PS4 has an established lineup of games. The Switch is just getting warmed up there.

Games and the gaming experience sell consoles, not just fast processors

For a long time people used FM transmitters to broadcast their MP3 players, etc to the local radio. I wonder if somebody could sell something similar that picks up the digital and re-transmits as analog

Yup. I think that recently happened to Manitoba.

http://www.newswire.ca/news-re...

Except that in places like Saskatchewan - where you have a provincial Telco - prices are *much* more reasonable and they still manage to turn a decent profit.

Netflix throttling, youtube throttling, torrent-throttling and various other things have ALREADY been an issue.

Will it happen immediately? No.

Will it start to slowly degrade service and impact customers over time? Absolutely!

RX480, 4GB. I've been using the FOSS drivers for about a year now and they're GREAT. I did have to compile my own kernel in the earlier days but now the ones that come with Ubuntu etc seem to work just fine out of the box.

" Forceful, unconditional kernel operations. When I say "unmount this filesystem," I'm not asking a question. When I say "terminate this process," I expect the process to be removed from memory and the runqueue, regardless of consequences."

Thank you. Nothing is more maddening than doing a "-f" type of operation, particularly an unmount, and having the system bitch at you because "I think something is still using this". I've had major issues not being about to release USB devices that have glitched up because "umount -f" still refuses to actually unmount.
Why even have a fucking force option if it doesn't actually work?

Absolutely. There are some things that are definitely GOOD about systemd. The extensibility/overloading of the service/unit files is a good example of something that works well and is implemented in a way that makes a lot of sense. For example, you can have a service file at /usr/lib/systemd/system/somesystem.service
And then modify functionality with units under /etc/systemd/system/somesystem.service.d/*.conf

It's easy to do, and works nicely with packaging systems so that you can create an addon package to modify or add behavior without editing the file(s) supplied by the original package. The way you can build dependency chains is also quite useful.

There's also some stuff that is lame, like the binary logs and the needed to run journalctl or systemctl to figure out WTF your daemon is doing when it fails, or how the binary log can be corrupted so that you can *never* figure out what happened in some situations.

The biggest problem is the lack of compromise. A lot of people in SystemD-land have a "my way or the highway" attitude, whereas a lot of people in init-land have a "change is bad" mentality.

There's a trade-off between processing power consumption and speed of processing though, and it can be a fine-line.
If your phone is sucking up a lot of juice, then it's going to run out of battery faster... that's an easy enough deduction.
But how about running slow? If it takes 1.5x the amount of time to - say - process a webpage or open an attachment, then potentially you've got the phone in an "active" mode for longer, which may also mean increased usage of the backlight, radio, etc. So even if that uses 80% of the power to do so, 1.5 x 80% actually ends up consuming 120% of the nominal power usage due to the device being "active" longer.

I wonder how smart the bots are. If you could target the IP's or characteristics specific to the bot networks, then perhaps it might be possible to jack up the prices and limit stock just for them. It would be a win-in, as the seller gets a boatload of money for the bots, and the "regular" stock is still available to the direct customers.

That would be the beauty of it, and possibly the anti-loophole. You can do whatever shitty things you want to hide or skip-out on your patent taxes, but if you ever try to *use* those patents it's going to come back at ya.

Or

Consider patents as taxable assets. Tax based on the value of the patents held - which should be declared - with a surtax for unused patents. No tax avoidance loopholes.

If you bring out a submarine that you didn't declare for taxes, or sue while declaring the patent is worth a lot more than you paid taxes for.... oooooo, tax avoidance...

Reason 1:
    https://www.krackattacks.com/

Reason 2:
    https://www.armis.com/blueborn...

Those are two fairly major vulnerabilities that worked at a wireless level. Some vendors got it fixed fairly quickly, a lot did not (especially Android vendors). I love my Android phone feature-wise, but the platform is completely fuckadoo in terms of updates, and various models often have lingering security issues or even ones that get completely abandoned/unpatched, making them not just a risk to the owner but possibly nearby devices or infrastructure.

Realistically Android needs better central control, and much as I'm loath to give Google more control, I believe they should take more ownership of the base OS and patching, allowing for core updates to come from *them* as part of the platform rather than waiting on the vendors to implement their fixes. Make it like more like a Linux OS where they own the kernel and core, and vendors can add their stuff as packages and/or submit any special drivers back to Google for inclusion/patching.

Recent updates allowed more granular permissions, blocking autostart, and many other things that traditionally I used root apps for.

There is the aspect of maybe blocking Google's own shenannigans though, but not sure if it's worth having a device with other potential attack vectors due to having an non-updatable rooted OS.

I think that - in part - the reaction is in regards to the comments from a bunch of sickos/pedos as opposed to the kids posting themselves. That said, one *should* learn at a younger age to be careful of what you post online, as in the age of data-retention and mining it could have repercussions later in life.

Maybe one way to deal with it would be to restrict comments on videos posted by young persons.