He's upset that his posts are now challenged by fact checking links. This doesn't silence anybody, it just makes his lies harder to spread.

How do you know you are on the side of the baddies? The skulls in the insignia are one sign, but so is an incessant need to lie about everything. When fact-checking is your enemy, your followers should RUN AWAY. Sadly, the world will always have its share of useful idiots, no matter what the ideology, willing to support the lies in the face of facts, logic, and common sense. All you can do is combat them with the truth and force them back into the shadows.

Of course, I meant, "...only an idiot thinks Slack and Teams are NOT direct competitors"

Ugh.

Sounds like projection to me. Slack "embraced" then "extinguished" HipChat. As long as Microsoft doesn't buy Slack, the only thing they need to do is fairly compete. ...and only an idiot thinks Slack and Teams are direct competitors. Teams has replaced a lot of Slack (and before, HipChat) deployments. It may need more refinement, but Teams handles enterprise communications just fine.

I'm sure online services are cooperating with these people, sure. I'm mean, Netflix, Disney+ and others have always wanted a way to deliver their content piecemeal, it is so in line with their business model.

Why didn't this come on by default? It's not like the feature is somehow intrusive.

For starters, wrong targets. Apple and Google can sell this all day long, unless it is an ACTUAL copyright violation.

However, it's been very well established, from way back in the 80s, that simply recreating gameplay and even graphical style is not a copyright violation. Unless Area F2 has directly lifted assets or code from Rainbow Six, Ubisoft doesn't have a leg to stand on, and that's the reason their idiot lawyers are climbing so far out on a limb to attack the stores, attempting to SLAPP Area F2 down in the middle of their support chain.

It's disgraceful. Ubisoft should fire those terrible lawyers for a ploy that will only tar their company (which already has the stain of it's overbearing "Internet only" DRM) ...besides, Rainbow Six is about as generic a tactical shooter as anything else on the market. The genre is already saturated. WhoTF cares?

Two different things...

People are looking for somebody to blame for a mess that has a LOT of blame to go around. I'm willing to entertain the proof that this is not a lab-grown virus, I think the forensics show this. I don't think we will ever disprove that this thing potentially escaped from a lab.

I would like to say it is monumentally irresponsible to have a lab that studies potentially dangerous viruses and bacteria sitting int he middle of any populated area. Even under the most strict hygienic standards, this is just a bad thing. There is never a need for such a lab to be located "near" any potential source, either, before anybody tries that argument. Yes, "boots on the ground" response teams, researchers who do the legwork, certainly, but biohazardous samples should be handled far away from any population centers. Even in the best case scenario, you get these conspiracy theories popping up, and in the worst cases... well.

Their conclusion that the virus has to pass from animal to human, is certainly valid, but assurances that the lab followed protocol? That's just rosy best case assumptions about the security that depends on a lot of factors, most importantly, that we are dependent on humans to uphold those protocols. People break rules, and it's not out of the question that somebody might have become infected due to a break in these protocols; COVID-19 is incredibly contagious, and we saw how poorly contact protocols worked for first responders in Washington who contracted it after evacuating a rest home that became the first "hot spot" - I'm sure their protocols were not as stringent as the Wuhan lab's protocols, but it does show how hard it is to contain this thing.

I personally hate conspiracy theories, and I love to poke holes in them through logic and accepted facts, but this one still has legs. Depending the infallibility of humans to follow strict protocols, who work a few miles from a "wet market" where livestock, both domestic and exotic, are kept in unhygienic conditions until slaughter, seems to be a stretch, at best.

I mean, that is our new reality, right? Magical, last minute cures by using the blood of our protagonist?

English, does anybody speak it?

It's a map of people who report the symptoms of COVID-19

I should add, I left on my own terms.

So much this.

She drove me to looking for another employer after 21 years with EDS/HP/HPE with her nonsense. She back-stabbed her way to HP's CEO position and tanked the whole thing, leaving 100,000+ families in ruins in the process. Not at your desk? You get a sticky note to see her in her office for dismissal, assuming you still had a job after one of her layoff jags.

I hope any enterprise she worms herself into dies a quick death before she can wield her power of stupid over any more people.

I should probably look into that cough, but really, we keep hearing this, and it's nonsense. Until something transformative happens in IT, the workers jobs aren't going away. If anything, all of this WFH stuff has reinforced the importance of maintaining a healthy IT department.

I remember this sort of talk 25 years ago.

I guess some people just start stabbing buttons when they want attention in the midst of a huge event like this pandemic. It's rather sad.

Will it infect downloads with adware?

...and less time advertising. I'd love to have extensions on my mobile browser. I'd be happier if Google didn't deprecate cool features they tease users with instead of fixing (Tab Freeze)

Yup, and beyond all that, Valve KNOWS how the VR games are doing (after all, they SELL VR games in their Steam store), and they made the decision to go ahead with a VR-only game.

Why would they do that if they thought it was going to tank? Two years ago, it might have been a valid question, but not any longer.