Pretty much everything is going to become uneconomical due to renewables, except other renewables. There will be niche applications where money doesn't matter, like naval reactors on warships, or fossil fuel power plants in places where they really can't deploy renewables... But everything else will go, and there will only be renewables (primarily wind and solar), and storage (primarily battery and pumped).

It's nothing to do with ideology, it's capitalism.

I would have got a Pixel 9 Fold if they had put top notch cameras on it, but for some reason it was a downgrade over the Pixel 8 Pro.

I'd like a larger screen that I can carry in a pocket, so a tablet is going to be too big. The technology seems to have got to the point where it is robust enough for me.

Effective enforcement is easy. Just make some severe penalties for doing it, and crucially for using AI that has been trained on unlicensed material. Then any business that wants to sell AI services will need to certify that they trained it legally, because their customers will demand it for fear of being hit by penalties themselves.

The same rules will apply to foreign made AIs of course.

The EU does that and it has proven successful with things like GDPR.

China won this one so easily it's shocking just how badly it went for Trump. It was so childish that it almost beggars belief.

I suppose the other aspect is that "we can terminate the service with no refund for any reason we like, no appeals" is likely to be considered unfair under contract law in many EU countries.

There are GDPR issues too as the evidence for the decision to ban would be subject to access requests, and if automated to the right to explanation or human review.

Reports differ. "Most third-party Nintendo Switch 2 games are Game-Key cards" by Michael Freeman claims that all third-party Switch 2-only physical launch titles other than CD Projekt's Cyberpunk 2077 are Game-Key Cards, citing a post on X by Gematsu. "Nintendo Switch 2 Editions", or games compatible with both Switch and Switch 2, are less likely to be GKCs.

Watch a chargeback not apply to purchases more than a few months ago. Better yet, watch you end up banned from video game store chains and hypermarket chains in your area.

The argument is that the console is basically a brick without the online service, and any games that require online to work, even single player or due to DRM, stop working.

As an example, Nintendo's new console supports cartridges, but all they do is tell the console to download the game. They don't have any game data on them. Other consoles have been that way for a while too, with discs being little more than a key. Once blocked from those online downloads, the console is useless. At best it might continue playing some of the games that were already installed.

If you dig into the detail, the leaked credentials were stolen from hackers who obtained them from compromised devices. They are not website leaks of throwaway accounts, they are stolen from devices infected with malware.

Given that members of the current administration have already been seen in public using compromised apps, and given that he is likely to be a major target for rival spy agencies looking for ways into US government systems, it was always a concern that Musk employed unvetted and very questionable people, and then got them full access to key systems.

It's been going on in the EU for years. Microsoft and Sony will both damage your console if you break certain rules, permanently banning it from online services. Not just your account or you personally, the actual console. Given that these days online is often essential to the game, and many game purchases are online only, the console is basically useless and worthless afterwards.

There is no appeal process. And of course they do make mistakes.

I have heard that some people have been able to return their consoles to the retailers in the UK, but only Reddit posts so no idea if it is true or not. Legally it is a grey area because it hasn't been tested. People were able to partial or full refunds on the PS3 when Sony removed Linux support via a mandatory (to keep playing games) update, but that's a bit different. If someone did go to court it would be against the retailer, as the consumer rights make them responsible for the product, and they would have a very hard time getting Sony to assist them with detailed evidence to back up the console ban. But then again, the consumer might find it difficult to provide any evidence that they were innocent. It would probably come down to the judge and how much effort the retailer made to defend.

But not everyone's devices are hacked with credential stealers and who knows what else. The guy's op-sec is clearly shit, and now he is inside critical government systems. Given that even senior people in National Security can't seem to avoid using compromised chat apps on their devices, it seems quite likely that this guy is giving your enemies full access to everything he touches.

Don't worry, they can just sell that property and move inland.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

So many jobs put a degree as a requirement, even if they don't actually need one and pay minimum wage. The stuff learned on the course rarely has anything to do with the work. It's just got to the point where people need that bit of paper, and it doesn't matter how they got it.

How much of that came from Texas? It seems unlikely that $1.4 billion is too small to matter for just Texas, and presumably if they did ignore it they would end up being fined even more.

Why in the world would Linus Torvalds want a new kernel to run GNU on a PC? The commercial UNIX kernels that existed were fine.