I was in the 2nd grade when that happened. From my perspective, it was a great novelty and meant we got to take (mostly unnecessary) flashlights to school that we used in the morning walking to our bus stop. It was a hit with the kids I knew. We were disappointed that the "experiment" was stopped.

Meanwhile, in the northern-most states, the kids go to school in the dark now part of the year.

U.S. Banks have managed OK opening after "business hours" start and closing before they end for pretty much the history of the U.S.

Even a few places where it doesn't actually rise in June because it didn't set in the first place and won't for another month or so.

Interesting. I wonder if the EU will role out an air-gapped version alongside a public version, much like the US'NIPR and SIPR nets. It would seem you need a publicly accessible version or else you are stuck with two solutions one public and one secure with the public one still a different product.

Ask Jack Smith, but you should wait until the GOP in the senate is done embarrassing themselves trying to perjury trap him.

This is more like worrying when someone successfully brute forces a 6 bit RSA key (which has been doable for a very long time. 6 bits isn't much space to do an exhaustive search in).

It would be interesting to see the tender. A true FOSS solution may have encouraged wider adoption since there would be no licensing fees and things like serves costs could be handled by the EU on behalf of member states. It's not like getting rid of teams saves money as it I likely all part of the Office license terms and fees anyway.

As for leaving the job with a lower net worth, Carter and Clinton were both in debt when they left; but of course rebounded with various books and speaking fees. Carter, IIRC, wrote over 30 books.

Given they are no doubt spending significant money, why not take an existing open source product, pour money into it to make it meet the EU requirements? That would benefit the EU by having an open source alternative that would be widely available for adoption and if it is good enough to replace teams be a shot across MS' bow.

While that is true for his first term, that was because of COVID and his heavy investments in real estate that were negatively impacted, much like all real estate, and estimates are his net worth rebounded and has doubled in his second term so it's not like he hasn't greatly profited form the presidency.

12PM is fucking noon is when the fucking sun is at its highest position in the sky.

It has been like this for at least a millennia. DST is bullshit.

Live with nature and quit fucking denying it like a conservative.

That's one part of the equation! Satellite bus cost is another part of the 'magnitudes of order' reduction equation. Where I work right now is addressing that.

Uhh, console makers already do hardware lockdown and game companies work with that and even include their own sorts of shenanigans. Have for at least 20 years, now.

What rock are you living under?

They could do that with their shopping app that lets you scan an item and checkout in app; but as soon as people found out they were charged different prices for the same thing on say the same day it would be a PR nightmare. I can see it more as a way to adjust prices dynamically regionally based on demand, not much different than what is done anyway just faster.

I’m with you, how do they know what price to charge once you are at the checkout line? If you shop with someone and they track by phone, which phone to use at checkout? Both? What if one person doesn’t go to the line? It’s not as easy as change digital tag.