I'm not sure that I completely understand the point of cryptocurrencies, but my understanding was that part of the purpose was to cut out middle-men like VISA. Doesn't this kind of defeat that purpose?

I wonder what kind of fraud this is. My credit card was hit for two $91 payments towards the end of December, saying "GOOGLE Chrome" in the reference. I cancelled the card, reported the fraud and was refunded, but I was quite curious as to how the transactions came about. TFA is sparse on details though.

I'm not sure what's going on in your mind that makes you say things like that. Students (and especially prospective students) are pretty much the bottom rung when it comes to negotiating clout, unless they throw their toys out the cot in large numbers. Unless you're wealthy and can pick and choose what school you go to (and even what country you study in), that may be a bit of a different thing. Most students don't have such luxury.

I'm sure many peoples' stories are pretty much like mine was. There's one university in my city. I lived at home, couldn't afford accommodation elsewhere in addition to tuition costs. Had to work a bit on the side to make ends meet as it is. If my university had a requirement like this, my choice would have been, either accept it, or see how well I fare packing groceries or whatever else kind of employment I could have found without a formal qualification. Sure, my decision wouldn't have been binding on anyone else. But I suspect that when faced with the choice: install app on phone, or forgo formal qualification, most folks would choose similarly to me.

(For the record, I completed my studies well before smartphones were pervasive enough for this to become a reality, fortunately, iPhones were still very new and only wealthy folks had them. I had a candy-bar phone which had a colour screen! So the topic at hand wouldn't really have been possible then.)

I'm not sure if this is a joke, but millennials are out of college now. Current freshmen are very much Gen-Z.

Pretty sure the response to this is, you're welcome to pick another school, we don't want you here. It's not exactly an even power relationship between school and student.

So for the uninitiated among us, there are billions of galaxies, so if you look hard enough, some of them ought to look synchronised. How is this any different from finding geometric patterns in the locations of Woolworths stores? http://web.archive.org/web/201...

So much this! I initially saw the headline and thought it said "banned" instead of "renamed". Imagine my disappointment.

Wise man once said... man who run in front of car get tired, while man who run behind car get exhausted!

I must just point out that former Soviet states are by definition second-world, not third-world. If you want to use that terminology.

People probably can. But the number of people with the skills to do this will be vanishingly small, compared to the number of people currently sharing Spotify family plans over large geographical distances.

and perhaps undervolting/underclocking it a bit so its not hitting the default settings which generates heat (of course, at the expense of lower benchmarks numbers)

So basically throttling in advance?

I also run a pihole, but I've got my block-lists to include the Windows telemetry domains for the one Windows box that my wife uses.

I also have it running a bitwarden_rs server, which it does with aplomb. I think it's a 2B.

Well put, sir.

You beat me to it... if I only had mod points.