As a resident of a nearby 'sunny, windy' state where we can produce power I don't want politicians in another state having power to decide what we have to build in ours. Keep that kind of thing limited to state lines so we can keep our rules how we want them. I would think we could connect grids and buy/sell power and let the market decide how much and what price makes sense but there are reasons their rates are double or triple anyone around them and I am sure some of those are self imposed. Its a no brainer that the few of us in surrounding states won't want to raise their rates 15 to 20 cents so that those in California can drop theirs one or two cents.

Forgive me if my ignorance is showing but 7850x3D? Is that a typo? 7950x3D and 7800x3D I know of but haven't heard of that model...

You are confusing the two. The one that is 1.5 miles across (2011 UL21) has been tracked for a while (since 2011 I assume from the name). The smaller one (2024 MK) is the one discovered 2 weeks ago is is 'just' the size of a football stadium.

Hmm, I don't know. Makes sense to me but I am a programmer... If I told you to put a pencil in front of you and asked you to point at the end (however many there are), would you point to just 1 or would there be 2? Why can't the 'beginning' of something also be an 'end'? Just because it is measuring time instead of something more physical doesn't mean it doesn't have 2 edges and I'm fine calling those edges 'ends'.

I think what the parent is saying is there is a big difference here.

Option 1) Government puts up a server that they control with a recommended setting and asks manufacturers to provide a software option that users can enable/disable that follows that setting

Option 2) Government has a backdoor to every AC thermostat out there and can actively connect to each one and change what it is set to possibly with a registry of some kind for participants and non-participants

I would guess I am like most people and would be ok with one of the options and not the other...

I agree with you on each point except for one and think like they summary says your very last statement dilutes all the rest of what you might have said. I understand and support intellectual property but wish we had a better term then 'theft' for offense of that law. I can explain to my 5 year old what stealing/theft is but there is no way they can understand intellectual property and how something could be wrong today but be ok tomorrow (in theory anyway if copyrights actually expired as originally intended). I understand morals are all created at some point deciding what is right and wrong but if it is more complicated then what a 5 year old can understand, you will have your work cut out for you getting an entire society to buy in and follow it since I'm not so sure that many have grown up morally past 5. Now you are stuck with just threats of punishment from getting caught and that sounds like an uphill losing battle.

You are right in some ways and wrong in others. There are 2 kinds of business with apps on the mobile stores 1) those who made an app so they have a business and 2) business who later made an app. Many in the first group are will to just jump through whatever hoop is put in front of them since they have nothing without that app. I am a mobile developer (so I know what a monumental pain Apple is at times just because they can) for the 2nd kind working for a technology company that had a business for 20 years before smart phones were a thing and no one else can make our app. Same goes for Epic and Fortnite, no one else can make that app. Yes, there are many apps out there that could probably be written by someone else at this point with enough changes to avoid a legal fight but to say they are not replaceable is incorrect.

It's killed over a half million people in the USA alone. That is a minor threat to you? Some of us care about others. Unlike you.

I think some are having a hard time knowing what to believe since there is so much information out there that contradicts. For example, you are saying over half a million but the CDC is saying about 375,000 which is a lot but quite a bit different then 500,000+. 375k needs to be put in perspective as well since in 2019 that would put it in a solid 3rd place ahead of Accidents at 173k and behind Heart Diseases at 659k and Cancer at 599k.

Except it isn't Apple's hotel, it is my hotel (device). I bought it and it is mine. While the store is Apple's, if they don't allow any other option for me to put software on it, I believe they shouldn't be allowed to set any terms that they feel like that minute and can change any second. If they want to make whatever rules they want, I think they must allow another store or method for me to add apps. We have had open hardware separate from software for much too long for me to accept anything less.

I don't understand how you think the theaters are being cut off by anyone else but themselves. It says right there in the summary that Universal expected to release to both formats. They were still planning on making it available for AMC to purchase and show, they just weren't giving them an exclusive 6 months or whatever where they wouldn't sell it on any other format. The theater chain is the one that said fine, if you won't remove ALL competition to me on some of your movies I won't buy any of them. To me this whole thing sounds perfect. At least some movies get multi-format day 1 releases and any theater that wants to can still show those they want. Ideally customers who have access to a theater have access to more then just an AMC theater but even if there are some who don't, this still sounds like an improvement giving the most choices to most consumers.

Let me guess, if you wouldn't call it 'dumbed down' would you call it 'courageous'?

Sure but since a keyboard doesn't do you any good how do you think you would do with one mouse on a game that players use multi-touch to play?

In my mind it has more to do with intent. I like your example. So I keep a copy of a key to a place I rented a couple years ago and go back and use the key and go in the front door. I think we would commonly say I broke in even though I didn't bust the door or a window or pick the lock. If you don't have permission and try to go in a place that you know isn't yours, are breaking in to someone else's place. If you don't have permission, I think it is fine to call it hacking on a computer even if that is a generic term meaning just doing something you aren't supposed to be allowed to do on a computer and put in even a little effort to circumvent security.

Actually your saved passwords are synced from computer to phone and back again if you are signed in to chrome on both devices. Very convenient but some risk for sure.

I'm pretty sure it can be done you just have to do it the right way. I see places all the time offer a ~2% cash discount but what you can't do is add on a 2% credit card fee.