But the OP says the 32GB was "Not used. Not allocated. Leaked." It's a little hard to parse, but if true, then maybe the actual effect is truly negligible.

Seriously? Of all the mistakes NASA has made over the years this most certainly is not one worthy of anyone's scorn. The same genius probably assisted in working magic to restore contact. Sorry but I have nothing but admiration for everyone involved and sorry that these budget cuts likely spell the end of a very over-achieving mission that was planned to last a few years.

+1 informative. If slashdot could pin comments the parent post should be pinned at the top.

Just to be clear this was in the works during the Biden administration. It was as questionable then as it is now.

If I want an app to draw over other apps (e.g. accessibility apps) I need to grant that permission (AOSP distro). How do they bypass that?

> I'd like to know how much blame each of these companies deserves

For paying a ransom?

How much for the Epstein Files?

Or called socialist. Probably more than being called fascist.

It's also just demand. Most car buyers simply don't care that much about fuel economy. It's good enough. And most north American buyers prefer larger vehicles because they think they are safer in them. There are still cars available here but they just aren't in much demand.

I live in Utah... I wonder what effect this will have on my power prices.

This law does not solve that problem nor has it intended to. This law intends to help parents semi-lock down (in tiers) their kids digital devices and reduce risk. Not eliminate all possible risk... reduce it. And to do it without introduce more risk from other realms (like the UK did).

Actually they are impossible except under consistent, controlled circumstances (which is kind of the cause of the whole scandal anyway). Put your foot down and it's definitely pushing nox and particulate out the tail pipe. But even still it's pretty clean. There's just not a lot to be gained by going to tier 5 or beyond. But at the same time emissions controls are getting very costly and unreliable. Volkswagen recalled a bunch of the scandal engines to fix them and no one is happy with the power and economy after the fix. And it's not like they were crazy dirty before during the scandal.

To clarify, AB 1043 (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043) isn't age verification (even though it uses the term). It's age *setting*.

The bill requires operating system providers to **allow** account owners (parents) to enter the birth date, age, or both, of the **user** of that device (kids) for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the user’s **age bracket** to applications available in a covered application store. No stored ID photos. No PII sent to apps.

The bill also requires developers to confirm the appropriateness of their app per the user's age bracket.

This is a reasonable step forward from doing nothing and not nearly as far as mandating things like photos of driver's licenses and school IDs being stored on random servers.

My Pixel 4A is ancient now and it has always fixed with all the constellations. I think at any one time it's seeing 30 odd satellites, all contributing to the fix.

That's: "Shouldn't be".

I do see you point about big and small players: the danger of looser copyright rules is that the big players are in a better position to steal your work and then just bankrupt you in court. But that is a failure of the court system rather than copyright.