"For an assignment testing students' ability to make evidence-based arguments, they participate in a simulated school board meeting about banning books. It involves debating chatbots designed by Zeleny with names like the Confrontational Parent."

This a VERY thinly veiled parallel to a hotly divided political issue that teachers/unions [and chatbot trained bias] tend be on one side of and the majority of the public, parents, and truth on the opposite of. Given that adults of the highest levels of performance in our society, be it professional achievement, economic achievement, political achievement, IQ, and education disagree on the matter it sounds like what the teacher is likely testing is alignment with her own ideology and not evidence-based arguments.

I saw the same thing in many of my own courses, examples and material used in classes [especially logic classes like critical thinking] that taught and test concepts through distilled 'analogs' to popular political issues with an attempt to appear neutral and present both sides while actually presenting a weakened strawman of one side the argument and consistently that strawman was on the same side. Cleverly these were not the topics for essays where students spent effort on time and research and independent thought but the class examples that most would never look at additional material on... simply walk away believing they formed a valid independent judgement at the pinnacle of their own education.

It has nothing to do with being cowards, they are robots. It's a case of saving a little money at the expense of being excluded from a lot of money.

Piracy laws are very effective... for curbing intentional piracy in businesses because they have too much to lose to break laws like these and they are basically robots with instructions to follow the law.

But they won't outlaw these, what they'd do is prohibit companies that use them from government work/contracts and the government gives away WAY too much of our money to give that up.

Imaginary Property apologist.

Username checks out.

Ubisucks: Get used to not owning games!
Gamers: Get used to not having customers! /s

Reverse-engineering is ALSO a technique for PRESERVING software for long-dead platforms.

Reverse-engineering is ALSO a technique for interoperability.

It has many uses, both legal and illegal.

100%.

Flat Design SUCKS because it turns every signal into noise where you can no longer easily tell what is:

a) interactable vs
b) static.

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Path of Exile 2 IMHO is a boring, tedious Ruthless Souls-lite grindfest.

Pretty much. Steam is based on the customer's opinion -- the one that gamers actually care about.

From the website

Nominations for The Game Awards are selected by a voting jury of OVER 100 leading media and influencer outlets across the globe.

Not one gives a shit about a bunch of shills giving awards over games.

The main thing gamers care about is:

Is it worth playing?

Q. What do you get when you play country music backwards?

A. You get your wife back, your truck back, your dog back, your house back, and your job back. /s

And to really ruin Country Music: Johnny Cash - Barbie Girl (Cover by There I Ruined it) Restoration

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Path of Exile 2 is a boring, tedious Ruthless Souls-Lite grindfest.

It is not IF you will get hacked, but WHEN you will get hacked.

What is Logitech doing to prevent this from happening in the future?

> ads that pop up piped in directly from Microsoft.

When did Windows turn into a shitty mobile game?

> "Tea; earl grey; hot." and you wind up with a 3d print of the letter "T" painted earl grey and warmed to 100

LUL! That is a perfect example of voice UI being ambiguous. I've had these discussions for decades but never had a good example. I'm cribbing that.

> "Computer, fire torpedo bays 1 through 5!" takes a lot longer than me pressing the button

Yup, as much as I love ST:TNG I've had that criticism for decades. Voice UI is HORRIBLY SLOW, not to mention ambiguous.

Why the hell wouldn't the captain just press a button to raise shield instead of wasting time to say "Raise Shields", waiting for Worf to listen, and wait for them to actually execute it. That's at last 1 - 2 seconds of wasted time.

Also, wouldn't the computer monitor this and automatically raise shields? I'm sure its reaction time is helluva lot faster then humans!

I know, I know, don't feed the trolls ...

While not explicitly listed it could be argued that it is implicitly listed via:

1. The Constitutions' Ninth Amendment:

Ninth Amendment
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

2. The Bill of Rights' Tenth Amendment

Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

That is, does the Bill of Rights or Constitution say that we CAN'T repair?

> People with no social skills and absolutely no credibility

Ad hominem and gaslighting much?

The actual issue is that a payment processors should NOT be able to dictate HOW a payment is to be used. What's next, banning purchases over books? movies? Payment processors should NOT be arbitrators of morality.

> Steam is meant to be a child friendly platform

[Citation] and [Bullshit].

You DO realize that adult games are hidden by default AND you need to be logged in to see them, right?