Who is assuming anything of the sort these days.

I'm not even sure why this is making the news. Google cancels products and lays off various teams all the time. Is this just some way of showing that not everyone getting fired is due to protests against Israel or something like that?

Intel knew what they were doing. Letting the CPU be pushed that hard made for bigger bars on benchmarks, so they had no reason not to just wink and nod while the motherboard manufacturers used those Intel approved settings. If they didn't, their own product wouldn't have the bigger bars and each company knew that every other company would do exactly the same thing so even if there were issues, it wouldn't be just them.

Clearly because it works. Same reason people are still sending emails on behalf of their good friend, the prince of Nigeria, even though that's become a literal meme.

Any company that doesn't charge a subscription fee or charge a premium for their hardware will eventually turn to pimping out their customer base to advertisers to make money. Their employees aren't going to work for free and if they have shareholders they aren't going to be satisfied with a reasonable ROI.

Any other company similar to Roku that you might buy from instead will eventually wind up in the same situation and start doing the same thing. I guess you'll have to buy another box and repeat the process all over again. I guess you could buy Apple's equivalent product, but that's going to cost you quite a bit more.

Don't underestimate my ability to waste more time for your company than the months service fee makes up for.

Eventually your lawyers will become involved and that's really not going to be cost effective for you and the lawyers being natural parasites will be glad to have me creating billable hours for them.

If they know your serial number, they probably have physical access and at that point it's probably too late for any kind of password policy to do any good. Not that it's too difficult for a company to comply with not having the initial password based off of a serial number, but any algorithmic scheme to generate passwords makes it somewhat guessable if you know enough about the algorithm.

They probably should. Once you get sufficiently pissed after a night of boozing you're usually too hungover to do any of the stupid shit you talked about the night before even if you happen to remember it.

It's even sillier when you consider that China would have no problems making their own x86 CPUs. They have enough people that they don't need to sell them outside the country. The ISA they use isn't all that important anyways unless you need binary compatibility with some existing software and can't run it through an emulation layer.

The concept is kind of interesting. Imagine a security firm that interviews candidates this way. Anyone they can compromise automatically fails the interview. For senior level positions they actually kidnap the candidate's family to see if they can extort them that way. Everyone at the water cooler refers to the NSA and CIA as a bunch of pussies.

Is there any reason to install it?

It's on the IRS to audit you if they think you're not paying what you actually owe. It does happen, because people will cheat on their taxes. Many of those are just people who don't pay because they're idiots or they fell for some sovereign citizen idiocy. The IRS likely doesn't catch the more intelligent ones. There was some woman who defrauded the army out of millions recently and it took almost a decade before anyone caught on.

Put them in charge of everything and their fuck ups will hurt you instead of themselves. Maybe they could do what the OP wants, but not with the tax code we have. I'm sure the IRS would love a less complex tax code, but the government is loath to implement something that their friends and John's can't benefit from.

That all sounds reasonable and good in theory, but when you do need to make an appeal how quick do you think it will be? What happens to you if you don't pay what they say you owe even though it's clear they screwed up? How motivated are they to get it correct in the first place?

Perhaps you're familiar with Louis Rossmann. If not, I suggest you watch some of his videos concerning his dealings with New York's tax department. Absolute fuckery due to incompetent bureaucrats.

Until they don't. The question you should be asking is whether they're making particularly sound decisions or because they're moving fast, using their most recent deal as a way to leverage the next. There are lizards that can run across the top of a pond, but only so long as they keep moving forward. If they stop, they'll sink. The trick doesn't work if they were to become too big either.

There's also the matter that over a short period of time, one can succeed solely based on luck. There's always someone who leaves the racetrack or the casino with more money than they put in. It's not hard to make money investing if you have a wide portfolio and don't chase after get rich quick schemes. Performing better than the market average over time is what's unusual, but there's always going to have to be someone above the mean to offset anyone below it. It's easy to look good and have that above average result, until you don't.

I've never heard of this group before. I guess they're big enough now to afford a Slashvertisement, for as much as that's worth.

Good luck seeing any kind of unilateral application of that idea. The reality is that it will be used as a cudgel to attack those with whom the group in charge disagrees with.

For example, if I were to call you a moron, no one would even bat an eye even though I've disparaged the unintelligent. The term was specifically used to refer to people who today would be considered to suffer from mild mental retardation. That's certainly a class of people.

I'm also curious if you'd accuse a black person calling another black person an epithet referred to as the "n-word" of committing a hate crime. I'd like to see someone suggest this if only because it'd be funny to watch them get their ass beat for being such a moron.

I personally don't like the New York Yankees or fans of the team. Are they a class of people? Personally I think they're all subhuman garbage barely above the level of Dallas Cowboy fans. Calling either of them a moron would be an insulting to actual morons.

Never mind that trying to ban certain words is foolhardy. The universe will simply invent new slurs. What good is changing the words used when the human hearts are still the same?

Have you been using crypto coins to buy drugs?

The idea you've presented wouldn't work for a number of reasons.

Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. I would also gladly take a pamphlet if you have a stack printed out.

Also at least some (if not all) of the coins mined were based on proof of work. Anything using proof of stake doesn't cost anywhere near as much. Since the person stealing the resources doesn't care what they actually cost, they have no concern if they're horribly inefficient. You may as well calculate the cost to mine by looking at crappy JavaScript programs that try to mine BitCoin on a CPU while people are on whatever crappy page is infested with those scripts.