I'm still seeing problems on my Chromebook, but at least I've figured out a quicker way to get it back into a logged in status... It does seem like the thing about transferring the new password to other smartphone devices worked for one old smartphone that is still in special service. I'll learn more about that angle in my monthly update of the older smartphones, but they are in retired status anyway.

I didn't mention this part, but during the chaos period there was actually a risky period when my google account had a relatively simple "emergency" password. At that point I didn't really believe what the google was saying was going on because the focus of the discussion was supposed to be the municipal Wi-Fi network. I don't know if the wannabe attackers have any way to spot such targets of opportunity, but I sure don't like presenting one. Or maybe they can figure out some way to take advantage of the turbulence? The thing about computer security is that it's like a chain, and the attackers only need to find and break one weak link. (And it is NOT helping that the AIs probably have "routine reaction times" that are much faster than any human being's best reflexes.)

But not like Slashdot is much of a discussion forum for such things... Used to be a time when interesting insights would appear along with plenty of funny stuff. On that basis I was sort of amused when I got a notification that the submission had been accepted (on yet another slow news day?), but it appears that was some kind of false flag or squabble between the residual editors. "Nothing to see here. Move along." (I'm actually going to check the day's most active discussions for Funny, but generally feels like a waste of time to write on Slashdot... Just finished another AI book and in the middle of a related science fiction book from China, but pretty confident any reactions on Slashdot would be underwhelming.)

I wonder if he accidentally ripped off one of the Trump boys and we just don't know it.

That's what happened with Andrew tate. I don't know the details but he was apparently running around with Barron Trump and caused some problems for the Trumps. So it's off to rot in prison for him.

Is this actually true? I watched both Gamer's Nexus videos and while they mention that LG TVs can for nearby wifi networks, probably so they can geo-locate you, they don't actually connect to them or use them. Doing so would be very, very illegal in many countries.

I hate to defend LG, but there is enough to hang on them here without what appear to be unfounded claims.

LOL! Forget super intelligent, right now, I would settle for somewhat intelligent. I've been trying to get an AI bot to adapt some code but it keeps doing so much researching and checking that it keeps compacting and losing information. I narrowed it's task as much as possible and it still keeps deliberating and forgetting! If super intelligent AI is anything like AI then all we need to feed it a mobius strip of a conversation to paralyze it. *sigh*

Is something I find especially infuriating. There was a time long ago when people would put a little effort into the lies they were telling the public but these days they don't even bother.

What is he talking about? They have no ability to understand OR control these systems.

Here's a better idea, how about the go government does it job and start prosecuting corporations that hack into other companies? Think a slow down is a good idea? I guarantee that a $100B dollar fine will cool your heels really fast.

But did you have to propagate it?

Evidently spans a lot of the discussion, but my real concern is the lack of potential for Funny for the story. Maybe if would help if they could get a fresh editor to pick more interesting news?

Which somehow led me to a worse idea? What if Slashdot started using an AI editor? Maybe they could name it ETS, standing for "Et Tu, Slashdot"? Or GEitS for "Ghost Editor in the Slashdot"? Now I feel like loading up an AI and asking it about possible names for such an AI editor... Then in the next stage of devolution, Slashdot could fix the moderation problem with AI moderators?

There's been a massive amount of Media consolidation so if you want to get a message out it is difficult and expensive. Online advertising frankly does not work.

Go look up the history of when Konami left the AAA industry. It was right after metal gear solid 5. It was a successful game and they made money but the folks running the company is just flat out said that if the game had not been a huge success the whole company was going to go under. And they said they didn't want to deal with that pressure.

I bring this up because normally when a company does something like that you get weasel words out of them but Konami was pretty open about it which was unusual.

I kind of feel like you're arguing for the sake of argument at this point. Like you don't believe anything you just wrote you just kind of showed up for an argument like that old Monty Python sketch... Your post has a bunch of bait in it in the form of pot shots at Konami in order to get some outrage and anger going and trigger a response.

It's a weird game people play on the internet. The Internet isn't even all cat videos anymore it's just outrage porn. People looking for reasons to get angry and indulging in that anger. Years ago Facebook and Twitter figured out that that was what monetized people and so here we are all taking part in constant misery. While world falls apart around us because we keep putting pedophiles and rapists in charge of everything for stupid reasons

My Ryzen 5600 is a bit long in the tooth but it's more than up to snuff for anything out there. I'm stuck with an old GTX 1080 I bought used but I could pretty readily upgrade to a 3070 or a 3080 even if there was something I actually wanted to buy but honestly I'm playing old Sega games and digital pinball tables right now.

I did play through the second horizon forbidden Dawn game on that 1080 and it did shrug a little in places even at 1080p low with a couple of the other settings turned on. I would like to try out the new ratchet and clank but by all accounts it's 5 to 10 hours and spending three to $400 on a GPU upgrade for that much game is pretty rough. And I can't justify it because I never did finish the PS3 ratchet and clank games although to be fair that was because I thought the puzzles in the time themed one grinded the game to a halt. I wanted to jump around the levels and shoot stuff.

It's also kind of tough for these companies to compete with a lot of the games that are already out there. I've got Tekken 7 sitting on my hard drive largely unplayed and I do want to give it some more time. I keep meaning to get back into virtual fighter since I haven't really played it since 4 not that I was ever terribly good at it. I gave King of fighters 15 to try and I had fun and there's plenty of people still playing it but I didn't like how the matchmaking system worked. Not who I was getting matched up with but you're basically stuck in training mode or just sitting watching a static screen waiting for a match.

All this is to say there's plenty of other games to play so AAA game has to really grab me and since I'm not a GTA fan I have basically become useless to the AAA industry. I really didn't like the direction final fantasy 16 went though that was a game that might have gotten my attention but all they seem to be doing there is cribbing from elden ring. I played through final fantasy 15 on an RX 580 and it ran great.

So that's kind of the problem a lot of these companies have it's tough to hit critical mass and get enough players to pay for these absurdly huge games that cost $100 million plus to make. The occasional game like clara obscura can make something that takes off for around 20 or 30 million but that's still a big chunk of change to risk. So I don't blame anyone who bows out of the industry

Oh wait you're a troll. You didn't actually want or expect a legitimate response. Sorry. Trump fucks kids or something have fun with that.

They were pretty honest about it. AAA games made a lot of money when they succeeded but it tended to be kind of All or nothing and they just couldn't handle the risk anymore. I can't really blame them you're really betting the entire Farm every time you put out a game that's got to be miserable and high stress.

Sega for example had a string of well received Sonic the hedgehog games none of which they made any money off of. But the brand itself and the movies made a shitload of money to make up for it.

On the other hand the new wolverine game just looks completely unfinished. Like they built the story parts but not the game parts so you've got this elaborate story and no game to go with it. That kind of sucks. It might have just been rushed out to get out the door before GTA 6 though. The entire industry is basically going to shut down for a year or two while people play through that. Kind of like what happened with Skyrim but on a much larger scale

No, I'm not in the States now, but these years you feel like you have to be parsimonious with the personal information...

I left a long time ago. I'm not saying that I could see where it was going to end up, but I mostly just felt that things were going in the wrong direction. I could never have imagined where it would end up, but there is so much of today's reality that every publisher would have been rejected as "too impossible" if submitted as fiction.

Recently saw an interesting 2D analysis that was supposed to assess various cities on costs versus quality of life. The largest American cities were concentrated in the quadrant of expensive but unpleasant. My city was sort of near the center of the chart, which somewhat surprised me. I would have thought it was somewhere pretty far out in the quadrant of expensive but worth it... I feel like digging up the chart again because I can't remember which cities were in the quadrant of inexpensive with high quality.

Not a joke. I'm aware of that feature, and that's why I said it. No idea about false positives.

No, it does not. Maybe you're thinking of Pixel Watch?

The headline makes it sound like they are complaining about Apple encryption when in fact they support encryption.