Comment Re: LOL wut? (Score 1) 53
Comment Re:Sounds like more granularity options ... (Score 1) 53
Which just sounds like an even bigger hassle for RMM on Macs, which already sucks. I don't need endpoints requesting permission to run a backup or start the EDR.
So, I'm hoping I'm wrong.
Comment Covid GRIFTERS. I NO LONGER "trust the science" (Score -1) 21
Comment Re: And if we had a spine we'd have voted for (Score 2) 53
Kamala Harris because she would sure have enforced antitrust laws to save us all from the evil billionaires.
Exactly who do you think donated to her (literal) billion-dollar plus campaign? Oh, right, it was the retired teachers and widowers that donated hundreds of times a day they Act Blue, purely grass-roots, bottom-up campaign financing, no billionaires... LOL
Comment Re: So in the end it's all because of the boomers (Score 1) 53
You keep seeing kids wandering on to somebody's property playing hide and seek and getting blown away in broad daylight. Usually black kids in the south. And usually the boomer gets away with it.
No, you don't "keep seeing it". I've never seen it and I suspect neither have you.
I've never seen any kid get "blown away in broad daylight", not "black kids" or any other kids, and it follows I've also never seen anyone "(get) away with it", boomer or other, because it never happens.
I'd appreciate three different examples of small "black kids" that are "blown away" in "broad daylight" for merely trespassing on someone's property, if you can't find at least three examples, can you really claim it happens "all the time"?
Comment Re: Its just not working out (Score 1) 53
Single-payer healthcare will not drive down healthcare costs, no more than federally-backed student loans have made college more affordable.
The last time politicians tried to "fix" (or, if I'm feeling generous, "improve") healthcare in America, they took a blank piece of paper, had the healthcare industry lobbyists craft a solution that required every uninsured American to buy "affordable" healthcare coverage from a private insurer (the folks paying the lobbyists) using federal money, then passed the bill into law without understanding what it was ("we have to pass the bill to find out what's in it", and the bills sponsors got angry when reporters asked them what was in the bill, remember "what good is reading the bill if I don't have lawyers with me to explain it to me"?).
So excuse me, but I'm a little reluctant to look to these folks for a solution to our so-called healthcare crisis...
Comment Re: Fuck you Larry Ellison (Score 1) 53
mostly because of the money people like the ellisons and the fat nazi threw at the elections, distorting the democracy from its traditional meaning of one person having one vote
So, money in politics is the issue?
Didn't his Democrat opponent outspend Trump by a YUGE margin, like, I don't know, 100% more? The democrats burned thru over a Billion dollars in 107 days and wound up $22M in the hole when the votes were counted and Harris/Walz lost in 2024?
Is that the money you want to keep out of presidential politics?
Comment Re: Its a trap! (Score 1) 40
I don't understand this contradiction:
require employers to send written notices to workers if AI is responsible for mass layoffs and ban employers from relying on AI to decide to fire someone...
So you can't use AI to decide to fire someone ("ban employers from relying on AI to decide to fire someone") BUT, if AI is responsible for MASS layoffs (fire lots lots and lots of 'someone's'), you have to give the (terminated?) employees "written notices"?
You can't do it, but if you do do it, you need to use written notices?
Comment This is a stock price ploy (Score 4, Insightful) 120
Google knows full well this makes no sense, but Elon Musk said we would put data centers in space so everyone has to act like they will do it too. Heaven forbid Wall Street catches on early to the data center debt bomb.
Comment Re: Was the CPU sold "as is"? (Score 1) 114
Everything = "all their games", not Everything in the world, internet, etc.
Comment Re: Sounds like it's time to invoke defamation law (Score 1) 114
It's not a false accusation, the CPU was used to cheat, it was banned, not the user.
AMD CPUs have software accessible serial numbers, they blocked the CPU.
The buyer took his chances buying a used processors, that's between him and the seller/cheater.
Comment Re: Of course (Score 3, Insightful) 114
I don't think so. The publisher likely told the original gamer that their cheating marked that CPU banned on their game servers, then the gamer sold it to the buyer without telling buyer about the claim.
The buyers claim is likely limited to a refund from the gamer for not disclosing the ban/restriction, not the publisher.
Comment Re: The Ban Wasn't in the Packets (Score 1) 114
MS Windows used to record MAC address, HD serial number and, I thought, a CPU serial number, any one could change, but changing two or all three required acre-activation of Windows. I think this was Window 7 era, but not sure.
I'm pretty sure CPUs have some sort of serial number, found this:
Every AMD processor has a unique serial number used for identification and tracking purposes.
So I guess it's trivial to block a specific AMD CPU, it does not seem possible to find an Intel CPU serial number via software (its marked on the outside of the processor chip)
Comment Re:If an individual did any of this hacking by han (Score 1) 52
voila, in addition to the victimless crime we now have the perpetratorless crime.
Which is nonsense. There is nothing new under the sun. People have been kicking off interactions to complex to fully imagine all possible outcomes for as long as we have had laws, and the law has had approaches to assigning responsibility anyway.
Say you are back country camping in a national park. You absolutely can be held responsible if your campfire gets out of control and you start a forest fire, and you are found to have acted 'carelessly'. Even if you had a back country permit, and even if the park rules allow campfires.
We are not in uncharted territory here as how to apply standards like negligence. We may very well have gaps in our current law where various hacking and electronic abuse laws don't cover a negligent mens rea, but that could be easily fixed. It just takes little amendment to change a 'knowingly' to 'negligently' and its fixed. What we lack is a public will to hold these people accountable for anything. This is I think why they are so desperate to go public even while their actual financials SUCK...They want to cerement themselves as TBTF entities.