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Comment Re:Unauthorized? (Score 2) 12

If they're "operating inside" user's accounts, they're authorized. Does someone need to explain to banks what authorized means?

Consider a human analogy: In many cases, people give financial advisors access to one or more of their accounts so that the advisor can make trades or other transactions for the benefit of their clients. However, if an advisor suddenly starts making transactions that do not benefit the clients or are contrary to their agreed instructions, then that activity is unauthorized, even if they have login credentials.

Comment Re: The cutting edge cuts back. (Score 1) 94

They're brilliant at making games. They have their suite of exclusives that people love and will buy the console for. And they keep a consistently high quality bar for those games. Even the worst Mario game was still good. Same for Zelda. Same for Metroid. As long as they keep that the case, and their consoles are reasonably priced they'll sell. Which, combined with cheaper parts, is why they generally made a profit per console rather than a loss.

Xbox and PS don't have that. They used to each have some exclusives- but they've gone away from that road due to the high cost of creating them (Nintendo's focus on gameplay over high end graphics also reduced the cost of making a game). Even the exclusives they do have don't have the reputation for quality- they tend to run hot and cold. And MS in particular has waffled between wanting to push xbox vs PC gaming, reducing the number of exclusives as they launch on PC. It leaves them in a place where there's no driver for their new product other than better graphics quality. And with the economy tightening, that's something that will be dropped first.

Comment Re:Ok (Score 3) 53

They've gone from being infamous for offering no support to pretending to offer support?

I guess it will help people who haven't yet tried everything on their own before they figure out there is no support.

Happy to be proven wrong and learn that the chatbots are empowered to fix things.

Comment Re:This is fine but still, what a mess (Score 2) 71

They can easily be downloading and using it locally/airgapped to get an open weights and measures system.

But that's the problem - an organization as big as the DC regime needs to control what its agents think to maintain discipline.

Marc Andreesen spoke about this when the Biden admin told him to not invest in AI startups because they wouldn't be allowed.

Controlling the Big Three is much more manageable but with hundreds you can't maintain an effective hivemind.

What's good for the country isn't usually what's good for the government.

Comment Buzz Aldrin (Score 1) 38

Buzz has spoken on more than one occasion about a radio source and a structure on Phobos that is being kept hush-hush.

Then he stopped talking about it and won't say why when asked.

"I got bad information from a dope playing a practical joke on me" would have been easy.

Maybe Japan will show something interesting. Maybe the probe will mysteriously fail at an inopportune time.

I'll be glad to see the question resolved if it can be.

Mysteries are fun but discoveries are more interesting.

Comment Re:Bezos doing atomics (Score 5, Funny) 86

****1/2 "Customers say that this is a great small modular nuclear reactor. They like the compact size and the fact that it's not too much power for a data center or industrial site. They especially appreciate the ease of setup and that the ultimate waste disposal question has been deferred yet again so that they don't have to worry about it. However, some customers report problems with cost overruns, vaporware, and availability of suitable fuel. Some customers note a larger terrorist attack surface per megawatt relative to full-sized reactors and question the security arrangements. There are also reports of real-world reliability problems with the novel design, with one customer reporting a catastrophic meltdown in their urban installation."

Comment Based (Score 1) 201

He's right, you know, but the demand is self-feeding.

It's necessary to have more successful non-MBA companies outcompete the race-to-the-bottom companies.

We need better social systems to punish the psychopathic impulse. It needs to be more profitable to not exploit people.

I've lost track of how many companies I'm boycotting but most people don"t have time to think abour that.

Comment Interesting (Score 2) 23

Companies that sell control systems with proprietary software running on Windows could distribute their software running on Wine/OpenBSD as an appliance without reengineering the application.

Windows updates/hardware abandonment etc. are real headaches while control systems ought to be secure.

GPL virality has many vendors scared of linux appliances, warranted or not.

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