You're right about gun possession since it's federal but voting rights are controlled by state of residence. Most states allow felons to vote, and if you move to one from a state where you can't, a previous conviction doesn't mean you still can't vote. Provided you've changed your registration and aren't trying to absentee vote in your old state.

I've tried this so many times. Never works. It's actually easier at first... The first few weeks the artificial sweetener drinks taste good. But as time goes on they just start tasting worse and worse, even if I change up flavors and brands. I start getting dehydrated as drinking becomes an exercise in forcing something unpleasant down. Not all sugary drinks have the same amount per oz so I do at least stick to drinks with around half the sugar as others.

Considering we can't even reconcile QM and relativity well enough to conclusively rule out the solutions to effective FTL we already theorize about, I find it the height of arrogance to presume we can dictate with any certainty that even given a billion years technological advancement beyond our current point, no possible means of manipulating spacetime for it can be achieved. Anyone who conclusively says it's impossible is engaging in religion, not science.

Most people consider this bullshit because in practice, the spirit of it is cheated by e.g. saying everyone with an 1100 SAT is "qualified" for the most elite colleges so then they can go ahead take whatever balance they want and it's not discrimination if one ethnicity has 400 points higher on average in the admitted class . You can't just set "qualified" to a level where you don't actually accept candidates at the minimum unless they're a certain race then claim it's race neutral. It's a lie. As a liberal I'm continually baffled how this is so widely accepted... Progressives will usually drop the mask and straight up say "the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination", as Kendi says.

NT4, 2000, and XP/Server2003 sources are out there. What is desperately needed is Win7, and more related to this article, VB6. Those would provide actual benefits beyond hobbyist curiosity for retrocomputing even though they're long out of date. But greedy MS can't even do that. They're still the enemies of open source they've always been... just giving people some little scraps to pretend they're not.

I use the only legacy VB forum left. These bots knocked it out again just yesterday. There will be under 10 logged in users but consistently over 30,000 mostly bot viewers. Constantly for many months now. Vbulletin sites are extremely difficult to crawl properly; I've tried to make a backup but even the fancy commercial tools I can't figure out how to not wind up with essentially an infinite loop where if I let it run it would duplicate everything 1000 times over.
Server problems happen all the time from these abusive crawlers, less frequently after some Cloudflare and increased CAPTCHAs, but still every week or two, because it's a small site with few resources but a ton of programming info going back over 20y.

Actually the broken windows theory where going hard after petty crimes prevents more serious crimes is quite thoroughly debunked. The studies in its favor ignoring that crime dropped similarly everywhere regardless of whether a city was doing it. But you don't care, do you? It couldn't be more clear most pro-"tough on crime" don't give a single solitary fuck about crime rates. Your main goal is paying more money than housing would cost to jail undesirables. When that itself is the actual goal rather than lowering crime, broken windows starts to make a lot more sense.

These don't appear to be under the DMCA at all, as YouTube goes way, way beyond the legal minimum to favor large copyright holders with their own system ever since the meritless legal claims that they were required to.

Taco Bell here they tell you to use the kiosk even if you stand at the register and even if you tell them you're paying cash so they'll have to use the register anyway. It's really stupid. The kiosk is still very slow even entering a regular order you've memorized the sequence for. 1-2min vs less than 10s for an employee.

The right wingers here have been weaponizing the government by using unrelated grant money to control speech at universities. They've used regulatory agencies to force content changes at media networks, up to outright forcing a political commissar to monitor speech being installed. They got the Smithsonian to remove a factually accurate historical exhibit and now they're reviewing the content to ensure it "presents America in the right way", the kind of content censorship and rewrites they've already forced on national parks. The list goes on and on.
Nothing the left did even remote approaches the outright abuse of government power to forcefully suppress free speech coming from the right. But disingenuous fucking liars like you want to not even bothsides this, but say the right isn't doing it but the left is? Tell me, how bad is the panic attack when you have one of those brief moments of clarity when you realize how deluded and evil you are before you run back to suckle conservative propaganda to calm down?

This seems to be caused by "helpful" memory tricks. Windows just leaves everything in memory and marks it as some kind of status that's supposed to leave it available when actually needed for something new, but this doesn't work so everything starts behaving like there's zero memory available, thrashing the disk with huge amounts of page file activity as apps start behaving like there's no memory available. I find if I restart a particular service that is terrible about holding 'modified' pages, then use a memory clearing tool (I rolled my own but SystemInformer (ProcessHacker) has an option to clear all standby categories too), I can keep Windows (at least LTSC with updates disabled) stable and responsive for months (8, last time).

This is a marketing lie to drive adoption of Win11. Shame on /. for repeating false Microsoft claims as fact.

SOME VERSIONS have support ending on that date. Some versions are already out of support. Most importantly, some versions have mainstream, non-ESU support ending in 2027, 2029, and 2032. And not only that, for most use cases these are by far the best versions of Windows 10 (and for a lot of the cases where it's not, 11 can be worse because of them throwing out a lot of compatibility capabilities).

Stop posting this misleading marketing lie.

I remember people here on Slashdot trying to tell me SecureBoot then later TPMs couldn't be used for DRM. You were just some dumb paranoid troll who didn't understand the technology.

Horseshit. "Traditional media curators" brainwashing people like you for decades is how Trump won the general elections. Maybe if you said the first primary. But you had to get in your jab at "liberal" media Fox News, the largest news network and epitome of mainstream media, has programmed you to.

So the streaming services like Netflix and Hulu are social media too? They have an algorithm that curates a section of personalized recommendations.