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  • Yeah I did consider that people are going to share keys, but people are going to share accounts too so that's always going to happen. The best thing you can do is stick some safeguards on the keys where if a key is found online, it can be deactivated and potentially investigated since you can tell which shop sold the key. If there's a shop out there just giving cards away to minors, well they're in for a world of trouble.

    Under the Licensing Act of 2003, it's illegal to sell alcohol to an adult if you reasonably suspect that they will be then giving that alcohol to a minor. You can assume the same will apply to people selling Wank Cards.

  • Hm, I'm going to need some software engineers to critique an idea I have that could at least partially solve the fears people have about their personal details being tied to their porn habits.

    The system will be called the Adult Content Verification System (or Wank Card if you want to be funny). It's a physical card, printed by the government with a unique key printed on it. Those cards are then sold by any shop that has an alcohol license (premises or personal). You go in, show your ID to the clerk, buy the card. That card is proof that you're over 18, but it is not directly tied to you, you just have to be over 18 to buy it. The punishment for selling a Wank Card to someone under the age of 18 is the same as if you sold alcohol to someone under 18.

    When you go to the porn site, they check if you're from the UK, they check if you have a key associated with your account. If not, they ask for one, you provide the key to the site, the site does an API call to https://wankcard.gov.uk/api/verify with the site's API key (freely generated, but you could even make the api public if you want) and the key on the card, gets a response saying "Yep! This is a valid key!" and hey presto, free to wank and nobody knows it's you! If you don't have an account, the verification would have to be tied to a cookie or something that disappears after a while for all you anonymous people.

    As a result, you can both prove that you're over 18 (because you have the card) and some company over in San Francisco doesn't get your personal data, because you never actually record it anywhere. All you have is keys, and while yes, the government could record "Oh this key was used to verify on this site", they'd have to know which shop the key was bought from, who sold it, and who bought it, which is a lot more difficult to do unless the shopkeeper keeps records of everyone he's ever sold to.

    So... Good idea? Bad idea? Better than the current approach anyway, I think.

  • Well then, time to start fining them under GDPR.

  • Just once I want to see Republicans help the poor out of sheer hatred. Like "I hate the poor so go damn much! I hate how they're always complaining about 'Wahhh my grandma is dying of canceerrrr' or 'Wahhhh I have to walk 20 miles to get to school because I can't afford a carrr!' . Infact I hate them so much that I'm going to educate them, I'm going to pay them more, I'm going to give them cheap public transport, and I'm going to ensure they're never poor again! That'll show the bastards!"

    Just absolute venom towards those less fortunate, with a side-order of high quality public services and high living standards, as opposed to pretending to care about the poor and then never actually doing anything useful.

  • 'Shut the fuck up!'

  • Could have just traded in the non-working Nubian ship and bought a junker. It'll get you to Coruscant just fine.

  • So if he was already so popular he was outshining Clinton and Trump, why didn't people vote for him? Could it maybe be because he's only popular in highly populous cities that have relatively few electoral votes when compared to the rural areas where he's not as popular, and so nationwide polling isn't indicative of actual electoral success?

    Also, as we all know now, presence on major TV news networks doesn't align with electoral success either. Trump basically cornered the podcast market and he won the election. People don't watch TV news anymore.

  • Did Bernie get more or fewer votes than Clinton?

  • Rigged how, exactly? Were all the voters that didn't vote for Bernie in on the conspiracy?

    Bernie lost, he wasn't popular enough. Get over it.

  • Sanders couldn't even win the Democratic primary. What makes you think he stood a chance at winning the election?

  • I wonder how much of it is mismanagement on behalf of Microsoft itself, and how much of it is small-time devs suddenly getting more budget than they've ever seen before and deciding to get super ambitious with their next project and then having to scale it back when they can't actually handle the project?

    It's what happened with EA and Anthem. Bioware suddenly got a shitload of money, couldn't hack it, had to scale back the project, and it all fell apart.

  • I 100% guarantee the people who wrote that statement don't know or care how much effort it would take to build the infrastructure to run their server-side components.

    I'm fairly confident that any AAA production uses Infrastructure As Code to spin up infrastructure in their dev and qa environments, so it's literally just a matter of handing over the Terraform or BICEP and some binaries for any custom code they need to use. I also highly, HIGHLY doubt that the vast majority of game servers are hosted on-prem. They're most likely either using Azure or AWS.

  • Unless it's Ancient Greece! There, if you had a massive dong they'd call you a stupid barbarian.

  • I just wanna be one of those old timey blacksmiths hitting things on an anvil and getting paid for it. Nowadays though it's all like "Throw the glowy thing into the bang bang thing and it does all the work for you!". What if I wanna hit things with a hammer, huh?! What if I like the catharsis that comes with hitting something?!

  • I can kinda understand the appeal. An AI isn't gonna judge you, an AI isn't gonna leave a mean comment or tell you to get over it and man up. It's giving an unnerving amount of personal information to corporations, but I can sympathise with the thoughts these men are having.

  • Sleeping Rough != Homeless though. Granted, almost everyone who sleeps rough is homeless, but not every homeless sleeps rough. Japan only counts people sleeping rough as homeless though.

    Also there's the element of being seen sleeping rough. There are plenty of people sleeping rough out there, but they don't want to be seen that way so they keep to themselves and stay away from the general public, getting across the idea that there aren't many of them.

  • I do not trust any stats that come out of Japan in terms of homelessness. If there's a statistic that's embarrassing for Japanese society, you know damn well they're gonna try to cover it up with technicalities.

    In Japan, the legal definition for someone who is homeless is: "those who use city parks, riverbanks, roads, train stations and other facilities as their place of stay in order to live their daily lives."

    So that doesn't include living in your car, living in insecure housing, living in shelters, or living in internet cafés, of which in 2020 there were about 15,000 'net café refugees' in Tokyo alone.

    Sooo yeah, Japan can claim to officially have a super low homeless population, because they've narrowed the definition so much that you have to literally be sleeping on the street for it to count.

  • Funny, humanity contributing to the reduction of the climate crisis by increasing the number of ticks causing people to become allergic to meat, meaning less demand for meat, meaning less greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere as cattle becomes less profitable.

  • NATO isn't gonna defend Taiwan or Iran. The US will defend Taiwan, Russia will defend Iran. NATO has no interest in either. NATO will defend Canada and Greenland as best they can.