I’d just be happy to see “evil” choices which weren’t cartoonishly silly. So many of these game end up offering you choices like:

• Kiss the baby, donate all your money to an orphanage.
• Kill the baby, cook and eat it. in front of the mother.

There’s never anything like:

• Kiss the baby, take over the orphanage, run an outward front which looks like a fantastic charitable organization while training the orphans to commit crimes for you.

Really well done “evil” should be loved by the people, seem outwardly good while using that as cover to do selfish things. But that is much harder than “Press X to murder an innocent for no reason”.

Right, but have you considered that no one actually cares about Greece?

Oh good. Give him a gun, strap a parachute to him, and kick him out of a C-130 flying over Tehran at 30,000 ft. He can go take all the action he wants from there. Otherwise, let’s not go get a bunch of young men and women killed in yet another foreign military adventure.

I trust every AI group to do their level best to separate me from my money. Beyond that, I wouldn’t trust them with a stolen identity.

In a normal world, I’d expect this to get smacked down hard in the courts. But, we can pretty much count on Thomas, Alito and Gorsch being on board with Trump as an overt dictator. So, it just becomes a question about how much leverage the Trump administration has on Kavanaugh, Barret and Roberts. It’s pretty sad that we’re counting on three compromised people to protect the rule of law.

And I have plans to win the lottery. I suspect my plans have better odds of happening.

This strategy really depends on their ability to bribe President Trump for a pardon.

So a couple possibilities come to mind:

1. Someone else has your password. Do you have kids and do they have access to devices which may have your Google account linked? You may want to change your password (use something long, hard to guess and unique).
2. Your local system is compromised in some way. This would be a really odd way for someone to use that access, but it’s always possible. Take a look at the apps and any browser extensions you have installed and make sure there isn’t anything you don’t recognize.
3. There is some sort of Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability which is being leveraged to subscribe you to stuff. I would expect Google to be better than to have an XSS on YouTube (they bought Mandiant a while ago, FFS). But, big companies doing stupid things is common enough. When you got the pop-up, was it in the YouTube app or a web browser. Did you have other tabs open? Other background processes from sketchy apps?
4. It is Google, them doing shitty things to their product (that’s you) for their customers (the advertisers paying for your eyeballs) is basically their business model. Don’t like it, de-google your life (warning: this is actually really hard).

Go for it. It’s already broke, even if you make the problem worse, it won’t functionally change what you are planning to do with it (throw it away). Do be careful around any capacitors, @Nollij@sopuli.xyz made a very good point about discharging them carefully. I took a hit off a capacitor for the flash in a disposable camera some years ago and was certainly shocking.

Fixed my monitor rather than tossing more e-waste in the landfill. Replaced a couple blown caps and it’s running like a champ again.

Those just invent new frameworks every six months which everyone should totally use this new framework, for reasons. Though, maybe that’s just JavaScript.

English is what you get when a community can’t defend its borders and keeps being taken over by new rulers with a different language, which then works its way partly into common usage. Also, random word borrowing, because fuck you it’s ours now.

Not to worry, they will just go to some sketchy website and download a “free” version of Office and then act all surprised pikachu when Security rolls up to take their laptop.

For now. Pray they don’t alter the configuration any further.

The big ones for me were a frequent, sudden, urgent need to pee and getting up multiple times a night to pee. I also drank a copious amount of water. Like, the whole “eight glasses a day” thing which used to be popular was confusing to me, as I’d drink that much in the first couple hours of the day. I finally went in to the doctor and got a blood test and my A1Cs were well over the “welcome to Diabetes Land” number. With diet, exercise and drugs I’m well controlled now and caught it early enough that I still have good feeling in my feet. Given my family history, and all the shit I ate in my younger days, it’s not really a surprise. I just have to be more careful now, but I have discovered an enjoyment of climbing because of it.

Really, if you have any family history of diabetes, start visiting your doctor on an annual basis and getting a blood test. It’s simple, and catching it earlier is good for preventing problems with neuropathy in your feet.

The nets are not there to prevent suicides. The nets are there to prevent the company losing business. So long as they are able to say, “look we care about our workers”, western companies won’t be pressured into changing suppliers by slactivists on twitter.

Huh, I had been thinking about dumping Netflix. It’s been nothing but Anime and disappointment for a while now. And I’m not that much of an anime fan.

ServiceNow is very much aimed at the managers. It’s good at reporting metrics like SLAs, ticket counts and anything else management dreams up to track metrics on. The interface for analysts putting data into it is slimy shit on toast. I swear, one of the questions I plan to ask, the next time I’m interviewing for a job is, “what do you use for security case management”. If the answer is “ServiceNow” or “ServiceNow Security Incident Response (SIR)”, that’s going to be a mark against that company. The only thing worse than ServiceNow ITSM is ServiceNow SIR. It’s all the terrible design of ITSM, but with basic security case management features implemented by clueless idiots.

The entertaining question would be: what do the salaries of the new employees look like, compared to the old ones? I’d suspect that the administration is thinking they can fire a well experienced, but expensive employee and hire on a cheap replacement. However, I also suspect many of those positions are fairly specialized and they are going to end up paying to get rid of all that experience and then end up paying a premiums to hire someone with the needed experience for the position.

“the arrestment failed,” said the official

I wonder at the nature of that failure. I’d immediately think this means “the cable broke” or “the hook broke”. But, it could also mean “the pilot missed the cable and failed to respond correctly”.