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Comment Re:TL;DR: Gotta keep the bubble going (Score 1) 125

Yes, it belongs to Congress, not the President. Executive orders are literally orders given by the President to the executive branch of the federal government.

So the effectiveness of an executive order is very questionable in this case. If a state passes a law, what's the executive order going to do? Send the Army to invade? What could go wrong?

Comment Re:What was the test to say 27% was unreasonable? (Score 2) 54

by unrtst (#65854135) Attached to: 'Apple Tax is Dead in the USA'

If you don't like the tax then don't use their app store.

This has the same feeling as, "if you don't like the laws then get out of the country!" How about a compromise? We get rid of the tax and you go fuck yourself?

Why is it so difficult for some people to break out of those false dichotomies? If you're playing Monopoly at a friends house and they say, "these are the house rules; If you don't like them, you don't have to play," you still have another option - change the rules! They (almost certainly) have changed the standard rules already, just as Apple made up these rules, so the rules are provably malleable. And now there are more of us in their house than their family has in the house (eg. more Apple customers than there are Apple employees and shareholders), so how about we work this out?

Comment Well... (Score 1) 37

by jd (#65854017) Attached to: Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers

This will be great for Haiku, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD installs, there's not the remotest possibility there'll be binaries for these. Not because the software couldn't be ported, but because the sorts of people politicians hire to write software would never be able to figure out the installer.

Submission + - Arkansas becoming 1st state to sever ties with PBS, effective July 1 (apnews.com)

Submitted by joshuark
joshuark writes: Arkansas is becoming the first state to officially end its public television affiliation with PBS. The Arkansas Educational Television Commission, whose members are all appointed by the governor, voted to disaffiliate from PBS effective July 1, 2026, citing the $2.5 million annual membership dues as “not feasible.” The decision was also driven by the loss of a similar amount in federal funding after the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) was defunded by Congress.

PBS Arkansas is rebranding itself as Arkansas TV and will provide more local content, the agency’s Executive Director and CEO Carlton Wing said in a statement. Wing, a former Republican state representative, took the helm of the agency in September.

“Public television in Arkansas is not going away,” Wing said. “In fact, we invite you to join our vision for an increased focus on local programming, continuing to safeguard Arkansans in times of emergency and supporting our K-12 educators and students.”

“The commission’s decision to drop PBS membership is a blow to Arkansans who will lose free, over the air access to quality PBS programming they know and love,” a PBS spokesperson wrote in an email to The Associated Press.

The demise of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, is a direct result of President Donald Trump’s targeting of public media, which he has repeatedly said is spreading political and cultural views antithetical to those the United States should be espousing. Trump denied taking a big should on television viewers.

Comment How it probably went down (Score 4, Insightful) 30

PHB1: "We have to do something AI-ish, everyone else is!"

PHB2: "Here's one, have bots compile podcasts from our news articles."

PHB1: "Brilliant! Make it so."

[months later]

PHB2: "Um, the podcast bot has been making silly errors. Should we keep it?"

PHB1: "How is our competition doing with their AI?"

PHB2: "They suck also."

PHB1: "Okay, let's keep it so we can have AI on our brochures and resumes."

Comment Real world similarity on the data side (Score 1) 58

I worked with a sociopath I'll call "Bill" who we strongly suspect deleted and sabotaged many things. Mayhem had a long history of following Bill, as we asked former colleagues to make sure we were not losing our minds. We learned to back-up and document stuff like crazy to work around it. Bill seemed to have a lot of experience covering his tracks, such as knowing which systems didn't keep logs.

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