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Comment Sometimes silence is the best answer (Score 5, Informative) 47

This all started when McNally's viewers linked to one Proven's videos where they made many claims about how secure their locks were. McNally quickly opened the lock using a shim from an aluminum can he cut on camera. Proven's response to that video was to claim the video was faked using edits and suing McNally. McNally's response was to film himself getting a brand new Proven lock from an Amazon drop box shipment and opening the lock without any video edits again using an aluminum can. Then Proven tried to call McNally's wife on her private number. So the next several videos from McNally is where he orders, opens, and picks many, many different models of Proven locks one after the other in a row.

Comment Re:Which is it? (Score 2) 42

Does it make more work than it saves, or will it replace character artists and level designers?

The problem with your question is it is binary. Both situation could occur as AI creates more work for the people that EA did not lay off because EA thinks they could reduce staff that they could not. Remember EA specifically is being bought out in a leveraged buyout. The new owners may only care about the quarterly savings they get when they continuously reduce staff as they sell EA assets piece by piece.

Comment US Consumers may not have a choice soon (Score 3, Interesting) 105

An issue that most people are not aware is the possible switchover to ATSC 3.0 and the sunsetting of ATSC 1.0 for OTA broadcasts in the US. The main problem is ATSC 3.0 has DRM encryption when 1.0 did not. When ATSC 1.0 is retired, all older TVs will need a new device to decrypt OTA signals. Complicating this transition is the ATSC 3.0 deployment has been poorly and stupidly managed. It was rolled out last year with zero compliant and "authorized" boxes. As such many new TVs especially budget ones do not have the decryption hardware because the standards body took so long to authorize devices/manufacturers.

Comment Re:I hope for intel's sake (Score 3, Insightful) 22

Based on what I have seen from the current CEO, long term planning is not his focus as much as short term investor gains. After all the last CEO spent a lot of time and effort trying to get back Intel on solid engineering. But those efforts close too much and did not provide immediate returns so he was fired, I expect those CPU gains to run out next year and the CEO wonders why AMD and Apple are kicking Intel's butt again when it comes to processors.

Comment Re:Some customers may be in a legal bind (Score 1) 51

Virtually no laws require data to be held "on premises", but a few do require it in country.

Not directly but HIPAA requires everyone who has access to the data must be cleared first. When the data is in the cloud, a company has less control over the access of their cloud provider. Adding to that is complication of things like notices of breaches.

Comment Re:After they had already failed... (Score 1) 51

Sears and Montgomery Ward had large mail to order businesses but they dropped those when it looked that type of business would disappear. But in reality that business was just stagnant until the internet became available. The shipping infrastructure needed for mail to order would have been exactly what would be needed for online ordering. The only thing that changed would be how the customer ordered the items.

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