You have to pay for flu vaccines? Wow
You pay for them in Norway too, unless you're a health care worker in contact with patients or in one of the at-risk groups - old people, people with chronic diseases etc.
Some employers will offer them for free - it's common for kindergartens and consultants, for different reasons. The cost is usually around 30 - 40 USD.
Don't worry, RFK Jr. will put a stop to this! That or tell people to drink whole milk and take ivermectin.
Whole milk isn't much of a problem - as long as it's pasteurized. The brain worm is hawking raw milk.
A "tool" that lets one programmer do the work of 20 means that 19 will be laid off, regardless of how well they learn the tools. To say nothing of people working in other industries "disrupted" by those tools who will be laid off no matter what they do.
Not necessarily. If you magically decrease the cost of a development effort by 90%, a lot more projects will be done. The ROI of an effort isn't only affected by the return, but also the investment.
True but has 15GB actually been useful? I don't think I know a single person who has less than 15GB of images/videos. I only know people who turned off syncing for everything, or pay for a higher tier.
But in retrospect when I read your post I'm reminded of one thing that may affect people: WhatsApp backups. With the modern world of everyone sending each other GIF memes it's amazing how quickly Whatsapp storage can fill up if messages and media are both backed up.
15 GB has been enough for me. My oldest email is from 1999, as I imported some older email as accounts - and I've used it since the beta invitation phase.
If I had photos there too it would not be enough, I've got hundreds of gigs of photos and movies - but those are on iCloud where I do have to pay. I've got a local copy on my NAS as well, but the added convenience and safety is worth it. There many memories there, for decades.
You know what they meant. You know that Trump/MAGA hate others and are on a crusade against three words which mean DEI. Don't be that moron.
The ironic part is that they claim to be against DEI because one should select the most qualified candidate... and they end up with least qualified(*) cabinet ever. You can't go lower than e.g. Hegseth and Kennedy - the worm must have eaten most of his brain. And others - who probably know better - pretend not to. E.g Bessent pretending not to know who pays tariffs.
(*)Except for boot licking, of course. That's on North Korean levels in the US now.
Maybe this is just Google saving people from themselves. If your email inbox is 15GB in size I think you may have a problem (or you're abusing the system, in which case Google is taking measures).
The storage is not just used for the inbox, but the archive as well.
I'm trying to figure out why they're requiring a "check in" every 30 days to retain your digital software that you PURCHASED.
Is this some sort of piracy prevention so users can't copy the games out to other consoles? That kind of piracy can't be any worse than the physical game copying or yore so what kind of money could they possibly be saving by screwing over their customers like this?
Doing some research seems to indicate that it's related to a 14 day trial period of games - so one can't download a trial, disconnect the console, and play beyond the 14 days. After 14 days, the authentication is converted to a permanent one.
Beyond that, I'm also trying to see why it's a problem - the combination of a downloaded game purchase and no Internet access sounds rare. And if offline gaming is important, physical games are usually cheaper and shouldn't have that problem.
Why does anyone buy their products? Sony went form perhaps the most admired name in electronics to a fermenting cesspit of garbage and over priced electronics, as well as a predatory and usurious media company. I don't know why anyone buys anything from them today.
Among consoles, the Playstation 5 is clearly doing well - it's a well made product, and to be fair: The new restriction doesn't bother most users. For it to be a problem, you need to be using downloaded games and the console not being connected to the Internet. That doesn't sound like a normal combination. If offline use is important, buy physical games. They tend to be cheaper as well.
Other than consoles, their wireless headphones are among the best, maybe even the best.
Beyond that, they have popular products in the photo category - and while that whole segment is suffering from phones, Sony makes a lot of the sensors used in the phones so they get a piece of that pie too.
Would like to see the data on that claim. BYD (and other Chinese automakers) are notorious for selling data collection platforms. American automakers aren't much better in terms of what insurance companies have been able to scrape from drivers (often with direct support from the manufacturer). But it would still be good to see a breakdown of what each brand logs as well as what it transmitted to where during the lifetime of the vehicle.
This is Europe, so selling that data can get you in deep economic trouble. Same if a company buys it for use in Europe.... Chinese intelligence are surely siphoning the data, though, but I doubt they're selling it.
Every country has problems with the Epstein class. Some more than others. These laws are getting pushed by social media, AI and surveillance companies so they can track us and control us.
This is not being pushed by social media. On the contrary, these are pushed in order to enforce bans of social media to children, which most Europeans want.
There is also a second aspect: Nobody found these issues before, including no attacker. Hence they were not actually a problem. Now they are.
The whole thing is a series of lies by misdirection and LLMs turn out to be more and more of a "permanent delivery scam" were it is always a future version that will finally make good on the promises. The technology is not worthless. But the permanent lying about what it can do has to stop.
You don't know for sure that an attacker doesn't know of or use this problem - or keeps it at hand in case an opportunity arises. A security bug doesn't enter a plane of non-existence just because you don't know that it is actively exploited - yet. It's a problem waiting to happen. These tools make some of them easier to find, for both good and bad actors. Ignoring it won't help.
It is a supply and demand problem.
Since it requires such a huge amount of capital to ramp up production, manufacturers are loathe to ramp up production too quickly for what might turn out to be a bubble, so meanwhile there is excess demand.
This will eventually correct, and if it does turn out that AI was just a bubble, or even if it turns out to be useful but the rate of growth slows down, there will be an excess of memory and processors and we can enjoy cheap prices for a while.
If you want to help lower prices, invest in chip fabs, or stop using AI.
Either that, or if they are too slow in increasing capacity, China might just build a bit and eventually take over the market. If RAM manufacturers are thinking of "if we do nothing, we don't risk money building another factory and we earn money hand over fist as it currently is" they might be in for a rough awakening.
There is a part of me that is ever so slightly disappointed that they didn't emerge from the capsule wearing ape masks.
If they are able to remove ads like this, shouldn't they remove fake celebrity endorsement ads instead? Just removing all ads for crypto and non-mainstream investments should go a long way to fix that...
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