need to ban 3D printers

Ban 3D morons.

The M.E. has a way of driving everyone crazy; you are damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Put HAZMAT tape around the area and warn everybody away. Leave them on their own, giving them no food nor weapons; if they bonk each other to oblivion, it's their problem, not ours. I think it's God's Insane Asylum.

Non-nuts have migrated somewhere quieter, leaving mostly nuts in place, a Sanity Filter. I'm just the messenger.

do business with Israeli gov't. Regardless of your political stance, from a business standpoint it's just asking for drama and controversy of some sort.

Qualified to work at Boeing.

I simplified the story for ya.

It's not even that so much as it is making change for the sake of change as opposed for the sake of improvement. Every company is guilty of this to some degree, but everyone can name a few that keep shuffling things around for no good reason. A lot of the time it's worse from a productivity perspective, but I guess that at least it looks flashier.

I'd respect the field more if they told management that the current design is good and that it can stay that way for the next five years while they work out something that might be better and go through the process to verify that. Too often it's them doing stupid shit that screams of them trying to justify their own job position or so that marketing has something to talk about for the next product release.

For seasonal flus you're better off taking a preventative approach than trying to treat it after the fact. By the time the symptoms are showing up there's not much that can be done, at least not in terms of hastening the recovery, beyond getting additional rest and letting your body fight the infection. I just supplement extra vitamin C and zinc during cold season and try to make sure that I don't get generally rundown from lack of sleep or stress and that's been enough to keep me from getting really sick. In the last 10 years I've only had one really bad cold during flu season. The worst cold I had was when I was doing a lot of international travel and sitting in a flying Petri dish for long stretches and having my sleep scheduled ruined on a weekly basis for a little less than a month. By the end of that I think I was so run down that it took almost a month to completely get over that cold.

What's wrong with that? When Apple bought Intel's modem team some years ago the designs they had weren't up to snuff so the iPhone kept using Qualcomm modems instead of being forced to use the inferior in-house solution. They only recently started selling some products with their own modems now that they're close to what competitors offer.

It's no different from you buying something for personal use but deciding to sell it to someone else who would offer you more money than what you paid for it instead of using it yourself. Similarly you may be intent on buying something from some particular company, but change to another that's offering something better for the same price or the same goods for a lower price.

Thanks for the tip! What about affecting GPS (navigation)? Does that use a separate antenna? If so, that would mean the vehicle has two different antennas for two different satellite types.

It's a smallish SUV, by the way.

MS playbook [of] shoving ads everywhere...

Ads on a desktop are one thing, but ads that block one's navigation map while driving are another. Thus, Sirius found a way to be even more evil than MS. Quite a feat.

It started 3 years ago. I contacted Sirius two years in a row. The first time they walked me through the menus to turn it off, and it worked. The second year they said it couldn't be turned off and that I'd have to wait for the promotional period to end (see below), so I filed a formal safety notice at nhtsa.gov, but never received feedback.

The alert pop-ups keep blocking part of the navigation map until I press the damned Dismiss button while driving in order to see the full map. Repeatedly pushing the Dismiss button distracts from driving, and so is a safety hazard.

I was told that every November Sirius gave out a few weeks of free service to help promote the service. But that caused the useless and repetitious wind alerts. I live in a naturally windy place such that wind alerts are superfluous; it would be comparable a North Pole freeze alert.

It happened again this year, but I was fortunately able to switch it off via settings menus. I don't know why deactivation is different per year. I suspect they do it to get people to poke around in the menus and see the different genres of music & talk channels they have, hoping to entice sales. It's probably stealth advertising disguised as a defect, or a defect they leave in place that happened to improve sales, so is ignored.

F$CK YOU SIRIUS!

Because for the past 30 or so years, it has worked very well for MS to keep their main products barely useable, rely on lock-in and chase the next big thing so they can get their dirty hands on it early and lock more people into more products.

That is exactly wrong. Beta versions are there to find bugs. If nobody complained about them, they won't be found. So if you try beta versions, please DO complain about bugs.

I guess "vibe-something" is going to be the anti-word of 2026. People are slowly waking up to what it actually means to let the AI do the work.

I'm not dissing AI, I'm using it extensively myself and there's a few AI whitepapers with my name on them. But like any tool, it can be great when used correctly and ruin your day when not.

That doesn't mean what they do is automatically legal.

I'm pretty sure there's a demand for "murder my husband", or for "can someone please drown my neighbour". And yet it's illegal to offer such services.