Implying everyone who votes for a right wing party is a nazi is juvenile and has the opposite effect to what you might hope but then the left never seem to learn this lesson in basic human psychology because they don't really understand what makes most people tick.

Your slashdot handle is very appropriate in this instance.

I don't want to have to rely on a phone to do even basic stuff such as listening to the radio or navigation because phones can be mislaid or stolen. Plus in my car android auto via bluetooth is so slow its unusable which means I need to have it plugged in via usb all the time.

Having said that, there's no reason ANY kind of radio reception needs an "app update". The radio should be a hard wired chip with a basic interface on top. I don't need to see the fecking album cover of whatevers being played at the moment etc etc.

"Phones are a pain in the arse to turn 90 degrees"

Even for you thats a really poor troll. Had a bad day? Have another go.

Yeah,. that'll be why streaming movies on phones is in portrait mode... oh, wait...

They're all in fucking portrait mode so borderline unwatchable on a pc.

Are Gen Z ever going to figure out that yes, you can actually turn a phone through 90 degrees?

Its been engineered deliberately so it won't work without a net connection so they can charge a subscription model and possibly get user sleep data too.

The only dumb bit is on the part of the morons who parted with 4 figure sums to buy this thing from these grifters in the first place.

If it's anything like their content ID copyright enforcement mechanism, I'm sure this will go absolutely perfect and there will be no drama whatsoever.

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"An insider at the bank, a self-professed fan of the technology"

Lets see how much of a fanboy he is when HE gets replaced by it. And yes, it probably is a man as psychopathy tends to be more common in males.

It's called Jevons Paradox

In short: the more efficiently you can use a resource, the better the ROI you get for investing in the utilization of that resource, and the more people consume.

This applies to computing power. Maybe it doesn't make sense in 1974 for a small business to invest in computer workstations for their staff. But by 1994 computers were so much more powerful, so much more capable, and actually cheaper relative to that capability (read: more efficient) that it now makes no sense to NOT invest in the technology for your business.

If this succeeds in lowering the barrier to entry for leasing AI data center resources, expect demand to go up as more people try to do more things.
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Look man, I know actually understanding things isn't your strong suit but white-knighting Roblox is not a good look.

Yes, religious organizations have been and still very much are a hotbed for child abuse and assault. I fully agree we should be doing a lot more to investigate and incarcerate offenders among the clergy and related professions.

But even if I accept it's "the primary vector of attack" - and these days I'm not entirely convinced that's true anymore - it does you no favors to handwave literal tens of thousands if incident reports associated with Roblox. 13,000 reports from Roblox in 2023 alone. And that's Roblox reporting them... given how much effort they put into protecting predators on their platform, if they themselves reported 13K incidents you can imagine the real number is much larger.

Maybe imagine that Roblox is like a Jesus Camp with 70+ million children attending every day and there are zero safeguards in place.
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It does have a few minor use cases if for example you want to do something in a large window while keeping an eye on another one underneath, but yeah, generally its more annoying that useful. Windows did it for a long time too, think it was 8 that finally binned it but not 100% on that.

It was probably installed long before he rocked up. The fact that people running a weapons facility think its appropriate to use ANY kind of web based collaboration system or even have the facility connected to the internet AT ALL says a lot about the kind of mouth breathing morons they've put in place to run the IT systems there.

Interesting thought experiment there - if a piece of sheet paper was somehow deorbited at orbital velocity would it burn up in instant or would it just drift down?

> We have decades and decades of studies on this. Children are going to be assaulted and taken advantage of by people they know who are in positions of power.

"People they know" include people they make friends with online.

"Positions of power" include people who offer money (robux) in exchange for favors.

Yes, we should be putting a lot more priests and cops in prison for child abuse and exploitation, but Roblox is a MASSIVE playground for exploitation and fishing. This has been an open secret for years with a fairly recent media fiasco involving Schlep. Apparently Roblox was more interested in banning him and any mention of him on their platform for the high crime of reporting predators to the authorities than they are about actually punishing those predators at all.

> But whatever the case going after Roblox isn't going to save any children.

You are either fucked in the head if you believe this, or scared of getting caught yourself.
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"wage slave" is a pretty old term. Yeah, some people overegg things to get sympathy but its hardly a new use of the word.