If you had no optical drive, no sound card, and no NIC...MAYBE 30 seconds. I'm highly skeptical of a 3 second boot to Windows 3.1. I put in a lot of time optimizing autoexec.bat and config.sys for various use cases, such as DOS gaming, Windows productivity, etc. Those machines were not fast enough for a 3sec boot. It took longer than that to load himem.sys and emm386.exe.

how they'll navigate the legal landmines being placed here. Does AI transcription count as recording? What kind of consent is needed for this behavior to be defensible? How does one identify T-Mobile customers and refuse calls from them?

You could still move the taskbar in Windows 8 and 8.1, too.

You've no idea the dystopian experiences had in the US. Minimal training, "implied consent", and qualified immunity are a recipe for "innocent people being shot for being justifiably outraged at violations of their rights". That doesn't begin to scratch the surface...but...the flipside is that cops are conditioned to believe that anyone could flip at any time and to treat everyone as a violent flight risk because the scenarios that are turned into training videos are the ones that are the most unpredictable.

You're working REALLY hard to justify covering up for pedophiles. If the system is propped up by protecting evil people then the system is doomed to fail - and should. If your standard for intelligence is "two brain cells", I understand the conclusions you draw. Normal people don't become close, intimate friends who show up at all of each other's parties without knowing what those friends do - and the comments Trump makes are so blatantly obviously his ego bursting to tell his secrets that a high schooler could have written this script. Keep shilling for them. We like it when evil exposes itself.

This is the reason I refuse to use Hulu; they showed ads after I had paid for an ad-free tier. That was > 5 years ago, and I will still never use them because of it. I'm currently paying for ad-free with Amazon. If I am presented with an ad when I've been paying for ad-free, I will cancel immediately.

Grade the student on their use of AI. If they present content that isn't relevant, that doesn't exist, or is patently false...grade it as such. There is a certain minimum proficiency with language that is required for skillful curation of AI-generated content. They'll need to learn the rules of grammar and how to validate resources; these are the core skills that a student demonstrates when they write for themselves. They should learn to treat the AI-generated content as their rough draft, or their outline - not as their final draft. This is seemingly the best course of action as it accomplishes the goal of teaching the important life skills while also accommodating advances in technology.

since we're footing the bill in the form of rate hikes and subsidies approved by our politicians. The economic benefit to the area in the form of more advanced employment opportunities might be a boon, but we keep getting shafted. As long as it doesn't somehow result in even more rate hikes, I'm for it.

US technological advancements sold to a Japanese company for $100B, except it's not actually $100B and not wholly achieved by Trump because, from the article "Some of the money will not necessarily be newly raised, but could include some funding already announced". Only this time, instead of the US stumbling on vast troves of resources, Softbank, and by extension Japan, will prosper from our advancements.

As a prior US Marine - which service fostered my liberal views - this is correct.

I can't help but wonder how long it will be before that dev disappears to an undisclosed location. This excuse is MUCH better than "Hackers stole it!"

with useless, annoying UI changes, why not have them focus on ensuring that the experience is functional and efficient and unified?

This should change somewhat quickly with the advent of Starlink.

98% of them are referencing the same Reuters article.

You mean those times were never there for you. I mean, it might have helped that I started gaming back when all you needed for multiplayer was to live near another kid...or to know their phone number.