I agree. Peter Jackson, the guy who's greatest movie is "Dead Alive" should have stuck to campy horror films. Calling Peter Jackson or Steven Colbert the greatest LOTR fan is laughable and offensive at the same time. Peter's take LOTR was not welcome nor any good. It's one thing to remove content to keep the movie workable, but I hate when they fabricate bullshit Tolkien didn't write and wouldn't have wanted and add it in. Ralph Backshi's versions were much better, but still bad because of how low budget they were. At least he kept the feel of the books.

Take every bit of silicon used for AI and give it back to me in the form of on-die cache or more gates the ALU/CPU. I'd rather just get more raw horsepower than an "AI unit". All AI is going to do is fuck me.

There's basic engineering concepts such as "separation of concerns" and "redundancy", which the average Slashdot reader should be aware of.

That's a small price to pay when 90% of people are not going to notice the extra $1 tacked on. You only need to screw 2 people to make up for the cost of the cashier's time, and you'll succeed a lot more often.

99% of people will not bother.

Intra-day price changes for consumer products should be banned.

Not too many. Appearently 3x fewer than would simply go to the website and buy it directly from Wal-Mart sans the huge $$$ investment. Question is what, if anything, will folks actually pay for when it comes to AI. Ask me and the answer is "not a whole lot" besides kids who want to cheat on homework assignments. It sure sucks at coding, despite the contrary BS hype from journos. So, if you tell me that, I'll know you're not a programmer, at least.

Personally, I hope the answer is "It'll put lawyers, Hollywood screenwriters, and beurocrats in a bad spot." I'd definitely pay an AI before I'd pay a lawyer. It's kind of a hierarchy of hate.

I've used every single app I mentioned, including Notes, OpenClaw, Viktor, etc... I used to work at IBM for years, FFS. Of course I used Lotus Notes. I've written C apps for Domino, as well. Sounds to me like you have no real point and are swinging and missing BADLY. Big bloated apps suck. Prove me wrong.

the wrong passenger and end up dead.

For what?

Would you pick a fight with a random person driving a car? No? Because of decency or fear for your own safety doesn't matter. This isn't civilized behavior and onesie twosies get ignored as outliers but on a regular basis and people will take their own safety into their own hands and retaliate.

Maybe the blue state blue city DAs will prosecute like they tried to prosecute Daniel Penney. Maybe Seattle will elect a Republican DA.

Quien sabe?

Bari Weiss is literally a San Francisco liberal.

She's just somewhat less batshit crazy than the MSM baseline and will occasionally question her own side out loud.

This is not right wing; this is as close an approximation to honest journalism as you will find in big media.

Looks like you are correct. From the article: "At present, it’s already quite well known that the UK’s major home broadband ISPs (BT, Virgin Media, Sky Broadband, EE, Plusnet, TalkTalk etc.) block customers from accessing websites that have been found, via the High Court, to facilitate internet copyright infringement (piracy). But now Content Delivery Network (CDN) provider Cloudflare has started doing the same."

Now ask yourself the key question. If those blocks/bans were not court ordered by the UK authorities, would they be there? Also, do you think those sites are blocked in other countries besides the UK where the service providers would have to spend extra energy?

I'd assert the bans are government bans and government ordered censorship and will only impact the unfortunate folks in the UK, the same as all this stupid-shit will only impact where the governments have any authority (within their own borders).

Lotus Notes returns! Seriously, big bloated super-apps have a terrible history. This sounds like a sophomoric error by a newbie player in a very sketchy space.

Watched a few OpenClaw and Viktor demos recently and all I kept thinking was "this is going to be sale's weasel's dream for sending spam over every available open channel: SMS, Social Media, and just wait until these fuckers start making interactive voice calls". The whole thing seems to be engineered to create more noise and less signal on the Internet. It's super cringy and disgusting watching these sales white-hat bro-coders trying to increase their spammy activities using AI.

I never said they did. However, they do issue fines (for whatever reason, it doesn't matter) ostensibly as an enforcement mechanism.

If you believe that you're very gullible and have bad news sources. Gonna need a link with some really good evidence to believe a single scrap of these obvious lies.

More lies. Give me ANY fucking evidence that anyone has "been careful" about "pulling" DNS changes from root servers. First off, you don't seem to understand how root servers even work. They delegate authority to other DNS servers at the TLD and domain levels. It's stratified.

Not only can you not spell, but you're delusional. Nobody has "weaponized" web services against the EU. If the EU blocks some of them, that'll definitely harm EU users who use them. The only harm to Americans would be a loss of profits from the region. You're just straight lying and fabricating shit because you know good and damn well the EU wants to censor censor censor and you seem to be willing to just lie your ass off to deflect from that FACT. You're doing a terrible job of it, too.

...and what you think someone in the USA cares or wants this? Why do you think Cloudflare is challenging it in court in the first place? It's an American company, genius, headquartered in San Francisco. Nobody there gives a single fuck to try and help the EU spy on you and censor you. To them, it's just a bigger cost to their operations that they could also do without.

I say loudly and clearly: The EU is filled with evil censors and their mostly-willing-and-enthusiastic dupes. Prove me wrong.

You can fine US tech companies, but only so much before they move out of your borders (once you try to fine them more than the profits they make in your country). That or the DOJ will step in and tit-for-tat some of your own domestic companies. Most countries besides China couldn't go toe-to-toe with the US if they had to take as much abuse as they dished out.

Now the real way you can "protect" and "keep safe" your population is to build a Great Firewall like China has. Forcing all the locals to poison their DNS is weak sauce and easy to circumvent, but if you have a Great Firewall, you can behave like a proper tyrant. It's clear that's where the EU is wanting to go. They absolutely adore censorship and cannot resist the instinct to censor the net, even if it's just their little part of it. So, go ahead, skin that smoke wagon and see what happens. You'll stifle your ability to even compete with other countries and poison your own well, but hey, at least nobody can attack transvestites without going to jail, am I right?

Used DVD's, games, and Blu-Ray discs also do something quite valuable you didn't take into consideration. They create a secondary market for used goods that people want. That market creates economic activity (buying, selling, new business creation) that would have been impossible with digital-only goods. Streaming eliminates that opportunity and insures only the suit-weasels get their cut.

Sounds like you are, in fact, interested in real salient facts unlike Gweihir's suggestion to the contrary. This thread is a good demonstration of what happens when smarmy meets well-informed. Looking forward to your smarmy reply, Gweihir. Go ahead and rebut all those points. I'm here with some popcorn... waiting.