The $5K a year just gives you a $300 per person per visit discount. So pays itself back in 15 visits or so.

RFS is dead. Like his wife.

How does a society treat its citizens, specifically parents and children?

Autism -- is human psychology being maladaptive because of this situation. Parents aren't there for their children to imprint-upon. The psychological distress is real. Depersonalization is a result.

This depersonalization happening during acute childhood development phases, exacerbates the problem of social disengagement.

People should be treated as people, not chattel.

Plenty of us nerds can afford this and want to see news about this.

What could possibly go wrong?

Apple is becoming more MS every day.

"Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time"

Its called fingerprinting, and it has been going on a very long time, using techniques that go back decades. This just makes it more persistent and spans attempts to obfuscate fingerprinting in easier ways.

If you want to avoid this, work from a non-persistent VM that is created and destroyed every online session, using no identifiable information (no-logins ever).

Security isn't convenient.

As someone who has been accused, falsely, of cheating multiple times, it's inherently disheartening. There's no way to prove you didn't cheat, you can just deny it. There's accusation is enough in more serious ventures to end careers in some instances. Without proof.

I used to work with someone who had a side job at a publishing company, he had a lot of heartbreaking stories from authors who had lost their work when computers crashed and destroyed it. One was in the middle of a legal dispute over authorship as they had a business partner who had been involved. Copious notes were lost, and the remaining notes weren't sufficient to prove who wrote what or provide a strong amount of evidence for the ratio of work.

The one who did the most work? Never wrote again. The other guy? Found another writer to leach talent off of.

Writing, software development, etc, can be a job, or it can be a passion project. Being accused of cheating with a passion project will suck the fun out of it entirely.

microwave labotomy ... We just put the machine against your head here for a bit and those bad urges go away, all better.

Another poster mentioned that it's actually focussed ultrasound.

Still sounds like breaking a piece of a system by stirring the brain with a knife (lobotomy) or burning it out with heat (cauterization), electricity (electroshock) or mechanical shock (blow to the head) - just carefully focused without (substantial) damage to other parts of the brain or its casing.

Ultrasonic destruction of a piece of the brain's reward/punishment/desire/avoidance mechanism rather than persistent unwanted fat.

Lobo wasn't it.

Seriously, I don't think the presentation of Lobo was on point at all. Not intimidating, a ridiculous Characature of the concept.

Good choice on actor, someone just fails to make a scene presence, and for that I blame the production.

Targeted markets. All in one solutions work best in government contracts, for example.

It always seems to happen when groups don't agree with someone politics. Weird. It almost never happens otherwise.

Them prematurely banning him in this instance proved his point.

You'll understand if you think about it

Sure, but it'll be better when algae is not in the whitehouse.