About losing those lawsuits. They can absorb the fines and work around them. After a little bit of finagling the dollar amounts involved will not be terribly large. But on the other hand, and they have called this out in their sec filings, this basically makes it borderline impossible for any competitor to go up against them. In the long run it's probably going to save them money because traditionally the way they survive is by buying up whichever competitor of theirs the kids under 15 flocked to in order to find a place their parents didn't hang out

It's like how Microsoft lost their antitrust trial and the "punishment" was to give away millions of dollars of software to schools which they had been trying to get to take their software for 20 years...

I don't know what the opposite of a pyrrhic victory but I believe we've found it.

You will find that every single one of those age gate laws was written by a lobbying firm tied to Facebook.

There is no question that the age restriction laws are coming from facebook. Also Planitir. They are also behind some of the funding for lobbying for the laws. They use what's called template laws where they write a legal template that can be sent across the country to form the basis of laws that pass everywhere.

No we don't exactly know why. But it doesn't take a lot to figure out. It doesn't really drastically improve their tracking but what it does do is let them know that you are real. That's why we know it's about detecting AI slop.

Sony never actually made "Compact Flash" cards. They made XDQ, CFexpress Type A and Type B cards. Compact Flash is effectively a legacy format and that market very much is dominated by Sandisk.

in the XDQ and CFexpress space there were a lot of new entrants into the market. Among some of the best are OWC and Angelbird, both of which can punch above Lexar's weight. Sandisk is effectively not competing in this space. They produce only bottom tier cards with their Extreme Pro being about 1/4 of the speed of the heavy weights, and their Pro Cinema line being better but not great. Lexar can match performance but get dominated by OWC on price (historically, not sure about now). Sony are competitive with the high end in this space but nothing to write home about.

No one here is talking about memory sticks. The memory stick was abandoned 7 years ago. We're talking CF express cards and SD cards in Sony's Tough line.

I mean it's a nice guess, but back in reality land a quick google search could have shown that they are price competitive with other CFexpress cards in their class. Yeah you'll find cheaper, but pair that with slower. Many people need memory cards that actually meet performance criteria. For "nobody buying them" they certainly had a very complete product catalogue spanning many different types, mid end to the high end, from last decades capacity, to current cutting edge.

If no one was buying them then they would consolidate their product line, not cancel every possible related storage device type. Your theory doesn't just fail occam's razor, it fails the drunken pub test. It makes no sense.

Then you make the claim and use discover to prove. Your "more likely" case still demonstrates complete negligence.

First being in AI programmer is like having a limitless supply of Junior programmers doing their very very first gig and you are their manager.

Second what ends up happening is if the AI doesn't work you're doubling up your work because your boss tells you the AI must be working so you must be more productive. And if the AI does work it's just doing the grunt work and now instead of having a little bit of grunt work throughout the day to rest your mind in between the hard stuff you're expected to be full on 24/7 banging out the most difficult aspects of code one after another.

Basically it either doesn't work and now you have double the workload without any new tools to manage that workload or it does work and now your boss expects you to crank out super code 24/7. Either way your job just got a whole lot harder and a whole lot more miserable.

lengthy prompts to draft

Just use AI to help generate prompts!

When do police ever prevent crimes?

Hate me? Motherfucker if I caught my children smoking they'd be out on the street, disowned, and I'd be in the bedroom making a replacement for their sorry asses. Parenting isn't about letting young idiots (which they universally are) who are incapable of making good choices do whatever they want. That's "bad parenting". It's the reason we don't treat kids as adults in the first place (and one of the reasons selling this stuff to them is already illegal).

You're missed the biggest benefit: You can quickly identify those people who make poor life decisions.

That's a misnomer, you still should bring cash. It's not that plastic isn't widely accepted. For a long time it's actually been more widely used in Western Europe than it has been in the USA. It is *CREDIT CARDS* that are not widely accepted (and still not in much of Europe). Most of Europe runs on debit transactions. Yes it can be confusing to see two overlapping circles and confuse the Mastercard logo (red and yellow) with the Maestro symbol (red and blue) or the Cirrus symbol (light blue and blue).

Come here with your fancy Mastercard / Visas and you may not even be able to buy something at a major supermarket even in a very digital country. And god help you if you have an Amex card.

That said things are changing Mastercard has announced it will discontinue Maestro and that is forcing countries to massively rollout card readers capable of reading Debit MasterCards and VisaDebit cards, and since they have the same underlying technology as credit transactions, that will mean credit cards will very soon become far more widely accepted.

This is a case of a captive audience. If in general machines don't accept credit cards then the complaints will fall on deaf ears. What are you doing to do, drive to a different supercharger and hope for the best? Call roadside assistance when your battery runs out? It's one of the situations where you get to force your customers to do what you want.

That is coming. Quite a few cars on the market support auto-negotiation of the charging. It does work for Tesla... at Tesla chargers. Great if you have a monoculture, not so much if you live in Europe where there are literally close to 100 different companies offering charging infrastructure.

That said most of them offer "network" style subscriptions, which is to say you apply for something like a Shell Charge card and you can tap and go literally anywhere. Yeah it would be nicer for the car to do that automatically, but really you need to stand next to the charger to plug the cable in anyway so it's not like tapping your charge card at an RFID reader is a hassle. So far I've yet to find a single charger that didn't work in my "network" of allowed chargers.

Says who? Not me... are you reading the right thread? Maybe we should ban Slashdotting under the influence of alcohol or whatever hallucinogen made you come up with that post as well, save you from yourself.

You'd be very wrong. Sony hasn't made camera sensors in a decade. They spun off Sony Semiconductor Solutions as an independent company back in 2016. Also Sony makes a loss on Playstation, but you are close to correct there, 60% of their profit is gaming. A lot of the rest is music and film, followed by professional gear.

Most of the storage / memory business is neither designed nor manufactured in China. There's nothing to design here. It's a chip bought from *Korea* or Taiwan slapped into a small plastic case.