In my day we only had a 2D Ruxpin, we called him Clippy...

> the companies that make and sell these toys are putting their stockholders at risk of a future privacy lawsuit.

Own 20 risky but profitable companies. 9 may go south and declare bankruptcy, but between the time the 9 were bringing in revenue and the other 11 that haven't puked (yet), you are still net profitable.

Privatize profits, socialize loss, the Plutocrat Way.

Lifetime immunity to measles, and possibly *nothing else*.

"Immune Amnesia" is a real condition caused by the measles virus. After having the measles, you may lose any immunity to everything else - your immune system has been reset, and now the *only* thing you are immune to is measles.

You've wiped out every vaccine you've had, every 'natural' immunity you gained from prior infections. Have fun getting chickenpox again! COVID and SARS are back on the menu, boys!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Eating random roadkill? I'll trust experienced medical experts over a conspiracy fan.

I wouldn't call it a GOOD solution, more a default if nobody comes up with something better.

It would have reduced it to an extent that it would be as good as stopped.

The fact that surgeons today wouldn't think of operating without washing their hands. I never said it was a quick victory.

It was my example. It came from a photograph of the worksheet posted to Reddit by the child's father, who was wondering why the answer was 'wrong'.

Surely you don't expect the 2nd graders to start on Clifford algebras any time soon. They need to learn to walk before they run. Note that by the time you're multiplying vectors and matrices the process involved is sufficiently different from multiplying real numbers that not being commutative is not going to be an issue. I recall my high school math teacher demonstrating non-commutative multiplication. I was not confused in spite of having figured out the commutative nature of simple multiplication in elementary school.

We need rules around the dismissal of lawsuits that would prevent *plaintiffs* from requiring the settlement be confidential. Defendants probably should be allowed to make it confidential (they didn't start the mess, and no one wants their monetary awards public).

The courts are public for a reason. If someone files a lawsuit, then the reasons for it's dismissal should also be public.

Sure, under the hood, but the end user is more concerned with the application than he is with how it got there.

The speech to text can be nice (even if my phone keeps writing "free cat" when I say FreeCAD), but it clearly has significant limitations. I still can't even guess why my phone can respond to "flashlight on" but fails at "flashlight off".

It's also amazing that it's possible to draw a metal wire thinner than a human hair and even more amazing that it's possible to drill a neat hold through it's width without breaking it, but I really don't have much use for that day to day.

As for image generation, quick, how many fingers am I holding up on my right hand? (hint: not 6).

The thing is, it wasn't lying. First there wasn't much evidence for the myocarditis, then it was confounded evidence. Did the kid get myocarditis from the vaccine itself, or was it from the beginning of a COVID infection aborted because the immune system was already actively reacting to spike protein at the time.

Of course, over-arching all of that, COVID causes myocarditis too, and often worse so it wasn't all that clear if mild myocarditis from the vaccine would even matter. Try explaining that to people ready to eat horse paste and unsure why people are laughing at Trump's suggestion to inject bleach.

Then there's a question of how much of the distortion came from scientists and how much from journalists (mis-)quoting them?

Now that the data is in, we can see that there is some possibility of mild myocarditis from the vaccine.

The thing about science is that as more data comes in, theories change and so actions suggested by those theories also change. In emergent situations such as the COVID pandemic, data and change can come fast.

Perhaps a sports analogy. After the first baseball game of the year, plenty of batters have an average of 1.000 for the year. Plenty have .000 for the year. That will change a LOT in the next day. By the end of the season, batting averages don't move that much in a single game.

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Maybe they need to pick a new letter. Bring back Microsoft Bob?

I don't get this sort of complaining. If one is using Windows, or Xbox, or a Playstation, or Nintendo, they're on proprietary systems already, and nearly all the games are as well. So what if Chromebooks are invited to the party?

The difference on this, compared to a typical Windows gamer, is the streaming of the entire game. However, this isn't anything new. You can already use Xbox Cloud Gaming to game on a Chromebook (and a lot of other devices). Nvidia already has GeForce Now, which also does it. Amazon has Luna, which also does this stuff.

Maybe you're angling at the bandwidth usage? ... and I'd agree this burns a lot more than running a game locally. I don't think the involvement of Chromebooks makes a lick of difference though. FWIW, Xbox Cloud Gaming also supports Quest VR 2 and 3. For an occasional game session, or to try out other games, I think these services can be terrific compared to the alternative (owning a full gaming system and buying full copies of games).

My question is, why only 10 hours a month!?!? I'm sure that's the only reason it's free, but that should also alleviate some of the bandwidth usage concerns.

To be fair, they capitalized all sorts of random words in the 1700's.