If the writers named something directly it could leave them open for lawsuit if things go badly

So far, I don’t think the author is capable of writing something coherent enough to be considered libel.

It’s good enough that it should be a concern, given the current admin with access to those lists.

You sure can! It’s done all the time for family businesses. Though there are some stipulations; if your last name is super common, is also a common word, or name of a profession, then the trademark is likely to get rejected. For example, if your last name is Brown or Smith or Hunter, you’re probably not gonna get it. But if you’re Smitty Werbenjägermanjensen, then you’re probably in luck. It’s a very manual process that’s kind of open to interpretation by whoever is filing your application.

McDonald’s is probably the most widely-known trademarked surname.

Nintendo doesn’t explicitly state what it means by making your device “unusable.” However, there’s a strong chance this is merely Nintendo’s polite way of indicating that if a user breaches its user agreement policy, their Switch console could potentially be bricked (rendered inoperable) by Nintendo.

I like how the author’s speculation is used as the headline, as if it were confirmed fact. That’s super cool and useful and definitely not misleading at all.

Realistically, this sort of verbiage has existed on several consoles’ ToS in the past, and I’m pretty sure nothing has ever come of it before. Here’s the full term in question, which the author of this article couldn’t be bothered to include for the reader to easily scrutinize for themselves:

2. License

Subject to the terms of this Agreement, Nintendo grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Nintendo Account Services solely for your personal and non-commercial use. For clarity, the Nintendo Account Services are licensed, not sold, to you, and you may not make use of the Nintendo Account Services except as expressly authorized by this Agreement.

Without limitation, you agree that you may not (a) publish, copy, modify, reverse engineer, lease, rent, decompile, disassemble, distribute, offer for sale, or create derivative works of any portion of the Nintendo Account Services; (b) bypass, modify, decrypt, defeat, tamper with, or otherwise circumvent any of the functions or protections of the Nintendo Account Services, including through the use of any hardware or software that would cause the Nintendo Account Services to operate other than in accordance with its documentation and intended use; © obtain, install or use any unauthorized copies of Nintendo Account Services; or (d) exploit the Nintendo Account Services in any manner other than to use them in accordance with the applicable documentation and intended use, in each case, without Nintendo’s written consent or express authorization, or unless otherwise expressly permitted by applicable law. You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with the foregoing restrictions Nintendo may render the Nintendo Account Services and/or the applicable Nintendo device permanently unusable in whole or in part.

As it’s written, it seems that the actions Nintendo would take are flexible, and would depend on what, specifically, you hacked. And I say “hacked”, because this is referring specifically to unauthorized access of Nintendo’s online services. This isn’t even talking about hacking your actual console, itself.

There’s really nothing out of the ordinary here, and I’m almost positive that the same terms existed on previous Nintendo consoles, just in different words.

That’s an interesting way of spelling, “no.”

But the answer isn’t “no”. There are lists. That’s what the registry is. It’s a literal list of people who own firearms.

They do make special shielding for USB and other ports, but most manufacturers don’t use them because generally people aren’t going to stick foreign objects into their computer for internet points.

Often times, those “public chargers” you sometimes see in airports and such have that shielding installed on the ports (though you should never use public USB ports to charge your devices, for a dozen other reasons).

You can short-circuit basically anything with exposed contacts and a paper clip. This isn’t specific to Chromebooks.

Pretty much any device with a USB port can be catastrophically short-circuited, because most USB ports are capable of supplying some amount of power. You can even buy “USB Killers”, which look like a thumb drive but will fry the internals of whatever they get plugged into.

Several states require firearm registration, as does the fed for certain types of firearms.

Sounds like a skill issue.

Hell yeah.

They 100% have lists of gun owners.

The job market in Austin is shit right now. Anybody with a soul at Tesla likely can’t afford to go job-hunting right now.

“Members of Congress are not above the law and cannot illegally break into detention facilities […] ,” McLaughlin said.

Yeah, know your place, Congress! Illegally breaking into buildings and taking over is what DOGE is for.

Don’t worry, we learned all about that from Hello Kitty.

It does a pretty poor job explaining itself, at all. Ironically, it probably would have behooved the author to have used an AI to proofread this.

The hype did not magic the jobs into existence. Because this was all part of marketing chatbots to the enterprise. They wanted companies to believe in the magic of chatbots.

This is a full paragraph from the article. What the fuck is this trying to say? Who is “they”? Literally no questions were answered by this article.

80 years later and still crushing nazis!

They were allowed whether you said so or not, dipshit.

Same, I hardly ever look at my phone anymore during the day. I just glance at my notifications from my watch, if it’s not important I swipe it away and if it’s something I need to follow-up on I’ll just leave it for later. Then I go right back to whatever I was doing.

I get distracted a lot less these days, and my phone gets insane battery life now. My Pixel 6 is several years old now, but it still regularly gets 48+ hours of life because of how little wear I put on the battery.

That’s because it is.

The harm would be reinforcing medical misinformation. If you validate one misconception, it’s very likely for that person to gain a lot of misplaced confidence in other incorrect beliefs.

Remember, people were eating horse deworming paste for a while, to treat a disease they didn’t even believe existed, all because somebody validated some medical misinformation. People are dangerously stupid.