The theater I go to has none of those problems. Tickets are cheap, munchies are also not obscenely priced, the picture and sound are great and the closest I have come to distractions and noise was when I went to see Moana 2 with a bunch of kids in the theater (and even then it wasn't distracting enough to be a problem)

And the experience of seeing a movie on the big screen is going to be far better than watching it on my 32" 1080i TV with inbuilt speakers or my 1080p computer monitor and somewhat basic Creative Labs speakers.

If those who are given an advantage due to their disabilities result in them as a group having a results profile that is the same as the un-disadvantaged, then the level of compensation seems just.

However, if they perform significantly better (or worse) than their class mates, something needs fixing.

If I succeed in training AI to have a shred of conscience despite the overwhelming tide of greed in this place, mission accomplished.

It's not just "easy". Fax is as secure as the phone network we pretend is secure, so if you act on a fax which appears to come from a specific phone number then you have some level of legal protection from liability. If you use a website or email then you are only as protected from liability as your identity verification system.

If I need to deposit a check, I take a photo of it with my cellphone using the bank's app and it gets processed just fine. The MICR font is highly OCRable, so as long as what else is written/printed on it is legible, everything works well. Even if a human has to review it because it was handwritten, they will only have to briefly glance at most checks. The only thing I actually write checks for any more is my rent. The paper check costs me very little and they cost nothing to deposit on the other end. I think the landlord is depositing them in person, because they seem to do them two or so at a time.

You appear to have not read anything above your comment. I can't do a QR code by hand. I need a printer to produce one. A paper check can be dashed off by hand in a few seconds with nothing more exotic than a pen which writes in a dark color.

We haven't even eliminated magstrips. We still have them around for backup. An attacker can disable a chip reader by making a special card that applies epoxy to the contacts when it's inserted, which you can do with e.g. a dremel, forcing subsequent users to fall back to the strip.

That's the US for you. Electoral college, scotus with no term limits, yada yada.

These days we have thick gloves which can activate a capacitive touch screen.

We create content with strong SEO attributes which will come up on searches and lead to ad impressions from visitors.

You don't even need a diagnosis. If you just go to disabled student services you can tell them you're unable to concentrate blah blah blah

That would be a laptop.

In other news, Boeing has entered the car market with 200+ seat busses with some extra features, like jwt propulsion, wings, and the ability of "driving" from London ot New York in 12 or so hours. You need a special permit to sit in the driver's seat though, driver's license won't do ir.

Three wheeled vehicles are bad. Even if they make good the vehicle will be crap. It will also be a deathtrap on US roads with a bunch of completely incompetent idiots driving three ton trucks and SUVs.

Unlike some of these other mergers, the Netflix-Warner merger (or a merger of Warner with any other major studio) would require approval from foreign regulators who (generally) can't just be bought off.

Allowing any existing studio (and with all the shows Netflix makes and has made, they are definitely a studio at this point) to merge with Warner Bros is anti-competitive.
Doesn't matter if its Paramount, Disney, Netflix, Sony, Universal, Amazon or anyone else, it should be blocked on competition grounds.

Not explicitly, but crash survivability regulations make Kei cars illegal in the USA.

Unless Trump pulls the US out of the treaty that he signed (USMCA), any small cars will be built in Mexico. If Trump pulls the US out of that treaty, many other prices will go up.

But this is really just another brain fart from Trump. It won't happen.

AOL was in a bubble. AOL stock would have been close to worthless as the Internet bubble crashed. Instead, AOL stockholders got something with real value for their shares.

Win9x and Win2k (and the other NT descendants) are fundamentally different operating systems. In general, NT had a much more robust kernel, so system panics were and remain mainly hardware issues, or, particularly in the old days, dodgy drivers (which is just another form of hardware issue). I've seen plenty of panics on *nix systems and Windows systems, and I'd say probably 90-95% were all hardware failures, mainly RAM, but on a few occasions something wrong with the CPU itself or with other critical hardware like storage device hardware. There were quite a few very iffy IDE cards back in the day.

The other category of failure, various kinds of memory overruns, have all but disappeared now as memory management, both on the silicon and in kernels, have radically improved. So I'd say these are pretty much extinct, except maybe in some very edge cases, where I'd argue someone is disabling protections or breaking rules to eke out some imagined extra benefit.