Hope you're up on your Sumarian antivirals because I'm gonna Snow Crash your ass.

You're still alive, I see. Yes, it's true, the lethal payload mentioned in the above video isn't actually included within it. I knew there was little danger in linking to this video, but don't you realize it could have been much worse?

Doesn't removing the artist's signature usually reduce the value of a work?

That this isn't the case for Sora 2, tells me something about Sora 2's reputation.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheonion.com%2Farea-man-...

s/constitution/democracy in your case

it's a representative government. the number of decisions you don't and shouldn't need to weigh in on would boggle your puny mind

any view of the world that supposes humans are rational actors is busticated

it's not even a question, there are only a zillion different ways you can prove that people make choices all the time that are opposed to their own interests

you'll spend more money trying to define those questions than you'll save from rooting out "scammers"

it's the tragedy of modern American politics, where more money is spent on fixing waste (or programs unenacted) just because there's some inherent waste

A large portion of the American electorate would rather set their own lawn on fire than see somebody who doesn't deserve money get some, it's pretty funny

because they do something important that nobody thinks you need or wants to pay for.

see: your comment

In a slightly perverted sense, I think these are sort of expert systems too, but their expertise is this: "What has been said, and how can I sound like the people who said it?"

And we wouldnÃ(TM)t have to deal with the enshitification of the iPhone and the Mac.

I won't say it about the Mac but it definitely applies to the iPhone: it came pre-enshittified and Jobs was definitely personally responsible it. The iPhone was a terrible regression in the history of PCs, where we somehow went from personal computer revolution of the 1970s back to the IBM-decides-what-you-run of the 1960s.

It would have been good for Jobs to have left the computer world a decade earlier than he did. He didn't need to die, but everyone would be much better off today if, in the early/mid '00s, Jobs had opened a tire shop or restaurant or gorilla costume rental business. Anything but handheld PCs. It's been nearly two decades (!!!) since Apple out-Nintendoed Nintendo and we still haven't recovered. If anything, things are getting worse.

OTOH the modernization of Mac OS to Mac OS X was done very well, and IMHO the word "Mac" would now be a semi-obscure 20th Century historical reference if Jobs hadn't brought in NeXT and made that happen.

Ah yes, the old "if everyone wasn't an idiot, because I'm not an idiot, we'd be living in a utopia, and since I have confidently declared this not to be a problem for myself, the problem does not actually exist" rebuttal. I think that accounts for 80% of the posts here these days.

Ah yes, it's the "I gave it thought for 2 seconds, and now I have a better solution than the people who've been thinking about it for decades even though it's not my job, area of expertise, I don't understand the problem anyway, and I am free of a litany of other considerations that apply" guy. Good work.

I love that you couldn't explain that without saying that they represent a financial opportunity rather than just, you know, solve a problem better than existing solutions.

Yeah, for what they're charging, they can afford to go the extra mile and have the wifi offer a default route to the internet!

The problem with the police station scene in The Terminator, was that the cops shot back. Now we realize, they wouldn't do that. "Well, no I can't stop you from seeing Ms Connor because you're not a human, so I guess go right in there and do what you need to, mister, uhrr, clanker skin job."

if you're going to manage ANY ecosystem

The premise is that the customer (the person who owns the computer) has said "No thank you, I would rather that I (and my agent, F-Droid) manage it myself. Your interference is unwanted." That's what the owners are doing when they decide to install F-Droid.

I wonder if convicting some Google employees and everyone above them in the management tree of CFAA, might help remind everyone who is allowed to break whose computers.