a 63% increase in Oxford commas

Well, thank God for that!

I think that was happening because of the lawsuit over the Oxford comma and whether or not it applied to the phrase in question. It involved a lot of analysis and such.

So in the end it was decided that there were clearer ways to indicate a list of things versus grouping of things in a list. And the Oxford comma was one of them.

It was just a cash grab for mega corps. How much money is Amazon and Walmart returning?

None, because the calculation is basically impossible.

The Playdate is easy - it's built in one place and they charged the tariffs as they were charged.

But a product sold by Walmart or Amazon isn't so tidy. Perhaps the supplier discounted their prices, so technically the tariff refund should go to them? After all, the tariff was paid, but the price didn't change. Others they may have decided to absorb some tariffs on both sides. It's basically one huge mess, and in the end, it should be treated as a way to transfer money from taxpayers to corporations.

Because really, the quicker we get to Trump Tariff Taxes as real taxes the quicker we get to realizing we need to get rid of them.

But Trump said it was Gov. Tim Walz's fault! He is responsible for hacking all 100 systems, not the Iranians (or AI, or Canada, or ...). Minnesota is just that kind of state where crazy goes on. Remember to not vote by mail (even though I did)! Vote GOP!

It's all very stupid though, I can still play every PC game I've bought on steam for the last 20 years on any x86 computer I please as a digital license, and I have a shelf of discs that go with them. This was the standard for decades. It's not new. Soon, this will include arm devices as well. GoG packages its game with a compatibility layer too. On the flip side- my steam library needs an active internet connection to launch most of the modern titles on offer and managed to slip that under the radar while MS and Sony got a lot of hate for the same idea.

Even if it's not new, it's nice to see MS is "innovating" and hasn't just given up on Xbox after the last couple of years of missteps. It's interesting to consider the way MS has approached every console generation. They're all a little bit different. The whole Kinect idea was fun. Remember when Sony owned them by demonstrating how to loan your friend a physical disc? How far we've come, huh?

They should really just ask gamers what they want, and do that. Seems to have worked out pretty well for Steam. While it's not perfect, it's clearly working as intended.

There are many games that have been removed (sometimes forcibly) from Steam. And Steam can revoke licenses so a game you bought can be removed. It has happened several times. Sometimes it's as simple as Steam not being able to install a game you own (but if you have it installed somewhere else, you can copy it over). Othertimes, it's Steam having the game removed - it no longer is part of your library.

However, on the console side, we've seen it already with the shutdown of the Xbox 360 and PS3 stores where those games are no longer available for download. Same goes for various Nintendo stores.

Anyhow, the only reason Microsoft can do this is because of the old Xbox One DRM. You remember, the one where the disc was treated as an install mechanism? The license is embedded in the disc, and what happens is every disc contains a serial number on it (this is inherent to the Blu-Ray disc specification itself where every pressed disc can have a special serial number embedded in it). It is what let the original Xbox One DRM system transfer the license between people (i.e., resell games) because the license transfer is similar for disc or digital games.

Of course, gamers hated it, so Sony took advantage and we lost the ability to re-sell digital games. It would not surprise me if Microsoft is simply resurrecting the idea again given it's likely more amenable than it was over a decade ago.

Did conservative politicians decide that almost all young males needed to be put on Ritalin? Or that teh solution to self esteem issues was teaching children they needed to be rewarded for getting their shoes on the right feet? or that Or that male teachers needed phased out because all men are sexual predators? Or that schools can assist in transitioning children to a different "gender," and that the child's parents have no right to be told? Yeah, that was all conservatives causing all problems.

Your hatred of anything other than the far left wing is showing.

And before you take the standard accusing me of being in support of all things conservative, I do believe that conservatives played a part in school problems. There is blame to go around. Funding problems, Issues with banning books. You on the other hand, are not capable of seeing anything beyond a narrative fed to you by people who are on a faction of the left that cannot take accountability. And in fine fettle, you don't either.

Yes, but not just parents. Schools, media, pop culture. All had a part. And the public schools had an outsized effect.

I managed to keep my son away from the worst of it. Kept him off the drugs the schools wanted him on, taught him that self esteem comes from accomplishment, not because the teacher told him he was the center of the universe, and he had great potential. He's doing okay. His Ritalin drugged up friends? Not quite as well.

And the worst thing we taught the kids is in your answer. It's always someone else's fault.

The flaw in the assumption that suddenly people won't know anything is that entry level changes, technology develops. People will be hired who will develop as the technology changes. This is a process that has gone on for a long, long time.

This, the slashdot resident doomers appear to believe that somehow, someway, the ultra wealthy will somehow remain ultra wealthy after they are the only people left with any money. And where does their money come from? Mebbee they didn't pay attention in economics and math classes?

Things change. Technology changes. At each stage there is a wailing and gnashing of teeth, "Our Jerbs!" we hear, soon no one will be working because AI took their jerbs. Yet if people don't give Bezos money, Bezos doesn't have money.

I came into the work world during the latter part of the transistor revolution, and the start of Integrated circuitry ascendency. I programmed on IBM 360s with punch cards. I went from tape VTR editing, and Frame Buffer 3d animation frame by frame to non-linear editing, then computer only video. Went from chemical based photography to implementing a digital photography process.

Each bit of progress was vehemently opposed, one woman even lost her job, after trying to sabotage digital work.

And the strange thing, while people demanded stasis, I looked at the new technology as an improvement. Then again, I altered and kept my job while some people lost theirs.

AI is in it's infancy, some things aren't sustainable, like the concept of energy gobbling dat centers, but my money is on a process similar to computers going from things like colossus and Eniac to things like the 360's to personal computers to that little smartphone so many people are addicted to.

Serious question - How does the Online Streaming Act work in practice for content on demand? When a Canadian tries to binge the latest season of Stranger Things, is NetFlix required to say "nope, go watch this Celine Dion concert first to get our CanCon ratio up"?

Nope. If you want to watch Stranger Things on Netflix, you select (or find) Stranger Things and that's it.

The OSA only requests that streamers prioritize Canadian content so if you're trying to determine if you want to show a film from the NFB (National Film Board) or some classic US film, the Canadian version is preferred. The other aspect is that a certain amount of Canadian income is spent on Canadian productions (about 20%). Which streamers like Netflix already greatly exceed since they film in Canada. (Those productions do count as "Canadian" I believe, so Netflix can promote its own series as "Canadian" content).

Of course, if you want to sell service in Quebec, you have to obey their laws too. (Many companies simply don't - there are many Canadian companies who simply do not ship to Quebec to avoid those laws, and many American companies often do "Canada (excluding Quebec)". That stuff is legal to do and is a business decision by the companies that want to go into Quebec. Nothing bars Netflix from not serving Quebec if they want to avoid French content rules.

Don't forget that legally prescribed drugs kill a lot of people.

I've been conducting a bit of a study myself. Of course, it's not a big study. But in my peer group, of the men in their early 70's, most are on statins and other maintenance drugs like ACE inhibitors, ARBs, and beta-blockers All of them look. pretty old and wrinkled, all are impotent. Note, this has been learned in conversations where they express "those days are long gone" referring to romantic interludes.

Wife has been damaged by maintenance drugs. But she still takes them religiously.

On the other hand, I take no maintenance drugs at all. I only doctor for acute things, like when I managed to get Lyme a few years back.

I'm surely not perfect. I have a lot of old Ice Hockey injuries that are presenting with arthritis. Aconite patches knock that down. But I'm still quite capable, if you catch my drift. People are drugging the bejeezus out of themselves, and just creating new problems. And don't get me started on how actual antipsychotics are being mainstreamed for women. (things like Rexulti, Abilify, Vraylar, Latuda) These numb her mind no doubt, but they also present with side effects like Tardive diskenesia, which can be permanent and sometimes quite disturbing, weight gain, sexual dysfunction, "unusual urges" and remarkably - suicide.

Don't worry though, there are dugs for the jerky movements. Oddly enough, they can also cause tardive dyskinesia. Am I a one-off? Could be. Could be my peer group somehow preselects for old unhealthy dudes. But I learned long ago to trust doctors and Pharma like I trust any other drug pushers.

And somewhere between nuts like Robert Kennedy, and the people on a gazillion maintenance drugs, there needs to be a middle ground.

What is goal - make it take 20 years to do its dirty work? lengthen each stage? If you think "the long goodbye" lengthend is reduced patient suffering - it isn't.

Ever been in one of these human storage units? a lot of dementia patients lay around screaming when not drugged out of what is left of their minds. Eventually, the mind rot gets to the point where their organs start failing. Fortunately at that point, things start happening faster.

What I wonder about is let's say we eliminate dementia. What is next? Something is going to kill us. In the end, let's say we tack on another 50 years. Where people live to an average of around 140 years. The problem is all of that comes on the old end of the scale. If life extension tacked those years onto my 40's, I'd sign right up. We have a few people making it to the century mark largely intact mentally and physically. They are the anomaly.

So many of us have been brainwashed into believing that we are at fault for anything that happens to us.

Reminds me of the test for Huntingdon's Chorea. When it came out, it was hailed as something great. We don't hear about it so much now.

So same for Alzheimers. The only benefit I can see, and it's a nasty one - is that the person, when they know how they are going to die, can elect to delete themselves when the symptoms start.

My MIL was also diagnosed, and while she took "anti-Alzheimer's" drugs to mitigate, if it did anything, all it did was delay the inevitable. If it did anything, all it did was lengthen each stage, although when hitting the organ deterioration stage where teh brain stops controlling the body at all - that proceeded at normal speed once it started.

Exactly as my experience suggests as well!

Which doesnt âoefixâ the underlying issue - the browser is leaking data about you against your knowledge and permission.

That sounds like a flaw in the browser. That should probably be fixed.

Most browsers have fixed it. Firefox, for example, uses software libraries that implement high precision math so every Firefox user ends up looking the same because the fingerprint you get comes back the same.

Safari does something different, and it adds random noise to the audio waveform so the same browser will continually report a different fingerprint every time it's run.

I believe Chromium simply blocks the script