Stephen Miller could write a Executive Order, for Trump to sign, changing the Constitution to allow Trump to not have to run, but just continue on with this term in 2028, for four more years, till 2032. Sounds as reasonable as anything else this Administration has done up to now.
Posts by ITS Retired
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Ousted US copyright chief argues Trump did not have power to remove her
Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here's what we know so far
This is another energy hog of "Because we can, not because we should", or for any actual necessity.
Sure it looks impressive, but why?
Some people have entirely too much money. There are better ways to use multimillionaire's excess money. Like fair share taxation, used for working economies and proper functioning governments for its citizens. Heaven on earth.
US Department of Defense will stop sending critical hurricane satellite data
US Navy backs right to repair after $13B carrier crew left half-fed by contractor-locked ovens
Asinine
Navel ships are war ships have be self sufficient while at sea. They can be thousands of miles from any help even in peace times. Steaming for weeks, sometimes months at a time.
How can they function if they cannot repair whatever, when something, anything breaks?
Farmer's tractors are bad enough, but our military?
Field support chap got married – which took down a mainframe
Ex-NASA Admin pick blames Musk ties for pulled nomination
Maybe, just maybe this planet was setup to make it very difficult to impossible for us to leave on purpose. We are not supposed to be able to export our dysfunctional life form to elsewhere. Robots exploring the neighborhood is one thing, but we can never expect to actually go anywhere and survive for long, until we learn to get along with each other like some civilized life form, without killing each other over minor differences that don't really matter. Hide color, eye shape, gender, sexual preference and other normal differences that exist in other species of animals on this wet rock.
Boffins found self-improving AI sometimes cheated
Re: Not convinced about safety.
That is why these AI models need to have a hard wired kill switch, that the AI can't bypass and preferably does not even know about.
Hooked to the Internet, who knows what these self programing AI will, or can come up with. "Do - you - want - to - play - a - game?"
US Transpo Sec wants air traffic control rebuild in 3 years, asks Congress for blank check
Re: Amazing ..
Sounds like a plan. But what does that have to do with the current administration? They are reducing, destroying, deporting, defunding, down sizing every agency, firing every educated DEI hire, eliminating college classes/program needed to educate enough people needed to upgrade the very systems that they say that need to be upgraded and replaced... In three years? It will take decades and trillions of dollars to catch up at this point in time.
These same idiots should have been allowing funding equipment upgrades for the last several decades! Hiring and training enough people to efficiently do the required jobs, regardless of skin color or national origin.
Instead they have concentrated on down sizing as the solution to not enough people to do the many jobs required. To say nothing about voting as a block all along, against any equipment upgrades as too expensive and we can't afford it. For them being incompetent is a job requirement, so now we only need three years do what actually will take decades. Never mind funding an unknowable upfront.
Microsoft tries to knife passwords once and for all - at least for consumers
Re: "It is faster using pass keys"
Passwords are so last century. Never mind nothing actually better has come along, but changeable passwords have worked for over 65 years.
But somehow just because something is 'old' doesn't mean needs to stop being used. That is sometimes faulty thinking. Occasionally the old stuff is better than the newer stuff. Passwords refuse to die for a reason. Stop trying kill what works well enough for most things, for a long time, with something new, say with AI, because AI is the shiny new, or whatever. Change for change sake is seldom better.
IBM dragged down by DOGE contract cancellation roulette
Elon Musk makes another cut – to his time at DOGE
Musk
Musk has all the government contracts he needs for control of communications, rockets, stolen data bases. He has neutered his competition. He has hollowed out the regulations of his "businesses", so he is mostly free to do what he wants. Of course his 'government' job is pretty much finished. He is just sticking around to make sure he doesn't lose the plunder he has stolen.
This man needs reside for the rest of his life, in a secure, walled residence in El Salvador for the damage has has done to our government. His money can be used to repair the damage he has done to innocent people's lives.
Free Blue Screens of Death for Windows 11 24H2 users
Microsoft: Why not let our Copilot fly your computer?
Pharmacist accused of using webcams to spy on women in intimate moments at work, home
How do you explain what magnetic fields do to monitors to people wearing bowling shoes?
Windows 11 poised to beat 10, mostly because it has to
After three weeks of night shifts, very tired techie broke the UK’s phone network
Frack to the future? Geothermal energy pitched as datacenter savior
Geothermal, or ground source heat pumps. They are not the same. Geothermal is using the heat that is underground. Can't be directly used for A/C.
Ground source heat pumps pumps heat into the ground in the summer for A/C, and out of the ground in the winter for heating.
Saying 'geothermal' instead of 'ground source heat pump' is a sales pitch to justify higher prices/price gouging.
Google confirms Gulf of Mexico renamed to appease Trump – but only in the US
Trump scrubs all mention of DEI, gender, climate change from federal websites
Trump eyes up to 100% tariffs on foreign semiconductors, TSMC in crosshairs
Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out?
This is how Elon's Department of Government Efficiency will work – overwriting the US Digital Service
Donald Trump proposes US govt acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service
GoDaddy slapped with wet lettuce for years of lax security and 'several major breaches'
Now Trump's import tariffs could raise the cost of a laptop for Americans by 68%
Re: "Trump's tariffs could result in the loss of 400,000 US jobs"
The domino effect in action. 400,000 jobs lost. Those 400,000 people quit buying anything not necessary to survive. Business go out of business because not enough customers buying their services/widgets. Causing more people to be out of work, not buying stuff. Bigger business go out of business. Survival is harder because less stuff is available. 1929 collapse was just a minor hiccup.
The rich and powerful buy everything for pennies on the dollar again.
Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh'
Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks
Microsoft won't let customers opt out of passkey push
Police arrest suspect in murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, with grainy pics the only tech involved
FCC fines be damned, ESPN misuses emergency alert tones yet again
Smart homes may be a bright idea, just not for the dim bulbs who live in 'em

If we had more smart people, we'd have less need for smart IoT that actually aren't.
Smart TV's with RF remotes that work anywhere in the neighborhood? No key pad on the TV remote? WTF! You have to bring up a screen on the TV, so you can hunt and peck on the on screen keyboard to change channels. But the TV is defaulted to be programed ahead of time for what you want to watch? Works great when the football game runs long. How is this "smart"?
Smart light bulbs and plug in switches for lights, fans, heaters, etc., that need a remote server and your WiFi password and an apt to work?
You are normally right there anyway to experience the effects of whatever said device. Deal with it directly using the switch on, or near the device. Why let a server, who knows where, know about it. Especially if you are paying someone for this server to know.
I am not really a Luddite, but I prefer to control my own stuff I bought and paid for myself, without any input from any unnecessary third party.
Apple debuts iPhone 16, Watch Series 10, assorted AirPods
Re: Being amazed no more
Its been my experience that people, how even musically talented people, will tolerate crappy sounding music coming from cheap too small speakers. i.e., nothing below maybe 200hz.
I don't understand why when reasonably sounding speakers don't cost that much. Not to mention ear and head phones sound so much better. My own hearing falls off a cliff at 5000hz and I cringe if I hear the fidelity of what normal hearing people listen to from their TV's, laptops, and even desktop computers with cheap speakers.
Google can totally explain why Chromium browsers quietly tell only its websites about your CPU, GPU usage
'Gay furry hackers' say they've disbanded after raiding Project 2025's Heritage Foundation
Julian Assange pleads guilty, leaves courtroom a free man
US senator claims UnitedHealth's CEO, board appointed 'unqualified' CISO
Giving Windows total recall of everything a user does is a privacy minefield
US reckons it's about time the Moon had its own time zone
Hillary Clinton: 2024 will be 'ground zero' for AI election manipulation
Chinese 'connected' cars are a national security threat, says Biden
There is way too much 'Because they can' in todays vehicles,
that does not serve to enhance safety. In fact can be a distraction from any attempted safety features.
The distracting beeping and flashing RED warnings of eminent crashes, AFTER the driver has already recognized, and is reacting to the situation.
Like when you are in the outside lane and the vehicle, ahead is you is in the inside lane, puts on their left turn signal and slows down to make a left hand turn and you are warned of an imminent, major crash when there is no possibility of such.
On a related note, the unrelenting e-mails and snail-mail from Sirius wanting you to pay $19.95 a month for their music, when you already have an AM/FM radio with HD radio in your vehicle. Plus being able to plug in your own music for free. They can't seem to understand "NO!", to well past the point of making it hard to drop their 'service', should you be suckered in.
Ignore Uncle Sam's 'voluntary' cybersecurity goals for hospitals at your peril
Re: We are looking in the wrong place fix problem
"Microsoft produces software that is hard to secure due to many things that constantly change the user does cant control. At some point, they need to be held accountable. Change my system without my permission, it is on them."
Especially when quality control rests more on the end user, than from the source corporation.
One person's shortcut was another's long road to panic
Windows keyboards to get a Copilot key – but how quickly will users jump?
‘I needed antihistamine tablets every time I opened the computers’
US govt pays AT&T to let cops search Americans' phone records – 'usually' without a warrant
How much better would the Internet function
if there was not all this snooping by so many different entities, cluttering up the Internet by snooping on so many people just going about their normal lives.
Yeah I know this is AT&T, but they make heavy use of the Internet for their phone call traffic and their own snooping also.