It was stored in the blockchain, which isn't part of a wallet, and the actual CSAM was limited to at most a handful of small images, with most of it being links to CSAM. If you have a wallet, you probably have at most a couple of megs of data, and that's basically the Bitcoin addresses and associated keys. The blockchain itself is currently over 500GB, and there is little need for most people to download significant portions of it, with even that just the most recent parts.

Obama commuted Manning's sentence. Manning did not receive a pardon and still has a felony record.

Technically, it's a violation at one mile per hour over the posted speed limit. Few police are that strict, but some are or can be when they're in a bad mood. Many people believe that there is a 10% cushion in the law, but I know of at least one person who was ticketed for going 1-2 MPH over in IIRC a 65 MPH zone (the judge threw it out when the person took it to trial).

It's fairly well known throughout the US that if you're driving through small towns in rural areas, you need to pay close attention to the speed limit signs (which are not always properly maintained), as local cops will often write tickets for out-of-towners for just going a couple of miles over the limit, knowing that the chance of it getting fought in court are limited.

If you claim it as your own interpretation of Satchmo's work, then no, though you might be on the hook for royalties if you too closely follow his work. It gets a lot fuzzier if you're trying to claim that it is what he would have done if he were still alive.

Don't count out the ability of sports leagues to contract Netflix to lock out anyone who had a billing address within the blackout zone in the last 90 days.

Disney, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon all have ratings and profiles can be locked to certain maximum ratings. It doesn't matter if they make an X-rated MCU film; if the kids' profiles are set to cap out at something less than PG, they're not going to get a single swear word other than maybe a rare hell or damn.

Of course it will go elsewhere, but more of it will stay in the pockets of patients, who will spend it on more useful things than the hospitals and drug companies will spend it on.

...the first few times you got burned by an HP printer, ok...annoying, stupid company. Right? The next couple dozen times, that's on you.

Why do people keep giving them money for their printers?

Good luck to you, whatever path you get.

Fuck cancer.

A cancer treatment that costs mere thousands of dollars is far cheaper than any other actual cancer treatment out there right now. The article mentions that each vaccine is made specifically for each patient (they have to get something from the patient's own cancer cells), so just the development is going to cost some money.

But since cancer typically means tens to hundreds of thousands (and occasionally millions) of dollars in treatment, this could be not game-changing not only in terms of health but for the actual economy. The US currently spends over $200 billion just on cancer treatments every year, and that doesn't count lost wages for those with cancer or those who are supporting them. The US GDP in 2023 was around $27 trillion, meaning that we're spending almost 1% of the GDP on cancer treatments alone. That's a lot of money to go cycling back into the economy.

The biggest misunderstanding most people have about non-profits is that they don't exist to make money. They absolutely do. Just because you're a 501(c) it doesn't mean there aren't hundreds of ways to get paid exorbitant amounts. The most common form of this is hiring "consultants" ( who do little but cash the check ).

The problem with hospitals/prisons isn't that they're "for profit", it's that there's a ton of money to be "filtered" ( laundered, tomato tomato ) through them. At the end of the day you need people with integrity and fiscal sense running them to be efficient.

We've lost that first qualification a long while ago; finding someone of integrity ( enough to resist the corruption ) is a lost art, if anyone even wanted to find them. I'm not convinced they even exist anymore.

Once you learn the idiosyncrasies of the self checkout lanes, they're invariably faster than staffed lanes, for a few reasons:

1) The queuing is often more intelligent. For normal lanes, you pick a lane and you're stuck there, whereas self checkouts are usually 1 queue per 4 ( or more! ) registers. It's the difference between serial vs parallel. Which is compounded by...

2) Those that prefer the staff registers are invariably slower and unable to handle such new technology as credit cards. When forced to use self checkouts they end up clogging up a register for far longer than they should.

3) Finally; I'm far faster checking myself out than any clerk has ever been.

Meanwhile, all you really need to be aware of while using the self checkout is to START with the bag, and place your items directly in the bag on the scale while scanning. Do not remove any items until you're at the payment screen. That's it.

I far prefer self checkouts, to the extent that it influences which stores I shop at.

They don't seem to have completely replaced it, rather just added 18 seconds of text to try to explain themselves. The same clip of the CEO saying that they're not negotiating is still there toward the end.

I was working for Broadcom when Avago swooped in. Hock Tan came in to present his vision of the future, and it all centered on "harvestable IP." That was all the incentive I needed to take a severance package rather than take the job they were offering. It was a cool place back in the day. It's too bad.

The excess money is spent on US Treasury bonds. The bonds are held until they must be sold to finance SSA operations (including benefits) or until they mature, and the proceeds are then either spent on SSA operations or reinvested into T-bonds. Social Security currently holds a bit under $3 trillion in such bonds.