Don't be mad because you didn't see it.

Also, don't call them "editors"

And their hair is amazing.

"No DRM" isn't about the legal purchaser.

It means that your book will end up on a thousand torrent / ebook sites by that afternoon.

And, yes, "This move may actually incentivize authors to apply DRM to their ebooks." is nonsense. They're introducing an option to turn it off... by default it's already on.

Of course we *COULD* do it.

But we're absolutely not even trying.

Biosphere 2 (failure) was the last significant attempt, and everything else is "growing cress on the ISS". Given that we've had humans constantly in orbit for decades, and been to the moon, you'd think we'd have SOMETHING working by now. But we don't.

And you missed off oxygen. Pretty important. And do you know how much green matter you need to generate net oxygen with humans around? We're talking lab-based forests of the stuff, something that it would take some time to get up and running reliably (e.g. Biosphere!). How many small logistics issues like that (e.g. generating oxygen rather than just taking it with us like we did on Apollo) are actually viably tested for long-term reliable usage on another planet sufficient to sustain any kind of research population, even? One vent accident and you're in trouble and you better hope you have the CO2 scrubbers (95% of Mars atmosphere) to regenerate it quickly enough.

Let's learn to walk before we announce that we're participating in a worldwide ultra-marathon every day for the next few years.

NASA's fiscal year 2026 budget proposal, though, zeroed out funding for MAVEN, which cost $22.6 million to operate in 2024. MAVEN was one of several missions "operating well past the end of prime mission" the proposal would terminate, despite MAVEN's role as a communications relay.

Even more winning! It's wearing me out!!

There's BlueBird bus. That's blue-bird.c o m. Apparently, bluebird.c o m is also active; looks like banking software.

I like you guys; you're almost like family. Ya know, your "weird cousing" types, but hey. I highly value your insight. So while I could probably look the answer up elsewhere, I'm looking to "family" to tell me truly, what does RISC-V have that would lead me away from ARM? I've been in a long, stable relationship with ARM; she's a charming gal. She's got all that uncle John needs. Why would I consider trashing all that for RISC-V hotness?

Are we talking speed? Speed per watt? Cost? It's kinda hard to beat Pico at ~$5. Development tools? Industry support? More cores per chip? What?

I'm not saying that they can't do it, it's that they can't legally do it.

Yet he remains on the air thru May, odd.

I thought Trump was better at firing people than that - the late night network shows are bloated wastes of money - Kimmel has a staff of 200 people? Seriously? The audience is leaving, and the networks see no reason to keep loosing money running those shows.

Remember when we called Obama the Deporter In Chief? How many people did Obama deport, do you remember?

As a reminder, the Biden administration actually flew planes to foreign countries, picked up asylum seekers, and flew them directly into America, because they insisted we needed ever more asylum seekers, and they needed to reduce the numbers crossing the biorder on foot.

Democrats are saying "That's a nice little merger you've got there, it'd be a shame if something happened to it when we take over the government"

Yes, remember when SCOTUS blocked Biden from forgiving student debt, dems complained.

You don't remember Democrats wailing about republicans declaring they opposed Obama's plans? Really? They called it un-American as I recall... right up until Trump won in 2016, they they proudly declared themselves the resistance, out to thwart Trump's agenda.

Cute, you act like Democrats were somehow prevented from releasing the Epstein documents under Biden, and insist that Trump isn't prevented from releasing them like Biden (apparently) was...

Why didn't Biden release the documents in 2021? 2022? 2023? Or 2024?

Hope springs eternal that "the next big thing" will keep people from recording stuff, and provide a one-way direct link to customers' wallets. Meanwhile, I just posted here, https://linux.slashdot.org/com..., and until Sony makes a camera that won't record a video on a TV screen, anyone can make a bootleg at any time, if they try hard enough.

On "IP rights": what's to stop me from renting a video, and then just pointing my 4K camera at it to record while playing? Assuming I have a tripod, and can get the ratio close enough, can't I make bootleg videos that way? Sure, it's more work, but it's probably less hassle than futzing with HDMI adapters, and such.