Brown university has plenty of cameras, it's just that the perp was wrapped up like a burrito, making it hard to see his face.

...couldn't handle their bad grade.

To be honest, if I had that much money I too would chase pie-in-sky ideas.

But this VR chase is stupid. Meta should purchase the Second Life or Roblox franchise, get a web-based world working well with FaceBook, and THEN gradually add 3D and reach stuff. He has it backward.

Legs are obsolete! We superior humans just float. Non-floaters will be deported to El Salvador.

They aren't streaming games. Netflix has a bunch of low-quality games that run on the device, with simple controls so you can use a remote or pair your phone to use as a controller. It's not a brilliant experience. Think of it as the sort of thing you'd want to do only if you were trapped in a hotel room.

They also have mobile games that run on your phone but require a Netflix login to play. These are usually older games that still have some clout, so Netflix paid for the rights and ported them to mobile... for example Red Dead Redemption.

That's what this probably is, a mobile game. They already have Football Manager Mobile that you download on your phone and play with a Netflix login, if you're into that sort of thing.

"GitHub claims that 96 percent of its customers will see no change to their bill"

I always love this ploy. "You are part of a small percentage of users whining about this, but our price changes are actually good for everyone else", as if you're supposed to take one for the good of humanity. Or Microsoft.

It done gotten more short-like

The word "independent" in this context has specific legal meaning.

Arguing about plain-use definitions is a waste of time; intentionally trying to confuse people with bullshit is malicious.

Someone at the FCC was watching and modified the website right after that exchange.

For those of you playing stupid games centered around the word "independent", I will suspend disbelief and assume you are simply ignorant of what the word means in context.

In a narrower sense, the term refers only to those independent agencies that, while considered part of the executive branch, have regulatory or rulemaking authority and are insulated from presidential control, usually because the president's power to dismiss the agency head or a member is limited.

Ah yes, let's ignore a huge part of the last half-century's history and pretend that prior conflicts don't translate into current detente. The ongoing size and strength of the US military contributes to the relative stability in the region because it is well understood that disruption could lead to intervention.

Oil prices are low and stable because of constant, unending, ever-threatened intervention by the USA.

Makes the plot of Quantum of Solace seem less stupid. Nature imitating art?

Exactly that is a big part of the goal - do the same thing to CNN that has happened more widely at CBS.

It is a Hungary-style media rollup attempt. Buy up, intimidate out or (eventually) sure competing voices into submission.

The land of the free, baby.

I thought movie studios were forbidden to own movie theaters, but now I just learned those rules were repealed in 2020, so I guess nobody cares anymore about the antitrust implications of total end-to-end control of movie production and distribution.

Apparently they did nightly runs and then reviewed them.The baseboard took 27 hours of compute time, the SOM took 15 hours of compute to get to 98.7%. The human effort of 38.5 hours replaced 428 quoted human-only hours. It's apparently a cloud service, so I guess you can't rent your own machine and speed it up.. though if it is a physics heavy simulation maybe they were running an A100 or something? At any rate, it took a *lot* of compute but saved a *lot* of time. Based on Claude finding and digesting this blog article for me: https://www.quilter.ai/blog/co...

Sure, just as soon as the taxpayers stop subsidizing petroleum companies. I'm okay with that solution. Let's see what the market decides when the government isn't gifting free land in protected wildlife areas and cleaning up abandoned wells and waging wars to protect oil interests in the middle east. Let's go.