i think this is really about a dishonest supplier trying to hide behind shady vague indicators to treat as an affirmation when it benefits them or to deny when affirmations hurt. Someone called the supplier out on their bad faith and the supplier should absolutely be made to pay for trying to weasel out of it.

The lesson: in contracts, be clear about your intent or expect to be challenged.

Seems to me that either a) if the prosecutors want to rely on the software, they should be expected to pay whatever the cost for the inspection and certification, or b) if the developer company wants their software to be used in court proceedings, they should be expected to pay whatever the cost for certification.

I agree with the sentiment that software should be treated as a witness, like a coroner who performed an autopsy, and the software should be questioned.

speaking as someone who got vaxxed as soon as possible, i have to call you out on misinformation. A lot goes into vacccines beyond the single protein from the virus or the inactivated cells. Those other things cause allergic reactions often enough to be well-documented and there a host of other side-effects and drug-interactions documented for vaccines that you really should have known better.

Looks like our new AI/LLM overlords may have figured out the third list item is the perfect place to insert irony.

I laughed because letâ(TM)s be honest: This could be a great way to raise awareness and funds for the disadvantaged.

your mom has beenâ¦.

Oh, right. My apologies, sir. Carry on.

Itâ(TM)s propping up local economies (and therefor local voting constituents who will respond in kind every voting event).

Ordering online props up external economies which I feel is net more good than propping up local. However, it seems most people would rather not aide people who live far away even though it is now the main driver of keeping prices low. That, though, is the problem for local economies since they canâ(TM)t compete with 3rd-world costs nor mega-corp cost/unit.

All we really know is that light appears to lose energy over distance (lower wavelength = lower energy).

We needed a mechanism to explain how light could possibly lose energy without interacting with anything. The easiest assumption was that galaxies were accelerating away from us because light being emitted by accelerating bodies gets sort of stretched out to a longer wavelength. (or that the bodies arenâ(TM)t technically accelerating away, but rather space is being stretched between us and the other galaxies which likewise stretches out light in those regions?)

If the above is not the case, what else can explain EMR (light) losing energy without interacting with anything? Can it be hidden interactions with dark matter gravity? Can it be that light naturally decays? Can it be something else cooler than those? I donâ(TM)t know. iâ(TM)m just an uneducated dweeb. No one should listen to me about anything.

I agree with your sentiment.

However, offering Search Revenue (essentially a monopoly for Google) to gain advantages in the smartphone software market was obviously anti-competitive. Google should have just offered direct money to keep it more ethical.

Sounds like something Dana would have done. :) Oh Kesac. The man, the Myth, the Legend.

If this doesn't make sense, you probably aren't who I was expecting.

Counter point: Open source software is the only source of hard crashes (where the system had to reboot) that i've seen in almost 20 years. I suffer no "abuse" from MS because the user experience has been flawless for me, but if you want to keep making up scarecrows, just know you clearly aren't familiar with the MS-home user experience, anymore.

Or the slippery slope: It'll suffer the same fate as Reddit: a small, hateful group will band together and drive change in their favor. This might be for nostalgia Slashdot culture where what they remember through rose-tinted glasses will be what they want the site to return to, or it could be for spite culture where they focus on weeding out whatever they just don't like and then focusing their ire on forcefully removing the elements through targeted "community feedback" overload.

That second option turned Reddit into a tumblrina-SJW haven. Be careful that it doesn't happen to Slashdot.

So... what? Did they deface hack into 19000 websites and deface them using sticks and throwing stones?

Because the manufacturer has lower costs. The price they give to dealers includes the manufacturer's profit. The dealer has to increase price over what they pay for it to make a profit. If the manufacturer sells directly in competition with a dealership, the manufacturer could undercut the dealership so the dealership can't make a profit thereby guaranteeing sales and killing the competition through forced losses.

The original vehicle manufacturers made a huge mistake to allow dealership franchises and we all are paying for it (literally) now.

You can't prove me without me intervening somehow in your life. If I had the ability to watch you from the Moon and you possessed no telescope, you wouldn't be able to prove me, either.

Basically *anything* can be proven, but very little can be completely disproven. The only thing we can reasonably do is to stop trying to prove it and start working on more meaningful proofs that we *can* attain.

Your 3rd paragraph does appear to be spot on. Just saying.

But, if Zeus was right, we'd be worshipping Zeus and the Christian God would be a tale told in D&D. Same goes for Odin.

This is not saying the Christian God is obviously right because he's worshipped more widely--just that your implied assertion that "because it could be any of them means it's probably not any of them" is wrong.