Not that hard to find. Here is an older article from 2021. https://www.stormshield.com/ne... I recall the Oldsmar incident where luckily the sodium hydroxide levels were restored before anyone was killed. And Putin just might in the future (possibly via NK) do something like this in retribution for the US support for Ukraine.

I'm from Indiana and am sometimes ashamed of some of the crap they do. I took a fortran class in 1976 in HS, they just started offering it. Keypunch machine in the class and cards were taken downtown to run and printouts returned next day. I even got a chance to go downtown to finish an extra credit program of like 700 lines(cards). It was a cool idea, as was the 2 years of chemistry I took. These things allowed me to test out of a year of calc, a semester of chem and jump into sophomore level programming my first year of college. But just like there were kids who did not take chem, or calculus, or trig, or physics, or even biology, few took fortran and for good reason. It would have been a waste of time. Just like welding would have been a waste of time for me. High school is the time where kids need to start branching into where they are going in life. Kudo's to my Indiana high school that offered the above as options, but require? How could the system have gotten dumber in 50 years?

They both (and investors) bought into the dream of self-driving autos where they could eliminate the driver cost completely. It has not panned out as planned. Their backup plan seems to be to squeeze the drivers to cost the same as an AI.

I've also noted Costco has done a few things locally. Before self-check was really self-check. Now self-check is still there but for awhile an employee actually scanned my stuff, usually with the gun as opposed to the table scanner that required the item be put on the weigh table. It was very fast, the employees could out scan almost everyone, lines moved very fast. But then they scaled back the number employees to around 1/2 the stations had an employee, but they took away the guns. Everything even stuff scanned by employees went thru the stationary scanner/weigh table. Things have slowed with the latest method. I asked an employee about it and the reason stated was theft for the removal of guns. The receipt check at the exit is still pretty lax. I suspect they are really just counting items which is pretty fast.

It is a bit of a pain to setup, I needed it to register to submit SS info if I remember right. I'm not surprised as once it is setup, it is easy to access many federal government sites such as IRS. I'm actually ok with it being difficult. Would you want it to be easy to have someone impersonate you to grab a fake tax refund in your name? I also do the PIN thing for my tax return, just as one more wall against tax fraud. One thing I found encouraging was during covid, the employee I video chatted with was in the office. ID.me did not allow their employees to work from home. I took that as they are serious about security, which I found comforting.

As to too little too late, thank lobbying efforts of TT. They paid a great deal of money to make sure congress did not allow IRS to siphon off TT's profits for a long time. A friend just saved 80 bucks doing direct file instead of TT. That same congress is intent to defang the IRS to ensure the wealthy can continue to duck audits. It had been paying pretty good dividends. https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/i... They picked up 1/2B from only 1600 deadbeat millionaires. Not bad. But then only congress would think it is a good idea to neuter the account receivables department to benefit their biggest contributors.

People are on vacation. They want to have sex on the kitchen table!

I still use alpine. Occasionally I have to export an html file from alpine to a browser to do something, but very rarely, maybe once every couple of months. I love the simplicity of (al)pine.

I took it to the extreme to show how stupid it would be in a democracy to offer a president unlimited immunity, even for executive actions. Dictatorship sure, but democracy, never. Israel's Netanyahu I think is pushing the line. There have been demonstrations about reducing the power of the courts he and their congress are trying to do. And the other reason I picked Biden directly is to hilight Trump's claim of he could kill someone on 5th avenue with no consequences. Don't remember anymore when he made that claim. I am hopeful though that a deal was made at the supreme's where trump get's to be on ballot's in exchange for no immunity from prosecution, with the ruling coming down quickly.

I'm sure many said the same about aircraft (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-02-25/comac-steals-the-limelight-in-singapore-with-first-peek-inside-c919-jet) , aircraft carriers (https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-unveils-new-images-its-next-generation-aircraft-carrier-2024-01-03/) and many other things the west thought China could not build. And yet here we are. Boeing can't build a plane anymore and China can.

Thank you, thought it was obvious. But it is /., I should know better.

I think you vastly underestimate the Chinese ability to make their own EUV equipment. Sanctions work for awhile. And then what happens if they manage to leapfrog ASML and the west becomes dependent on Chinese litho?

It will be interesting if the supreme's give him immunity. If they do, Biden should issue an executive order to have him executed and claim this new presidential immunity against anything done as prez. Works both ways.

I recommend directly filing with the IRS. A friend has a simple return, and was going to go TT. Somehow (he isn't that bright) he was going to have to pay around 80 for a trivial return. I told him to check out the new IRS direct filing. Took him less time than TT and he canceled he TT return. He had not hit "send" yet or whatever TT does to take your money and submit the return. If your return is to complex for direct filing, do it yourself. IRS supplies all forms in pdf format and you can enter the data and print the forms. I've been doing that for more than a decade. If you are not tax literate, get a CPA.

Had one minor fender bender in 4 decades, trivial really. Oddly neither have any of my brothers or father or mother. Dad drove for about 5 years as a traveling salesman, so he really racked up some miles in those years. Maybe some of it has to do with how you learn to drive. Now on the other hand I also know people that are a serial accident. Barely a year goes by without them being in an accident. I tend not to go anywhere in a car they are driving.

I think he is referring to texting and driving mainly. I think we've all looked over at a weaving driver and seen their face in their phone. How about we demand cell phone records of all crash drivers? Or how about we mandate that if a cell phone's motion sensor is triggered the phone stores what the phone was doing so it can be interrogated later like the car or plane black box? Either of these is trivial compared to self driving problem. But nope, hasn't even been seriously considered.