I've watched my kids play Roblox for extended periods, and I even join them for an hour every now and then. I didn't see anything particularly alarming, at all. I'm sure it happens but it seems very rare.

You can buy Japanese sim cards on amazon.co.jp which work great. I'm sure some or many of the Japanese telecom companies are rubbish, as most are across the world. However, sim locking in Japan is not required for all carriers.

NREL had a report released quarterly, until last year, with cost buildups. Unfortunately, NREL has now been renamed and that report discontinued for basically political reasons. https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy2...

It's important to note that over the last 15 years, cumulative U.S. inflation has been on the order of about 45â"55% depending on which exact months you choose and which price index you use. College prices have risen faster than inflation but everything is more expensive too.

The library is most likely benefiting from volunteer labor to run the program and take care of the machines. The university has to pay someone for that. Completely changes the way the services are offered since there are real costs of labor.

Xbox was dying long before the RAM shortage started. The writing has been on the wall for a long time now. The infamous and confusing "This is an Xbox" marketing campaign started over a year ago.

Web search is trending on a path similar to TV. At first, TV was free with no ads. Very quickly ads were introduced. Then came cable TV where you could pay and watch ad-free. Fairly soon after that cable TV had ads too. Then streaming did the same thing. The quest for every-increasing profits will have the same end result for paid search, eventually.

I'm thinking that all the GPS jamming and spoofing Russia is doing to try to mitigate drone strikes is the most likely factor. This would be a reasonable QA test case for Porsche to have missed.

Well there is a way to test this hypothesis. Placing the computer a couple dozen feet underground and repeating memtest a few times should do it. This is an interesting case and I look forward to an update in due course.

I would suggest an Nvidia Shield or a MECOOL KM2 Plus Deluxe. If you want an easy to set up TV stick product, these are at the top tier. There are some great advantages to rolling your own media player hardware but for most people it's not worth the cost and hassle.

It's actually less confusing as written. "Milliard" always means 10^9, unambiguously, while "billion" can mean either 10^9 or 10^12 depending on language/country.

Milliard is still the only/universal/modern way of saying 10^9 in French and several other languages. The word "billion" does still mean 10^12 in long scale languages/countries. A bunch of other languages/countries use the long scale too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Reading all these comments makes it clear that we on Slashdot have become who we used to ridicule: Science-denying zealots.

If San Francisco is operating under laws similar to other states, they already have the power to tax snacks. It is typically not very popular and causes enough backlash that a city trying it often gives up or scales back their snack tax plans. Suing these companies puts the industry on notice that they should improve their practices, even if the city is unlikely to succeed. I'm not a lawyer but I don't think their odds are good, interstate commerce doctrine probably applies.

Unless the government is completely politically oblivious, I'm convinced that this is a tactic to get Alberta to settle for an upgrade of the TMX pipeline, either by increasing the flow (which BC and indigenous groups have indicated that they are willing to accept) or perhaps building new pipes along the existing right of way (which is outside what BC is willing to go for, but a much smaller reach than reviving Northern Gateway).

I think something to do with TMX is where Alberta and BC will meet in the middle.

As far as I am concerned, all they did was move the web site from bom.gov.au to reg.bom.gov.au, which is where the entire old web site is still available. And thanks for moving this to https, it was long overdue.

As for the new site - I can't find anything, or make anything work.