What bitter ice are you talking about? Even northernmost Ukraine is on the same latitude as central Germany and south Ukraine used to be a sea resort before the war.

And to spawn-camp others.

> from a security, stability or usable prospective

You and me both but most people only score feature count. If they've grown accustomed to some oddball feature for a few months they feel they can never use anything else.

That they went their entire lives without it before isn't relevant.

From a market perspective, rushing more features to market makes more people with money happy than getting a good product to market.

I'm fine with the repeated addition. My objection is the OR in your statement. Apparently not. The question was 5x3 and the kid wrote 5+5+5=15 and got marked wrong with no explanation because the teacher wanted 3+3+3+3+3=15. So I guess that you would have had a 50% chance of being marked wrong on a 2nd grade arithmatic worksheet as well, as absurd as that is. Correct answer notwithstanding.

BTW, that's not at all new. We covered multiplication that way in the 3rd grade back in 1975. Memorizing the table was just to make it quicker. I quickly "discovered" the commutative property while looking at the multiplication table and cut my memorization load in half. The part that confused the father was why is 5x3 = 5+5+5=15 "wrong".

As for 37+55, we decomposed that in the '70s as well, but I soon decided the easier decomposition was 37+55= 87+5 = 90+2=92. So I would say that meme was just someone wanting to complain. Of course the "old way" ends up in 30+50+10+2 anyway.

Shut up and memorize was not in practice during the education of the parents of today's students.

Blacks are far less common in Germany hence the ethnic question is quite different. "Migration background" is the closest German equivalent. And yes, the outcome can be different. For example in one such case - the perpetrator will probably be sent to Turkey after he was sentenced to 8 years for reckless driving murder (only 8 years for murder because people under 21 are not considered adults in the court) since he is a German born Turkish citizen.
Another thing that makes comparisons difficult is that Germany is a civil law country so legal precedence is not binding and it is difficult to say whether the judge declined to sentence a reckless driver for murder as the public prosecutor demanded due to the problem you mention or simply because the judge is old school which was much more lenient in this regard.

I get the idea why remote AI features could be a good trojan horse to get you to send your data into the cloud, but it doesn't make sense to think local AI would be such a trojan horse.

Ahh, the optimism of n00bs - I kind of miss it.

Zuboff states that surveillance capitalism "unilaterally claims human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioural data [which] are declared as a proprietary behavioural surplus, fed into advanced manufacturing processes known as 'machine intelligence', and fabricated into prediction products that anticipate what you will do now, soon, and later." She states that these new capitalist products "are traded in a new kind of marketplace that I call behavioural futures markets."

It sounds like Nokia, once a great company, thought they would just pay up? But I read elsewhere that a patent troll called Avanci was behind the shakedowns?

If HP and Dell begin to make this more common and could encourage Lenovo and Apple to follow suit, then the "default H.anything" crowd might start to think seriously about moving to AV1 to drop the revenue of the trolls to zero over time. Hardware support for decode is mostly complete with more CPU's bringing encode online recently. I remember when Steve Jobs went to bat against the trolls for h.264 decode; Apple should do it in his memory.

Separately, Google seriously needs to flex against patent trolls when required. Heck, Lou Rossman is more aggressive than Google on defending the community against patent trolls.

Speaking of which USPTO intends to stop challenges to patent trolls and maybe you, dear reader, should spend five minutes to fire off an email to help EFF try to head this one off at the pass.

Germany used to be like that too until not too long ago. Nowadays this kind of reckless driving can result in it being considered a murder by the judge - and murder automatically means a life sentence with at least 15 years before parole becomes possible. Not always, unfortunately, but it happens and I hope it will happen more and more in the future.

I used to have many magazine subscriptions.

They would each mail me a reminder to renew my subscription.

If I sent them a check my subscription would continue. If I didn't send them a check my subscription would end.

I didn't have auto- anything. I didn't have to call to cancel.

The same went for when I was a paperboy. You pay for your week or you stop getting papers. When you remember to pay you start getting papers again.

I think this is how subscriptions have worked for hundreds of years, with auto-renew on a payment card developing in the past couple decades.

Without a contractual definition the corpus of caselaw would very likely date to throughout the history of the country.

No, because a surgeon can tell you WHY he washes his hands and point to the historical evidence for the practice. He won't say "God tells us to wash our hands".

Looking forward to the surprise news that ICE will have expanded powers to use Gestapo tactics on everyone.

Presumably when it gets to zero and keeps going, it wraps around to 100%, right? Keep going tech-bros, we're almost there!

Even better is to just avoid Roblox, surely?

How best to protect your kids in a room full of paedos? Avoid the room altogether. Unless the cost/benefit makes sense - which it doesn't.

Roblox is fixing the problem of others creeping on kids by themselves creeping on kids?

It's adorable how they pretend that the 'well being' gap between the people who matter and the ones who don't is some sort of surprise that calls for urgent action; rather than a deliberate outcome carefully achieved.

It's the pandemic-period numbers that are the anomaly, from a period when at times downright existential issues forced people's hands(at least for white collar workers; if you are 'essential' good luck and back to dealing with the public in person); and a lot of work has been put into rectifying that period.

What's next; a comparative analysis of the labor markets of the 1950s and the 1980s that studiously pretends that it's not exactly as Milton Friedman and Neutron Jack intended?