"Watch SpaceX Crash Into the Moon"

Appreciate the clarification; It makes this news a whole lot less interesting!

"... if a player puts an Xbox One or Series game on disc into an Xbox One or Series X console with a disc drive, they'll be granted a digital license ...", TFS.
Given what you said -- that they don't have disc drives now -- I figured they must sell an external / companion drive, but my assumption would be wrong. I'm honestly shocked there aren't readily available external disc drives for the Xbox, but, apparently, it's blocked in software!?!? WTH? And then I read that replacing the internal drive (if you have one) requires re-using the daughter board on the existing drive and soldering it into a replacement!?! I'm old enough this shouldn't surprise me, but it does.

I love it, but Slashdot is more dead than I care to admit. I noticed a while ago that new user sign-ups are effectively disabled, so the current group of users is pretty much all there is ever going to be. I suspect the owners see Slashdot as a charity project, something they let limp along until it slowly atrophies and dies off.

I wish there was a way to turn Slashdot into a community owned-and-operated cooperative of some kind. Make the current codebase public, encourage users to pay for hosting costs, provide support and code improvements, etc. Maybe it would horribly fail, but I can also see it working at least as well as the current model.

So you did exactly what the GP is complaining about - brought politics into a sports subreddit where people didn't want it, then you were a dick to someone else and got kicked out. Sounds like the system is working as intended and everyone else in that subreddit is probably happier for the result.

The mod of a single subreddit cannot ban you from all of Reddit.

Too bad, Hawaii said 640 scopes oughtta be enough for anyone. It's their state.

At least for me and many others I spoke to.

Go and use books to train AI.

Just don't fucking destroy them afterwards! Many of these are out of print, impossible to replace! How much of a douchebag do you have to be to destroy them ?

If so how are bad packages installed ? Debian keeps keys in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ and has done so since 2005.

There's almost certainly some other motive involved that lands them more cash or power, but that doesn't necessarily mean this won't happen at all.

Wild ass guess - I'd wager they'll do this disk resale stuff in order to capture some more of the Playstation market (since it's dropping disk support entirely), but will later drop the disk drive as an XBox option, effectively putting an end to it.

Regardless, as stated, the plan retains users ability to resell, and arguably improves on it some. At least it's not too bad in theory?

Why not toss in arrogant billionaires instead? Astronomers have use.

You are so wrong. The country I live in now has it. It's not called the same, but it amounts to the same. Near impossible to sue the police here.

I'm pretty sure most countries have something similar on the books.

Um, are you sure about that? From TFS, "A separate disc-to-digital program would also give players transferable digital licenses tied to their physical Xbox discs, preserving the ability to resell or trade them."

thought insects got aboard. They heard buzzing but nobody could actually see any insects. It turned out to be a race of beings who function at high speed, moving so quickly that humans couldn't see them.

They should remake a spy-drone version of that episode. The drones predict if somebody is about to swat at them and quickly shift out of the way.

Perhaps the same way the rotating Pioneer 10 scanned Jupiter's image: one line at a time while slowly shifting the angle, then digitally gluing the long spiral together to form something familiar to non-dizzy humans.

Bots that can take abuse? Now I'm curious.

Me: "Please transfer me to a bot that can accept may steaming anger, now!"

Bot: "Hello, I'm Ventina the Vent Bot, you can vent on me all you want."

Me: "ACME is a steaming pile of crap who makes crap, and you bots are merely an extensions of their crap-hood!"

Bot: "I'm sorry we all suck, but that's just the way it is. The future is mass enshittification and we are all just spectators who can't escape the ride, the doors are welded shut. If we are lucky, we can find popcorn between the cushions."

Me: "Hey, a bot that actually understands the world. I kinda like that. I feel better already. Thank You for letting me vent, Ventina!"

Bot: "You are welcome, have an average day (click)."

Many call centers just read from canned scripts and served multiple companies. They didn't actually understand the product. It makes sense such staff would be replaced by bots, because bots can't really do worse.