"That's just dumb, when a better alternative is to just not connect your TV to the internet."

If the solution works, is it really all that dumb? By keeping that CRT going, it is one less piece of garbage polluting the planet. And, if that CRT is still operating after all these years, that is a testament to its reliability. It is the OP's solution to a problem, and one that the OP is apparently quite content to keep using.

...and with an equal chance of success, imagine.

If speed was the most important factor for choosing software, I would be running Linux instead of Windows 10.

If you are dumb enough to stick a rock in your vagina, boy do you deserve what you get!

The reality of the modern age of computing...computers are going to be better at a lot of games than humans. Period. Just accept it now. Some games may take longer to match and exceed human capability, but it will eventually happen.

Welcome to reality,China.

The Russian government should develop their own distro and should call Vladimix.

Joke aside, it makes sense that that Russian government would want to, and should, switch away from Microsoft Windows; ensuring one's data security is important.

This technology could extend the useful many languages, it seems.

node.ada
node.apl
node.pl1
node.snobol

...they never stopped to think if they should.

Please, stop creating excuses to keep all that old FORTRAN and COBOL code around. Think of the children!

Really? And where exactly is one to find that much raw material for batteries? REMs are not all that cheap, and as demand goes up, the fact that China controls 95% of the world market is going to bite them in the ass.

Yes, it is a very real possibility that a trip to McDonald's may mean pushing a few buttons and a machine delivered your food to the counter. That kind of automation will mean the loss of less educated workers, but it will create an opportunity for a new class of workers that will be trained in the installation, operation, and maintenance of such systems.

In other words, those that can succeed, will succeed. Those that will succeed will be further filtered out from the society.

One might think their tax revenue service might know what the citizens are making. No need to burden the citizens with inane questions, just go ask your government accountants.

"25% of tax payers ended up pay 0%, sir, and 50% of those saw a redistribution assistance." Cross reference said non-tax payers with the postal codes and voila. You know how many poor you have and where they live.

The NSA spying was bad, you won't see me defending it.

Google Ads remembering that I was shopping for sexy panties for my wife and then seeing those ads while at work caused a bit of embarrassment. Yes, also a touch invasive.

And they should both be stopped.

I fail to see how pointing out other actions of evil justify a government mandating the turning over of such private information. Did I miss something in your rant?

A government forcing you declare your religion, or if you own guns, etc is an invasion.

The onerous nature of the questions lead to massive violations of privacy. NO citizen of any country should ever be compelled by force of law to reveal the private information of their lives. The government has ZERO right to know anything beyond the fact that I am alive and paying my taxes per the law. They don't need to know my skin color, my religion, what I do for a living, etc, etc.

The information they want to gather will only lead to the further degradation of the privacy of the citizens.

If this becomes common practice among all of the malware checkers, then I can retire my PowerShell script that remotely uninstalls this bastard software.

Um, yeah, talk about misleading.

"Nine of the 13 states increased their minimum wages automatically in line with inflation: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont and Washington. Four more states - Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island - approved legislation mandating the increase"

Correlation really does not indicate causality when you read the entire article. North Dakota has an oil boom, which is spiking employment. Ohio still grew, despite a MW of $7.95. The whole complaint by the CBO was that jobs would be lost if MW was increased to $10.10 across the ENTIRE COUNTRY. In these 13 states, most are no where close to $10.10/hr.