You think the Republicans, who now control everything including the Supreme Court, who can apparently run masked thugs around the country abducting people, denying them due process, and send them to concentration camps, will limit themselves to gerrymandering and a bit of light voter intimidation and maybe another seditious assault on the government if they lose?

The US is in for some highly corrupt elections, and anybody who complains about it is in for a world of hurt unless they're rich, white, and connected.

I think it will be more along the lines of Bubblegum Crisis.

Educated people do not vote for Trump as reliably as uneducated ones. If all the smart, educated people leave, no big loss from his perspective.

Similarly, if smart, talented students cannot get a college degree because they cannot afford it, they are more likely to be too busy to use Trump.

keeping is all poor and uneducated is a deliberate goal of these policies.

Oh, yea, and that reminds me: fuck you for making me agree with him.

I would say no it's not fraud and not even dishonest -- it's actually kind of honest, open and direct in that they put the text right there.

The fraudster is whoever is submitting any paper they were asked to review to a LLM instead of properly reviewing it.

A LLM is not intelligent and not capable of reviewing a research paper accurately.
The AI can look like they are doing what you ask them for, but that is not exactly the case.

As the whole matter of prompt injection shows.. they are actually looking for signals which can be very different than the signals you think the LLM is looking at.
And there can and are very unexpected (As far as humans can tell) interactions between training data and prompts, and what actually happens.

These are the kind of agents that suggested putting glue on a pizza, LOL. There's a good chance the LLM trained on an Opinion piece, and that will affect the outcome of a so-called "review" by a LLM. Like someone writes on Reddit this random crap that the text of the paper pings on, and you'll have a negative or positive line in a review that is definitely not objective or reasonable.

but the requirement is only to charge a battery.

I guess. This would still make 3rd party charging docks possible, however.

The HDMI port on the dock is a separate problem then. And what the EU really needs then is an additional directive that portable electronics which feature a docking system shall support any dock over the USB-C port adhering to the respective USB-C standard; they may not restrict external hardware to specific vendors or devices nor use cryptographic channels or techniques to identify or restrict 3rd party peripheral functionality - the use of cryptographic algorithms, keys, and ciphers is forbidden, except for communications over a computer network in order to secure customer data and customer communications, and to verify the integrity of downloaded software update files prior to installation.

Just wait 'til they find out it's actually a capsule carrying an army of borg drones and nanonites to prep sector 001 for assimilation.

Don't like it? Switch.
Fine. What is your proposed competing console to switch to in order to play Mario Kart World on without the bullshit?

I hope the people who specialize in breaking this kind of protection succeed in giving Nintendo buyers the freedom that they should have by default

They will, but the challenge this time around is Nintendo will likely be making full use of their new power to brick peoples' consoles. Unauthorized dock detected? Bricked.

Bro, you just posted 9 times to this article. If astroturfing caused cancer you'd have given it to all of us by now.

Not sure if it counts because the wifi is only used for peer-to-peer connections with other Nintendos or Nintendo servers. There's no stock web browser or generic media players or such in the store and no way to connect to unlicensed 3rd-party applications or make generic ad-hoc data transfers of any sort, so it might be arguably still a closed ecosystem.

They do label the cable "USB" on the box.

Doesn't the EU have a new standard in place that mandates All new small and medium-sized portable electronics including Laptops have a USB-C connector and must support fast charging the battery from that connector?

To be fair, AMC tickets are usually the cheapest of all the still existing major theater chains by far. I'm sure that by doing this they're just trying to balance the budget. Don't forget that not long ago they were about to have to close their doors permanently until they were saved at the 11th hour by a meme-stock craze. Will it work? Who knows... but I'm sure you can still find more expensive theaters showing fewer trailers.

In a car when a major part is replaced or upgraded, and then it is sold, the seller shows receipts

Yes well cars have many components which cost thousands of dollars and are mechanical with an expectation of lasting years, so there is a meaningful depreciation. Also a car has many systems and is much more complicated than a laptop.

Then you have laptops which pretty much have the SSD and Battery. Every other module is not a single part but many electrical parts and ICs. Monitoring the hours or usage activity is probably not the right thing to begin with for 99% of the parts in a laptop.

Everything degrades so slowly that wear is not much a consideration - a LCD with 5000 hours on can even have a slightly lower failure rate than a brand new one; a depreciation based on usage doesn't really work, because with electronic components it's not strongly related to how much longer the part will last.

Buyers' main concern should be do you have components with failures, when was the manufacture (How old are those caps and ICs), and have those failures been fully corrected with a stable resolution and not a band-aid. And do you have a latent defect that is going to cause a frustrating experience such as random system crashes which has not been tracked down to a specific component. (EXAMPLE: Is the reason this laptop is on the used market is because the owner got frustrated with random glitches and therefore discarded it?)

This is why extensive hardware monitoring testing is suggested. I don't mean casual tests. Run those CPU and Memory at 100% for 72 hours each, sure. But having that device log whether it's run Error-free under normal use over a long period of time should be a huge part, and just as important as some short term stress test.

99% of a laptop's parts are expected to last 5x as long as you would ever use the device. That CPU's lifetime is determined by the date of manufacture not its amount of usage. That LCD that's good for 80,000 hours before it degrades to half amounts to about 30+ years of usage. You could expect a bunch of those 10-cent capacitors on board to die out and numerous other failures of individual electrical components before the largest parts itself degrades from actual use, And there's no way to directly account for the usage and status on all those individual PCB elements.

it's mostly a matter of not highway robbing their loved ones, who haven't done anything wrong.

100% Agreed. These costs are not justifiable for "safety measures".

They are inmates. There is no way a 90 cents a minute - that's $54 an hour is justifiable for safety reasons.

For that price you can pay the wages of two guards who are paid about $17 an hour to personally and individually monitor the inmate every second they were on the phone and listen to every word in that conversation. But you only need one guard to personally monitor them and record their call to $0.02 worth of disk space.

Also, the cost of guarding and monitoring inmates is a state duty not to be placed entirely on the backs of the prisoner and their family.