No, what Israel did was in response to the terrorist attack in question. Hamas could have lived pretty well had they simply ended their jihad.

But then, they wouldn't be Hamas, would they?

No need for excuses. Those who want to buy that phone can - it's that simple!

You forgot Edge, which may have its own ad-blocker-blockers, but certainly won't take cues from Chrome

Also, does Brave depend on Chromium for its updates? The same way, say Debian derivatives depend on Debian, or Redhat derivatives on RedHat?

I was under the impression that Brave was a complete fork of Chromium, just like OpenBSD was of NetBSD

Of course, democratic governments have done a bang-up job protecting our interests, haven't they? I'll take your bridges and sell you others!

Reinstate him where?

Sounds like the precise argument why governments shouldn't be the ones regulating these things. Maybe private industry consortiums

For the same reasons that any internet standard goes through the IETF, not the FTC. Maybe there needs to be a SIG group that consists of all the major AI players, that can come up w/ the various conventions, best practices & so on. They can include in their coverage issues like Net Zero, privacy protection and the entire gamut

In other words, did they create this intrusion mechanism on a Kali Linux bed, w/ all its hacking utilities?

No, companies just have to guarantee what they say in the spec. Take, for instance, overclocking! Some chips may run fine when overclocked some, but if they malfunction, it's the user who did that who should be SOL, not the manufacturer

A lot of chips have internal test vectors that are only supposed to be used in the factory for testing, not guaranteed to the customer for daily usage. So if something exists but has not been publicized, consumers have nothing to gripe about. Also, market segmentation is a thing: it's perfectly legitimate for AMD to have a feature enabled for one set of users who pay a premium for their CPUs - such as AI datacenters, while not enabling it for the penny-pinching consumer sector. If the latter wants it, they can pay the datacenter prices

16 and under do not vote.

...that Roku really will be an open-access platform for competing networks.

The temptation is going to be really big at Fox to make Fox content more prominent. The comfort of Roku is it isn't tied to any one content provider. OTOH, I used to work at EMC when it owned VMware and we managed to not screw up VMware by making it only work with EMC gear.

Ah well, my current Roku stick has worked great for over five years. I've got my money's worth out of it. If I have to buy some other vendor's streaming client because it's become better than a Roku, I'm not going to shed many tears.

Yup, that's what I use it for. Streaming Spotify to my sound system too.

Eh, I use the Roku Channel now and again. My wife and I like to watch some shows which we can only get by subscribing to a niche channel and it shows up in the Roku Channel app. I'm not sold on the service and will use whatever gets me the shows.

Everybody is now a 'manager' of half a dozen AI agents.

You are right about the regime vs the Iranian people. I'm talking about different factions of the regime. When Ali Khamenei was alive, they were all reined in, and kept from going at each other's throats. But the evisceration of the top leadership of both the clerics as well as the IRGC just destroyed any inhibiting forces, and they have been somewhat openly at each others throats

Even more so now, after Trump retweeted Ghalibaf