Comments critical of the established economic order have been ruthlessly downmodded on Slashdot for literally the entire time I've been here, at least. I've been observing that those comments are aggressively targeted for my entire posting career. Anything that asserts or even implies that nerds might on average be part of a privileged class is shat upon with a quickness, presumably so that certain people can avoid ever engaging in any introspection whatsoever.

There's little evidence it will ever fly in Europe, either.

In what way is it a positive thing to make more people more reliant on corporations?

What does that have to do with raspi, where every other version they fuck up something basic like USB or power and then clearly don't do any testing before releasing it on the user base?

Refurb? What are you talking about? You can buy a used dual-core NUC with 4GB/16GB for $50 any day of the week, and when it shows up you plug it in and load software on it and you're done. You don't have to play any stupid games with bootloaders, you don't have to run special snowflake arm versions of anything, you just install and go.

What's daft is your marriage to this straw man bullshit about refurbishing. I have no idea what hole you pulled that out of to try to make your argument valid, but it's literally insane and I'd like you to stop trying to gaslight me.

That depends on how you define good. If it's helping people and making a better world, you're right. If it's hurting brown people and being allowed to marry children, then the reich wingers are getting what they want.

Actually you can watermark sufficiently long samples of text, but the watermarking won't survive any significant and worthy editing process.

I only care about how they vote. And they vote like jackals.

You don't know how to argue, or debate, or even answer comments, do you? Mindless passion is still mindless.

Try rebutting what I said. Can you do that for me? I'd appreciate it.

Corals have been regenerating themselves for several hundred million years. They don't need human help.

Corals have been around for several hundred million years. They survived the comet which killed off the dinosaurs. They survived ice ages and glaciations, the most recent being a 400-500 foot sea level rise just 10-15,000 years ago. They routinely bleach themselves while shifting populations of the critters which give them color.

We puny humans are no threat to corals.

Yeah, the game servers are the problem with that proposal But I'd support the requirement (suggested above) that I they want to stop selling access they be required to open source the code...well, not just open-source, but also allow copying and modification...though they shouldn't be required to allow reselling of the server code or of access to a server running the code. If you want to set one up for your friends, you should be able to. Selling access, however, is a different category.

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They're reasonable targets of investigation. It takes a lot more than that to be reasonable grounds for arrest. (Actually, the investigation should probably be pretty superficial unless it turns up something more actionable.)
P.S.: Most folks investigated should never even know that it happened. Exceptions are things like people who get security clearances...who should ALL be/have been investigated.

Next the agents drive the actual browser, and thus become indistinguishable from a meatsack.