Ubisoft might have to get comfortable with customers not paying them for games, then. Either by pirating them, or buying other games from companies that treat them better, or by finding some other entertainment instead. It's not like game consoles are the only thing their target market (which is young men) have to spend money on.

In addition, I expect we will see future regulation in some jurisdictions with strong consumer-favourable laws like Brazil and parts of the EU which would prevent companies from doing this.

It is unclear, but seems probable, that this is assuming that a company that extracts carbon energy resources is responsible for their use. This is indefensibly wrong and should not be published.

The choice to use coal, oil, or gas for energy lies with the consumer, not the producer. If you don't consume coal, then coal mining companies don't exist.

Resource extraction, particularly oil and gas, does result in significant carbon emissions through the processes of extraction, refining, and transport, but blaming the end user on the extraction company is incorrect and disingenuous.

Exxon did not make the person with the SUV fill it with diesel fuel and drive it around. Stop blaming Exxon for that.

Exxon did burn a lot of fuel to power their oil wells, pipelines, oil tankers, and refineries to make that diesel fuel. You can blame that on them.

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Whatever next-generation cryptoscam you're pushing, I'm not interested.

Some people really have trouble counting. Two carry on items (one large, one small) is two, not three or four or five.

Did they not watch enough Sesame Street? The Count would soon help them learn how to count successfully.

Meanwhile, this has been entirely standard on European low cost airlines for quite some time.

Maybe the NZ Government will think about regulating such a monopoly provider of an essential service so they are either reliable or not a monopoly.

I bet AMC earned more than $1.38 per customer by selling their customers' viewing information, so this is merely a dent in their revenues and no significant penalty.

That's the next three things to be enshittified by techbros.

How does Altman intend to power these many GPUs?

He should be considering that, too - and not letting that be a problem solved only by governments whose main interest is selling more fossil fuels but instead be working to develop a lot of GPUs and a suitably non-carbon-emitting power source to go with them.

This would be great for generating role-playing props for character ID cards and other documents, personalised to each player's character.

This is still advertising in a service I paid for and I don't accept that.

This means that Amazon are changing this from a package delivery and media service for £95/year to a package delivery service with some useless shit on the side for £95/year, and raising the price of the package delivery and media service to £131/year.

I'll be deciding if I want to pay that over the next few months. Amazon had better check their content offering to see if the price rise is justified by the content offering.

If you have a way to collect and beam down high power energy beams in some focused way, so the collector on the ground is some reasonable size, you have an orbital energy beam that can incinerate whatever you point it at.

You probably don't want one of those up there. Even if the people who control it are friendly, have you seen the quality of spacecraft data link security lately?

You're proposing the terror weapon to end all terror weapons.

You're better off making a ground based solar concentrator rather than a space based one - it's cheaper, easier, and more importantly can't be use to randomly incinerate buildings and people from space.

Good hackers - like the ones employed by the Chinese Communist Party but also some working freelance or for other states - don't get found out in 10 minutes. Maybe in 10 hours... or maybe in 10 months.

Requiring reporting of incidents within 10 minutes of occurrence is ridiculous and impossible. It's a criterion that everyone is guaranteed to fail and therefore gives leeway to prosecute anyone who has an info leak for something, if the CCP wants to prosecute them. Look for plenty of prosecutions, on this particular point, of companies with foreign connections or anyone the CCP wants to bring down.

Putting exploding dye packs in cash deliveries has been done for some time, and no cash transport van robber has successfully complained about being involuntarily recoloured when they tried to count their ill-gotten loot.

I doubt dye packs in other packages that are stolen would face any more legal barriers.

The dye is not harmful.