Yeah, because this vindictive President would never have his puppet acting AG direct the Department of Justice crawl all the way up their ass on the way out, saying that the code was written in the US, and is subject to US export controls (it was, and it is. Source: I work for an avionics company where everyone has to go through US export law familiarization every single year). Then watch them control the export of it specifically against the country you tried to relocate to so you literally can't even work on it outside the US; then every other country on the planet so you have no merchantability.

Congratulations, your brilliant "scheme" just killed the company.

You forgot one critical thing:

Somehow Trump holds uneducated manly-men in thrall despite his Ivy-league unearned diploma and having [b|m]illions of dollars his entire life.

Vance screams "Yale Law" from every pore. That's why he has to keep reminding us all that he comes from Middletown, Ohio - because you would never know it any other way. He's socially repellant and awkward. There's no way that guy can keep this grift together.

We've seen several others try to claim the crown and miserably fail for the same reasons - what country do you suppose Ron DeSantis will be offered an ambassadorship to when he's term limited out, knowing that ambassadorships are where inconvenient people are sent to quietly go away by this administration?

It's not like they have a need for a State Department, after all.

We tried for adult, but she had a funny laugh and was a "she" so no dice. Some number of millions of Americans were either convinced that this guy was the better choice somehow, or are just plain morons that vote against their own interests because the guy on the TV said to.

1. this is great marketing for them. "We're the only AI company with a model so powerful the US government held it back for national security reasons"
2. they would rather work through the objections and get it back online as fast as possible. Bringing in the lawyers, especially around national security, is just a good way to drop an anchor and go nowhere for 6 months while the court figures out how to review all the classified documents and such.

Oh look, a guy that can't actually refute what is being said, so he makes a move-the-goalpost false-equivalency argument equating accumulated wealth to intelligence.

People who think that accumulated wealth is a stand-in for intelligence measurement are people who don't have any money, nor intelligence.

You sound like a simping cuck.

Anyone can miss deadlines. A lot of people do, sometimes very publicly.

This guy is the one of the few humans that seem to be completely above accountability, with an army of volunteers following him around explaining "what he really meant" or explaining why it's actually ok for him to repeatedly lie.

Please stop being in a one-way dependent relationship with such a terrible person. He will never acknowledge your existence, so he will never thank you for trying to clean up his mess no matter how hard you try.

Not only are they falling behind from a capability perspective, they're falling behind from a usage perspective too. There's a reason they're renting out their compute to their competition - because they're not using it and it costs a shitload of money to keep all that powered up.

It would depend on the functionality.

Example, if these things can do real-time translation and "closed captioning" I'd bet they would sell like crazy. But they probably are nowhere near that functional.

If they were brown instead of black, I'd suggest they look like the standard issue "birth control" eyeglasses the US Military issues.

So the Make America Great Again enthusiasts that are so enthusiastic as to buy a fucking smartphone from a politician that has been screaming about Making America Great Again for over a decade won't care that their "Made in USA" marketed "freedom phone" -- promised to have "America-Proud Design" -- is a white-label shitty Chinese phone, made from Chinese parts, in a Chinese factory, for a Taiwanese company who didn't even care enough to design it themselves.

You don't think they care?

You don't care about the hypocrisy of threatening actual manufacturers of unique products (Apple, Google) with tariffs in the same business sector he now has a direct interest isn't a problem?

You don't find it interesting that he is importing cheap Chinese garbage and illegally marketing them as Made in USA for preorders; but quietly crossing that bit out when they shipped a product that only the final assembly was done in USA by some low paid guy in a Florida shed? You don't think the people that paid might care?

You don't think it's worth knowing that the only think that is "American-Proud Design" about this, is the design to separate stupid hayseeds from their money, delivering a half-assed shitty product that barely checks the legally required boxes while running away with the money? Don't you think people might want to know that the only hardware service they can expect to receive is "hah you actually bought one of these?!"

If you are running a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter, you can even install Unbound on the router and config that to be the default resolver for the internal network, as well as the router itself.

It's just running dnsmasq as it's default resolver, so may as well add the debian repos and make it better:

configure
set system package repository wheezy components 'main contrib non-free'
set system package repository wheezy distribution 'wheezy'
set system package repository wheezy url 'debian.org'
commit
save
update

apt-get update && apt-get install unbound ca-certificates

( edit your /etc/unbound/unbound.conf file and restart the service )

followed by:

(Apparently Slashdot's shitty parser can't handle more than one code block in a comment)

I think you would find that if the ads are done in a tasteful unobtrusive way, people don't bother with hacky half-assed ad blocking routines that also fuck up legitimate content thinking it's ads.

It's much like paying for music - when the music business was charging $1 a song, people stopped bothering with all the stupid piracy shit. Even more so now that we have music-as-a-service wherever you have an internet connection.

I don't have any problem with content producers getting paid for their work through ad revenue. I have a problem with them festooning their content with so many fucking ads that I can't get TO the content.

Yes, I'm looking at you too, Slashdot. Mind your bullshit before I find the increased ad-to-content ratio to be the final nail and you get ZERO impressions from me rather than the few you get now.

I'd love to know how the next Chrome update is going to kill the ad block running as my network's DNS host. Even if they try to man-in-the-middle DNS in the browser, I control the network and I'll blackhole that shit at the router.

I'd similarly love to know how the next Chrome update is going to do fuck-all to the plugins I have running in Firefox / Zen.

What a stupid fucking "headline."

It would shock and astound Oracle, who publishes "enterprise apps" like their Enterprise Business Suite (hey look, it even says "enterprise" right there in the title, and is only marketed to large enterprise!) that they don't write and maintain frontend apps in Java. Oh, look, they're the publishers of Java too, so they just might know a thing or two about it.

It would similarly shock and astound the collected finance and purchasing organizations across the Fortune 500 that live in Oracle EBS all damn day moving billions of dollars around that their Java frontend that these systems are not somehow "enterprise"-ey enough because some rando on Slashdot says so.

Dear lord, the arrogance of you to tell billion dollar enterprises what is and isn't an "enterprise app."

So you've never heard of the Americans with Disabilities Act, or the common practice of large enterprises wanting to conform to relevant federal and state laws where they do business that has to do with accommodating disabled workers and not discriminating against workers with protected disabilities?

Or are you yet again opining on shit you have no context of?