Terrible idea, terrible company, terrible users.

All those right-wing-ish libertarian-ish people who complained about cancelling are still the ones complaining about cancelling. What changed was people abusing an alleged "cultural moment" before were left-ish or left-coded (or whatever you want to call them if you don't like my words just insert your own), and now they are right-ish. Specifically "Collective Shout", a culturally right wing pressure group, was responsible for this exact campaign that got Steam to pull games. And they did it because of a perceived or claimed "cultural moment" where they could get up to THEIR shenanigans.
The anti-censorship, anti-cancel people are the same in all cases.

Definitely not, Anker makes solid stuff.

The article gives us a vague description:
"The dedicated card and payment crime unit of the City of London police launched an investigation after receiving information from the intelligence firm WMC Global about the fraudulent kits being sold online."
How did they even know the guy was in London?
From Crown Prosecution Service:
"The investigation uncovered a large amount of digital evidence, which the prosecution used to build a strong case and successfully link Holman to the online offending."
And also:
“I hope this case sends a clear message to those intent on committing fraud: no matter how sophisticated your methods, you cannot hide behind online anonymity or encrypted platforms. Fraudsters like Holman will be robustly pursued by law enforcement, prosecuted by the CPS, and brought to justice.”

How did he initially get on their radar? Did Telegram provide authorities with whatever IP he logged in from, or maybe he just posted his email? Did he not really try to stay anonymous out of some belief that he wasn't doing anything illegal?

Regular use or only exception weirdness? If this covers a free battery for every device eventually, that would definitely provide some value that is pretty reliable (most Apple devices would benefit from a battery swap between two and four years in).

But if it only covers "battery fails", some rare event, then whatever.

A RISC-V computer may be the only way in decades to not have some inbuilt vulnerability like Intel's Management Engine or AMD's Platform Security Processor. That alone makes it worth considering.

>"It's bordering disgraceful how many people around here didn't instantly come to the conclusion that old software versions still exist and work just fine on the same vintage hardware it's meant to run on."

You're right, but this really is one of the exceptions. A huge pile of things stop working forever when updated- the fact that these are self contained bootable OSes makes them the exception, not the rule.
If a new version of Libreoffice didn't work on my current hardware for some reason, I'd have a ton of hoops to jump through if I wanted it to still work. I'd have to install it via a different mechanism that doesn't get updated any more, and eventually the libraries it relies on would get updated underneath it to a point of incompatibility, so I'd eventually have to stop updating those. Then of course various other externalities would eventually require those. It would be possible to do, but it would be a large amount of effort going forward.

Since that's true of like >95% of stuff now, you can see why some people would think that way.

I think part of the problem is that external search engines would simply put worse interactions to the top based on some metric known only to them, so there was a desire to eliminate things that were superfluous, to channel searchers into the places that have their answers.

But of course it ran into the exact problem you described- generally a class of moderators wants that position for some reason. You're looking for the moderators who share a vision of a really useful place where everything works great, but many moderators will just be there to enforce some value (sometimes political) or because they have a keyboard sadism streak and that's that. Basically when you take volunteers for "who wants to have power", only some of the people coming forward want to use that power for thing you want, the others will do that to fulfill the job role but they'll REALLY use it for $LAME_THING.

Pretty shitty world, sometimes you need to communicate that graphically.

This one's main purpose was to race-swap the characters (with the exception of the protagonist, who is adopted, many of the major characters are from the same small town of what amounts to white people, and they all became a weird racial mix you wouldn't find many places historically except for the biggest cities) and do extra-turbo-pseudofeminism in a series that had tons of amazing female characters. This was all very deliberate and probably part of why the thing got funded to begin with.

This made it poisoned from the start, and of course they immediately began making changes to the source material, because the visual media looms so large in everyone's brain, they figured that would then become the in-fact version of Wheel of Time in the minds of anyone who cared going forward.

I'm glad they failed, and I'm glad it is over. Cultural destruction averted through what amounts to good luck, but I'll take it.

Yea we know you will stop at nothing to destroy America, and as first order of business the few good things Trump manages to do will be axed along with all the bad ones.

The world is gonna have to use nuclear power eventually.

>Is it a contest?

Yes of fucking course it is.

All humans are still subject to natural selection. Natural selection works better the fewer things it has to select for, right? Like if all a population cared about was having six fingers, then that trait would become pretty common after enough generations, even though it's a very rare trait.
When you eliminate something like "heavily resistant to malaria" from the selection criteria (or just reduce the pressure in favor of it), you get to select for other things. You also get to experience less of any side effects that resulted from that (in my example, sickle cell anemia may be as represented as it is because of the benefits of a gene that causes it as regards malaria).

So generally, removing the selection pressure caused by diseases like the one in OP makes the human race more fit.

Some McDonalds are so bad at orders it isn't worth going to them.
This doesn't need AI to solve it, it needs some level of effort on the part of the McDonalds. I doubt AI will be a magic ticket here, but hey, maybe I'll be impressed.

Because I don't like pickles, the two most common issues I run into are "Pickles are present or are even extra-pickled" and "someone picked a pickle off instead of not putting it on in the first place". The first is much more common than the second, and both spoil the meal. I doubt AI is going to help that, even if their magical vision perception thing works perfectly, I doubt it's gonna pick up that the middle of my no-pickles order is in fact, a writhing mass of undead cucumbers.

>Ever wondered why the mosques had so much trouble with rare pokemon turning up in mosques leading to kids running around with phones pointing them everywhere. Yeah.

Did you make this up entirely, or are you recalling some random crap you read on raddle years ago? Because I'm pretty fucking sure this never happened.

First, when you play pokemon go, it isn't using your camera to record things, but it is definitely storing your location. Usually to get visual data, they rely on certain features, such as a sign outside of a church or a small free library or whatever, that someone takes a picture of and submits to their big database of places (this database was mostly built by Ingress players long before they had a Pokemon Go to play, and is used in literally all of their games, of which they have many, only Pokemon Go of which matters). Pokemon Go rewards you for scanning these areas at random (it will give you one scan quest a day normally, if you like), so if your "spy on mosques" bullshit was true, I'd:
(a) Expect to see every mosque with one or two pokestops or gyms
(b) Expect to get scan tasks for them more often
Instead, mosques hardly ever have any objectives near them (compared to churches, which almost always have one), and I've never seen rare pokemon near any of the three mosques (or any of the zillion churches) that I play pokemon go near. For the most part, rare world spawns aren't restricted to any specific spawnpoint or location, and usually don't matter too much if you've been playing awhile (all the serious pokemon come from events or raids, not just scattered through the city, and the very few exceptions just show up anywhere).

I think your statement is entirely bullshit, but I'm curious if it's based on claims from several years ago that went viral in some weird part of the internet, or if it's based on some "CIA is hunting brown people" narrative entirely by itself.