LG’s monitors were caught installing adware on Windows computers recently…

Through an HDMI connection?

Through Windows automatic driver downloads.

The problem here is Microsoft as much as LG. The same monitor on Linux wouldn't download anything. This would require root anyway.

Won’t speak for the poster, but in my experience the incompetence of the average person is only exceeded by the incompetence of the ownership class. The people Ayn Rand lauded are usually the largest obstacle to actually Getting Shit Done.

What is your experience of the incompetence of the ownership class?

Competence in what, is the question. Obviously they are competent in making money. The biggest scammers are also competent in making money too, though.

Look at the current US President, for instance. He is richer than any of us will ever be, but what exactly is his competence?

Look at the world around. Look at the train crash.

Do any great companies have poor executive direction/leadership?

I am from the US and the headline is accurate. Not “the largest,” but “one of the largest.” We’ve been here before. The question is does it get kneecapped or does it spin out of control?

I am a gamer who has played around with private servers and emulators to revisit my gaming past - one thing I wonder about is how laws would handle game-changing updates? World of Warcraft famously does major renovations to game mechanics each expansion and minor changes each patch. What is to prevent a company from releasing an “update patch” that essentially cripples the game, then shutting down the game at that point and releasing the crippled code as the only available version?

Careful, you might accidentally improve the user experience of SaaS products.

Not unless he's using TCP/IP over Ouija board...

There has apparently been no confirmation of his death - Wikipedia still lists him as alive and editors there say there's insufficient evidence. If the linked article is true, maybe he faked his death.

It would be an amusing troll. I wonder what minimum efforts are to publish here: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/mark-stephens-obit...

Yeah, that's what started the speculation though. I grabbed the obit link from that discussion. The person who posted it, that's the only post they've made.

He may be resting in peace, but I don't really know

This link is from the actual funeral home and sadly looks like it's probably legitimate.

https://www.hillandwood.com/obituaries/Mark-Stephens?obId=49...

There's a lot of people who are bold enough fraudsters to fake their own death, but could never give up posting so long as they are actually alive.

Those who would ask you to trade your privacy for security don’t have your security in mind.

“Gomi” is the Japanese word for garbage. Gotta wonder if someone has a sense of humor…

The Australian Liberal Party (basically our version of conservative republicans) proposed the National Energy Guarantee policy in 2017, which inevitably failed due to the media and public’s relative literacy and tendency to turn policy names into acronyms.

Yeah, if you watched Obama’s energy he had kind of a “Thanks guys, but why?” air about him through the whole thing.

Let me know when we have actual AI and we can get right on it.

At the time I read the story, Economics 2.0 and its effect on humans that installed the upgrade paralleled with some stuff I had read about sociopathic behavior. Stross later wrote about the same ideas in Rule 34.