subignition

Rule of thumb: If it’s included with an install where you’re clicking through the defaults, to the average user the distinction doesn’t matter, it’s part of the OS

It sounds like a pretty poor solution, but then we haven’t meaningfully innovated on the internal combustion engine for how many years?

vibes

Sort of procedural, yes - if you are alleging something and the evidence that would support that was destroyed by the other party, the court can make an adverse inference which basically means the court assumes the destroyed evidence would have proved your point.

I had to double-check that this fucker was actually even an attorney

Then that pretty much defeats the purpose of physical media, people will be out in droves angry that they can’t play their new games offline or have to day 1 patch, etc

There’s no perfect solution here.

people play games prior to release all the time, the major issue here is streaming it. (and uh directly antagonizing nintendo didn’t help)

We know. It wasn’t funny.

When you distribute physical copies of games to stores, I don’t think it’s really practical to prevent physical copies from getting taken inappropriately 100%

5 to 7 honestly. There needs to be more pressure on companies to actually execute on their ideas instead of sitting on them for years

There is a slightly more expensive family version of NSO that you can add up to 8 users to

Russia has the propaganda machine that got Trump elected. I’d be (pleasantly) surprised if their citizenry was able to meaningfully resist

Please be advised, this is an article about a Tucker Carlson segment which doesn’t provide any additional info or context of its own

Not that I disagree with you that they are becoming more prominent, but I think we are also definitely still in the aftermath of ‘election time’

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The DOJ is compromised.

Americans are fucking stupid, have you met us? People have been increasingly less capable and less willing to do basic amounts of reading for like a generation. Critical thinking is all but dead. It’s nice that you have high expectations of citizenry, but that just doesn’t comport with reality.

The lawsuit in question is a civil matter, not a criminal one, but you are correct that that is the case if a state prosecutor does decide to bring criminal charges

At the very least they need to invest in server side anti cheat. If that’s not viable they should be obliged to adequately moderate their game.

If you can’t accept business plans that make a little less profit to include sufficient human moderation to avoid heavyhanded kernel level anti cheat - you shouldn’t be in the fucking publishing business, you greedy weasels.