If they weren't ripping people of with every purchase there would no need for a "discount". I was the "guy" who was forced to replace our really nice Commodore Pet computers with that crApple BS in HS. Apple never did anything for the schools that they didn't get paid for. Their software SUCKS, their networking SUCKS. In an effort to be "cool" and trendy apple has made supporting their stuff annoying time consuming.

GM's future is so dull that they sold their shades. A company that has no future needs very few employees. If the US allowed Chinese imports the US companies would be gone already.

This is about getting wholesalers to pay them to take the data about where they source their stuff and who they sell it to at what rates so Amazon can replace their step in the chain as well.

A former head of AT&T back when it was The Phone Company made a comment along the lines that the long distance network had to be built to cope with with mother's day and everything else was free. It was used as an example of how guesses about CapEx vs OpEx can go very wrong. It might have been Fred Kappel who said that.

I really think Roblox is missing the point.

Sure, age-verification might impede underage use of their product, but there are a lot of adults that understand the age-verification movement to be an invasion of their privacy. Whether or not this is true, "perception is reality".

"chase kids on ebikes across parks and playgrounds."

The problem is they aren't in parks and playgrounds riding their "e-bikes" (they're more electric motorcycle than bicycle). They're on the road with cars and major traffic. I see it, particularly, in more affluent neighborhoods (Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach, Santa Monica).

And we're not talking about a few... They're everywhere -- particularly after school hours and weekends.

This is just another sad attempt at a walled garden. I play games...lots of games in a wide variety of genres. I love GOG and ITCH. I am on steam and another half dozen platforms but I rarely buy anyhting I cant download for offline cosumption. In a setup like this, you own nothing, and even mod'ing is totaly controlled by an entity well known for SUCKING.

the *ZDoom engines and modding community have given me far more game hours than ANY published game. 40oz. and the DBP folks deserve credit.

WoW. Your AI can match their AI on a task that NOONE wants done. The previous AI results were tossed because the bugs they reported were 80% typos and formatting errors that everyone else agreed were to be left for student training. Thanks AI...
What we need is for everyone's AI to code a personal OS based on a standard API, but with totally different spaghetti back ends. Then recode on a monthly basis.
#hackthat

Corporations don't understand "nefarious". Their understanding is Binary: profitable or NOT proftable. They do what is profitable...

It already does. Residential building projects require a power/water/sewage infrstructure plan that ensures there is enough utility for the number of projected buildings/residents. Heck in my state they do a green space study and often make developers install a wash area for runoff.

I've worked in many across North America and outside it for a decade or more and he is for the most part correct. Call Centers are good business, Data Centers are utility hogs that run dark.

The real problem is that given his rank, he would be in a position to hear things sooner than others further down the food chain. Anyone paying attention to who is doing any betting could have (or should have) asked what they might now that would cause them to place the bet they did. In this case, it boils down to an OPSEC violation, and that's illegal under any circumstance, punishable by UCMJ if not actual civilian law. The fact that the FBI are involved tells me that this guy will probably be facing UCMJ violations too (if he's lucky, court martial if he's not), and may not be a Sergeant Major any longer when the dust settles.

Curious, then, that if such a law was already passed that recently that the likes of Pelosi (and surely other members of both parties) still managed to get around it.
Congress (as a whole) acts as if their shit doesn't stink. It's high time they get reminded that it most certainly does.

Isn't everyone working at the pentagon a drone already ?

"If we're building agents to help people complete everyday tasks using computers, our models need real examples of how people "actually use them -- things like mouse movements, clicking buttons, and navigating dropdown menus," said Stone."

Why on earth would the computer need the input and visuals that meatbags use ?!?! The mouse clicks and drop down menus are for users that have eyes. The program would not use them.