I realize not reading the article is something of a /. tradition, but I've literally quoted part of the summary where they're pretending that nothing is done to mitigate brute-force attacks (which as you rightfully pointed out, has been recognized as threat for as long as there has been an infosec industry).

I wouldn't be wearing my captain obvious hat if the article hasn't pretended that brute force attacks are some kind of scary new threat, of which there is absolutely no defense besides making your password contain a minimum of one each of the following attribute:

An uppercase letter
A lowercase letter
A special character
Your favorite emoji
A DNA sample from your pet
A short essay on whether you think streaming services are fairly priced
Cannot reuse a previously used password

This is why anyone with half a brain rate limits failed password attempts and then locks the account after too many failures. If your code allows an attacker to just hammer the authentication API, you suck as a programmer and should feel bad.

Our cheapest EV starts at $30k for a Nissan Leaf. No wonder I've been seeing more people riding around on e-scooters lately.

Only on Slashdot can you get modded down for pointing out that there are a lot of Walmart stores.

And that map is from like 6 years ago, so there's probably even more than what's shown. So my point still stands, if none of your grocery stores take credit cards, where out in BFE do you live that there isn't even a Walmart?

We're sliding down the slippery slope.

A few states already did the age check thing with porn, and the SCOTUS ruled that was just fine by the 1A. Now comes the ID just to prove you're not a kid, in order to participate in social media.

It's never been about protecting kids, it's about being able to eliminate online anonymity.

Both iOS and Android have built-in parental screen time limit functionality. Why is the government getting involved?

I think this would hit a lot harder on Reddit. Slashdot is full of us olds who have lived through the Great Recession and look at Trump's economic fuckery like Florida Man would an approaching hurricane. "Bring it bitch, we've seen worse."

Social media amplifies anecdotes about people being bad with their money, giving the impression that they're eclipsing those who are genuinely struggling due to low income, but the numbers don't lie. Half of all income earners bring home less than the US median income, which is what makes it the median income.

For a lot of Americans, "local supermarket" means Walmart, and they take everything.

How can you make money on people defaulting on their bills?

Flip foreclosures.
Flipping high value items people list cheaply on Facebook Market out of desperation.
Open your own pawn shop / "we buy gold" business.
Get a job as a debt collector.
Become a repo man.
Write a "How to Survive Crippling Debt" book.

See, what you do is put your Bitcoin heater on credit, then use the Bitcoin it mines to buy the groceries.

Obligatory meme image.

Florida's schools have been underfunded for as long as I've lived here, and that's been awhile. The overcrowding problem has also gotten worse, too. I'd venture a guess that distractions from smartphones also factored in a bit as well, since it's only just recently that lawmakers have begun to acknowledge that kids shouldn't be playing with their phones during class. All of those things have been demonstrated to have negative effects on academic performance.

But sure, blame it on a lack of teaching cursive, or Tylenol, or whatever else fits your correlation-may-as-well-be-causation narrative best.

Most of us now carry around a computing device that can transcribe speech in realtime. My nearest pen is somewhere the junk drawer in my kitchen, and if I wanted a sheet of paper I'd have to raid the paper tray of my printer.

Don't get me wrong, the physical act of writing is still an important skill to understand the basic concepts of, but to require a standard of proficiency in cursive is just a waste of classroom time that could be better put to use teaching students life skills they'll actually need.

Florida is really, really afraid of becoming the next California or New York. They're worried that if they don't indoctrinate the children with a sense of "vote conservative or the world will go to hell in a handbasket", they might catch on to the fact that they've been screwed over by a system that yanked up the ladder on them.

She might have dysgraphia. I didn't find out that it was a thing until well into adulthood. I just assumed the physical act of pencil-on-paper writing was an equally tedious task for everyone, hence its use sometimes as punishment.