If Nokia has a valid patent and HP paid up for years then why would they not continue to pay? Despite what you heard, HP is only disabling it on some laptops. This sounds more like a cost cutting move.

Apple added AV1 hardware decoding starting with M3 and A18 chips. AV1 hardware decoders have been on Intel GPUs since 11th generation. For AMD since Radeon 6000 series GPUs. NVidia has had it since RTX 3000 series. Encoding is another matter.

Yes and no. Linux itself does not have HEVC drivers built in; however, it will load third party drivers like in FFmpeg or gstreamer.

It is per device. But it is an additional cost. Cynically, I can imagine that accountants factored in licensing cost when they sold the laptop. Now an executive has found a way to save the company money by screwing over customers. That executive will get a nice bonus this year.

I think the license is $1 per device (per year?); however, I do not put it past HP and Dell to have added it to the cost when they sold the laptop. They just want to cheap out now.

I know a few. I don't know what it may or may not mean. It may be relevant that the ones I know used a community-based approach, where groups of homeschooling families worked together to create something akin to a school, with different parents teaching different subjects. This meant that while the kids socialization groups were small, they did hang out with and learn with other kids, not just their siblings.

It's more than that. Research into the possibility of a link between vaccination and autism has been done, and no correlation found. This is evidence that there is no connection and it's entirely different from a case where no research has been done. One is evidence of absence, the other is absence of evidence. The GP is equating them, but they're not remotely the same thing.

Show me all of the studies that have evaluated the correlation between FSM action and autism. There has been a lot of research on the possibility of a correlation between vaccination and autism, and no evidence of correlation has been found. There is an enormous difference between "We've looked hard and found no connection" (evidence of a negative) and "We haven't looked at all" (lack of evidence).

In addition, there's no need for the CDC to debunk a claims that are not being made, or non-harmful claims. To pick a less-ludicrous example, there's no significant population claiming that eating grapes causes autism, so there's no need for the CDC to address it. Further, if there were an anti-grape lobby touting a connection with autism, the CDC probably still wouldn't need to address it because some people avoiding grapes doesn't create significant health risks to others.

But there is a significant population claiming -- against strong scientific evidence -- that vaccines cause autism, and that claim is causing them to reject vaccines, which does create significant health risks for others. So, the CDC absolutely does need to address it, since public health is their job.

Your analogy is terrible, in every way.

With Apple, it's not necessarily a guarantee that a new version will be better in every way than the old version.'

They've shipped several "new" versions with shittier radios than previous versions over the lifetime of the iPhone alone.

Considering that Apple has had several releases with worse radios than what they shipped immediately previous to those releases, this is kind of news.

Had they not fucked up spectacularly in the past, you would definitely be right.

Electricity is used via wires over state lines, but that hasn't stopped state regulation of that.
Why is electricity in the form of interpretive 1s and 0s different?

So you contend that a MAGA anti-vax guy in charge of the federal agency that compiles and distributes vaccination records and information about viral disease outbreaks isn't a problem, but the extreme edge of leftists with no power whatsoever to change anything in health policy that have anti-vax sympathies are the whole problem... and you're upset about the rightful "-1 Troll" moderation you received?

Rethink a few things please.

Here's what you "win" in "competition" over AI: congratulations, you are now the owner of a tool that sucks down gigawatts of energy to produce no profit and a whole lot of useless Twitter meme slop.

Maybe losing would be better.

Which means this EO isn't worth the paper it's printed on, just like so many others.

Remember when "conservatives" believed in the 10th Amendment and "States' Rights"?

Boy weren't those the days. Now it seems they only care about that when they're trying to prevent the States from limiting the grifting assholes' ability to siphon money out of the public, or if those pesky States are allowing freedoms these tighty-righty dipshits can't abide because they're too busy pushing their virtue-signalling "moral beliefs" down everyone else's throats while violating those same beliefs themselves.

More than that, when I can give a reasonably worded and concise ask to one of these LLMs and it gives me back shit that isn't even remotely right, it's no more impressive than me rolling my face on my keyboard into the Google search and seeing what it comes up with: nonsense and bullshit.

Should we be impressed that they figured out how to burn ever increasing amounts of energy in order to deliver wrong results?