* Posts by Jim Mitchell

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Musk’s DOGE ship gets ‘full’ access to Treasury payment system, sinks USAID

Jim Mitchell

Re: Aid?

That first is ON MSN, but is really a Daily Caller article. It is not an unbiased source.

Jim Mitchell
Mushroom

The Republicans have long talked about drowning the federal government in the bathtub and it appears that they might succeed.

Call of Duty studio co-founder pleads guilty to crashing drone into firefighting aircraft

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Devil

A Hercules does much better when dealing with lions or hydras, not geese.

Trump eyes up to 100% tariffs on foreign semiconductors, TSMC in crosshairs

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One of the issues with this kind of trade policy is that importers have no idea what it will cost them on any given date in the future to get goods across the border. Uncertainty kills. One day Colombia is getting 50% tariffs 'cause they pissed somebody off, the next day it isn't. God knows what the tariff structure will be like in 6 months.

Sweden seizes cargo ship after another undersea cable hit in suspected sabotage

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Re: Brown trouser time

But you can sink a merchant vessel while surfacing without it being a war crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_Maru_and_USS_Greeneville_collision

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Re: Brown trouser time

The submarine you can see is not the submarine you worry about.

This is how Elon's Department of Government Efficiency will work – overwriting the US Digital Service

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Re: While I'm asking questions ...

The trick here seems that instead of forming a new agency/dept, which the executive can't do (I think), he is changing how an existing one operates. Legal? I don't know.

The bell tolls for TikTok as lifelines to avoid January 19 US ban vanish

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Re: Questions of national security

"The Great Firewall prevents users from accessing foreign news sites such as the BBC, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. 8 Foreign web services that are blocked include Facebook, Google, X, Instagram, Snapchat, Yahoo, Slack, and YouTube."

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/042915/why-facebook-banned-china.asp

Is it really the plan to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal? It's been a weird week

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Re: The unipolar world is officially dead

What do we call them? Evil.

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Re: The unipolar world is officially dead

Russia isn't a great power in the world.

NASA finds Orion heatshield cracks won't cook Artemis II crew

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"Avcoat, will return." seems more appropriate.

Bluesky too opaque about user figures for Euro watchdogs

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Re: I wonder how Twitter is counting users

What bot problem? All 32 "followers" I have on my Twitter account that never posts anything are real people. Yeah, and they are all hot women, just like their pictures, too!

Datacenters could blow up your electric bill thanks to AI

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Jack Kemp Foundation? I googled him, all the top hits were about his football career. (yeah, I already knew who he was, but still.)

Musk, America PAC sued for allegedly rigging $1M election prize

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I see no way to reach that event from the current location. Lying to people, which is what this lawsuit is about, is perfectly fine in American political campaigning. It is lying about *money* that gets you in legal hot water.

Musk's $1M election lottery raises serious legal concerns, says Pennsylvania governor

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If being in "actual" office compelled you to "keep your mouth shut" or else, Trump would have noticed while he was in office. Obviously, it doesn't.

Trump campaign arms up with 'unhackable' phones after Iranian intrusion

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Re: Hmm

There is no proof that this was an assassination attempt. This guy was another gullible Trump backer who had drunk fully of the 2nd amendment and sovereign citizen koolaid and thus had guns and fake plates, id, etc.

HPE CEO: 'Best interest of shareholders' to pursue $4B damages from Lynch estate

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Holmes

I don't know why people are surprised that HP will keep pursuing this. For a variety of purposes, the estate is the person. If he owed, the estate does.

Oracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200's doors for first time

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IT Angle

Re: Do Azul actually know what they're talking about?

Is it possible that the "Oracle Java for the PoS" (point of sale cash registers, probably) Java is under a different licensing regime that the $ per employee one this article is mostly about?

FTX's $24B tax bill written down to just $200M

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Pirate

Tax tips from Al Capone:

Remember kids, gross taxable income includes illicit income.

Research finds electric cars are silent but violent for pedestrians

Jim Mitchell
Boffin

Added to my negative bucket list: Find out how loud an auto-rotating helicopter is.

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Black Helicopters

Oddly, the main reason helicopters fall from the sky is probably some form of engine failure...

Destroying offshore wind farms is top priority for Trump if he returns to presidency

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"This comes after the Biden administration reportedly threatened to raise them to 100 percent."

Seems to have moved past "reportedly": https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/us/politics/biden-china-tariffs.html

Senator Warren slams Intuit's 'junk fees' as America's Tax Day rolls around again

Jim Mitchell

Everything costs something, we know. Do you have a more useful argument?

Rust rustles up fix for 10/10 critical command injection bug on Windows in std lib

Jim Mitchell
IT Angle

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

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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

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We moved to git years ago but I still think in cvs commands. Send help.

Former US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin thinking about buying TikTok

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Re: TikTok is the test case for a forced fire sale.

We punish lots of "victimless" actions. From speeding to attempted murder.

Grab a helmet because retired ISS batteries are hurtling back to Earth

Jim Mitchell

Re: From the heavens above

Mom was right, fast food is bad for you

IP address X-posure now a feature on Musk's social media thing

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article: "Video and audio calling features for X Premium users added last year to Elon Musk's version of Twitter have been expanded to everyone on the platform"

So, no, you don't have to have a paid Twitter account to use this, um, feature.

Lender threatens to sweep MariaDB accounts over private equity bid

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They are a public company, I think they have to announce things like this.

Americans wake to widespread AT&T cellular outages

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I still have a "landline", it is just VOIP over the mixed coax/fiber network the cable company has. But yes, copper POTS is dying in America.

Elon Musk can't wriggle out of SEC Twitter fraud inquiry

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The rich can afford to spend the money to contest and delay every step of the process.

GPS interference now a major flight safety concern for airline industry

Jim Mitchell

Re: Is it naive to suggest ...

But then you lose GPS when doing a 5G inverted dive with a MIG.

The Land Before Linux: Let's talk about the Unix desktops

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Re: Proprietary

An argument could be made that Torvalds is the proprietor of the Linux kernel.

CISA boss swatted: 'While my own experience was certainly harrowing, it was unfortunately not unique'

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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.

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Hey, they had to make up that revenue someplace, including by allowing probable bad actors network access as long as they paid the connection fees!

Tech billionaires ask Californians to give new utopian city their blessing

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"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

Jim Mitchell
Alert

Re: If you aren't full of shrapnel you will probably suffocate

Daleks can't navigate stairs, so how else but the elevator would you move them between floors?

HP exec says quiet part out loud when it comes to locking in print customers

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Re: Since then it has banked double-digit revenues.

My printer choice might have been tainted by my memories of waiting minutes for the laser printer to warm up and then seeing the lights dim when it started printing. These are probably no longer issues...

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Re: Since then it has banked double-digit revenues.

"I don't have space for a tank setup"

I replaced a HP inkjet with and Epson Eco Tank years ago, it wasn't any bigger.

Meta goes to war with FTC over right to profit from kids' personal data

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I'm not a Constitutional lawyer be any means, but I'm curious why nobody seemed to have a viable challenge to the structure of the executive branch regulatory bodies for the first decades of their existence but now does.

Musk tells advertisers to 'go f**k' themselves as $44B X gamble spirals into chaos

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Re: Delusional narcissist

Because keeping open an account is free

Yeah, no. Disney and IBM are paying monthly for their gold corporate "verified" status accounts.

Wayland takes the wheel as Red Hat bids farewell to X.org

Jim Mitchell
Mushroom

Re: Integrate Wayland into systemd

I hear that a Alien prequel show set in the near future is coming out in 2025. Coincidence? I think not.

How to give Windows Hello the finger and login as someone on their stolen laptop

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Re: fingerprint works <25% of time

It works well enough on my Lenovo with synaptics reader. I usually use an external keyboard and have PIN as the default.

3D printer purchases could require background checks under proposed law

Jim Mitchell
Mushroom

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

Jim Mitchell
Pint

Re: Answering the Rhetorical Question

I've bought a lot of beer to keep these kidneys well exercised and in top shape, I'll have you know!

You shouldn't be able to buy devices that tamper with diesel truck emissions on eBay, says DoJ

Jim Mitchell

The counter argument is that the seller has hired ebay to handle receiving payments on its behalf.

Scientists trace tiny moonquakes to Apollo 17 lander – left over from 1972

Jim Mitchell

Re: Freight train

Very interesting. Can you change the field dimensions depending on the team you are playing against?

Jim Mitchell

Re: Freight train

I've heard this fact about the playing area sizes before, but is there actual variation among fields used for professional play?

Lithium goldrush hits sleepy Oregon-Nevada border

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One of the key factors in natural resources is the amount recoverable at what price. I don't see that in this article.

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