On my Firefox Nightly I have an extension to set Yandex as an allowed default search engine. Makes it easier to pop up another browser for a session.

Somebody fix that extension to work on mobile, eh?

They don't - something like this needs an Act or Congress.

SCOTUS made up some BS "Chevron Deference" in the 80's which has been abused like this since.

The current /Maine Fisheries/ case should dissolve Chevron deference.

We may like the FTC proposal on this one but with that kind of power and no representation it's only counting the days until they do something we absolutely detest. And then there's no effective recourse.

Weren't the founders and top management of Google citizens of Israel?

It dozen't seem all surprising from that perspective.

These protesters should have gone back to writing code to surveil Americans, I guess?

Sometimes a Good paperback at ThriftBooks is $1 less than a new one at Amazon so I just get the new one.

Weird market!

PS unless the recent printings have been Trust & Safety'ed.

Supporting Palestinian rights is not the same as supporting Hamas. Both Israel's and Gaza's gov't are bottom-of-the-line assholes. They are zealot-controlled Hatfields and McCoys.

The machine I had was a HeathKit H19. This had it's own OS called HDOS. Not sure what the quality of that was or how it compared to CP/M. However the hardware also had ROM mapped to the first 2K or so (to run the program controlling the front panel display) which made it incompatible with CP/M. I somewhat remember it was already clear that all the good software was only for CP/M and I had the wrong machine and HeathKit screwed up. Anybody else remember these, have any comments on them? It does sound like creating HDOS was not a trivial amout of work, was anything interesting lost with it?

> A radio signal takes about 22 1/2 hours to reach Earth from Voyager 1

Engineers having Comcast should be used to that.

people working on this are doing a much cooler job than mine

Actually I have similar problems maintaining our underfunded undocumented legacy apps, some pre-PC, but things like budget tracking isn't nearly as glamorous as interstellar exploration.

rather than being a feelgood title for some script kiddies

Yes, but at least my probe is web-scale and will thus get me a web-scale job! Fixing it at Uranus will be some other sucker's job.

> Where does the federal government get the legal authority to...

They have none, they just secretly swipe bank money from gov't haters using their Deep Network of pizza parlor basement servers. Some are even hidden under the basement, a sub-basement, so they can't be found by vigilante basement inspectors like Edgar Maddison Welch. The Deep State out-Scoobied the Doo.

Saving the Planet may require a bit of socialism. What would Jesus decide?

> more like [local] electrical company recalcitrance to preserve their own profit base

We wanted solar panels that could power our house directly if there were a power outage, which have been too common of late. But the local power co. rules are that you can't have such unless you also have a battery system, which greatly adds to the price. We'd be happy with day-time-power-only during a general power-outage such that batteries are not worth the extra cost & maintenance. (Yes, we know we may not be able to run all appliances at the same time under such; half is fine!)

But multiple panel vendors told us that was against local power co' regulations. What's the friggen point of solar panels if you can't use them during a blackout?

Reducing our bill by about 10% but having risky ugly panels on top (rain leaks etc.) is not enough incentive. We also want the "Armageddon insurance" of self-generated power. Greedy Jerks! During Armageddon I'm going to eat the executives there raw: "Sorry, I can't bake you first, you wouldn't allow blackout power. Now stop squirming!"

(FBI doesn't wish to track Armageddon cannibalism threats; Mulder and Scully are fake.)

PS, the US was sloppy with radiation safety also, but not the the extent of the Soviets.

There we go: whichever politician(s) runs up the debt* has to be a Boeing Flying Car test-pilot.

* By spending too much and/or not taxing the rich

Xi is out-Zuckerberging the USA: he moves fast and breaks people. Dictators have an R&D "advantage" when it comes to safety testing. It's one of the reasons the Soviets got their nukes up and running so quick once they swiped our blueprints: glowing people couldn't vote the glow-spreaders out.