Texas and Florida prohibit local governments from mandating rest and water breaks.

The issue with health concerns like this is that it's not like it explodes and kills you - there's really no way to say, "It was the molecule on March 13, 2026 that started cancer in your body"

You can't even do that with cigarettes - you can only make a conclusion on cause that's well supported by circumstantial evidence.

And I'm not saying you're arguing against it, but just broadly speaking ... arguing *against* more information - unless the argument is that the information itself is inaccurate - seems particularly anti free-market to me. (Obviously that's why companies fight against the burden of regulation designed to increase market transparencies.)

They're not.

Liberals defend mainstream Muslims from attacks on their freedom of religion and from smears related to their religion. Because conservatives do not understand nuance they decide this means Liberals love Islam and think its the best and want to marry it, despite those same liberals doing the same for pretty much any religious group that's under attack, as Muslims were after 9/11. See also Gaza where RWNJs assume all liberals hate Jews and worship Allah, or think Hamas is great, because they don't want to see innocent Palestinians killed.

I've only come across one "liberal woman" who actually suggested life might be better, in some limited ways, in countries like Iran, and she was a nutcase, not representative of liberals in general.

You need to get out more and realize there's more to life than cheering or booing every identifiable group of people like a fucking football team.

The context of this is Microsoft changing software the person has already bought. It was something wanted and needed in its original form, it's not wanted in its modified form.

Did you mean to write "free"? I'm pretty sure it's included in the cost, rather than free in any meaningful sense. Perhaps you meant to write "Unwanted", or "forced"?

The USB-A should be relocated between the Centronics and RS-232 ports. Save space by mounting it vertically!

bizarre as it sounds, try Walmart's house brand, Onn.

they'er the only brand (other than apple itself) that I've tried that consistently works (and I've tried most if not all of the major brands).

They usually last until I do something stupid (leave behind, catch in hinges, drop laptop cable first, etc.). And the price is right, too--most are $6-$10.

>I'm hoping to see the first recycled reactor core! ;^)

c'mon, now.

*everyone* knows that reactor cores blow into a fireball of plasma when you eject them, as soon as they're far enough out that the writers think the ship can (almost) plausibly escape! :)

hawk

Well the point was more "We're not talking random access media here where seek times are really really important."

With a tape, even right now with some of the faster seek time devices, you wouldn't use it as random access media. That's not what it's good for. The fastest tapes with non-trivial storage capacities (ie not talking about stringy floppy or Sinclair microdrive type systems) still have a seek time poorer than the slowest floppy drives.

That narrows the scope of what concerns we should have. If it takes winding through tape for 60 minutes to get to the back-up, does anyone care?

They do, but I'm pretty sure you can write more than a thousand times to an SSD, so 1000T isn't going to be enough storage for a lifetime write log for a 1T SSD alas if it's based upon the media lifetime. What I've read is that modern SSDs tend to be rated for 100,000 writes per sector. That's a little more than 36Pb, but it's not unreasonable.

OTOH the point you raise suggests a combination approach might work pretty well, just write changed sectors but perhaps delay the write to deal with the inevitable "Update the sector at the end of a file" and "Create temporary file, delete it" stuff that goes on all the time and possibly makes up the bulk of writes in a file system. That would easily extend the capacity for backing up a 36Pb system could have.

That's terrific, but probably not something you should brag about on a tech website.

Not all of us watch videos only if we're watching some ad-infested cloud based service.

Why am I not surprised?

Overheard in an office at RedHat:

"OK, we've been working on Wayland for 15 years and it still doesn't work. What should we do?"

"Well, it is better than X11?"

"Not even slightly. It's even slower, and critical functionality is missing."

"Hmm, OK, well why don't we just force it on everyone? We'll claim X11 is "inefficient" because of issues that were literally fixed in 1991, and claim it doesn't have key functionality and is insecure because of issues we could have spent the last 15 years fixing instead. Then everyone will rewrite their programs to run under Wayland, which they'll do because of the propaganda we'll drop."

"OK, but what if someone who likes X11 points out all of our justifications are outright lies?"

"Well, we'll say we're the experts, because we're the people currently in charge of Xorg. Just like RFK Jr is an expert in health because he's the head of the US Department of Health."

"Brilliant!"

Nobody's talking about it as a random access media. LTO, which is what AmiMojo referred to, is a common standard tape back-up system. You'd use this kind of media to back up data.

At those kinds of capacities, if priced cheaply enough, it'd be possible to create a sealed, permanently installed, box that periodically snapshots your PC, allowing you to go back in history to any point and retrieve files from that date. 36 petabytes could snapshot 1Tb of uncompressed hard disk space once a day for 100 years. Yes, eventually larger capacity random access storage (eg SSDs/HDDs) might become common in home PCs, but even a 20 fold increase would mean it'd last more than the lifetime of a regular PC, and SSDs/HDDs installed into new PCs aren't really growing in size that quickly.

(Cue people who'll miss the point and say "Well this'll be useless for me as I have a 100Tb NAS!" - you're not the typical user I'm talking about, and a 100Tb NAS isn't the storage in your PC anyway...)

My CU offers a bit of reimbursement, which I don't use.

Fidelity, however, has "all fees reimbursed" for a number of accounts.

Then again, you're not likely to have a cash account there if you don't have significant other assets with them.

Slashdot is owned by people who boost the most ridiculous shit. If it isn't AI, it's cryptocurrencies. And they persist in doing so to the actual people who know it's a con. It's so pathetic.

Hey, Slashdot, ACTUAL DEVELOPERS were not making jokes about coding like cavemen. We were doing our work and didn't notice any outages. "Vibe coders", maybe, but vibe coders aren't actual developers, they're con-artists.