Microsoft achieved their goal. Sony won't be able to leverage games from Activision or Blizzard or Bethesda or any of the other studios they bought in order to expand their dominance in the console market. This was about anti-competitive behavior on the part of Microsoft and now that they've got what they want there's no reason for them to keep spending money.

Meanwhile the very real threat of the steam machine is completely irrelevant for at least the next five years because of the AI apocalypse and our unwillingness to do anything about it politically. And yeah it's a political problem. Deal with it.

So Microsoft can basically kick back and soak up all our money and there really isn't fuck all we can do about it. They don't care about the game division they care about their mainline software division and making sure there isn't any credible threat to it. And no Linux is not a credible threat.

They are just to be on the safe side spinning up some of the old lawsuits to cause fud. And it will work. Although I think that's mostly directed at Europe.

That's one of the things big corporations and billionaires and now trillionaires don't leave anything up to chance. They grind everyone in the pulp and take everything and don't leave us with anything. It's not just about greed or lust for power it's about having complete absolute power. And we are always happy to give it to them for reasons I wish I could say I didn't understand but with all the research into the various neurological problems right wing voters have combined with 60% of the populist reading at a 6th grade level well it all kind of makes sense...

If a company came out with a service that would burn your data into a crystal that you could wear as jewelry, and the crystal was reasonably durable (ideally diamond, or something similar), that would be a useful (or at least novel) way to store valuable data long-term. Assuming there was also a convenient way to read it back when required, of course.

This, however, isn't that. The whole point of git is that it distributes copies of your repository onto every client that clones it, so that the likelihood of everyone accidentally losing all copies at once is minimal.

an AI model somewhere. If there is ever another Democrat president here in the states then Microsoft will get a very very tiny hand slap for illegally using the data without notice and go about their business with a massive trove of your information used to train the AI design to replace you at work...

"You will own nothing and be happy"

Or you can install Linux and potentially be a hell of a lot happier/safer/free.

Great for them. No great for home and regular business consumers who can no longer afford memory or storage anymore :(

Industrial espionage may help you with EUV lithography, but it sure isn't the main part of the problem.
(Actually, from what I've read recently, Chinese companies are going 3D before they get to EUV levels. That's another way around the problem. But you need to deal with a worse heat problem.)

Why would this be surprising? They know if is or has been registered right?

Exactly - how else would Microsoft be doing it? I would say this started in the Windows XP era where they tied your Windows activation key to the hardware IDs. Change your CPU and you might have to re-activate Windows. Or change your motherboard. Or change your network card.

Microsoft always hashed your hardware IDs to form a unique hardware ID they used to tie to your activation key. If you tried to install Windows XP on multiple PCs and use the same key Microsoft would notice and disable your key.

It's the credit card Network. And this is a slashvertisment.

They will pay about $2k a month on that for the rest of their lives... Their starting pay will be about $6k/mo more than that.

The math is not hard here.

You are just noticing it because there are people looking for it. It's the whole, you get what you measure thing. The fabricated data doesn't really do any harm and the people putting out the fabricated data don't usually go very far in their careers unless they get hired by an oil company or something to fake data. And in those cases everybody knows the data is fake we just pretend it isn't so we can drive big fucking SUVs with big cool noisy engines.

Science is about results that can be consistently repeated. The amount of money spent on that fabricated data isn't even a glitch in the system for our economy. We have hundreds of billions of dollars every year spend on propaganda to make you vote to raise your own taxes but a few billion a year on useless research mixed in with useful research and everyone is suddenly freaking the fuck out.

That's not an accident. Part of that propaganda budget I mentioned earlier is making sure you get angry at scientists. You are being manipulated in the most transparent and obvious way imaginable. It's up to you whether you continue to play along with that.

The free speech of scientists we're going after basic reality at this point. What's frustrating is this is a science and technology focused forum and it's amazing how many people chose identity politics over science.

The right wing is very much all about identity politics and not just about bitching about other people's identity politics. When you are in the right wing you are constantly having to express your right wing identity. That's why they're so obsessed with criminalizing abortion and going after gay people. It's a way to let everybody know they are right wing and part of the right wing group. It's identity politics only the identity here is right-wing extremism.

Hollerith cards would be funny, but the real joke would be if it was copied to those 96-column cards IBM invented for their updated keypunch. The square ones with the small round holes rather than the large rectangular ones.

Actually there was a period when most of the CDs I wrote failed. Switching CD writers fixed that problem. (I suspect timing was involved.) But I haven't had that problem in the past several years. (Not that I burn that many CDs, but it's several/year.)

Actually, that's the way science is *supposed* to be set up. But when results are difficult to confirm, the process can be quite slow. And when fake results are easy, they can drown the process in noise. You need the signal to be enough stronger than the noise, and the noise level has been rising.

Partially this is because of corporate science, which isn't shared. Partially this is because of "publish or perish". The addition of AI assisted fabrications is recent, but adds significantly to the noise.

We need better filters

It's a feedback loop. Calling him the reason is oversimplifying.