How the hell can this article start with the premise that this is a "Neo killer" and contain the sentence, "We still don't know what Intel will charge for the chip, nor do we know what you'll be able to buy a Core Series 3 laptop for."

"Intel releases chip to compete with $599 Neo, but who the fuck knows what it will cost" is not serious journalism.

I agree with the whole bit about "power users" being... let's go with "misguided" here, but this:

...Okay? You realize you can do that on Windows, too, right? Or Linux, or BSD, or...

And this bit:

GTFO of here with that BS, what could possess you to make such a bullshit claim... oh.

You're just one of those people that thinks your particular slice is the center of the universe. My dude, there are a shit ton more engineers out there in a ton more disciplines than just "software engineer" and the user population you're talking about is a small percentage of the whole.

This was a default judgement as no one was present to defend Anna's Archive. As such, since no one objected, the remedy is the one proposed by the plaintiffs. This is how the legal system works, there is nothing unusual going on here.

The "worldwide injunction" is, however, an issue the judge should have stepped in on. The USSC ruled on the subject last year that universal injunctions are beyond the power of a district court to grant.

Based on my experiences as a teenager, I would say that "typing and mousing" did indeed affect my reproductive success... but not in a positive manner.

I wonder if humans are less sensitive to lung cancer than other animals: we've been sitting around campfires or in smokey huts for hundred of thousands of years, long before we started smoking tobacco/cannabis. There must have been selective pressure to survive it better, no ?

Exactly. Don't get me wrong. They're both idiotic.

This is the dumbest analogy for this i've seen yet

It's better to organize a mass arbitration campaign. One class action lawsuit is likely going to be far cheaper to defend that 50,000 arbitration claims that the company is on the hook to pay for the arbitrator (not to mention the cost of representation at these hearings) even if the case is ultimately found in their favor.

I think the Archive can reasonably get away with this one. Unlike their "we can give away all the books because copyright is no longer a thing because covid" initiative, this effort is clearly and unambiguously archival in nature. Now, if they go and implement some kind of Pandora or Spotify type service for listening to these recordings, they're going to have trouble, but if the recordings are made available in some kind of academic setting they should be fine.

So the current production version of Mark Zuckerberg is building a newer version with a more intuitive human interface, I get it.

Yes, that's the one. I remembered it was a famous author. It's not as good as the Forever War (what is ?) (where is the movie BTW, it's been in the pipe for years ?) but it was an interesting read.

I remember this Sci-Fi book a couple years ago about a guy who invents a time machine that travels only in the future and when he gets to the circa +100 year mark the US is a hellhole ruled by the Returned Jesus who is clearly just an AI with violent autocratic tendencies; and the country is basically back to 30AD Palestine. And some people still want to build the Torture Nexus.

"Across" not "against". Morons.

If states cannot regulate commodities markets, New York is pretty fucked since it leverages the fact that various exchanges are located in the state to its advantage.

On the early 2000 I was managing several family computers, regularly full of Windows viruses and got fed up. I installed Kubuntu on them and told the users "it's just a new windows update, things might be a bit different" ! There were absolutely no issues except for a few "I can't find this program" "let me ssh in and install this out that". Still ongoing.