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Statement: I see you have purchased me, master. I find this a satisfactory arrangement. Am I to accompany you now? Shall I kill something for you?

HK-47 from Knights Of The Old Republic is probably my favorite source of quotes: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Wookieepedia:Quote_of_the_Day/Archive/HK-47

• I was most proud to have partaken in the political system of the galaxy. During the time [the senator] possessed me, he gained significant rank. Given enough time, I believe he could have become chancellor. I even eliminated a few key opponents that he did not ask for. Freebies, if you will.
• Query: Would you rather be caught with contraband that is very illegal or just a little illegal?
• Droids tend to blend into the background, like a bench or a card table. Mockery: Droid, fetch this. Droid, translate that. Droid, clean out the trash compactor. Part of the love of my function comes when the ‘furnishings’ pull out tibanna-powered rifles and point them at the owners’ heads.
• Observation: I am a droid, master, with programming. Even if I did not enjoy killing, I would have no choice. Thankfully, I enjoy it very much.

That game is such a gold mine.

• Once a man has changed the relationship between himself and his environment, he cannot return to the blissful ignorance he left. Motion, of necessity, involves a change in perspective.
• Technological advance is an inherently iterative process. One does not simply take sand from the beach and produce a Dataprobe. We use crude tools to fashion better tools, and then our better tools to fashion more precise tools, and so on. Each minor refinement is a step in the process, and all of the steps must be taken.
• Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded.

A particular one always gives me chills:

• I sit in my cubicle, here on the motherworld. When I die, they will put my body in a box and dispose of it in the cold ground. And in the million ages to come, I will never breathe, or laugh, or twitch again. So won’t you run and play with me here among the teeming mass of humanity? The universe has spared us this moment.

Betrayer… in truth, it was I who was betrayed. Still I am hunted. Still I am hated. Now my blind eyes see what others cannot. That, sometimes, the hand of fate must be forced!

When Picasso became bored of painting people, he started representing them as cubes and other abstract forms. The world called him a genius! I’ve spent my entire surgical career creating the same tired shapes, over and over again: the upturned nose, the cleft chin, the ample bosom. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if I could do with a knife what that old spaniard did with a brush?

Still, if it’s small enough to transmit via any wireless connection they can easily keep the local copy.

He’s a sucker and Putin surely knows how to handle him. I think it took a few real talks with other world leaders (and reportedly his wife) to make Trump aware. Must have stung to realize that one of the strongmen he admires so much wasn’t giving him the respect he’s so desperate for.

Why not both? As Linux achieves more and more momentum, you are bound to see real change in how Microsoft treats its users.

Is the issue with the packaging, or that only an outdated version can be packaged?

He could fix the license, then people would push the up to date version and users wouldn’t report old bugs.

But there’s still a good and a bad way to make those movies. I usually find RT a good indicator if a movie I’m interested in will be worth watching. Especially looking at both scores. The critic score is a good indicator if the movie is competently made, the user score shows if people felt entertained. If it’s 50% critics and 80% user it’s one of those that won’t get Oscars but should be fun to watch once. If it’s 70% critic and 40% user it’s that the director tried something unconventional and it didn’t click with people. Etc.

Of course, the idea is that there’s less risk of that the more people switch.

Microsoft’s idea of consent:

Do you want to turn on Recall?

• Yes
• Maybe Later

Only if they’re charged.

P.S.: since battery cells need to be disposed properly, they are now an 18+ purchase.

Americans voted for this. You can argue about the minutiae and the process, but that’s the gist of it.

It’s perfectly loaded. Keep in mind that there’s water splashing around for two hours or so. 13 will be fine, too. Big gaps are not necessary.

Anyone got an idea of cost? Of course this is going to be brutal, but it’s literally ten times what I have in my NAS, in a size slightly longer than a 2.5" drive.

Shouldn’t a system that was set up with Secure Boot refuse to start if it were disabled? Otherwise there wouldn’t be any protection against these attacks.

I don’t think setting up the system again is a simple remedy to having problems with this feature.

Depends on who writes them.

With that trio they could have the Top Gear of late night.

OTOH it’s hard to do satire these days because everything is already absurd.

Murdered would imply external forces. While I’m sure there are some influences, those are not what’s putting a knife on the country’s wrist.