Everything costs something, we know. Do you have a more useful argument?
Posts by Jim Mitchell
640 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jan 2012
Senator Warren slams Intuit's 'junk fees' as America's Tax Day rolls around again
Rust rustles up fix for 10/10 critical command injection bug on Windows in std lib
I'm confused (again?). This headline, advistory, etc, reads as a Rust problem, but "Erlang, Go, Python, and Ruby are also affected and have updated their respective documentation pages to raise awareness of the issue.". Do those language implementations on Windows use Rust or just made the same mistake, or ?
US insurers use drone photos to deny home insurance policies
You need insurance because your mortgage insists on it. If they find you don't have it, they'll find a vendor and make you pay for it.
Even if you don't have a mortgage, most people can't afford the risk. Rebuilding a house from scratch is very expensive.
So only the rich, the idiots, and those without a house they need to insure anyways, don't need insurance.
Puppies, kittens, data at risk after 'cyber incident' at veterinary giant
Former US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin thinking about buying TikTok
Grab a helmet because retired ISS batteries are hurtling back to Earth
IP address X-posure now a feature on Musk's social media thing
Lender threatens to sweep MariaDB accounts over private equity bid
Americans wake to widespread AT&T cellular outages
Elon Musk can't wriggle out of SEC Twitter fraud inquiry
GPS interference now a major flight safety concern for airline industry
The Land Before Linux: Let's talk about the Unix desktops
CISA boss swatted: 'While my own experience was certainly harrowing, it was unfortunately not unique'
Re: Cop doesn’t even make the top 10 list of most dangerous occupations.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelynsmith/2013/08/22/americas-10-deadliest-jobs-2/
"Airplane pilots have the third deadliest jobs, according to the BLS. Like loggers, pilots are menaced by the threat of malfunctioning machinery and falling heavy objects. "
Yeah, pilots are at risk of falling heavy objects. They tend to be in them at the time.
Tech billionaires ask Californians to give new utopian city their blessing
"Our proposal is for a walkable, medium density, mixed-use community," said Head of Planning Gabriel Metcalf. "This would be not just housing, but jobs of all different kinds, parks and playgrounds, schools and grocery stores, bars and restaurants, hotels and hospitals. Everything that goes into a complete community."
Sounds like a 15 minute city plan to me. Does that mean we get to burn them at the stake? Or is that no longer a heresy?
Philips recalls 340 MRI machines because they may explode in an emergency
HP exec says quiet part out loud when it comes to locking in print customers
Meta goes to war with FTC over right to profit from kids' personal data
Musk tells advertisers to 'go f**k' themselves as $44B X gamble spirals into chaos
Wayland takes the wheel as Red Hat bids farewell to X.org
How to give Windows Hello the finger and login as someone on their stolen laptop
3D printer purchases could require background checks under proposed law
If you can afford a CNC machine, you can afford to have real customers for your machine shop.
Anyways, the low end of the 3d printed firearm spectrum is the "auto-sear", basically altering the fire control mechanism of an already semi-auto weapon to be full-auto. They don't have take the abuse of the actual chamber/barrel, and in criminal usage, probably don't have to be expected to stand up to years of use and thus are ideal for cheap manufacturing, either here or in China.
Acting union calls out Hollywood studios for 'double standard' on AI use
You shouldn't be able to buy devices that tamper with diesel truck emissions on eBay, says DoJ
Scientists trace tiny moonquakes to Apollo 17 lander – left over from 1972
Lithium goldrush hits sleepy Oregon-Nevada border
Bombshell biography: Fearing nuclear war, Musk blocked Starlink to stymie Ukraine attack on Russia
Texas cryptomining outfit earns more from idling rigs than digging Bitcoin
Small buyers can do similar things, but getting a small rate discount by allowing the power company to kill your AC on the hottest days is not an attractive prospect.
This reminds me, what happened to El Reg having a story on smart electric meters on what seemed like a weekly basis? Has that kerfuffle been forgotten and the media moved on to AI, etc?
The Anti Defamation League is Musk's latest excuse for Twitter's tanking ad revenue
Let's give these quadruped robot dogs next-gen XM7 rifles, says US Army
OpenAI's ChatGPT has a left wing bias – at times
Virginia industrial park wants to power DCs with mini nuclear reactors, clean hydrogen
IBM, NASA emit actual open source AI model – for grokking Earth satellite images
MIT boffins build battery alternative out of cement, carbon black, water
Twitter's giant throbbing X erected 'without a permit'
First of Tesla's 'bulletproof' Cybertrucks clunks off production line
Elon Musk launches his own xAI biz 'to understand reality'
InfluxData apologizes for deleting cloud regions without performing 'scream test'
Ex-FBI employee jailed for taking classified material home
Re: Orange man...
Imprisonment is done even when it costs society more money than the convicts make back working as slaves on the chain gang. "Isn't practical" is not an excuse for having a double standard justice system. Since general population would be to high a risk for the imprisoned individual, any President would have to be in solitary confinement, for his own good. The American prison-industrial complex is a tough bitch.