I would be 100% SURPRISED if the whole bunch of advisors didn't advise the Governor to do exactly what he did, because there will be zero fallout. Never apologize - immediately attack. Thanks to culture war society, everybody is getting what they wanted: the Governor got to blow hard about hackers to his people (who will never read, much less believe, the turnabout) and the tech community got its vindication and moment of indignation on slashdot. The end.

Are you trolling? Football is essentially a finite resource - there are only so many games per year, and the companies that bid to broadcast the games have really good accountants who know what the revenue and profit will be for those games. The NFL auctions off the broadcast of these games. Amazon bid $1B for the Thursday games - cheaper than the other games because Thursday games are absolute dogshit. "Exclusive rights" is just a stupid way of saying it.

Why the heck would the NFL need let every single broadcaster carry the games? They're not a public service. Oh - and by the way - because of anti-trust concerns, ALL games have to be available over-the-air for the locals to watch. So, just because Amazon (or ESPN, or NFL network), a paid service, gets the rights to show the game to some part of the world, they have to partner with local broadcasters to give the home team a free way to watch the game.

And I say "part of the world" because broadcast rights for foreign markets are usually subject to ANOTHER auction - which means that "exclusive rights" is only "exclusive" to a particular market that is defined in the contract.

The monopoly here is the NFL, poindexter. The broadcasters have a marketplace and competition. The NFL DOES NOT. There were TWO attempts last year to create competing leagues and both of them failed.

Forgot to mention - I can play most recent games at maxed out at 1080P settings, and some I can play with medium-high settings at 1440P, 144Hz with a freesync monitor.

Are you me? Used RX580, Aorus B550, Ryzen 7 3800.

I got the RX580 off ebay (former miner of course) a few years ago when you could still get one for $250. Kicking myself now for not getting an Aorus for the extra overclocking potential. I've been nursing it along; started getting thermal issues and instead of trying to fiddle with reglueing the heat sink I had a little bit of fun putting a cheap AOI water block on it. Sadly, maxing out the voltage I can still only squeeze 1400MHz out of it. The Ryzen 7 was a recent present for myself to swap out a Ryzen 5. I always sell everything I take out back to ebay in the original packages, so my upgrades are alway pretty marginal.

AMD has a 0% stake in GloFo. They completely divested.

1) Of the major players only Intel still vertically integrates with fabs, and Intel is rapidly falling behind. Going fabless has been essential for AMD, because it was far too small to support the kind of investment in fabs that is needed to keep up these days. GlobalFoundries is significantly bigger now than it was as an AMD unit and has the capital to compete with TSMC, and TSMC has the power to drive the technology and to build fabs faster than Intel can improve its processes. It's pure idealism that keeps Intel from spinning off its fabs. And hey, that's fine; there are other vertically integrated (much smaller) semiconductor companies and Intel still swings a big stick, the pendulum could swing the other way. It's just that today it doesn't look like that pendulum swings as far as it used to.

2) AMD can't do anything about the shortage of GDDR6 memory, and TSMC isn't the only player that makes it. It's an industry-wide shortage.

Just like the last two times, right? And remember how they keep taking your guns?

I can't believe it takes halfway down the comments to see somebody get voted up for rightfully calling bullshit on this clickbait.

I knew the Guardian was a rag, but come the fuck on. They should use this article as an IQ test - anybody who takes the headline seriously should be disqualified from voting.

Mexico has one of the most educated populations in Latin America AND a strong existing supply infrastructure for electronics AND a little thing called NAFTA. Ya heard?

That's a different topic; it's not infeasible to give your super-algae a genetic issue to where it needs a particular supplement (that wild algae can make themselves), so that it can't grow without the feedstock you give it. But that's not the same as making it weak in general - it still has to defend itself. And that defense might also come in the form of a community of friendly hangers-on, like bacteria that provide defense against viruses in return for scavenging some nutrients from the algae.

Also, it's really unlikely that a biofuel algae would thrive in the wild anyways - they've been tuned to pour their limited resources into making biofuels for no biological reason. It's like genetically engineering a monkey with 100-lb feet and expecting it to out-compete wild monkeys.

Versus their wild counterparts, this puts them at an extreme disadvantage, and outside of the safe confines of their reactor they'd be hard pressed to grow rapidly. Anywhere that they're competing, the wild species would overwhelm the genetically modified one.

For those that don't know to mod this "funny," ethanol is great for growing bacteria of all kinds and won't protect the algae from harmful viruses and bacteria.

Actually you need a high resistance to attack because it is insanely difficult to keep from getting a pathogen to come in and lay waste to your algae monoculture.

I think his point is that by the time an iPhone battery (typically) dies, the phone is old enough that it's probably not worth replacing - a new battery probably costs as much as a slightly newer iPhone.

I live in the hot zone, and you can overheat a phone on the passenger seat of your car with the AC on full when it's a billion degrees outside. And that's not counting the times when it overheats IN THE SHADE on a patio table (115 deg F, lol) while you're taking a swim, or god help you the sun moves enough that it gets a direct blast on your phone.

You don't know heat until you've literally melted things in your car. Back in the physical media days, I had cassettes melt inside the player. I've had CDs warp. A lot of people keep a towel in their car to keep from burning their hands on the steering wheel during those miserable moments when you go back to your car after doing something innocuous like getting groceries.

100% this, from another iPhone user ever since my Nexus S crapped out. I haven't had a phone battery die a natural death ever, and I use the hell out of my phones with zero regard for their health and safety. They get baked in Phoenix heat in my car, they get steamed on the counter while I take a shower, they get punted across the parking lot when I get out of my car.

My phones either get murdered by going into a swimming pool in my pocket or by suffering blunt force trauma. Even then, they typically last for 3+ years. A like new iPhone from a generation or two back (what's wrong with a 7 or an 8 today? literally nothing) costs much less than any feature-comparable new phone - regardless of if you're bringing your own phone or getting [sarcasm]"free"[/sarcasm] phones from your carrier. The last time I EOL'd a working iPhone was when they dropped iOS updates for the iPhone 4.

My current SE is at least 3 years old, sees almost daily usage down to 30% on speakerphone calls, and has a busted up case protector to document its brushes with death. According to the system monitor, it's battery still has 88% of its original strength.