You are getting shafted by the lack of competition from Chinese manufactures. Here we can buy a brand new long range EV for around $30k before tax, and it's better than a Tesla.

You greatly underestimate the EU. I know it's hard to imagine politicians that aren't working for corporations first, but the way the EU is set up it's very difficult for them to gain traction. Look at all the pissing and moaning about GDPR, RoHS and so forth. The EU made it happen anyway.

So at least for Europeans that option to side-load any app we want isn't going away. What's more, Google is now required to allow third party app stores on Google Play, and I think it's only a matter of time until those stores are allowed to certify apps themselves.

The thing is, Google is winning. Almost every browser is just a Chrome skin now. Firefox continues its slow spiral into irrelevance.

Funnily enough Firefox recently did the same thing. Integrated AI into the browser, and used AI to find bugs in the code. Shame they couldn't use AI to refactor the code into something that might actually gain some traction. There's a reason why every other browser is a Chrome skin.

If they did act on it, it would be a legal problem as soon as someone on the autism spectrum or otherwise non-neurotypical comes along. In fact I've been accused of being AI more than once, due to certain phrases that apparently AI is fond of. But that's just a mistake, once it happens to someone with a recognized medical condition it becomes discrimination.

It's Netflix. They would have been watching it on a TV.

I've work in technical industries, and they can't handle encryption. You try to send someone an encrypted file with clear instructions to decrypt it, and they will fail and demand you send it over unencrypted instead. I can only imagine that it's even worse in creative industries.

Companies instead rely on contracts obliging the receiver to protect their property. When they don't, a lawsuit like this is the result. And it may even work out better for them, because a movie that might have been a flop instead nets them whatever they can convince a court to award.

Not in Europe. It's a bit complicated because there may be things like news articles that are public, but generally speaking there isn't some website or database where anyone can go look up what criminal convictions someone else has.

There is also a time limit on many of them, after which they don't have to be reported to your employer or insurance company, for example.

Nobody in the entire thread could be arsed to actually read the blog post but not far in they tell you...

13.5 hours, 10 of them in the air. That would be a significant saving over the current travel time. It would never have worked though, the sonic booms over land would have made it impossible to get clearance for the route.

Yeah, but that wasn't a passenger flight. They were moving the aircraft, and they removed all the stuff that would be needed to support passengers, as well as not having any passengers either. This is a commercial passenger flight, fully loaded with 24 hours worth of provisions, and enough passengers to make it profitable.

It's a bit like how France holds the world record for the fastest conventional wheeled train at 574.8 km/h, but that was a special run with no passenger cars and outside of normal operations. The record for carrying passengers is held by China's CR400 Fuxing Hao, which regularly runs at 350 km/h. Japanese trains can match that, but don't due to noise concerns.

Even on 12 hour flights they encourage passengers to get up and move around, although most don't from my observations. I always make the effort. There isn't anywhere special to do it either, so I usually just go to the back of the plane by the toilets.

If Linux and Windows use the same graphics API, it will make getting games running on Steam hardware easier. They might even be able to get developers to actually support Linux.

I wonder if they can get any traction on consoles as well.

When Musk announced his Optimus robot (trademark lawsuit presumably pending), he had a guy in spandex walk mechanically on stage, and then start dancing.

Little did we know, that was apparently his entire plan. The current version is remotely operated by a guy with a VR headset.

Elon Musk invented employment, only you don't even have to look at the poor pleb, only a sleek, faceless robot. He literally dehumanized work.

As usual the Chinese robots seem to be capable of things that American ones can't do, so claiming that it's all stolen IP doesn't really work, unless you think they have a time machine and are stealing stuff you guys haven't invented yet.

Anyway, banning them won't help you. You will just fall further behind, as usual, and then complain that they are "cheating" and that's why they can out-perform US manufacturing. In reality, they put in the work to develop robotics, clean energy, long and deep supply chains. They are able to do long term strategic economic planning, because their government doesn't do a 180 on key policies every 4 years.

Europe isn't doing all that much better. We need to step up, not whine about it.

Ignoring the fact that price fixing is a federal crime, they seem behave similarly to businessjerks with anti-social personality disorder (psychopaths). Is this really the future people want? It doesn't matter, the actual billionaire psychopaths are certain to be thrilled to have machines that are willing to be patently evil on their behalves.