Most European countries are tiny.

Europe isn’t a country……you know this, right?

Yeah, and Europe as a whole doesn’t have this internet. Switzerland does.

No, absolutely not, and I didn’t even hint at that.

I’m saying that Sony know the exact number of physical games that are printed and sold vs the number of digital games. They know that it’s 10:1 in favour of digital. That’s why they’re doing this. It’s best for their bottom line.

The article is about America, as a country, being compared to Switzerland, the country.

Exactly. The people showing their real level of intellect are the people who seem to be unable to understand the facts of the situation, think that they know better than the company who actually manufactures and sells the things, and call everyone else dumb and unintelligent for not agreeing with their factually incorrect opinion.

It’s absolutely about scale. It’s super easy to build high speed fibre to every house when your entire country can be seen in a single day trip. Not so much when it takes a week to drive from one side to the other without stopping.

Most European countries are tiny.

It can be done at scale, it’ll just cost trillions of dollars.

Switzerland can be driven from top to bottom in about 4 hours. The entire country. It’s tiny. That’s how.

Self landing rockets were practically impossible not that long ago. Self driving cars were practically impossible not that long ago.

There’s nothing fundamentally impossible about orbital data centres. The main factor against it is the $/kg of payload into space. That’s one of the many issues SpaceX is working to solve, and there’s nothing to suggest they won’t get there.

It’s never just a few though.

You have to focus on making sure it’s accessible only to those who genuinely need it, otherwise it will be abused beyond belief and will need to be stripped back to the point of uselessness.

Remember that these things are tax payer funded. There’s not unlimited money. Funding 100 fraud cases just to fund a single actual person in need doesn’t work, and should never be looked at as acceptable.

Do some reading on the NDIS in Australia. Fraud galore. Couple are both registering as each others full time carers and both getting all expenses paid everything, among all the other types of fraud.

Exempting “caregivers” outright is a very tricky thing to do unfortunately, as it opens it up to massive amounts of fraud.

Plausible deniability? How?

You think they are? How?

Did you happen to notice the title of the topic you’re in?

What does that have to do with what I said?

A creep using them to record in a bathroom would be illegal, light bypassed or not.

I’m not sure if you’ve realised, but creeps have been finding ways to film women and girls illegally for as long as there have been ways to film women and girls. That doesn’t make everyone taking photos and videos in public a creep like you pretend it does.

It doesn’t matter if you trust the developer or not, that’s the whole point of the system-level controls for these things.

That’s not what is being discussed though (streaming video to fb/google/government/etc).

That’s where it would start crossing the line into surveillance, which has strict laws around it.

There shouldn’t really be. Phones can easily record people without their knowledge even as you walk right past them.

TOS aren’t just legal by default. If Valve are indeed saying that they will delist Ubisoft games if they sell their own games elsewhere for cheaper than they do on Steam, that will absolutely get them in trouble with the law. That’s classic anti-competitive behaviour. It’s abusing their market position.