Well played

The editor would of been better off editing the original post with additional links on the bottom of it. We could use the word "update" in front of it, maybe something like

**Update**

Just spitballing here really. Maybe that would work though.

Ooh-la-la, someone's gonna get laid in college.

Congress critters don't know technology. They understand AI even less. Things have been moving very fast over the past 5 years with regards to what is possible. The "experts" are the ones that will be writing these laws for Congress. By experts I am Altman and co. While they are the captains of industry, they are hardly the people you want to trust with regards to drafting legislature to regulate themselves.

There are of course other private sector technology groups that aren't compromised by being part of those companies, but I don't suppose they donate all that much in campaign funds, so we can't expect Congress to consult them for needful regulation.

I don't have any clue about how any government organizes their IT. With that said, I would think there would be an IT department that would be determining the hardware and software needs for the various branches and services of government. Otherwise, each and every department would have an IT sub-department and that just sounds like a clusterfuck to coordinate that many IT departments.

I mean, if my retail company can get together a preferred vendor list (fucking apple and microsoft gear... but it mostly works), hardware, etc, then I would like to think the US government could manage this task as well.

I stand corrected. I didn't really think the numbers were that readily available. I also really didn't think video games were THAT big a deal. Thank you for curing me of my ignorance.

This is pretty awesome to hear. I imagine in the future we'll have to shift away from Linux to BSD* anyway. When the masses are on Linux, ala Year of the Linux Desktop, it will most certainly be time to leave.

I seriously doubt either one of us could prove or disprove this post. It seems like an extraordinary claim if you ask me. When someone claims something extraordinary, it tends to require at least a link backing that up.

I have serious doubts that video games are using more electricity then AI is.

I'll agree up to the point but all land is stolen. You either have the resources to hold a territory or you do not. Should we just return all the land to everyone that maybe originally had it?

Speaking of the natives, let's not pretend they were all one big happy family. Native tribes committed war and genocide on each other well before the Europeans showed up. Europeans worked with some tribes to fight other tribes.

Speaking of Republicans, did you note that Neil M. Gorsuch tends to stand up for the natives in his court rulings about the US government treaties with Native American Tribes? Go figure, huh?

  P.S. So I presume you don't own any property yourself? If you do, you'll be giving it back promptly to the natives, right? Yeah, I didn't think so. If you are a renter, your landlord should give your building back, per what you are saying.

I agree. We really could use some truth in advertising.

So you want a vastly smaller government that doesn't regulate the crap out of everything or do you want the full benevolent dictatorship (presumably you?) that makes everything "fair and equal"?

Neither is going to happen.

Your dvd copy doesn't pay to keep the servers running or the personnel to maintain the server. You want to watch your licensed dvd anywhere? Setup Jellyfin on your own hardware and vpn back to your own server. This is Slashdot after all. Get to nerding, you Eternal September.

Funny, none of my software is subscription. I seem to be getting by fine. Maybe people shouldn't be such fucking sheep, eh? Outside of very specific business software, there is pretty much a FREE, as in beer, open source version of software that will do 99% of what you need or more.

Maybe the Eternal Septembers should learn a thing or two about software and push back. May gain some understanding that a computer is not an appliance.

All this law accomplish is that games will literally be labeled as "lease" or "access only". While I can appreciate that straight fowardness, it's not going to result in any tangible difference for the consumer.

In the future, you'll own nothing, and like it!

How do you expect the next generation of consumers to get smarter when Math and English scores have never been lower? They literally can't think anymore. No critical thinking to be seen anywhere. Then you add peer pressure and FOMO. The young will happily parted with their money.

I'm not a lawyer, but it sounds like to comply with this new "bill", the game companies just need to label the transaction as "leased access that is subject to change".

Slashdot would protest but who cares what a bunch of old men think. We're not the target audience. Why try to sell to a 40 year old with expectations when you can sell to a 20 year old that thinks everything is "new".

See the Marvel and Star Wars franchises if you don't believe me. Utter garbage but the new generation doesn't know any better.

Aren't we really just talking semantics now? client/server does imply networking but it's really just how you divide up the software. I run private wow server to play wow single player. In theory, you could cram the server and the client together and viola, it's a single player game with no networking.

Or, you could divide those two things up and now it's multiplayer with networking.

Also, I would be totally fine with going back to the 90s way of multiplayer. With modern tools, you and your friends (lol, no one has friends anymore) could just vpn into your server to play with each other. No need to the "mass" part of the scenario and nothing of value lost either.