This is an atrocity. We must severely punish Microsoft, Wal-Mart, and the US Federal Government for this illegal betrayal of liberal democracy and our sacrosanct US Constitution. Their seditious acts will be their undoing.

You know, that's real easy for you to say because talk is cheap. What makes you a credible authority on ecological stability? Nothing, which is why your retort isn't worth its weight in hot air. It's difficult, but you're going to need to apply yourself and realize many of the assumptions you believe won't hold up to a reality test.

It's going to be 'interesting' to see what stands up to fill all the empty niches in the ecosystem, if anything, as the biodiversity declines. I don't think it'll be as nice as the Earth we had.

Yes, terrifying is the correct word for this, and in general humanity's inability to deal with the ecocidal consequences of its own environmentally harmful industrial-scale activities. This feels like that scene in the horror movie where the protagonist realizes that nature around them has fallen utterly silent, and they're still looking around trying to figure out why while a horrific fate stalks closer and closer...

Just because something specific once worked for you does not suggest it universally works for all. And then there's items no. 1, 3, and 4 which you've failed to acknowledge or address in two consecutive replies. I'm not saying you're right or wrong, but wow are you obtuse.

"Close the door behind you So the world won't find you Beer, Gin, Vodka, and Wine to drink while things remind you." (Jeddy 3 is what we first called, then it was Jed)" --Grandaddy, Signal to Snow Ratio, "Jeddy 3's Poem"

That's a lot of arrogant and presumptive judgement from a position of total ignorance. I feel like you aren't talking to me because your assumptions to describe me, or really engage with the merits of the post you were replying to. Measure twice so that in the future you can cut correctly the one chance you get.

Computers were learning to write poetry in 1965, according to the Newburgh daily newspaper, The Evening News. "...Some research has also been done on the 'writing' of 'computer poetry' and 'computer music' from information fed into the machines by programmers working with authors and composers." (The Evening News, Dec 27 1965, "Computer May Have Heart.") ( https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.google.com%2Fnewspa... )

A sociopath feels no sense of obligation or duty to the society upon which they depend. Zuckerberg has, again and again, driven Facebook to adopt utterly sociopathic, predatory, potentially even psychopathic policies and outcomes.

1) Zuckerberg was permitted to acquire Oculus, subverting the momentum for a new technological paradigm to be a Facebook asset. Talk about a big steaming diseased turd in the punchbowl, talk about a barrel of corporate hegemonic poison poured down the well. Didn't they realize people would rather have no VR than Facebook's VR? 2) Glasses. Seriously, wearing a VR headset over a pair of corrective vision eyeglasses varies from uncomfortable to actually painful. 3) Poor standardization/compatibility. I remember being so excited to try Subnautica's VR support only to discover they couldn't be bothered to implement game controls via the Rift's Touch controllers. 4) Visual/sensory fatigue; I can practically game all day long on monitors, but there's something acutely fatiguing about wearing this recent generation of full-dive VR headsets if the OR CR1 is any guide.

People who copy and then sell media, e.g.: the textbook definition of media piracy, are certainly participating in a kind of free market, even if the goods being sold are actionably infringing.

People who turn their back on the free market are kind of begging to be exploited. Who tells themselves, "Who needs competition, I'm sure the IPR-owning entity with a direct monetary incentive to charge as much as possible for as little service as possible will always give me the best value and selection!" Why spend $3.19 for a used DVD of Home Alone 2 on Amazon when you could fork over $84/yr to a streaming service like Disney+ and not have it securely in your library instead?

Meanwhile, on Facebook, children are invited to be utterly exploited (by participating). Why does Zuckerberg's beast get a free pass? Why are they now threatening to harass and demonetize gaming, anime, MLP:FiM, etc aspects of what is in fact adult culture?

Funny, the article that claims Bluetooth's biggest problems are about to be fixed makes no message of the way Bluetooth has been a total security liability thus far. I guess the author doesn't consider enduser security to be an essential feature of a wireless networking technology.

Hopefully Microsoft's GitHub, Mozilla, and Cloudflare all give two middle fingers to Modi's oppressive illiberal regime. The Indian government is an enemy to sacrosanct western values of liberty and equality, and everything this implies about our relationship with India. Their government is now an ideological enemy of the west, like Salman's Saudi Arabia, Duterte's Philippines, Erdogan's Turkey, and the criminal Netanyahu-occupied Israeli administration. In all these dark places, oppressed people yearn to live equal and free and those of us who haven't sold their souls to various flavors of oligarchy, fascism, or theocracy have a duty to resist or even collaborate to overthrow these and the rest of the world's many would-be and actual oppressors.