Yea, but for the record, the new Zelda game doesn't require a "Nintendo Online" subscription, (whether you have the physical cartridge or the digital-only copy) and neither do most of their single-player games.

And there's only nobody here today to defend Nintendo today because everyone else is playing Zelda.

Hi astroturfers! Get fucked!

Read what I said more carefully. Public chargers, as in not in the apartment building. It's just LA. Electric cars are fairly ideal here.

It's less of a problem than you'd think, and 45 minutes is an exaggeration; the other thing about dense urban environments is you typically don't have that far of a commute, so you don't end up having to charge it nightly or even weekly, necessarily, and almost never from practically 0% either, as this straw-man argument typically continues.

It's not even a reality-based argument for people who do live in tall apartment blocks in the US. I live in a tall apartment block in the US and there's plenty of public chargers nearby. This is actually pretty common because there's demand, so companies are stepping up with supply. Maybe that guy actually lives somewhere they don't teach economics... like Russia.

Because cops don't read Slashdot, apparently.

Great, what next? Embracing a deep understanding of the meaning of feelings? This will go great.

Well datacenters also generate a lot of heat, so they should just start building the datacenters in peoples' houses! Problem solved!

Yea, I agree there's something weird about that. Makes me wonder if he was actually just a "fall guy" (though possibly still complicit) and while the real perpetrator will never be found, they'll struggle to gather enough solid evidence to prove he did it, because it was actually some doppelganger or something like that.

Fun fact: Even Slashdot has achievements. Look for it in the configurable optional sidebar panels.

"+1 Interesting," but not "+1 Funny?" You people are weird.

Oh, I believe it's possible they were planning to hike prices whether the deal went through or not, but I also believe that they laughed like this while they did it: "Mwahahahaha!" ...and all held their hands up in front of themselves, alternately drumming their fingertips together excitedly or dry-washing them with a mischievous gleam in their eyes.

Well, dedicated/proprietary lines are a thing. I don't know about the cost:benefit ratio of deploying them for this in France would be, but it doesn't have to be RF like there's no other option. You can use regular wired network connections without routing through publicly addressable connections. That's a thing ATMs still sometimes do, at least in the US; it used to be ubiquitous but as encryption software has gotten better they've reportedly been relaxing this requirement, but banks still use dedicated lines for this. I used to work at a large investment bank that even used dedicated lines for international conference calls. AIUI, home DSL lines even typically (always?) start with a short run over a proprietary ATM backhaul.

Are you kidding? There's nobody he cares about.

Posting anonymously now just to get the last word in? Nice try but I see right through that as well as your sneaky attempt to put words in my mouth in order to make your fictional version of my argument either to discount.