There's a place for consoles in gaming but it may not be what you think. Consoles are where DRM and anti-cheat spyware crap belongs.

As long as bringing these stores to Xbox doesn't mean more DRM for everyone else, I'm fine with that.

In the American military system, at least, I believe most generals will have started off not as grunts but as officers, most of which likely would not have seen frontline combat and most of which would have never held a gun as part of the actual daily activities.

What was vastly preferable and has not changed, rental DVDs by mail (RIP). I don't mind content moving around from service to service (it's easy to find on justwatch.com) but content disappearing is an abuse of copyright IMO.

One of the main tenets of copyright is to make works available to the public! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I believe in free speech, even when what people say it's absolutely stupid, as long as others have a chance to point out how wrong they are.
For starters, lets remind people of what a police state actually is and examples of police states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Extreme level of control over civil society and liberties, nope.
No distinct between the law and exercise of political power, nope.
Authoritarian, totalitarian or illiberal regimes, nope.
One party state, nope.
Relatively modern day examples of police states, USSR, Belarus, Nazi Germany, South Africa during the apartheid.
If what happened was an example of a police state, why were reparations made? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

If the US were a police state, we should seriously consider hiring more officers. https://www.businessinsider.co...

The problem with people like you is that you like to take an individual event or a few similar events and portray them as the norm instead of what they are, the exception. I can do that too. The US is not only not a police state, it's the opposite, we're de-funding the police. https://www.theguardian.com/us... See how stupid that statement is? Just like yours.

About a week ago, I spontaneously embroidered this slogan onto my jean jacket- "The Revolution Will Not Be Instagrammed." It was an update and homage to Gil Scott Heron's song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised."

There are many levels to my inspiration, but largely it is a commentary on how so many people have abandoned the traditional media for this candy-coated illusion of being "informed." It's really weird for me to now see this confirmation of my suspicion. Opiate of the masses, indeed.

That's just it, iPhones are not superior (they're competitive against other high-end phones) and this demonstrates how their anti-competitive practices have forced some people into buying their products. The idea that a healthy market can only support two or three high-end phone makers is absurd, look at how many car manufacturers there are. The only way you get consolidation like that is anti-competitive practices. If it's not Apple, then who?

Why don't you shut up, the adults are talking here. You're comparing apples and oranges. You can install Linux on a wide variety of devices that come with Windows. You can't install any version of Android on any Apple device. You can't install iOS on any non-Apple device that you want and even if you could, like OSX/macOS, I'm sure Apple would forbid that in the license.

There literally is no comparison between Apple and Microsoft. The people to sue over not providing Windows alternatives on every device are Dell, HP, IBM, etc..., not Microsoft.

You should post anonymously because you're just embarrassing yourself. Oh wait, you already are because your real name isn't NoMoreACs.

I certainly did read the article. The anti-cheat software is not identified as a vector.

Easy Anti-Cheat, the developers of the anti-cheat engine used in Apex Legends (and several other games), said in a statement on Monday that it was "confident that there is no RCE vulnerability within EAC being exploited."

There is some other mention that actual cheat software had been deployed on the players' systems and a menu was displayed during the livestream. This sounds like a rootkit and the fact that it was limited to two participants suggests the attacker was not able to utilize a vulnerability that was common across all participants, which would have been the anti-cheat software.

I'm suspecting the culprit phished the two affected participants in advance of the tournament and installed rootkits. The indication for this was the attack wasn't more widespread than the two competitors. If the attack was explicitly performed within the game software, then all the players would have been vulnerable and the attacker would have had the opportunity to deploy a larger effect.

This is also the type of attack that will prove trivial to trace by a federal forensics team and this person is going to find themselves in prison "for fun."

All this global warming crap is a red herring, some very smart people say that once you exclude temperature readings near airports, nothing has changed. I'm sure this is just global warming alarmists over-measuring the ocean near human activity. /s

Amazon will ask for the thing back if it has any significant value. They package these returns up in huge pallet boxes and sell them off. Third-party companies then process the contents of these boxes and post each item on eBay or distribute at flea markets and junk stores.

Seriously editors and submitter, a story summary should be pithy.

Theft vs. unauthorized use depends on intent. If the perpetrator was just driving the car around, that's the unauthorized use. If the person was planning to chop it up and sell the parts, that's theft. Part of the distinction depends on whether the result would deprive the owner of the car permanently.

I disagree and I think a lot of people would. They consistent get much better MPG then conventional ICE vehicles.

It's really not but unfortunately, I can't find real numbers for specific ICE and Hybrid models. Don't take my word on it. https://www.fueleconomy.gov/fe...
"Cold weather effects can vary by vehicle model. However, expect conventional gasoline vehicles to suffer a 10% to 20% fuel economy loss in city driving and a 15% to 33% loss on short trips."
"For electric vehicles (EVs), fuel economy can drop roughly 39% in mixed city and highway driving, and range can drop by 41%."
Here's EV losses by model. https://www.recurrentauto.com/...
Except for the audi e-tron, BEV range losses are significantly worse than ICE. The energy required to heat and cool a BEV during charging is also not factored in, these costs don't apply to ICE and gas Hybrid vehicles.

I would expect this charge to be lowered to "Unauthorized use of a motor vehicle" as there is no evidence the person was trying to do more than joyride the car. Even that charge will be difficult to prosecute as the word "use" would normally entail a certain amount of control of the vehicle.

A couple ways to defend either charge.

• Abandoned vehicle blocking traffic. The individual was attempting to clear the public thoroughfare.
• This is a taxi, yet there is no clear marking which seat the customer is expected to occupy.