Posts by Ace2 546 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Mar 2021
“The bug also affects macOS and iOS when Bluetooth is enabled and a Magic Keyboard has been paired with the vulnerable phone or computer.”
Everybody at the Apple Store thought it was weird when they had to open up my various iMac boxes (over the years) to pull out the wireless keyboard and replace it with a wired one. I’ve never once regretted it.
Unfortunately those days are gone. BT sucks.
“…notably when dealing with rivals simply lifting code without much contribution.”
“Lifting” has definite connotations of “stealing,” whereas what the hyperscalers are doing is 100% within the existing software license.
If you don’t like what they’re doing, maybe you should have picked a different license to start with.
Oh ok, you’re very concerned about the problem, but since EVs are such a poor solution we should go back to putting gas storage tanks on every street corner until a perfect solution magically presents itself. Thanks for clearing that up.
Same old Jellied Eel spew.
“So 'renewables' are fundamentally intermittent, unreliable and very expensive.”
As opposed to that sweet sweet Saudi/Russian oil, or the Deepwater Horizon rig, or the Exxon Valdez. Or heck, we could build a pipeline from Venezuela! It’d pay for itself, probably.
But that wasn’t the claim! The OP idiotically claimed that we’re out of renewables. That’s just wrong!
Your argument is nonsense too. Of course we need more storage to overcome the intermittent nature of most renewables (and more surf/tidal powered stuff). But each and every EV is a GIANT BATTERY. You can charge at home when your solar panels are running, and disconnect when they’re not.
It’s almost like you people are looking for reasons why these problems can’t be solved, instead of looking for solutions. Perhaps because you have a vested interest in petroleum?
Whichever part of Big Oil paid you to post this crap didn’t get their money’s worth.
“The environmental claims - amount of raw materials extracted and difficulty of recycling.”
Because it’s well known that Ford F-350s appear magically underneath waterfalls, and since they run on unicorn farts - no concerns at all!
“All of our current solar wind and nuclear electricity is already used - adding extra demand to the grid for charging EVs will not cause a solar panel or wind turbine to magically appear. The extra demand will be satisfied by nat-gas surely?”
WTF are you on about? New renewables come online literally every day.
Dotcom bubble? Ha! The crypto bubble burst like six months ago, and the industry has just ‘moved on.’
I am so so disappointed that my otherwise respectable $WORK has gone all-in on AI. There’s going to be a real opportunity coming along to not be stupid and make huge marketshare gains when the AI hype collapses.
“You should read David Baddiel’s book “Jews Don’t Count”. Yes, what you said is anti-Semitic.”
Because… why? Because you’ve constructed a delightful strawman and are now threatening to set it alight?
Screw off, and come back when you can have a discussion without inventing the contents of posts so you can disagree with them.
Or maybe you just have a headache. Maybe taken some ibuprofen and take a nap.
It’s like when my children are hitting each other, and then want me to come and stop the other one. “But he’s hitting me!” “She’s hitting me! Make her stop!” No, you twits, YOU BOTH HAVE TO STOP.
What Hamas did is horrible. What Likud and the execrable “settlers” are doing in response is also horrible.
If I were in charge, Israel would never get another dime of aid from the US until they GTFO of all occupied territories.
ETA: I think it’s disgusting that these rich, privileged Israelis were having a freaking music festival just over the border from where two million Palestinians are living in near-stone-age conditions in the world’s largest open-air prison camp.
This this.
We’ve all encountered this in video games - the bad guys that split in two when you hit them. That’s what shooting terrorists does. Great, you killed one. But you made a lifelong blood enemy of eight of his cousins.
The “War on Terror” (fuck you, Dubya!) was an abject failure. If only people would learn.
Sounds awesome… but also illustrates how broken modern development is. How often do you see things described as “not under active development”? Oh, then we should fork it and rewrite it in Rust and add an Electron front end and an email client!
Or maybe it hasn’t been updated in six years because it’s well-written and complete.
IANAL but my understanding is that anything that met the criminal definition of bribery could absolutely by pursued by state or federal authorities. If he were convicted he could be subject to jail time or fines. Some states might have laws that would require elected officials to resign if convicted of certain offenses.
But impeachment and removal is a different thing. It’s saying that his actions (criminal or not) merit his removal from office before the end of his term.
Keep in mind the US Supreme Court has dramatically narrowed the scope of what constitutes political bribery. Menendez is likely to walk. The Bridgegate convictions got overturned, and William Jefferson ($90K cash in the freezer!?) wasn’t even charged.
I read this somewhere and it was eye-opening for me.
It’s not that conservatives are just raging hypocrites about everything. It’s that from their perspective, there is an in group (‘us’) and an out group (‘them’). The purpose of authority / the law / the Bill of Rights etc is to protect ‘us’ and our rights, but to bind ‘them’ from doing things we dislike. ‘We’ are not bound (Hookers and blow! Hooray!) and ‘they’ are not protected (Black guy? Let’s kill him!)
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