Sadly, it's not only the genes that cause chronic stupidity. Often it's hereditary not by genetics, but by the way parents teach their kids, as well as state/county legislated schooling stupidity. The latter is the really objectionable thing, when politicians do everything to keep kids stupid in order to ensure them to vote for bad politicians ...

> But what if this gets popular and becomes a standard of sort? Then you have to worry about the devs putting in all the best stuff in the first hour and making the rest a dearly mess. Middle-earth: Shadow of War is a great example when the late part of the game devolves into a gods damn mess.

Got a point.
OTOH, considering the mess many recent releases have had with compatibility and stability issues, it will incentivize (or force) developers to release better quality code, otherwise customers won't even buy the software ... I wonder how the free trials work for programs where the initial release is a nightmare, people don't buy, and a subsequent update fixes everything, but customers have already had used their "free trial time" ...

Another nice thing about the trial time is to see whether your not-quite-current rig will be sufficient to play a game ... seeing the increasing requirements of modern games, it will be helpful to not buy stuff you won't be able to play decently ...

Not sure if game publishers will really profit from a 90min trial ... I know that it took me several days' playtime (6+h) for some games to actually get a hang of them ... if I have to decide after 90min if a game is worth it, it might not even cover getting the game mechanics or how to play ... add to that downloads of 20-40Gigs+ ... Also, if they already implement a feature to limit the usage to a certain time, would it really hurt Valve or the publishers if they provided a decent trial time? (of course if it's a game that can be finished in say 1-2 hours, even 90min might be too long ;) )
I reckon the trial time needs to be adjusted to the level of complexity of the game ...

Sometimes I have the feeling R politicians are in a secret contest only known to them who can come up with the most stupidest, weird or costliest solution to a problem, or rather, non-solution to a problem which their voters will enthusiastically , that could be solved easier, cheaper and more effective by other means.

Hey, dipshot, how about supporting measures against climate change??!?!?

Sounds like the US needs some decent regulation in that area, too ... (worker-friendly regulation seem scarce and far between anyway)
Where's the problem to have - just like minimum wage - a minimum of paid leave time? E.g., Germany has a minimum of 24 days/year for full-time employees, with additional days for older people. Of course, conservatives & GQP would complain about socialism again, and corporations would complain about instantly going bankrupt if that were introduced (while paying out [mb]illions to stock holders at the same time)

Not really surprised ...
Except: How is it that DeChaos is still in office??? He's maliciously tried sabotaging both the election AND successfully crippled the USPS efficiency ...

Trump & consorts not following laws and rules - what a shocking surprise! Because he typically did and does everything by the book*, why would he fail to follow the Open Source license requirements?

(* his book, that is ...)

As long as the DMCA does not penalize incorrect/fake takedown notices, there is no incentive for copyright holders or enforcers (real or claimed) to double-check their accusations.

Should be easy to fix, though lobbying will not let that happen:
* a claimer gets N "wrong claims", in total or per service (e.g. to YouTube, Steam, whoever)
* once those claims have happened, any automatic action by additional claims are disabled and have to be manually acted upon by the service, assuring that they are both the owner/enforcer of the copyright, as well as that it applies to the specific case
* after another X wrongful claims, any further wrongful claim automatically causes damage payments to the wrongfully affected poster, as well as to the service (they have the trouble of manual work to block & release the media)

"N" and "X" may or may not be generously scaled, and allowing automatic claims with blocks might be re-instated after a certain period of no further wrongful claims.

I think this would be pretty fair, considering that if a private person would cause another damage by wrongful claims, they are typically responsible for the effects of their actions ...

Heck, the Internet hasn't even managed to globally and uniformly rolled out IPv6 yet, after being available for 15+ years ... granted, v6 requires support on CPEs, while Internet routing will "only" affect ISPs and the likes ... but still ...unless the advantages are REALLY great (and I don't mean in some fringe cases, but more or less through the board ...), AND they can get the major players like Cisco, Juniper, Huawei, etc. on board with it, it has not much of a chance succeeding. Plus, even given all those, it will probably take 5-10 years to actually put into production globally.

I hazard a guess that the delays they are seeing are not from routing deficiencies, but rather from routing policies and engineering, steering traffic in a way the ISPs/Tier 1/2 carriers WANT ... case in point: German Telekom/DTAG ... while they are connected e.g. to DECIX, they will only peer with their "equals", or for money. Which means that traffic does not take the shortest, quickest route, but rather goes through a few large carriers, with occasional peering overloads on those links. Whatever new protocol arises, it will NOT fix this, because DTAG (and others like them) are not interested in the "greater good" of low latencies, but only their bottom line.

Depending on what I'm saving it differs ...

* multiple VMs on private ESX hosts - Veeam B&R to a NAS
* folders I want replicated on multiple hosts - stored in Seadrive w/ history
* Win10 notebook - Veeam Agent also to NAS

Still have a couple Linux folders backuped via BoxBackup

The same (correct) recommendation was common knowledge when UMTS/LTE was introduced ... 3G is more energy efficient than 4G, 4G to 5G is again a similar comparison ... of course a technical setup with higher throughput, more complex encoding will always use more power than a simpler one ... that's why phones also still include the option to disable higher standards ...
At least in Germany, though, 3G is more or less dying ... 2G is still covered as a fallback feature, but most carriers seem to be in the process of dropping 3G when doing hardware upgrades ... some time back, my mobile contract didn't have 4G included yet, and I was noticing an increasing number of locations that only showed 2G/Edge, while other people in the same carrier network had 4G with excellent reception ... I would imagine this has become even more prevalent in the meantime ...

Considering the people and audience Parler tenders to, if they are anything like them, the owners are probably not the brightest out there ... also, security-wise, I guess with many people mirroring all of their contents for possible lawsuits, it shows they are anything but tech-savvy ... which, in a way, is a good thing ... as it stands at the moment, the US has mainly stupid criminals in their rows of politicians and right-wing activists ...

P.S. - why do we need a "human-readable" files anyway? Who defines what "human readable" is anyway?

These files need to be machine-readable, as they are typically configuration files. Just make sure you have decent editors that make the sources (e.g. XML, JSON, etc.) easily understandable and allow for simple, syntactically and structurally correct editing ...

I hate the trend for "participation trophies" and dumbing down things like language, spelling, punctuation etc. in order to make it easier for the bottom 5% of the civilization to do tasks they most likely won't ever anyway ... I wasn't able to make enough points from 2nd or 3rd grade on in sporting events to get a certificate. So what? I wasn't scarred for life, I just accepted that I would never make a living from doing any kind of sports.

"Nobody left behind" is wrong as far as education goes. Make sure there is sufficient support for less-capable kids/people in order to allow them to learn to their level of possibilities, so that they can get a sufficiently decent job and make a good living in the area they are good at, but don't limit more capable people by limiting their learning and education.

Being able to do _everything_ is not viable for society as a whole. Specialization is perfectly fine - instead of having many/all people able to do a mediocre level of quality, let people do an outstanding job in their field of expertise. They will be more happy with that than barely scraping by doing a shitty job with too many things they know a bit of, but nothing they are good at.

I've never programmed Cobol, but having a syntax rely on exact indentation was a bad idea then.

Having something that relies on your personal definition and preferences and forcing everybody else to do it the same way is even worse now. Especially if you want people to use the files that may not have learned to the complete extent on how to do it. I've been using computers now for since the early 80's. ZX Spectrum, C64, Amiga, PCs w/ DOS/Windows 3.11 and up/Minix/SCO/*IX/Linux, Apollo Domain Unix, SGI ... pretty long list. Programming in Basic, Assembler, C, PHP, ... Many things I pick up and "wing" when small things need to get fixed or set up. Typically I can get things done even without requiring to know what I'm doing.

Fixing or changing YAML is one of the things that sucks SO BADLY ... it might be human readable, but needing to change something is almost as bad as the "read-only" language of APL ... if you don't know exactly what you are doing (or need to do), it'll end up in a lot of pain. I don't know how anybody ever thought it was a good idea.

Just my personal 0.02â/$ ...

Anything that is relevant to the primary use of a vehicle - driving it, and safely - must not require going through any level of touch screen menus ... I can still halfway accept something prominent on a main screen that can be easily identified and selected, but from what I read the wiper speed control requires going through some menus to get to ... someone also mentioned that even fog tail lights are done through the display instead of regular buttons ... sorry, but that is a complete design and safety fail ... considering how tough the US regulatory requirements are, it's unbelievable that they (and European authorities as well) would permit that ...