governments for complying with the Republicans demanding to spy on the Dutch government. The Republicans didn't like European internet privacy regulations that were being proposed and wanted to spy on lawmakers working on it.

The EU has banned Microsoft Office and replaced with free software called Euro Office.

They're trying to ban Google from sending data to the US and EU governments are banning the use of Google Search replacing it with a French search company.

The French Government has banned the use of Windows in their government.

Was it worth it becoming an arm of the US Fascist state, Microsoft? How much of your market are you losing?

Meanwhile Palentir is being kicked out of Europe too.

American companies that went Fascist FAFO

I'm pretty sure that if they signed a license agreement after the making a youtube video they still would have protected it.
There isn't any "youtube" clause in the law.

They could have allowed it and they didn't. They and you are assholes.

How did you get me confused with someone who cares whether they had the legal right to stop it?

they're dead to me!

gives you poor service when they "flagged you as a low-profit customer."

friend, it claimed to be running Windows 11 pro.
When he registered it, it created a local account. It made no attempt to link to a Microsoft account or create one.

Your car battery can make up for the lack of battery storage in the grid.

all they did was reduce it from 3 slots to 2.

You left out a word.

called slavery.
They could even "make their own" by getting babies.

We don't let them do that for good reason.

I don't feel comfortable with corporations owning sentient beings, artificial or real!

We've gone from a 6502 with 3000 transistors in it to an NVidia half tensor unit with 100 billion transistors (double for the whole tensor unit).
I like to imagine that one say someone will make a computer with a different computing model where every memory cell will have it's own processor.
So maybe something like that?

Now I find the ending very disturbing.
The hacker was found burned to death by the side of the road.
And the CIA gave Clifford a party with a cake and all.

book. I guess it was back in the '90s and I was in Cody's Books in Berkeley.
He and someone else were looking for a book on information theory and I directed them to the right shelf.
He handed me his book, said "I wrote this, buy it!"
It was a good book, but the ending was disturbing.
He was an astronomy student at Berkeley, and in a CS class his professor told him that there was some wrong with the logs on one of their computers and he wanted him to figure out what was going on.
He found that someone was breaking into the computer - I'm not sure if the internet was a thing back then, but someone was breaking into computer networks and using dialouts (he found that the CIA's computers had a dialout bank he could break into) and was going through all kinds of computer systems looking for military information, and Clifford followed him.
He kept calling up agencies telling them that their systems were being broken into and this was all so new that no one knew what to do and no one was tasked with security.
So... eventually it was traced to someone in Eastern Germany.
The CIA threw him a party with a cake and all, which was a bit weird for a Berkeley hippy type.
The NSA had him give a talk.
But in the end the spy was found burned to death by the side of the road.
So. Yeah. I guess we weren't playing.

AI artists will refuse to draw guns.