With the way copyright and trademark rules work, Nintendo didn't really have much of a choice. I'm pretty sure Mario is almost a Trademark for Nintendo and being a trademark, it's something you have to protect or you'll lose it. To stay out of trouble, you have to make something closer to a parody instead of just plainly copying IP.

It's too bad you can't respond with a middle-finger emoji with the a comment along the lines of "I'll switch to 10 when you pry it out of my dead laptop hands."

The issue with having Governments regulating Tech companies is that Government is far too slow. Issues in tech change faster than most companies are able to pass laws. Not to mention the fact that shackling your own Tech companies with ineffective laws would yes probably slow them down but at the same time you'd risk losing your business to another country's company who may not be under those restrictions.

I wouldn't invest in them. After being the first company to successfully kill someone with their self-driving car and for all the other crazy stuff the company's done, it's not a company I would trust.

At some point you run out of people wanting to buy your stuff so growth slows. Is this really a surprise? Either try something new or enjoy the profits and keep sailing forward.

I've tried using Google Maps as a Car Navigation tool and it works reasonably well but the biggest problem is that you need to be Online for it to work properly. If it worked almost as well offline, I'd pay for such a service. I know you download offline maps which is fine for in city use but they don't work too well when you go cross-country.

It's not too hard to figure out what google is tracking even if you aren't an expert. When your phone asks you to give reviews of places you've visited, it's pretty obvious that google is picking up your GPS locations and trying to find your opinion on places that you've visited. Or if you look up some item on Amazon and it follows you around page after page. (A sign that google sort of knows where you're going via Chrome...). In theory Google only uses it to analyse trends, not you as an individual but with any large corporation that has that much personal data, there's a risk of slipping.

The only issue I see with this is that he'll be fine so long as he can play and Fortnite doesn't go away. Also playing for 18 hours a day isn't healthy. No sane person works that many hours at any job even if you love it because it will most definitely hurt your health in time.

From everything I've heard it can be extremely difficult and thankless working for a large Video Game corporation. So this is hardly a surprise. It's a lot more rewarding I imagine if you're an Indy Game designer who succeeds.

Lidar hacking would actually be more difficult because it's a scanning laser system. They're not used for identifying lane markers but 3D physical objects. You'd almost need something like a holographic plate to trick a Lidar system which isn't going to be that easy to stick to the road and even then it'd basically at best be tricking Lidar to either believe there's a hole or lump in the road that's not there.

These and other funky glitches are reasons why I wouldn't really want to fully depend on the Tesla system. Google Car on the other hand uses a much larger complement of sensors and a 3D space mapping LIDAR to avoid these issues, unless you're going to go as far as placing a styrofoam lifesized car or panel onto the road which would almost fool real-life drivers as well. Google believes in the concept of making sure the system fully works instead of taking dangerous compromises.

You can't tell if someone is lying online from just text. Humans tell if people are lying by their Facial expressions, Tone of voice and body language. It's actually very hard to lie without slipping in one of these areas unless you're a psychopath or a very skilled actor. It's much harder to tell from say a chat.

Over the years I've exclusively used opensource projects such as "Tomato" to run on my routers because not only are they extremely stable but they're also extremely useful too often having more features than you normally need. And in the case of Tomato firmware (and it's sucessors) often a much nicer interface to boot too. I specifically won't buy any router that isn't supported. My last major router which handles all the traffic in my household is a monster dual 1Ghz ARM Netgear R 7000 router which I hopefully won't need to replace anytime soon.

Umm maybe that's because you can't kill what you can't see? Realistically thou of course there's an upper limit because at some rate the screen is changing faster than it is humanly possible to see.

People pretty much will collect anything and everything if possible. So it shouldn't be a surprise that there would be folks who collect data. The interesting part is going to be what happens to that data when they pass away?