But it's ok, they won't be selling you out to advertisers, they'll show you the ads and be the middleman collecting money in both directions.

Not that it matters much, VR is pretty fucking pointless once the novelty wears off.

Facebook has been doing this since forever.

Why would he buy something near the peak of its bubble?

Besides, it is only going up like it is because people expect the US dollar to crash as America begins its second civil war. They wouldn't be digital goldbugs if they didn't entertain fantasies of collapse.

What these numbnuts are too dumb to understand is that they can't actually use their bitcoin without a functioning Internet, and not only does the president, legitimate or orangewise, have the "kill switch" at their disposal, and plenty of "national security" rationalization to use it, the infrastructure itself will be damaged by the partisan fighters seeking to deny any communication advantage to their enemies. Their stupid fantasy is unavoidably self-defeating.

The GSA should be held accountable for the solarwinds123 fiasco. They have sat on their hands for years spending billions (trillions?) and not really taking their supply chain seriously. Also worthy of mention is the NTIA's Software Transparency initiative:
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Oh, look, it's Palladium 2.0.

Of course, Apple did it in phones and hardly anyone raised a fuss, and those that did were drowned out by the fanboys. Now that shit is everywhere.

Stallman was right.

We should be doing everything we can to ensure that everyone who wants to vote gets to vote, and that their vote is actually counted.

Anything less is an implicit invitation to violence.

I thought the whole point was that everyone was "non-binary" in the future because gender roles are stupid and obsolete.

Of course the "non-binary" chick looks like a woman cross-playing Wesley Crusher. Which is to say, she looks exactly like teenage Wil Wheaton wearing more than the usual makeup.

The degree to which women wore makeup on Star Trek was particularly absurd. Either everyone would be doing it, or no one would, and it would die out like other absurdities, like wearing ties.

If the show were internally consistent, there would be no trans people, because their technology would be such that no one would be identifiable as trans without a genetic scan, and even that would be insufficient if they had their DNA rewritten. You might as well cast anyone and call them trans, otherwise it seems to be making the argument that trying to look like the opposite sex but failing is the point of being trans.

And I would love to see the outrage from both the SJWs and the alt-righters if the show were to feature people changing sex for the hell of it, and not to align to a gender identity, like in John Varley stories. That would be too woke for the woke.

The botnet uses proprietary software written from scratch

I hope they don't sue the malware researchers for violating their copyright!

Though if you wanted to make it sound maximally pretentious, you should have said

The botnet is a bespoke proprietary solution

And force Apple and Google to allow rival app stores on their devices.

Kind of like how the tobacco companies hired doctors to prove cigarettes were good for you.

Gruber is a prissy fanboy who is conveying "alternative facts". The Enter key is labeled "Enter", and the Backspace key is labeled "Backspace". Nobody cares about the weird names for things in his delusional fairy land.

When the latest trend of populist demagoguery runs to its inevitable conclusion, and WW3 solves climate change for us, ham radio will be the only Internet we have left. So perhaps we should keep those skills current.

Will they block other operating systems from running on it? Is it going to be a computer or is it going to be a console like the phones?

If it is a console, then who cares?

It is neutral. Neutrality with regard to racism is to ban all racists.

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