Connected toys that spy on you, on the other hand....

By the way, the companies that make and sell these toys are putting their stockholders at risk of a future privacy lawsuit. This is one of those times where corporate in-house lawyers should put the brakes on a product until the law is more settled. As it stands now, "will we get sued in 2030 and lose a fortune for what we are selling in 2025" is an open question.

Let's assume 2500 employees lost 2 hours of productivity each. Let's assume the productivity value for each employee is at least $40/hour. That's $200,000. That's far below $862K. But if the downtime were higher and the lost productivity were higher, it at least puts $862K within the realm of a credible number.

Don't forget, cleaning up a mess like this isn't as simple as resetting passwords back and having employees log in and change their passwords. There's also things like making sure none of the accounts were mis-used or rolling everything back to a known-good state in case they were.

.. the person that doesn't get vaccinated infects someone you love who can't get vaccinated for medical reasons.

Those who can't get vaccinated for medical reasons are depending on the rest of us to create "herd immunity" to protect them, because short of living a life in isolation, that's the only protection they have.

... but it won't: The True Believers will believe it is true, and for everyone else, the current administration's credibility on health-related matters died months ago.

It's small, flaccid when "hard" even when Windows reads our love letters.

I mean, HAL would kill you, but at least your personal stuff was yours--not like Microsoft Recall.

After all of these years, finally, someone who knows what brand they really used in Guyana. Excellent!

Use AI, for what? I know how to write and use a computer, think, walk and chew bubble-gum.

The "AI photos" with too many body parts a few years back gave "AI" a bad name.

From the hallucinations and confident-but-wrong output of 2025's text-AI-chatbots, this bad reputation is still deserved.

For most people, It will take a few years of trust-able output from AI before people accept it as mature enough to use without sanity-checking its output.*

* When the day comes that people mostly "blindly trust" AI output we may all be in trouble. That day is probably within the next 5-10 years, maybe sooner.

Windows has slid so far downhill. You have no privacy, it's not your computer: It takes longer to even attempt to set Windows for any kind of privacy--than it takes to install Linux Mint. Even then, who could trust Microsoft at their word? Why is there any data in Edge's cache--on a computer that it never gets used on? The Group-By "Feature" is only for assisting the AI, and has no use for a human. Privacy is so lacking--that I don't even want to plug a drive into a Windows box that has data on it. "My Documents" is a lie. You can beg the OS for privacy all you want, but WINDOWS IS NOW THE INFECTION!

Then you have a computer that will want to update at the worst times. I could always tell when the computer is downloading updates. Even when it's not updating, there is marked, questionable processor usage. As, installed Windows is capable of waking from sleep to do chores--even while your computer is in a hot backpack. Meanwhile, Bluetooth rarely reconnects, file-transfer was nerfed for W10. Performance-wise, Windows was more on-par with Linux before--so where are all those processor cycles going? No, I don't trust Microsoft with my GPU, at all. Excess Windows System-Logs still take a long time to sort on a 12-core 4+-GHz rig? What!? No, you still cannot stop a misbehaving application? By default Windows will still want to use SSD-eating virtual memory on a system with 64GB of RAM. The System GUI has been stripped bare of icons. Microsoft still does not understand that Windows is installed on various hardware, and that hardware needs to be examined and maintained. Microsoft tries so hard to keep you from using the quick-launch bar, the only thing they got right. The Windows 11 Start menu, is but a pale shadow of the Windows 10 version. No, Microsoft, I can tell that the computer wasn't fully booted (delayed start) with your bloated OS since XP. No, Microsoft, computers need to be rebooted, completely in Windows 11.

>Will japan sue for the all the ddos they get hit with?
Cloudflare doesn't have a monopoly on protecting against DDOS attacks.

Sorry, I took a shortcut with the definition.

The longer version is something most people can make at home with things most people already have in their kitchen.

This assumes sugar, butter, milk, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, dried pasta, spices, cut or ground meat, etc. aren't processed enough to "count" as ultra-processed foods.

>A $1,000 ticket better come with ...

I'd settle for the ticket coming with a signed album of their latest gold record, but only if the record was made of real gold and the gold content was worth at least $1000.

One very loose definition is that if it's something most people can make at home, it's probably not ultra-processed. If they can't, it probably is.

Not the hard-and-fast definition that most Slashdot readers are looking for, I'm afraid.

ultra-processed water.