I nominate argStyopa and Elon for the first permanent moon residency. I can't think of more brave patriotic heroes for this mission, no this honor. Go protect us from the Chinese, or suck start a rifle up there, Idgaf.
If you want people smart enough to move to the moon you'll need to cut education a whole lot more.
Hand it over? It's the fucking moon. Like you're suggesting handing over the Pacific Ocean. Define whatever the fuck you think that means first.
How do you expect retail stores to buy copies of your game and then also undercut them on digital pricing? You have to cooperate with your retail partners for that to work.
So when you no longer have boxes in stores you're practically selling direct through an online marketplace, you can do sales or special pricing or whatever moves more copies anytime you want.
This seems blindingly obvious.
So... why are you comparing games to movie distribution rights, you know that's different.
Games are more likely to have their server infrastructure shut down being the biggest problem. But.. game companies are bought and sold also, and it's not a platform specific problem of old games getting pulled from digital stores and IP locked up and abandoned.
Your steam library disagrees with you though.
When you no longer have your game sitting on shelves at Walmart and Target etc, you have more freedom to set your price in the digital stores.
Windows and Linux users are more trained on possible risks
... it's the same fucking people. Who lives in a bubble and doesn't understand how dumb raw dogging the internet is, and enabling remote administration on top of that, that's not specialized Windows or Linux training lol.
Why would your Mac be a directly Internet connected server with no firewalls and remote screen sharing enabled.
You have to go out of your way to enable this then bypass your home router and plug straight into your modem. Or create a cloud instance and intentionally open the remote admin ports to the whole fucking Internet? I'm sure it's been done like I'm sure there's MySQL instances out there somewhere exposed in the raw, but you take all responsibility when you type 0.0.0.0/0 in that box.
The American tariffs are often a result of being corruptly tarriffed on US goods being sold abroad. A practice that has been corruptly taken advantage of, for decades now.
Filing this under every accusation is an admission.
Literally every other country in the world has a better leg to stand on for protectionist policies simply because we're so much ridiculously bigger than they are. Cry about big pharma and big ag killing us and killing independent farms in one breath then cry about a country with the GDP of Vermont protecting itself from the same. You're asking us to see that two and two is five.
We're bullying the underdogs, and when they put their guard up you say that's why we're hitting you. Beat up on China or something, but I doubt this is that. There is of fucking course going be exceptions made... and then we're all going to wonder what the real justification was, and I'm going to remember this accusation you're throwing.
Medium to big corporations with large tech departments remember vividly how Broadcom screwed them on VMWare pricing and they're not going to get caught in the same bear trap with AI.
How do you reduce VMware to a "trap" when it worked fine for 20+ years? Two decades for a competitor to answer VMFS, Vmotion, and a control plan that doesn't suck.
I don't know a single soul that regrets using it in all that time, because we knew then what the competition looked like, and we sure as hell all know what it looks like now. Sorry man, but "there's nothing better" is not a trap. Things change and we're looking for alternatives and they still suck, as they always have, so it's suck vs pay more. I do not regret that ride while it lasted, not one bit.
I can say the same for the current state of affairs with AI, where your argument is even more flawed. There's little to no cost for switching. There's the best, and it's not expensive, then there's cheaper that sucks. There's no trap... cheaper more suck options is right there.. and we don't want it. If the best costs a lot more, and it may someday, I still will have ABSOLUTELY no regrets enjoying it while it lasted. What an utterly bizarre way of looking at these things.
The whole reason these came about to begin with was WIPO was penalizing the US for not allowing online gambling within its borders. That's part of a treaty obligation, so federal law is going to win here. Nothing NY does can change that, the best they can do is delay it.
You mean WTO? And we lost because *drumroll* we in fact allowed gambling online within our borders.
Nothing says we have to allow remote gambling or gambling but we did have exceptions carved out for fucking horse racing. Then we explicitly allowed those across states and online.
Mitch mutherfucking McConnell
https://www.bloodhorse.com/hor...
The treaty obligation does not change federal laws that leave gambling regulation to the states. The WTO was basically we allow it here we must allow it there. We didn't sign a treaty to allow gambling everywhere, and the U.S. doesn't have mandatory legalization of gambling, where ever in the fuck did you get the idea it did?
A super El Niño happens when Pacific sea surface temperatures rise by 2C or more
And how frequently is that expected to happen?
Every post but yours is political slop - they don't care that the topic is about the weather or where it is going.
Slashdot is end stage political dumpster fire.
It's not fair to blame
It will continue for as long as the anti-intellectual populism that is causing it continues, and it will carry over to anything that might replace
Considering those gamers living in momma's basement and maybe working at 7 eleven or Walmart might have clocked in more hours playing video games which nowadays are not too different from an actual simulator used by Boeing or Airbus
Please.. JFC, stop. You need to sucker under 30s preferably with no family into a high-stress government job that gets exciting in the most horrible ways, so you target "gamers".
Everyone can stop trying hard to make a connection, it's a recruiting strategy. You could make up an even better bunch of fluff for targeting people exiting military service too. I'm sure they do try, and I'm sure that demographic already knows the game too damn well or they would have made their numbers there.
If the Marine Corps run ads in Call of a duty you morons would be talking up modern drone warfare and controller thumb twitch. Sure, join to become a drone pilot, it will be a rose garden. They'd only do it because something changed and they thought they could find a large enough group of young people there that could pass a minimum fitness test in a few months that might be worth the ad spend. It's marketing, a numbers game. Sorry not sorry to piss on everyone's fun.
Hey if you recently graduated from high school and kind of feel like you suck at life call a Marine Recruiter. Do it to turn your life around, not *snicker* drone pilot... but you could totally be a cool drone pilot and get laid all the time too. Do it.
Probably because that is how they are sending data and receiving instructions. This sounds a lot more serious than they are trying to make it. Potentially it means that an enemy (China) could locate your "stealthy" drones and destroy or mislead them.
I'm sorry, your stealthy unmanned drone whose sketchily sourced webcam expects a wireless connection to the whole internet so that it can receive instructions to compromise the bespoke internal network
This probably isn't the supply chain attack you're making it out to be, this is stuff you should expect and check for when sourcing components for the drone you're building in your garage, like the earliest phase of development. No offense to the Royal Navy, I mean a lot of drones are built in garages these days, this whole story does not surprise me in any way.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. -- E. Hubbard
