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Comment Re:Why the fuck...? (Score 1) 22

Because if you can get the Chinese government to share its secrets with your computer, then you get to be the new Chinese government. How can you look at the power Putin has over Trump and not want something similar?

As a pro-US person, I want China to be using these US-hosted tools, and I want people like Hegseth prosecuted for anything they knowingly leak.

I'm not saying every server in the US needs to have a "please upload your most valuable secrets here" form, but shouldn't there be some? It might as well be whatever's currently "hot" since that'll invite the most unwitting cooperation with US Intel.

Is this not common sense?

Comment Xen/JVM/etc loophole? (Score 1) 153

"COVERED APPLICATION STORE " DOES NOT INCLUDE AN ONLINE SERVICE OR PLATFORM THAT DISTRIBUTES ANY OF THE FOLLOWING APPLICATIONS IF THE APPLICATION RUNS EXCLUSIVELY WITHIN A SEPARATE HOST APPLICATION:

(I) EXTENSIONS

(II) PLUG- INS

(III) ADD- ONS

(IV) OTHER SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS .

Is a JVM an application? Is a hypervisor an application? Is lua/cpython/awk an application?

If so, then we could theoretically split our repositories into two, where only a subset of "applications" need special handling, and higher-level applications can be free of any new problems. Of course, the "special handling" will still be an absolute nightmare.

Comment Sign me up! (Score 4, Interesting) 19

It's about trying to hit critics of the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] with everything, everywhere, all at once.

Ok. I hereby want to say: Fuck the CCP. I criticize you. You're wrong about everything. Taiwan is a separate county and CCP needs to bow to their authority over mainland China even though it's a different country. (Sorry if that last sentence doesn't make any sense, but it's the thought that counts (right?) and also I'm joining Falun Gong so maybe religion simply broke my brain. But I wholeheartedly believe it!)

Tear down the wall. I want to see you invaded by the Mongols again. I support the Mongols. And Taiwan. And Japan. And South Korea. And Pakistan and India too. I hope they all invade you. I hope they're all already undermining your economy and security. I support all their solid, very compelling claims on "your" territory.

Is this enough, or is there some form I need to go fill out? I wish to subscribe to your intimidation service.

Comment Re:Why do they do this? (Score 1) 13

I read that and was simultaneously laughing and angry. I'd call it a load of horseshit, but that would be insulting to horseshit.

What a bunch of windbaggery. Meaningless, feckless corporate speak.

We know. They know we know. We know they know we know. They don't care.

Nothing says "fuck you" like a "well worded" press release. It was only missing the AI EM-DASH.

Submission + - NY AG Letitia James is suing Valve (cbsnews.com)

DesScorp writes: James is going after Valve on gambling charges, stating that loot boxes are predatory, especially for underage gamers:

"This loot box model that Valve has developed—charging an individual for a chance to win something of value based on luck alone—is quintessential gambling, prohibited under New York's Constitution and Penal Law," the complaint says. In one of the games, the process even resembles a slot machine, according James. Since the prizes in the loot boxes are determined randomly in accordance with odds set by Valve, James alleges, that effectively makes Valve an online casino. "Valve, a video game developer, has made billions of dollars by letting children and adults illegally gamble for the chance to win valuable virtual prizes," James posted on social media. "These features are addictive and harmful. That's why I'm suing to stop Valve's unlawful conduct and protect New Yorkers."


Comment Re:Which TV manufacturers are still making their o (Score 1) 36

LG, maybe...

Probably not for long. You may as well buy that no-name TV made in Vietnam now, because name brands have ceased to mean anything in this space. Just about everyone followed RCA and GE and Philco, who all stopped making sets in the 80's, and made all their TV money licensing their names to cheap Asian third parties. There hasn't been a real RCA TV since 1986.

Comment Re:Zoning (Score 1) 95

Oh the day has come when people look at vile, despicable anti-capitalist actions in cities and think "lets do the same thing in farmlands".

Zoning laws, not high taxes, are the reason people are fleeing California.

Uh, it's both, and crime too.

The lack of multifamily housing (condos and apartment buildings) is why housing got so expensive.

Housing got expensive because California become like New York City: A place where the young want to be because its "the center of it all", which creates luxury pricing conditions for everything, not just housing. As packed as LA and the Bay Area have become, you're only going to get more apartments by seizing single family homes by eminent domain and tearing them down. That's not America, and even in California, that'll get you a fucking riot. Go on, try it and see.

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