Is the seizure warning skippable? If not, how long does it remain on the screen?

Now, take that number... however many seconds it is that someone decided it takes to read that warning that everyone MUST read EVERY TIME they play that game... and multiply it by the number of people who bought the game times the average number of times they will play the game during the time they own it, and calculate for hours. This is variable a. From there, you can use analytics to determine the typical user's social cohort, find that demographic's average annual income, and divide out to hours. This is variable b.

Multiply a by b, then add in the cost of the time of the copy writer who created the warning, the engineer who implemented it, the QA who tested it, the build & release engineer who made sure it went live, and however many pencil-pushers were involved in the decision. There is your cost.

> heroine

LOL, what? That dingbat thinks that marrying into money and prancing around on red carpets as if she were an actual Oscar winner makes her some kind of HERO???

Hell... she an assclown who deserves to lose just for the delusional conceit.

> but then it has quite literally 600 other trackers
> spread across the page

All of which I was perfectly capable of blocking, and did block, before GDPR; all of which I still block, regardless of those stupid GDPR popups; and all of which I will continue to block when the EU inevitably changes things up again and GDPR goes the way of Safe Harbor, Privacy Shield, probably others that I don't recall off the top of my head, and the dodo bird.

I've never needed a pack of pinheaded busybody bureaucrats to hold my hand on the internet from the other side of the ocean. I don't need them now. I won't need them in the future.

Drop off? What is this "drop off" of which you speak? Okay, I jest. And maybe I'm an old fart...

But has parenting really gotten so... helicopter... now, that they won't even let their kids ride the school bus? Is that common? I mean... I was taking the bus to school by 2nd grade. It's a perfectly normal rite of passage and an early step in learning independence and responsibility. Seriously... what the fuck? And what are these kids going to do when one day the parents aren't around to do everything for them?

You don't have to give a shit about farmers, one way or the other. DST is irrelevant to farming and I really can't fathom how that myth that it is and is kept for the farmers got started. Cows don't read clocks. Nor do pigs, chickens, or sheep. Crops don't operate on clock time either. So neither do farmers. They tend to the crops and animals when the crops and animals need tending to; no matter where the big hand and little hand point.

So really... you *SHOULD* care about farms and farmers. You *DO* have to eat, after all. But they are entirely irrelevant when it comes to daylight saving time.

For some people it's not the hour of sleep, it's suddenly waking up an hour early. I'm one of them. If I stay up an hour late and get up at my normal time, I'll be more groggy and tired than usual for a while. But I'll be functional and more or less normal by the time I get to the office. If I go to bed at my normal time and have to wake up an hour early though... Let's just say I'm not a pleasant person until I'm about three coffees into the day.

Plus, the daylight lasting an hour longer is a bummer in the evenings; causing a 1-hour delay in the beginning of the city's nightlife. That's bad enough on the weekends, when you can at least sleep in the next day. But when the day's fun time starts an hour later, but you still have the weekday alarm to go to work the next day, it puts a crimp in the social life, which is... also... a bummer.

Well maybe schools could just not have such absurd hours that not only muck about with daylight but are actively detrimental to their students' health.

Just HOW many studies have there been about how important a good night's sleep is to a child's, and particular a teenager's, health and ability to focus and pay attention on class? I couldn't begin to guess. But they all pretty much agree that they need more sleep and waking up early adds to the detrimental effects of the insufficient rest.

And yet... When I wasn't in high school, first period started at, and I shit you not, 7:30am. That meant a 5:30am wakeup to catch a 6:00am bus. I can't even deal well with a 5:30 wake-up now as an adult, with access to coffee and even ephedrine. The only way I'm functional at 5:30am is if I've been up all night. If special circumstances like an early flight I have to get up at the butt-crack of dawn to catch necessitate, I pre-stage a 5-hour energy on my nightstand, have the coffee maker all set up to go the moment I'm out of the shower, and have all of my bags fully packed, weighed, and arranged the night before. As a teenager, I was the walking dead that early.

Elementary school was not much better. Classes started at 8:15am. Oddly, middle school was the odd duck out and started at a much more reasonable 9:30am.

Sy yeah... maybe instead of playing shenanigans with everyones' clocks, schools should try listening to the people who actually study and know about childhood development and shift their hours to a later and more reasonable time in general.

What is clearly needed here is an update to the privacy laws. Sure, with a paid account anonymity is not a thing. But OpenAI doesn't need to know my address, eye color, whether I am allowed to ride a motorcycle and with or without glasses. And they sure as shit don't need my license number, which is very useful for identity thieves. This is a drastic overreach to gather WAY more PII than is necessary to deliver the service, and they need to be slapped down hard and fast.

And this trend of "scan your ID in to use this app/service/site/etc" bullshit has been proliferating. And let's be real... they're really gathering that information for marketing purposes just like rave and club promoters do when THEY swipe your ID in those machines that "validate your age" that have been a thing for a couple of decades now. No, that's not made up. A shady promoter actually admitted as much to me back in my raver and club kid days. No one actually gives a rip if you're over 21. Money is money. But they harvest your address when they swipe your license and sell it, along with the club/party you attended and who was DJing.

So this will NOT stop on it's own. We need some jurisdictions that actually DO care, at least a little bit, for their citizenry, to act. Which means that it's the GDPR and CCPA that can fight back against these shenanigans.

It obvoiusly doesn't apply here, because UK and all that. But if this were the US, GP would be very much correct. It's been to court... all the way to SCOTUS even. Once something is disposed of, it's fair game unless there is a local ordinance saying otherwise. You might get charged for *trespassing* if you invade someone's private property to go dumpster diving. But if it's not on private property... or if you have permission from the property owner to go through their garbage... there is no theft. Also, there is no 4th ammendment when it comes to your trash. So if you put the waste chemicals from your home meth lab in the trash bags on your curb, yes... the police can pick it up and it is evidence, no warrant required.

I dunno... at this point, it's not like ChatGPT would give *worse* advice than whatever you might get out of HHS. I would take medical advice from GPT before I would trust 45/7, RFK, or Oz to tell me that the sun is warm or water is wet. If you're taking advice from an AI, there's at least a chance... actually a fairly decent chance... you'll get the right answer. But even if it were only batting .300, that's still better than raving loons ranting on about how vaccines cause autism, ivermectin can cure everything from COVID to a stubbed toe, and if ivermectin can't do it colloidal silver can.

I don't so much see AI as a Stack Overflow replacement, per se; but as more of a research assistant that will correlate things like Stack Overflow with the official documentation, my own code, and the code of the other developers at the company. It's fantastic at pointing me in the right directions. But I find that I have to repeatedly tell it to review and cite its sources. And the code it generates can be a decent starting point, but has always needed a lot of work to make it production-ready. It's far too obsequious and inclined to telling me what it thinks I want to hear versus the truth. And biases itself towards fast and east solutions that may come back to bite me in the ass later. So I'm very wary of its solutions. But for troubleshooting and figuring out what the problem is in the first place, THAT is where I've found that it shines.

In general, I would agree. But "most favored" clauses are not exactly as uncommon as you probably think. In fact, the US government itself insists on "most favored" terms in most GSA and other procurement contracts. So they're hardly ones to talk. Instead of targeting the company, because we don't like Bezos these days; we should target the behavior and ban those clauses... everywhere.

It wasn't just DeCSS. There was also RSA, which either the Clinton or Bush... it's been so long I'm uncertain on the timelines... DoJ claimed was "munitions," making the PGP guy an "arms dealer" under American law. And t-shirts with the RSS algorithm printed on them were definitely big back in the day. I had one myself... RSA in perl in the shape of a dolphin... bought on Thinkgeek and worn, like many others, openly on the streets of San Francisco for quite a while before either I lost it it or wore out. Some people even got RSA in tattoo form. Tech, even the rank and file, was more apt to take a dim view of outside interference in its business back then.

I mean... it's probably sitting in his GitHub account somewhere. The security and sharing settings on those can be kind of obtuse. And it's a microsoft product, so you can count on it to be about as "secure" as a slice of Swiss cheese even if the user did everything right.

Or, really, he should have just some GPL code himself, that way he'd be obligated to open the code.

> color does do something

Yes. But in this case, the color RED does NOT. You may recall that a couple of decades ago, there was a flirtation with making fire trucks and other emergency vehicles a certain shade of yellow-green that looked like you just drank a glass of Nickelodeon slime, chased it with a florescent highlighter's innards, and then vomited the whole mess back up. But that color wasn't random. Actual studies were done. And that neon green puke color is actually MORE visible to the human eye and MORE attention-grabbing to the human brain than red is.

But there was a mass backlash and now fire trucks and other emergency vehicles are red again... because tradition. Red == NFR. Puke-green == functional.