Their lack of a patent for controller vibration prevented Sony from having vibration on Sixaxis - notice that despite all the BS that it interfered with motion sensing, Dualshock 3 came out just a few months after Sony managed to settle the suite with Immersion.

Since there’s no penalty for making a patent and not using it, it’s probably cheaper for Sony to pre-emptively register everything that comes from brainstorming sessions.

Sony patents random stuff just in case all the time. It doesn’t mean it’s ever going into a an actual product.

That’s a common problem in places where humans eliminated the existing predators. Herbivores evolved to reproduce in large numbers to account for the predators and this is a disaster if suddenly there are none.

I also like nice graffiti but even those end up covered by a bunch of ugly and lazy tags. As for cities being soulless without it, I guess you never went to a city that is not a glorified parking lot.

Spray paint should be taxed high enough to pay the cleanup of all the ugly tags.

When you are trying to compete with another application, speed matters a lot.

The Linux foundation is still trying to take Servo out of the ground

I think the WP print edition costs $3 for normal editions and $5 on Sundays. Buying it every day in the stands would cost you more than $1000.

Probably Starfield would be the Bethesda game to benefit more from it. At least they could make cities feel like cities.

If you consider inflation, $60 in 2024 is worth almost the same as $50 in 2011.

Most people would also press a button that will save a random human of their country over a random human from another country. Does that mean people have different value depending on which country they are from?

I have a gun pointed at your dog and another pointed at a guy that’s going around eating people’s pets…

You are mixing the rational component of the question in general with the emotional attachments of particular situations. This kind of “I know it in my heart” drive is the same that drives things like racism and xenophobia.

Ironically, using Ruigi for Waluigi in English (as Ruin+Luigi) would sound less lazy.

I remembered about that post while writing my comment but couldn’t find it. I didn’t know the sequel but both explain the problem of Waluigi as a character, Nintendo sees him as filler and he’s more useful for them as such. If they start fleshing him out he’ll be less useful in other contexts… Which is also a apt metaphor for why conservative societies want people to fit faceless molds

You mean the cardboard character that’s the counterpart to another cardboard character and that only exists because Wario needed a doubles partner in Mario Tennis? Even his name is an afterthought, why would Nintendo suddenly start caring enough to give him a game?

Even if it’s not directly accessible from the internet on its own, if it’s accessible from an host exposed to the internet then anyone that can compromise a single host can immediately compromise the firewall.

“It’s only exposed to the outdated wordpress server” is effectively the same as being exposed to the internet.

You are right:

The second is using SSH, which is enabled by default on the management interface of the device. SSH can also be enabled on data interfaces.

Holy fuck.

Right in the Security Advisory

allow an unauthenticated, local attacker to access an affected system using static credentials.

Edit: NVM, later it says

The second is using SSH, which is enabled by default on the management interface of the device.

This is the gaming version of XKCD 1172.

That doesn’t help if they have software that assumes it can reach all sites. I remember a few years ago AWS had a EC2 outage in eu-central-1 because of 1 of the Availability Zones went down and the service that allocates instances threw a 500 when it failed to get that AZ’s capacity instead of just allocating the instances to the other 2 AZs.