" No matter what safeguards you put in place, there will be " -- illegal material or products of exploitation.

That goes for any business any business at scale.

Amazon / ebay / etc have the same problem with illegal / fake products and content.

Reddit, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter have the same problem with illegal content that is missed by moderation.

Every platform faces this same challenge (beyond the internet). I don't find that to be a compelling reason to make the business illegal if it's core business should not be illegal. How to determine the burden of moderation (is the platform doing enough to combat the problem) ... that is a difficult question, but I think that is the more important thing than does X appear on this platform.

maybe it makes it into animal feed?
you can only hope; i would assume if a company can make simple additional revenue from what would otherwise be waste, they will.

... on the other hand.
This is a very hard problem without de-anonymizing accounts. So, at least they are thinking of solutions.

Or it could just be a vector to spread a single attack out onto an entire group of accounts.

Hack Charlie, and now you can 'recover' Alice's account. Repeat for all connections.

I'm assuming they thought of this when creating the feature, but I have low trust.

Then why aren't they cutting all the other corporate subsidies at the same time?
Save us some money and get rid of all the corporate welfare.

So much WTF here.

1. How can the FCC legally block this just because they don't like the company's hiring practice or internal training?

2. Verizon sold a ton of stuff to Frontier. Now it is buying them. That's more funny than WTF; as it isn't totally uncommon. Sell a business for millions, buy it back for pennies.

Pump+Dump Don.

Just like with $TRUMP and $MELANIA;
He's probably just planning to make bank for his people by using insider trading information.

Again. how does this put China in a losing situation?
How will anything they are doing convince our allies to start a matching trade war with China?

Instead we are getting our allies to re-consider if they should buy American.

This is not Fucking China.

Sure.

But how is anything the Republicans are doing fight China?

Seems to me like they are empowering China, while removing the USA as the only competing world power.

Totally slashing our soft-power? That will boost China's influence and access to third-world resources.

Fighting with allies? Weakens our hard-power.

Trade war with almost everyone? We don't make much that other nations can't source from China or Europe.

I was thinking the same thing. Did this happen during the test drive.

Assuming that the dealer could disable the ads during the test-drive - would a consumer be able that then use that as evidence that this is a bait-and-switch?

I wonder if CS2 counted as a 'new' game for this statistic. Since, it was released in 2024 (I think?).
It is just an in-place replacement for CS:GO, which is very old, but it is technically new.

I think early detection is the only really viable solution.

If someone wants to break something, they will break it. All we can adjust is the time and effort it takes to do so.

If making the cable harder to break also makes repairs harder, at what point is it just not worth it.
Maybe they could make the cables easier to repair, but no harder to break?

I kind of feel bad for them. The universal runtime fee was a stupid idea. But, from my (very limited) understanding, The goal was to get level the cost between free-to-play games (that make Billions (Genshin Impact, etc) from add-on fees) and traditional games that make money based on units sold;

That they make SOME %% from a 60$ game that sells 10million copies, but make almost nothing from a FTP gatcha game that brings in 3billion$.

They obviously didn't look at the full impact of the changes they made and faced the consequences.

Agree.

From simple parsing of English the phrase is clearly an example, not a constraint.

Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age" has this distinction between AI and Non-AI interpretation of the same material as a very important plot point.
I guess that's a bit of a spoiler, but not much of one.