To be fair that guy can just date people named Maria from now on. I'm not sure what anyone can do with an RFID chip they locked themselves out of. Maybe he can get comes out of his mind with the first guy and go crazy enough to dig it out himself.

You can't even get some people to take a regular shot/vaccine or they think it causes autism or any number of other negative effects. Good luck telling them you're going to put a bunch of tiny robots in their or their child's body. Just sell them an expensive but otherwise benign crystal and give someone else the technology for cheaper.

Courts move at a snail's pace. Ten years is a bit on the long side of that, but it's not unheard of. People forget that the SCO vs IBM lawsuit started I. 2003 and was still going over a decade after that. After that point a lot of it was mostly just dealing with appeals, but the case was still ongoing in some form until 2021 when it was settled out of court.

Get your lawyer to argue it was intentional destruction of evidence. That would allow the jury to make whatever inferences they want about what may have been in it (they'll probably do this anyway, but getting the judge to tell them that always helps) and then let your lawyer insinuate that it's worse than it probably is.

Also never underestimate the ability of management to waste everyone's time.

MacOS has its own barriers to calling itself a professional operating system. A good part of my job is forcing it to conform to basic enterprise system management practices.

Calling them names and leveling false accusations at them is kind of the exact opposite of ignoring them in peace. Unless that's what brings you peace, in which case you're the mentally ill fuckup in that equation.

Demanding that people who are different from you to explain themselves to your satisfaction before you're willing to leave them the hell alone is peak conservative asshole.

I can manufacture outrageous events from my imagination and then extrapolate that fiction into a nation-wide systemic problem too!

I'm sure this will be as successful as all of the other times it was tried. What was the Google version of this that they eventually dragged out behind the shed several years ago called again? Stadia? Or was that some other failed attempt at this. NVidia has more money coming in than this could ever hope to bleed, but they're not exactly known for doing anything that doesn't make them even more money.

What developer would sign their game up for this anyway? If this were successful it's the Spotify model all over again that every artist seems to despise. That NVidia is now handing out free hits really ought to tell you everything you need to know about this business model.

You're just starting to acknowledge the possibility?

Golden age tractors don't have cabs. Many of them are still in use because they're built to be reliable and designed to be repairable by their owners if something did break. It's sad that so many of the companies that made them went out of business, probably because no one ever needed to buy a new tractor from them after the first purchase and they never got into the business of selling equipment with whiz-bang features that was otherwise unreliable and needed replacing every decade or so.

It doesn’t matter that much for Broadcom customers. Apple isn't going to sell their chips to anyone else. It's the same situation with CPUs where Apple has a core that's as good or even better than the best x86 CPU. Neither Intel nor AMD are particularly worried because they don't really compete against Apple directly and Apple won't sell those chips to anyone else of the companies who buy CPUs from AMD/Intel.

The only people who see any benefit are Apple customers, but If place this into the category of nice to have, but not the kind of thing I'd expect to notice. No one is particularly threatened by Apple's chip being better because Apple doesn't sell chips, they sell iDevices.

Advertising will get there first. There's more incentive and a better feedback mechanism. Movies will hold out for a while, but television is already overrun with programs that are just dressed up advertisements that it won't take long for it to be consumed.

It would work a lot better if Cloudflare and any competitors would adopt a model that allows companies to easily use any of their services and rather than subscribing to one company's service to implement a pay-as-you-go option. That way if Cloudflare gets hit websites can flip to using something else on a temporary basis. Companies could even load balance across the different services so that all of them are always getting a little bit of use. This isn't particularly good for any one company (who would much rather prefer to be a sole contractor and get all of the business) but it makes it practically impossible to take out websites by taking down Cloudflare. If any one provider has problems everyone temporarily switches to the other providers on a temporary basis until service is restored and then they can move some or all of their traffic back. This makes for a far more resistant Internet as a whole.