With two to four years between "seasons" of six to ten 42-55 minute episodes, it's hard to keep an audience interested in.

At least it used to be that most American shows had 20 or more episodes per year, year on year for the run of the show. TNG had something like 36 episodes per year. Crazy schedule for the cast and crew. Simpsons has put out 20+ episodes per year for 30 years.

In the UK things have always been different. One full series is usually a lot fewer episodes (many of the most popular shows had only about 6 shows per year) and sometimes more than a year between series. Maybe the scale of viewship is just different, but even old shows are still very popular today in syndication.

If everything moved an hour later, what's the point of DST in the first place then? The original point was that permanent DST means parents were dropping kids off in the dark since sunrise was an hour later. Moving everything one hour later is then the same thing as standard time. So just keep standard time.

My only experience with induction is at the house of a family member, but I've never noticed any sound like that coming from their range. I used to be able to hear CRTs, but perhaps I've lost that part of my hearing in middle age. Not sure; haven't been around CRTs in a long time. But I have a really annoying USB wall adapter that I can hear whining.

While technically true, the odds of any fires started by induction ranges is orders of magnitude smaller than even conventional electric ranges. In fact in terms of general family safety and being burned by the stove when it is turned off, induction ranges are the only way to go.

That said, I have a gas range presently and have no plans to replace it anytime soon.

Despite MS's installer claiming otherwise, only TPM 1.2 or newer is required by Windows 11. Also I'm running Windows 11 in a KVM virtual machine an older server that has zero support for TPM of any kind, using an emulated TPM. Seems to me to run on older hardware, MS could have provided a light-weight hyperV shim that could provide the TPMv2 to windows. Assuming that the implementation of the emulated TPM would be completely inaccessible to the VM itself, enough security remains against malware, etc.

Meanwhile promoting full-disk encryption using the TPM is a sure-fire way for average windows users to lose data. Yes MS has ways of backing up the key to your MS Account (yeah that's secure), and locally, but if someone drops off their dead computer and wants me to pull data off the drive, I simply can't do it easily. I've already seen more than a few people lose all their pictures on their iPhone because of encryption and getting locked out of their device. I'm sure avoidable if they had only taken the right steps. But I digress.

Installing Windows or *any* OS is IMPOSSIBLE for the standard Windows user. Using a word processor and browser, on the other hand, is about the same on either platform. As anecdotal evidence I offer my neighbor who is 80 years old and computer illiterate. Has just as much success (and trouble) navigating Cinnamon on Linux Mint as he did on Windows. So far he's been running Mint for five years and I have to drop by about once a year usually to provide some assistance, but I used to have to do more than that when he ran Windows anyway.

Supporting Windows 10 costs MS money, and that money has to come from somewhere. And it's surely not going to come out of the CEO's salary!

Sure but we expect those kinds of things in Russia, China, Burma, etc. But a modern, western, democratic state, not so much. The fact Netanyahu is targeting and killing journalists is a huge red flag, and not something a liberal democracy does. Two wrongs don't make a right. Taking the moral high ground will always be the right thing to do and the only way to truly combat evil. Netanyahu wants war, and wants a bigger war, and to drag the US into it as well. Hard to fathom that kind of thinking.

What's up with ads on Slashdot getting past uBlock in Firefox? 'Block Element' isn't working. If this keeps up, I'm done

It's the scourge of a new breed of mal/adware from html-load.com. More and more sites are using it, and it very much is malware, integrating like a virus into the page loading using javascript. It uses deceptive practices such as the domains html-load and css-load.

If you don't use chrome, I find the following filters added to ublock origin seem to block it completely on slashdot and most other sites:

||html-load.com^$all
 
||css-load.com^$all
 
||content-loader.com^$all
 
||07c225f3.online/loader.min.js
 
||error-report.com^$all

In both the US and Canada, this sort of non-discrimination rule was thrown out a few years ago, and rightly so. With fancy credit card fees being over 3%, it makes sense to not force other consumers and businesses to subsidize the users of those expensive credit cards. Business owners have long complained about these high fees that credit card companies expected the business owners would simply eat. So now many business can and do charge extra for credit cards.

In Canada, many people still use cash, but for a lot of things e-transfers are now done, although they do have a several dollar per transaction fee.

Well it's blatantly obvious. Any news outlet that doesn't openly praise the dear leader is liberal. Critical stories are unpatriotic and unamerican. It's quite a different world, especially looking at it from the outside. So really Fox and Newsmax are the only news outlets that are "unbiased" if you can say that with straight face. I wouldn't call them conservative. Very little about the right wing is conservative these days.

Honestly I see little difference between Putin, Xi, and Trump. They are all sides of the same coin (yes a three-sided coin. haha). Now that the GOP no longer cares about the constitution at all, have relinquished all congressional power to the president, and kicked out anyone that had the gall to stand up for what was right, they are no different than the CCP or Putin's party, even if their preferred economic system varies. Putin and Trump are happy to let the oligarchs own things provided they pay tribute. Xi of course wants his fingers in all the pies. But in the end it's the same thing. Companies pay their tributes to the king.

To put all this in another way, what you would you think and say if the exact same things Trump is doing (flouting the constitution and the law, ruling by fiat executive orders) were done by Biden or Obama? Surely you would protest would you not? Whoever my guy happens to be I do not want him doing things that I would never want my adversary to do if they were in power.

That is why I say what I say.

A good chunk of that $100 is inflation, some of which predates tariffs.

Interesting points. I had not thought of that before. In my experience, people on the "left" and the politicians in the Democrat party come by their positions honestly. I may disagree with them viahamently, but I cannot doubt their sincerity. They really do want people to be treated equally and really do feel that the rights of certain segments of society are being trampled on. All the woke stuff they really deeply believe, including systemic racism etc. In general they want to make things better for these people and are not actively out to demonize others who don't share their views. Most of them aren't really trying to drag the white man down, even if many policies would have that effect (reverse racism as it were).

Contrast that with the right wing and far right. They *are* trying to actively demonize others. They are trying to remove rights from others. They are knowingly acting as hypocrites. As a very conservative person I reserve my harshest criticisms for those that claim to be conservative. I feel like most GOP politicians these days are just lying to me all of the time. They berate the meek and humble. And when a GOP governor stands up in public and says he was praying about how to gerrymander his state, I have to wonder what Bible he's reading because I sure don't see anything Christian going on there. They've got more in common with the Pharisees than with Christ.

Oh and lest you bring up the judges who refused to unseal the grand jury testimony, two things. First one of the judges was a republican-appointed judge. Second the judges have no authority to release the transcripts by law. It's pure hypocrisy Trump even asked the judges to release the transcripts when he and the DOJ knew all along they couldn't be unsealed. They did it just to cloud the issue of them releasing their files that contain actual evidence.