They wanted to cash in (no pun intended) on the social media aspect. I had to finally get a Venmo acct and I found the whole thing to be patently stupid. I'm not trying to use my sales/purchases as clout or whatever the fuck they envisioned. I don't want a payment social media account. I just want to be able to send/receive money with minimal fuckery/bullshit.

This was my first thought. This also gives all the manufacturers a heads up to quickly change things to putting it all in separate apps if they aren't now so that if the case does prevail and move on, they can throw their hands up and say "we're not doing anything wrong!"

Lol, "Who cares, we've lost the privacy war already, just relax and spread your butt cheeks and welcome the fucking!" *posts anonymously, supposedly for Internet points*

Get the fuck out of here.

Then links to MSN and not WSJ.

120MB, faster read/write, and backward compatible with standard 1.44MB 3.5" floppies. I still have 1 or 2 of these in the plastic somewhere, and 10+ sealed disks.

I keep seeing articles with pretty obvious glaring grammatical errors like this. What the hell is happening?

"This is a problem men cannot fix"

Yeah, they can. I'm 100% with you in having been seeing how men are become the catch-all scapegoat of all the problems, but I also see that like stereotypes, there's a kernel of truth in the hyperbole. The vast majority of DV cases are perpetrated by men. The vast majority of sex crimes are perpetrated by men. Unfortunately, the "patriarchy" is responsible for why a lot (perhaps even most) men grow up emotionally stunted. Most of us are keenly aware of how we were raised only being allowed to be happy or angry, sad had to be minimized and anything else made you a "sissy" or worse, some of us grow up with decent dads but a lot are not fit to be parents because they had bad parents, etc. etc. It's a long cycle that needs to stop somewhere, and we can't rely on others, esp. our partners, to fix it.

So yeah. We do have avenues to fix our own shit. It does suck, we didn't ask to be born or to get the life we had or have, but like it or not, it's up to us to do something about it.

How is this news? It's been a sad reality since just about forever.

All those "little things" lead to death by a thousand paper cuts. I agree, money doesn't solve everything, but it makes the majority of life a lot easier. Yeah, you could die a million ways every day, but it doesn't change that until we get rid of money and systems based on it, having more (to a point) will always bake things better/easier.

Not hating on Chinese goods, people just want things to be affordable and not complete shit. We're not going to get it from pseudo-domestic brands because "Geld über alles" is the "American way!â"

I mean, tons of things are "gamified" without being full on video games. Manufacturing consent is a sort of game for companies. They dangle various carrots to get us to pull their carts every hour of every day. It's the cornerstone of sales/marketing/advertising.

Ergonomics is subjective. Different people grip their mouse differently. I use a claw grip, so having so much mouse body is less important. Some fully palm the mouse, and so they need the body of the mouse. Others like the sideways ergo mice, or trackballs (conventional or thumb type).

I don't move my mouse using only my arm and wrist. I primarily use all of my fingers, keeping my arm stationary and my wrist making only minute movement left/right. As such I have much finer control over its movement. If I switch to trying to do it with just one finger, the movement becomes jittery and imprecise. Having buttons at the end of all 4 fingers would likely lead to a lot more mis-clicks, and would remove my pinky as a gripping finger.

That's not to say your idea might not work for some, or in specific scenarios, but I can't see it working for myself or anyone else who mouses in a similar fashion. The location of the movement sensor is largely immaterial, it will work more or less the same no matter where it is located.

And companies like Google already have a decade plus head start. They've had access to our e-mails, etc. (assuming use of g-mail) for a long time, and somewhat recently decided they should have access to our text messages as well. I have no doubt that they could have their AI pick people out of a sea of people based on the learned patterns of communication. Reddit having ai loosed on it is a similar trove. I'm sure people's alt accounts in various places will quickly be noted in the background (if they haven't already) as being the same person.

It won't need all that sport of information. It'll be able to recognize patterns in the usage of the words themselves.

Show me an AI that doesn't use existing works to generate its content. If it were fed only on things in the public domain, then no, it wouldn't infringe because there would be no copyright. If it uses the works of people still living and/or covered by copyright, then it absolutely infringes. Shouldn't be hard to suss that one out.