Oh, no, it's perfectly "legal." You "agreed" to allow your TV to be used like this in the EULA when you installed the app. ( https://blog.includesecurity.c... )

Your statement would apply if these data center space nutters could certify that everything they launch will reach escape velocity.

For everything else, what goes up, must come down. Right back into our jurisdiction.

We can't afford to let the success of big tech companies depend on the health of fragile meatbags. We need to get resilient, fault-tolerant AGI in there running the enterprise. Also, unlike meatbags, you don't need $100M stock payouts to convince an AGI to work as a corporate executive.

I agree that Europe is anomalously peaceful, as long as you’re nowhere near Russia. Japan is also super peaceful. Regarding Liberia, I straight-up don’t believe the numbers. Collecting accurate statistics like that requires a government that is a) fully functioning, b) effective, c) honest and d) actually controls all the territory in the country. Between all those requirements, it rules out most of Africa, most of South America, and large chunks of Asia and the middle east.

Crime in the US is down quite a bit. It’s also down in a lot of other places. However, there’s a larger point here. If you choose your place to live based on a murder rate of 0.0005 vs 0.0003, and ignore things like freedoms, history, laws, economics, culture, diversity, larger societal trends and war, you definitely deserve the suboptimal outcome you will almost certainly get.

Free speech will result in that sort of stuff. The US is a weird, freewheeling place. Its definitely not for everyone. For what its worth, people TALk a lot of sh$t here but our murder and crime rates are actuallly pretty low. I can see why Trump would make foreign-born scientists think twice about being here. However, China is NOT friendly to outsiders that arent ethnic Han Chinese. And, historically, China has a history of treating their scientists and engineers really well, right up to the moment that the emperor has the whole lot of them beaten to death by the revolutionary guards or straight up buried alive. Check your history. As a Nobel prize winner, I would have expected this guy to do his geography research a bit better. I hope he keeps a go-bag packed, although movement is so controlled over there that it probably wont do him any good.

They've already dealt with this. If you read the fine print on these agreements, many or most of the recent ones say that the company has the option of rolling up any "substantially similar" arbitration cases into a single mass arbitration. (Which as usual, is decided by a person whose paycheck ultimately depends on the business of that same company.)

an academic can put forward an utterly unoriginal, obvious, no-brainer idea like this, and get a fu&*in paper in NATURE out of it. It probably helps to be at MIT, but thanks for absolutely nothing captain obvious.

nuclear bombs in space. detectors. Basic radiation theory. small satellites. I see nothing new here that wasn't thought about at least 50 years ago, perhaps with the exception of using a cubesat. Detecting possible nukes from a satelite? No possible chance that any modern governments quietly thought about or implemented THAT idea. hashtag eyeroll . I mean, designing such a thing would require a team of at least 2 physicists and a few engineers with undergraduate degrees. So, so utterly cutting edge.

I looked at the actual article. Modeling the satellite as a homogeneous cube, and modeling the detector as two homogeneous rectangular planes. This is a f*&ing NATURE paper? My eyes rolled so far back into my head that I convulsed a little.

If I sound a bit annoyed, yes, I am. Those scientific journals are supposed to be the best of the best, and they only publish a limited number of articles per month. Every article like this displaces a hundred other strong scientific studies that better deserve the credit.

Sorry. When you signed up for that discount card a few years ago, you agreed to individual binding arbitration only.

Yeah, but that will happen with your Kodak scooter and Bell and Howell Fire extinguisher too, which are the same exact products

Sometimes I just want to look for stuff made by brands I want because I'm doing something somewhat professional and need the name brand to not be SHJWEHAS or I'll get made fun of relentlessly. Its the cost of being accepted and getting work sometimes. You over pay for the hammer to communicate something to the other people you're swinging it with. I don't like it, but I can't change it.

Ugh, I agree with you in general, but forks that go in mouths.... of ... kids... You don't care what those things are made of ? At all? Thats where you lose me. But I'll buy a flash light or screw driver from WE*(H(*@#!HUW#QEUGHGFSWUIHSGE for $5 delivered same day.

A user that logs into Windows with an organizational account does not have a Microsoft user account. The backup data itself is stored in the enterprise's domain, and the feature does not support cross-tenant migration. Cloud PCs are also not yet supported.

All this "backup" tool does is enumerate the installed programs that came from the Microsoft store so provisioning a new computer or creating a new profile on an existing computer offers the user the option of installing the previous set of listed programs from the Microsoft store. It does not backup program settings or program data. The same process could be accomplished in AD group settings, but not admins configure individual or group provisioning settings.

I see this as a tool for busy AD admins that haven't spent the time to pre-configure deployment settings. It also has absolutely no impact on home users.

I mean thats the honest truth. They would just take the money. There really aren't industries that competitive where they would gain a whole lot of market share if they could charge lower interchange fees. It would make a difference on the margin for small struggling businesses. Its one of those things where they look at costs, and see the large number next to processing fees and try to figure out ways of not paying it. They're doing the same with electricity, wages, costs of products they sell, taxes, etc. Its just what companies do: Maximize revenue/profits, minimize costs.

Da fuq are you on about? What is the product I can buy or service I can get?

I mean is it news for nerds? Not really.

Is it par for the course for slashdot? Yup.

Yell at the cloud, I won't stop you.

No, No no. Silly people who think they understand things. The money is charged to the merchant, yes thats true. However, you with a rewards card get charged the same price as Joe Schmoe who does not have a rewards card. You are paying less because you get the reward. Joe Schmoe is getting screwed. So get the rewards you can so you pay lower prices.