I'm more cynical, I think it's just for clout and marketing. IA is widely known and used, so an attack is guaranteed to be noticed and generate news articles. They're also known for having large robust infrastructure, but they aren't large enough that an attack is impossible, so a successful attack is impressive yet still feasible. If someone can pull it off, it would make great marketing for their black market DDOS service and also grant huge bragging rights in certain communities.

Yep, that protection plan is $1.49. The real sin here is having the "Original Price" not be an obvious order total, but that's pretty minor.

The interesting question is what happens if Valve is still around after all of us are long gone and there are millions of 150+ year old accounts, many under active use?

R6S has been a pay-to-win mess after the first few "seasons". What's the difference between a subscription service and regular releases of "optional" $30 dlc that gives you new characters, and thus an edge over the competition?

R6S players will cope by saying characters are balanced and, if you're good, you can win with just the basic free characters. The fact is, more characters lets you adapt to, and more effectively counter, more maps, play styles, opposing characters, metas, etc...

Yes, you can unlock the characters for free, but there are dozens of them and each one takes a ridiculous number of hours to unlock, during which you're playing at a disadvantage. It's pretty much impossible for anyone other than dedicated school-aged kids to unlock all of the characters for free.

All of this, and the game still costs money to buy!!! Complete scam.

Multi-player

Yeah but then they got $900k, could an attorney have done that?

We should follow Calculus's example and represent all lowercase l's as ℓ

Or just add serifs to I even in sans serif fonts

I was assuming it was all uppercase

Only if you're using a bad font that doesn't differentiate between I and l

Yes.

Yes, it depends on where the roads and rails are built and how direct their paths are.

That's more of a Counter Strike clone. The "abilities" are more akin to CS utilities like smokes and flashes than they are to Overwatch characters. The rest of the game is pretty much a direct copy of CS.

Focus of my survey:

1. I don't care about LLMs
2. Focus on core products instead of making new stuff

I'll be interested to see the results on how everyone else reacted to all of the AI questions.

I guess the Overwatch market is wide open ever since Overwatch self destructed

The people in the meme are at about Seattle and NYC, which is a little over 3k miles apart (by car). You'd need to be going 250mph for the entire 12 hours to make that distance. A quick google search says that the maximum operating speed of a bullet train is 200mph, but tests have been conducted at 275mph.

So, you'd need to go non-stop at 125% max speed to make the trip in 12 hours. Even if you went at 275mph, realistically you'd make a lot of stops along the way, which is going to make the average speed a lot lower. Trains are great, but the US is really big.

Bonus fact: a non-stop flight from Seattle to NYC takes about 5.5 hours.

The measure signed by DeSantis would also launch a study of small nuclear reactor technology, expand the use of vehicles powered by hydrogen and enhance electric grid security, according to the governor's office.

Got some whiplash at the end there after reading some of the most dumbass policies that've ever been written.

I mean, say I play the lottery and win every time, I'd be rich, right?

You know what they say: the only thing that can stop a TikTok with a knife is a Facebook with a knife.

8 dead and 40 hospitalized with a high probability that more will die all because some bozo decided to drive drunk? It wasn't even a real "truck", just a pickup truck. Absolute nightmare scenario.

Devices should never accidentally bend. Unless you drove over it with a car, chances are it wasn't your fault.