. In terms of what will run, it's true that a bunch of PvP games for Windows require Windows kernel DRM, and will not run on Linux. Or, you have a degraded experience where you cannot connect to most servers, and there may also be no anticheat functionality at all. So yes, if you want to play those games, you will still need Windows.
Otherwise, most games seem to work on Linux now, including a bunch of older games that don't work well on modern Windows. Market share is only a matter of time if Microsoft keeps alienating users.
"I am willing to bet any of the Trump picks are better than you, both ethically and professionally."
A number of them were clearly picked, off of the Faux News rotation no less, specifically because they have no ethics and no professional qualifications for their jobs. So absofuckinglutely not.
"Plus, there is still very little native game support."
Do not want. Ironically, it's easier to run old Windows games on Linux than old Linux games.
"Which historical trends are you looking at?"
People only getting more days off through social unrest and violence.
There's something to this, but not much, because games typically have graphics settings that you can use to get the performance you want at the resolution you want by turning off features. So yes, target the upper end of the hardware, but also make it possible to play on lesser systems.
If we want shorter workweeks in America, the means to obtain it is not new tech, but new legislation.
Or we could just let workers and employers sort it out.
That could make sense, if you completely ignore facts and history.
If we reduce the per-employee overhead, that would make employers (on the margin) more willing to have shorter hour employees
That's a good argument for single-payer health care.
My IT team regularly has to help iPhone users install the Microsoft authenticator app for MFA as part of adding them to our email system.
Stop doing BYOD, preload apps on the phones issued to users, and you won't have this problem.
No fucking way I'm allowing my employer access to my personal phone. Luckily mine is smart enough to issue phones.
I remember attempts to moderate on Usenet, and it really didn't work. It was too decentralized, there was insufficient central authority to enforce or to delegate to moderators, and then the volume of garbage got so bad that it simply wasn't worth it anymore.
Moderation on USENET works fine. Moderated newsgroups require post approval. The only problem there is post volume, but every newsgroup doesn't have to be for everyone.
However, a better plan would have been to give users the tools to filter out the trolls with a web of trust moderation system based on PGP signatures, which could have been added to any newsreader.
The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is the most likely to be correct. -- William of Occam
