The same people who willingly install devices into their OBDII port that lets insurance companies monitor their driving habits.

Wait, you mean I was supposed to plug that thing into my real OBDII port and not the one I hacked together to provide readouts for my ultra-realistic "Desert Bus" remake?

Move to the smaller tech hubs outside California and you can save 15% right up front, and then get a damage multiplier via cheaper living.

The frightening thing is that this is true even if your "smaller tech hub" is New York City.

.... to "simple" drones, that don't have altitude sensors or gps? Both of my daughter's drones have simple leveling sensors and that's pretty much it. Would unsophisticated drones be illegal by this bill?

It's a Feinstein bill. So of course yes.

As if we DON"T ALREADY DO THIS.

It's pretty much necessary, seeing as the other side can wage "war" 24/7/365 as well. I'd prefer a way to achieve a lasting peace, but I don't see how; there's no one on the other side with the authority to negotiate one (even if you could make peace with one group, as soon as you do so six others will splinter off to do more terrorism), and we can't kill them all without unacceptable collateral damage.

Not anti-SLAPP legislation (which are state laws), but the Communications Decency Act section 230, a rare case of an evil plan backfiring. The idea was to censor the Internet and throw a sop to dissenters by providing a shield from liability for user-provided content, but the courts ended up ruling everything but that sop unconstitutional.

One organization provides licenses for lawful public performance of music to justify its existence. I'd expect that at least 99% of their business is quietly collecting small amounts of money, granting licenses, and distributing money to songwriters, and none of this involves lawsuits.

Except for "songwriters", you've described the Mafia in that second sentence. When someone doesn't pay, the Mafia breaks bones and shoots people. BMI uses lawyers instead. Restaurants, on the other hand, don't have lawyers (or legbreakers) on staff, typically. Going to court against BMI is playing on their home territory. Unless you also have a tough legal staff, you've lost already.

He's always been aggressive and blunt. He's "irking more and more people" because those people want to take away what Linus has and he's not about to let them.

And that's the end of any sympathy they might have had coming from me. No matter how ridiculous the lawsuit is, if you don't answer it, you deserve to lose.

One organization sues people to justify its existence. The other makes food. No point in the second bothering to answer in court any more than the BMI lawyers should agree to a cook-off. The outcome in either case is pre-ordained, and answering can only drive up the costs.

It kind of doesn't work worth crap for bioinformatics or machine learning.

What's so special about a college classroom that you can't learn bioinformatics or machine learning anywhere else?

Ride the most extreme excesses of the bubble you can, pulling in ridiculous amounts of cash and equity. Convert it to reasonably safe (e.g. money markets) and counter-market (e.g. gold) investments. When the bubble pops, don't worry about being laid off: take some time off and live off your reserves. And invest some of them in those tech firms which have a solid business but whose stock prices were brought down in the general crash, to set you up for the recovery (or next bubble.)

Nothing ruins the world for parent, child, and innocent bystanders like making everything a teachable moment. Let's leave the teaching for the classroom and let the rest of the time be free of the tyranny of pedagogy.

Dude's got "trouble with girls" because "three things happen". Got that? These aren't things that are possible, these are things that happen so often that they cause old Mr Hunt "trouble". One is that he falls in love with them. Because the old horndog never got the memo that you don't shit where you work.

The common advice of not dating where you work is more honored in the breach than the observance. That's just reality. Dr. Hunt, who likely met his wife in just such a situation, knows this very well.

The second is that these "girls" fall in love with him. Because of course they would. He's clearly irresistible.

I'm sure some found him so, in his younger days.

The third thing that "happens" is that he criticizes them and they fall into an hysterical heap of crying femininity

He actually just said they "cry". And that may well be his experience. Personally I've run into very few women at work who cried when criticized... but no men. He wasn't talking about Ph.D. defenses.

Everyone is against the boss hitting on a subordinate. The whole point of this article is that we have a Nobel-winning scientist who claims he is unable to resist hitting on female scientists when they work in his lab.

Isn't it fun to just make stuff up?