We cannot allow there to be an app store regulation gap!

(paraphrasing Dr. Strangelove)

I hate to be pedantic (ok actually no I don't), but that doesn't necessarily follow. Someone who already has a Switch and believes in the moral obligation to pay for a copy of the game, yet wants to have a playable version on their PC for any of several reasons already discussed, might do exactly what you describe.

1GB thumb drives were indeed first available around 20 years ago.

You might be thinking of 1TB drives, which were available about a decade later.

I suggest we refer to this particular logical fallacy as "Grabiner's Hammer", e.g. "by Grabiner's Hammer, I'm the inventor of bitcoin."

The problem with "loser pays" is that it would exacerbate the problem of differing legal budgets. If you're a small artist, and ACME IP MegaPirates Inc. uses your work for commercial purposes without permission, you have to consider whether you can afford to pay the costs of their in-house highly paid legal team in case the court rules against you if you sue.

Yes, it would help discourage frivolous suits, but it was also discourage legitimate ones, and threaten to financially destroy people who tried to protect their rights. The high cost of legal representation is a problem, and although there has been some legislation to try to help fight frivolous suits, I don't think there's likely to be an easy solution.

The subject of the comment to which you're replying is "Florida", so I'm guessing Florida.

Your argument is somewhat undercut by the fact that Cruise is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors, so that buyout's already happened. It's still possible the CEO's bonuses are tied to performance targets relating to driverless success, so it could still be true to a lesser degree.

Nothing other than being competently crafted by talented humans. Algorithms are the future!

I feel compelled to point out that "vertically centered" means equidistant from the top and bottom. The article writer meant to say "horizontally centered", which is described by "in the middle of three buttons close to the bottom of the screen".

If I want machine-generated advice/motivation, I just use Inspirobot.

That's what AM radio is for. News, talk, and traffic updates every 30 minutes! Fortunately those will be in cars forever and there's no way an automaker would be so shortsighted as to remove them...

I remember when a Turner exec explicitly stated otherwise: https://news.slashdot.org/stor...

It wouldn't surprise me if some TV/streaming executives believe there's an implicit contract between viewers and content providers that makes you morally responsible for watching and paying attention to the commercials.

"We need to make users happy."

I, for one, am enthused to hear about Google's bold new corporate strategy. These are really untested waters for their user experience engineers.

Yes, "RHA" seems to be a mistyping of "RAH", the initials of Robert A. Heinlein. I haven't read The Number of the Beast, but it appears to feature the crew of an interdimensional craft that visits a time/place where they had such a year: https://mycroft.heinleinsociet... (see "Year They Hanged the Lawyers")

I'm not sure about cross-posting, but AndStatus can combine feeds from Twitter and Mastodon (and a few others). I haven't used it myself, but it's been around a while.