Lev_Astov

In the US, Atari tried to sue someone who made an Asteroids clone back in 1981 and lost because Meteors, the clone had made some improvements on the idea of Asteroids (color, among other things). This cemented US legal precedent that you can't sue people for "ripping off" games so long as they make some meaningful change to it and aren't just making a direct knock-off.

This current case is in Japan, however, where the legal landscape is very different and companies need to be legally aggressive to maintain any rights to their IP from what I understand. I have no idea how that's going to go down.

I'm voting for this guy in November.

At 10kV, a random stick would be all it takes to start an arc. He knows what he's doing.

They're no problem when properly thrown out, but a huge problem when people litter with them as happens far too much. I hate to see us all punished because a significant portion of people can't stop littering, but I can't see us stopping them...

A buddy has been testing whether his LLMs he puts together are properly jailbroken by asking them to explain how to build the silliest bomb possible. I find that terribly amusing. Unfortunately they don't usually come up with anything particularly silly.

Man, I haven't thought of the Evil Overlord List in many, many years. Thanks for that.

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I only ever use Michaelsoft Binbows.

Thank you for standing up to the slavering morons around here about bad statistical graphics.

All I'm getting out of this is that police are, in fact less than 50% effective, so we'd better plan on dealing with it ourselves.

According to the article, they're going for multiple counts of money laundering and wire fraud with 20 years each.

Yeah, I worked in a secure facility that did this and it felt both secure and reasonable. I just kept my card on a lanyard to my belt so I literally couldn't walk away without pulling the card.

Let's not forget about HotHardware. They're still carrying the torch of detailed hardware analysis as well my beloved NotebookCheck.