This selfish little twit is hoping everyone forgets that he stole BILLIONS of dollars from investors and just lets him out of jail. Dream on, Sammy. You deserve a room in the Graybar Hotel for a long time. And returning the cash should not be optional, either.

The correct amount of monitoring is zero. I do not trust their assertion that this is optional and can be turned off by the TV set owner. I do not wish to change channels or adjust the volume with voice instructions. I do not wish to have advertising that is tailored to my current viewing habits. If I owned one of these monstrosities I would get busy with a screwdriver and some nippers and disable the microphone and camera physically.

Manufacturers are increasingly denying us the right to own the devices we purchase from them. They spy on us and sell what they learn. They charge eternal subscription fees for features that are already built into the devices. I am not interested in being part of someone's ongoing business plan. Don't buy these things. Tell them that we will not tolerate this any longer.

In addition to transferring your credentials to the new password manager of your choice, Android will also securely send a copy of them to the Google Cloud for extra security and peace of mind.

In Japan, the volume of adult diapers sold exceeds the volume of child diapers every year. This has been happening for more than 10 years.

Everyone knows that Paris Hilton is and has always been an AI construct, so she definitely belongs on the list. But Ben Affleck? I didn't realize he was a computer scientist along with his many other accomplishments.

If you need a cheap Linux machine buy one of these and flash the firmware. Lots of instructions given on YouTube for this, and they work fine. Until the cheap hardware breaks, I guess, but if you only paid $70 for the machine this isn't a big loss.

The EU's notable lack of success in the high tech field has been frustrating their government leaders for some time, but they have discovered a way to recover the tax money they would have been getting if they actually had some successful tech companies: They just fine the giant American tech companies every year and confiscate hundreds of millions of dollars from them. It's a major budget supplement for them and it costs them nothing. They just have to keep enacting intrusive laws they know the Americans will not obey.

Microsoft is upset about this because they are not getting a cut of the ad revenue. Next time LG will remember to let then dip their beak a little.

Why would anyone want to do this? Run an unreliable, bloated, privacy-invadfing mostrosity and then graft a good OS on the side of it? It's like screwing a Ferrari to the side of an old Chevy station wagon.

Punish the successful people by stealing their money and throwing it into a pool where it will be wasted by politicians. The justification? They have the money. We want the money. We can convince all the jealous non-billionaires to vote for a law forcing them to give us the money. Poof! Socialism at its best.

If this succeeds it will kill all entrepreneurial activity in California, most immediately in Silicon Valley.

If the EU wants to establish tech sovereignty that's a good thing for them, but it does not look too likely to me. Their Linux and Free Software adoption will probably be a success, but successful proprietary software from the EU is quite rare. The EU has been propping up its revenue for several years by imposing enormous cash penalties on US tech companies instead of nurturing their own tech companies and collecting taxes from them. The EU regulatory state will make it very difficult for anyone to start a profitable software or hardware business there.

One excellent consequence of this change is that you will be able to remove the battery from your phone and insure that it is really powered off. Currently, our phones continue to monitor us and send information back to Google whether they are powered on or not.

Even though you bought it, you don't own it. Even though you bought a "perpetual license" you can't use it. It's the brave new world of software and it's standard practice for Microsoft. After you've used it for a while, they just make it disappear and you can't do anything about it. Are you ready to switch to Linux yet, or do things need to get even worse?

In Japan, pedal-assist electric bicycles are very popular and can be used by anyone without a driving license. The bike itself, like all bicycles in Japan, must be registered. These pedal-assist models have legislated speed ceilings of about 20 MPH and are engineered to go no faster than this.

Other E-Bikes are considered motorcycles and need to be licensed as such. And the operators of the bikes are required to have a driver's license and liability insurance.

Most e-bike riders in Japan are housewives who use the pedal-assist models as their normal transportation, with child seats mounted in the front and in the back of the bike. In general, children do not have electric bicycles in Japan.

WSL is an unfortunate, but typical, Microsoft production and improving it is a waste of time. They bolted a bag onto the side of their bloated and unstable operating system to emulate an efficient operating system. The only advantages of this accrue to Microsoft, not to their users. Users get instability, poor performance, and no privacy while MS continues to get revenue from Windows sales, plus their all-seeing window into your every action and thought from Windows snooping telemetry. The enhanced snooping in Windows 11 is finally getting more and more people to see the light and ditch Windows entirely. Its time has passed.