Most of us, don't have the wealth to be arseholes in the real world, we need a crime-themed game to behave like a billionaire. Poor people probably won't be excited by a hostile takeover of a friend's company, or the strip-mining of indigenous community's town, so it's simulating one-on-one violence instead.

Finally, a use-case for Reddit: Who've been ignoring their content creators too.

So a mobile camera, instead of 8 or more fixed-location cameras. Or, instead of a security guard examining the site. Security guards can now offer report-to-base, push-button guarding.

A software house wants to make as much money as possible, before the next iShiny is released and 1/4 of their consumers disappear. Since Rockstar Games don't need a sales partner, they don't have to worry about their partner's problems of market position and price-point competition. So, there won't be any discounts for the next 9-18 months. Considering the past popularity of GTA products, it would be best to assume the higher end of that interval, is most likely.

The Western countries were happy to follow the US path of greed and indifference. There was no way China was going to fight that. Now, countries are being stabbed in the economic back, with China get the most abuse. It incentivizes China to stop being one of the sheep and incentivizes other sheep to choose a new leader.

ICS can back-up, Windows? That is good news, please explain how. On second thoughts, don't: It's still cloud-based and means handing my data to monster B instead of monster A. That's a hard pass.

Cities can't send a bus everywhere, and taxis are rationed, requiring families to have personal transport: But that needs to end. It's costs valuable space, money and infrastructure, mostly so people can drive to work at the same time and ignore their car for 6-10 hours. Cars need to be an 'on-demand' service, like hot pizza. The easy answer is, taxi drivers are paid a fixed wage, not a gig-economy model. But no-one wants the taxi service to become city infrastructure, like trains and buses. A "taxi and ride (and taxi)" model will increase the utilization of train and bus infrastructure, transferring work-load to the efficient mass transport services and making them much cheaper. Even, off-peak commuting (Eg. shopping and recreational sports), that can't be shifted to buses, doesn't require large parking lots and 8-lane thoroughfares, under an on-demand model.

The problem is, small government which is factually, not small, but a philosophy to prevent fairness and accountability in laws. That means the working-class are dependent on greedy billionaires (Eg. Healthcare insurance, corporate pension) to provide services that can be held to ransom, or otherwise denied. The USA even has a law, where civil contracts override state laws, meaning employees and customers have less protection, by design.

This victimization, of course, creates a entire culture of revenge (which is the point Fox News/Sky News) but billionaires don't want to shoot each other, so they need a more rule-based form of injuring their 'enemy'. Thus, the poor suffer a society where the alternatives are shooting healthcare insurance salesmen, or hiring lawyers.

With what? This is why Windows 11 is locked-down tighter than Windows 10, why Microsoft doesn't have a Win 11 Enterprise edition, so the user doesn't control the device. Google Chrome (an environment, not an OS) is similar and Google Android is catching-up fast.

Kiddie-sized computers have a few GB of installed software: What does spyware look like? A Windows 11 install has 10 GB of files: How is the parent going to examine that for built-in spyware?

This isn't paranoia, schools have literally done this. Have people forgotten the War on Terror, a time in the USA when school-issued devices were caught photographing children, outside school hours?

There's an easy solution to this: Don't type the home password into a school's device. Or better, get the device's MAC address and put it on the home-router's ban list. Then put a stick-on shutter over the device's camera. (If the school removes it, the child can leave the device at the admin office when school finishes each day.) The microphone/s is/are less valuable to anybody snooping, but blu-tac is an option.

Unfortunately, they and corporations have been enabling that for 30 years. There is so much tech in the street that is designed to follow you: Starting with the phone in your pocket. Pretending you can stop that is insanity. What one can do, is try to create a fake everything: Don't use the one email for everything, put different names, addresses and DoB on accounts. Getting children to protect their anonymity is difficult because so much of their digital footprint is connected to their friends. Unfortunately for adults, the tracking is so pervasive that they can now correlate your account details with your credit card: If they don't match, they lock your account until you provide more information for them to track you.

Stealing the contents of your Documents, Downloads, and Pictures directories isn't sufficient: Microsoft wants every file you have. They'll steal all your license-key files. They'll also be stealing the software you bought: Since Microsoft runs the anti-piracy attack-dog, the Business Software Alliance (BSA), I guess there won't be any complaints.

Another bonus is, Microsoft gives a PC account, 5GB storage but Windows 11 requires 10 GB, minimum. If you want your files on your new computer, you'll have to pay for the privilege. I don't know the quality of Windows-cloning software but if it can strip-out the Windows 11 files, (but include device drivers), it will be a faster, offline, safer and probably, cheaper alternative.

I guess the smart thing is, for Google to offer the same service. Then, they can 'legally' get all of Microsoft's IP.

Islamophobia and free surgery for school-boys didn't work for the GOP, they will need a new bogey-man to trigger the systemic bigotry and cruelty. A question is, will they plan for the worst and abandon Trump, or double-down in the hope that the do-nothing Democratic party once again, does nothing?

While the Democratic Party has limited power to pass laws, they need to obstruct Trump so that the horrible things scheduled for the rest of the year, are weakened. Also, they need to collect evidence of the crimes being committed in Trump's and the GOP's name, so they are ready to prosecute in 2029. A question is, will the new blood joining their party drag the corruption driving US congress into daylight? If the party doesn't clean house, the GOP knows they can continue their sabotage of the federal government.

I get it, pop-out video is good so pop-out everything is better.

Why is this better than a browser tab, the recently-added split-screen in browser, or a GUI second desktop? This is a substitute for a second desktop, or a second browser: Put the required page into the pop-out, then switch from the browser to another application, while keeping the pop-out visible.

With most work being done in a browser, including Microsoft Office, a pop-out tool is too little, too late for many workflows. (Office Help is no longer relevant since it became a "let's ask the internet" PoS). The split-screen in browser is the better alternative, and also avoids a move-focus command to switch tabs or applications.

I remember the days of Windows Vista and Microsoft's community 'shop-front'. It had thousands of near-identical applets, with no search filters offered by Microsoft. They were so identical, they all had the same copyright message embedded in the code. Graffiti artists, script-kiddies, and AI artists, it's all the social equivalent of pushing their penises into one's face.

By my calculations, current cost structure is $0.01/3,000GB (supply side) and France wants to increase that to $180.00/3,000GB on the consumer side.

It's obvious what happens, next.

I'm all for US-based corporations paying more taxes but this is pure stupidity. It's time for governments around the world (including the USA) to admit the tax-breaks given to US corporations are a bad idea and to cancel them: Not invent more sales taxes to 'fix' the shitty laws they've already got.