I think many people are missing the bigger picture here. In order to comply with the new law all accounts, regardless of age, will have to provide proof of age.

How can you filter out 13yo and restrict 14,15yo users if you don't require every user to provide proof of age? I've seen too many accounts just list "1/1/2001" as their birthdate or just leave that field blank. If I go into a library, create a g-mail account, then create a social media account, how do I prove I'm older than 14yo without uploading some sort of age verification? The only exception I can immediately think of is if you've had the same account for longer than 15 years, they should assume you're older than the required 15yo limit.

This is a "everyone must provide identifying information" bill disguised as a "think of the children" one.

After a review of the play, watt-greedy was found to be used correctly as a compound adjective for the noun "AI". Energy-hungry was found without a noun to modify and was found to be superfluous.

Additionally, "Ten yard penalty" was found to need a hyphen to become "Ten-yard penalty" so the penalties cancel out. It remains second down.

Luckily we have a full solar eclipse next month that stretches from the middle Pacific, across Mexico, US, and Canada, then out into the northern Atlantic.

That should give scientists plenty of new data to correlate or correct the hypothesis from the EOS researchers.

https://science.nasa.gov/eclip...

I read the summary and TFA slightly differently. They are using the base thruster for the majority of the thrust and adding Boron as an enhancer (accelerant?) to boost the thrust.

So the propulsion is not completely from a fusion reaction, rather it is being boosted much like aluminum powder is used to enhance explosives.

I also like the One+ N30 for $299. It has decent memory, storage, and cameras. The battery lasts me two days, and a week on standby without calls.

https://www.oneplus.com/us/one...

This was in 2002 in a small turboprop plane. There is nothing to microwave. This was pre-GPS, doing a visual landing during daylight conditions in a small plane.

If you want to propagate conspiracy theories, at least pick a plausible one.

These people probably still use Bluetooth ear pods, cell phones, home WiFi, and know about AM/FM radios in their areas. Convincing them to scan magnetic fields instead of blasting them with EM radiation (x-rays, etc) should be possible. The magnets in their ear buds probably have a stronger local magnetic field than the MRI scan, or at least the MRI is in use for a much shorter time.

Exactly. This is like reporting "A 23-year old Ford truck had the gas-filling door break off after putting gas in the vehicle."

The owner reported "I don't know what happened. It worked perfectly for the last 223,000 miles I have driven the truck."

A Ford representative looked at the reporter like he was an idiot when asked if this was endemic with all Ford trucks.

What's next? Someone reporting the seat-back trays on some Boeing models don't stay latched after 20 years of service? How about the overhead reading lights don't work on four seats? After five years of service, most problems are maintenance related, not manufacturing issues.

Considering Chrome can be installed without admin rights, it's malware.

Firefox, Opera, Brave, 7zip, etc can also be installed without admin rights, but just like Chrome, only for the current user.

Any program that can be installed for all users or programs that need to modify the registry in areas that need admin access will request permissions to do so. If permissions aren't given, then they install a version for only the current user.

Quite a few scientists have shown that Pi to the 39th digit is accurate enough to describe the circumference of the known universe (~14 billion light years) to the accuracy of the width of a hydrogen atom. The observable universe down to the distance of the electron orbit of a hydrogen atom? I think 39 digits is good enough for anything we can reasonably need to measure.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/n...

Sargent and Greenleaf make many different types and styles of locks, from inexpensive consumer grade locks, padlocks, door locks, up to GSA approved locks for classified material. For example, the S&G 2740B is approved for GSA-approved for security containers. https://sargentandgreenleaf.co...

Just like Ford makes everything from the consumer Fusion to the Police Interceptor models, comparing S&G's consumer and professional models doesn't give you a full picture.

There was something else falling off around the 45 minute mark that wasn't frozen material. If you look at about 45:03 point of the mission, there appears to be a brown or orange paper-like material on the left side of the video that tumbles down the fuselage along with other thin material. Perhaps the hatch test left the hatch partially open and it caused uneven aerodynamic drag? We will need to wait for SpaceX to release more information.

https://youtu.be/8htMpR7mnaM?s...

(Scott Manley's analysis of the launch is worth watching in its entirety.)

If they start using caffeine in batteries, they would probably get caffeine from the Guarana plant. The plant's fruit has one of the highest concentrations of caffeine found in any plant (twice the caffeine of coffee beans).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.logees.com/guarana...

I've used TurboTax for the past 20 years but they went a bit too far this year. In the EULA for TurboTax:

(emphasis added by me for clarity)

So having an Intuit account gives them permission to pull your credit rating for marketing purposes for as long as you have an account. This wasn't a problem before this year as you could use TurboTax without creating a registered Intuit account.

Starting this year, to use TurboTax you must create an Intuit account in order to register and activate the software. Intuit claims this is to combat piracy of the software but it surely benefits them to require every copy sold will now have an Intuit account. They could have done the activation with multiple other methods to make sure multiple people were not using the software without paying, but I was disappointed they require allowing credit report authorization to use their software.

Intuit lost a little of my faith when about 2018 they started removing features from the Deluxe edition and required you to purchase the Premier edition to do things like Capital gains, Schedule D, etc. There was such a backlash from customers that they added them back into the desktop version but not the online version. Every time you get to an edge case (rental homes, AirBnB rentals, Farming income, etc) they won't show you the forms unless you upgrade to a pricier version.

For the past 20 years I have used TurboTax and been happy with it. This year they went a step too far and I will be choosing a different tax software package.

Yes. Every company that raises its prices to recover from cyber crimes affects your purchasing power. Every insurance premium you pay that is higher than it used to be because of electronic fraud is affecting you. Every time your personal information is stolen it affects your privacy. Each time a financial institution is defrauded either your IRA portfolio, your investment accounts, or the economy in general could be affected and reduce the growth of your annuities.

Even if a person doesn't own a computer, the affects of cyber-related crimes could still affect them to some degree.