Once again the victims of a crooked judiciary system cried political attack, and asked for an emergency order they probably assumed wouldn’t be granted by a SCOTUS judge who was appointed by the crooked demoncrats.
This sounds like utter nonsense.
Divide and conquer. It worked exactly as intended.
Mr Sewards, who is a member of a parliamentary group focused on consumer protection, also voiced fears that such a precedent could eventually extend to physical goods, as digital technology becomes increasingly integrated into household items.
If anything, the recent AWS outages and all the IOT physical device failures prove beyond all reasonable doubt that this is happening, and not just accidentally.
The UK has been abnormally hot for the last few days. Feels like you need a jacket, but before long you’re sweating.
That’s not the point I was making. She argued that opening the box was tantamount to agreeing to the terms, but the full terms aren’t on the box. You can’t access the full terms until after you’ve opened it, thus you haven’t agreed to them yet as you haven’t had the opportunity to read them. And, even then, the agreement is far from iron clad.
Yes if GOG is an option I go for that.
THANK YOU!! It’s a crime that this wasn’t in the original meme
It’s only a monopoly in that it’s so much more popular than everything else that’s come along, and the main reason for that is because it’s better than competitors. Most others are just publisher stores, and almost all have functionality that users disagree with.
In the OP article, the game distribution platform Rokky is also apparently a publisher store, having recently bought the rights to distribute Chinese games in the west.
On the subject of ownership, Peacock claimed that video games being licensed to consumers, rather than sold, was not a new phenomenon, and that “in the 1980s, tearing the wrapping on a box to a games cartridge was the way that gamers agreed to licensing terms.”
This is absolute bullshit and not at all how it works, now or back in the 1980s. You can’t agree to terms without seeing them first, and even then such agreements aren’t necessarily legally binding. For someone who is supposed to write laws, she should be removed from office for showing such gross incompetence.
Yeah but we’re talking about net here. Most blue states are net producers, most red states are net leechers. Texas might not be as big of a leech as some others, but it’s still a leech.
And if you block your browser’s connection to Google you won’t be able to log in to your bank.
while the US one is at the OS level, it’s just asking you to provide an age that isn’t linked to your ID or anything.
It’s Age Verification, which will almost certainly mean either ID scanning or facial scanning via the device camera. Or alternatively card transaction verification - the OG method baked into all these laws is the one that pays MasterCard and VISA. ID and facial recognition are cheaper services because the business providing the scan service can make more money off the ID or face they scan.
Plus open software on phones and tablets is still in very early stages.
This simply isn’t true. However your first comment about OS level checks is where the issue lies - if you don’t phone home to Google your banking app won’t work.
Okay, I’m starting to think this article doesn’t really know what it’s talking about…
For most of modern computing history, however, analog technology has been written off as an impractical alternative to digital processors. This is because analog systems rely on continuous physical signals to process information — for example, a voltage or electric current. These are much more difficult to control precisely than the two stable states (1 and 0) that digital computers have to work with.
1 and 0 are in fact representative of voltages in digital computers. Typically, on a standard IBM PC, you have 3.3V, 5V and 12V, also negative voltages of these levels, and a 0 will be a representation of zero volts while a 1 will be one of those specified voltages. When you look at the actual voltage waveforms, it isn’t really digital but analogue, with a transient wave as the voltage changes from 0 to 1 and vice versa. It’s not really a solid square step, but a slope that passes a pickup or dropoff before reaching the nominal voltage level. So a digital computer is basically the same as how they’re describing an analogue computer.
I’m sure there is something different and novel about this study, but the article doesn’t seem to have a clue what that is.
Why no link to the actual article?
Microsoft already trialled this in Scotland, except it was powered by prototype tidal which was also being tested at that site.
One of the other things Microsoft tested was running the server room in a pure nitrogen atmosphere. Apparently this was very beneficial as it reduced the failure rate of components - you can’t have a spark without oxygen. That was actually the main advantage taken away from the test, with a view to maybe adopting that for datacentres on land (I doubt this though, the level of protection you’d need for workers makes it cost-prohibitive).
Cold is better managed by being somewhere cold - which is why they’re all busy building tons of datacentres in Nordic countries.
Were they actually chilling together, or was this just written correspondence? Like letters from prison.