Of cause they will have permission. It’s in the TOS and EULA if you don’t want to have them doing it you will have to use something else.
This is 100% a core feature and will break windows if you disable it. You know, until Europe says we have to let people disable it then we will only allow European versions disable it.
Unless you are an enterprise than you can flip these 2 registry keys and that group policy to disable it, but we will revert that setting every time we update the software, which will be about every month.
Careful, one day be may delete a federal database doing that.
It’s eminently understandable why, with coverage of the terror attacks that killed 77 people dominating TV news at the time, Comedy Central executives in 2011 decided that reruns of the Futurama episode didn’t need to include the implication of the Prime Minister of Norway’s dismemberment when the terrorist who perpetrated the attacks targeted the actual Prime Minister with a car bomb
It makes sense at the time and that is the lense you need to look at the problem through. Depending on how close the air date of the rerun was to the attack I don’t blame them as people may see it in poor taste despite the joke being there before the attack.
No doubt after the 11th sep or the London tube bombarding if a show rerun aired making light of those events an uproar could happen.
Couple causes, and not just gaming. It is happening in most tech orgs.
During the pandemic most tech companies did large hiring sprees to bolster their IT staff to assist the remote workers and increased customer base as more were spending money on digital goods.
Now that the world is returning to normal, the amount that people are spending on digital goods has gone down so they are laying off people.
Right. The board of directors at open ai were unhappy with how the ceo was communicating with them, so they voted him off.
Then a group of stakeholders and staff were like “no guys, we want him back or we resign/withdraw our funding”
So now he is back with Microsofts blessing, MS being their largest stakeholder, and it sounds like some of the directors who voted to out have also been booted.
Here is a decent writeup.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/21/microsoft_openai_altman_nadella/?td=rt-3a
You know how some shops that have loyalty programs? Get points when you spend money in a shop that kind of thing. The fraud is when a customer whom does not have a loyalty card is served by a cashier who does have a loyalty card and the cashier swipes their own card to get the points. The t&C of the card likely says the person who spends the money is the one entitled to the points.
I put it under the category of victimless crime because the points are made up and the only real loss is the corporation running the program and fuck those programs.
That is one gorgeous cat.