Truly insignificant fines and consequences. Add a zero minimum to the financial penalties.

What WF management did was encourage, promote, and reward theft. And the employees seemed to, actually did, abandon even minimal ethics and knowingly cheat their customers. For money. Theft. Should have been jail time. And true crippling financial penalties for all involved. I doubt we can be certain the victims were even made whole, but pretending they were is part of the process.

The cynic in me thinks that perhaps Samsung's economists have a bleak outlook on how the purchasing power of the average American consumer is going to be within foreseeable time.

Or treat these corporations the same way we would treat a person who broke the law. Start putting them in jail. Arrest the executives responsible for making these decisions and if they claim to be uninvolved or ignorant charge them with gross negligence on top of everything else, it's a confession not a defense. And instead of pathetically ineffective fines they can treat as a rounding error in their profits start seizing percentages of the company and at 51% give it the death penalty by revoking their corporate charter and releasing all of their IP into public domain.

"simply because they had tattoos"

You are so unaware of the significance of those particular tattoos? You're not alone. Make do not wish to considering the truth that evil people have sought to come into our nation, as fertile ground. I prefer decent people come. But of course I appear so wrong to those who cannot easily define right.

For being a prison 'nobody ever leaves', this is pretty remarkable.

You were...?

Scared of what? There will still be a CEO, that's as secure a job as ever. Losing customers to unemployment? Are you paying attention to the push to reinvigorate manufacturing in the US? Those are just that car-buyers will fill, and not half will be replaced by AI or automation. Infrastructure jobs? Those will come with manufacturing and even AI, as that needs more energy.

Not scared. The modern CEO sees opportunity, to reshape their business, create new things, new markets, it's a huge change coming, and the clever will profit.

Don't project your fears on the rest of us. I may come out of retirement if the right opportunity appears.

In sports it is a paradigm that there is no substitute for speed.

Same thing for computers. More wide receivers doesn't solve the speed problem for American football, it just spends resources elsewhere on the field with different results. In the CPU, not-as-fast just means, as pointed out elsewhere, even more instances are necessary, and so more resources are needed for that.

And if you are not paying attention, you may not see the light coming down the tunnel that is RISC-V. It will be optimized, enhanced, improved, and so long as the ISA is open source it will improve at a pace sufficient, I think, to be competitive.

No they don't. They stand for making joycons so badly that stick drift has become a deliberate revenue stream for them.

If so that means the standards are ridiculous and need that giant gaping hole patched.

Oh, it does have Wifi and "Handheld video games consoles" is mentioned in the annex. So, no, Nintendo should not be off the hook this time.
I'm stupid of course (and posting at 2 am ...)

The EU directive applies only to devices that could be classified as "Radio equipment".

Because the Nintendo Switch 2 doesn't communicate with the outside world, they are off the hook, for now.

Well, I also go for openings of movies no one is sure about. First night can be pretty empty.

These 'secret police' aren't very secret. The people they are 'disappearing' are being sent elsewhere. Not a lot is secret. But there are many people who, having escaped from true leftist nations, can tell you more about secret police', disappeared family members, concentration camps, imprisonment for political beliefs, and death. You're trying, but not winning.

Adams's law of slow-moving disasters: we can avoid or mitigate these because we have time, resources, and only need to exercise the will to do so.

Second, as a planet, we need to decide if saving lives is important enough to justify the effort and expense, or not. Not just the US. Thus, the will is lacking.

Damn right. I rip in .WAV, 320k .mp3, and ATRAC, which is a bitch.

And keep them online, offline, hard storage, and the original disc in above average storage. I like owning the media, and not arguing where the hell my library went if some corporate weasel instituted new licensing. Or ended the old. If you can't hold it you don't own it.