According to this, the class action has been settled. And no more claims can be filed beyond 2022. On the other hand, there was a UK group that tried to sue the Vatican for reparations for the occupation of the British Isles by the Romans. So I guess lawsuits die hard over there.

Microsoft has entered the discussion.

You assume that kids get their phones from their parents. Or will California resort to requiring a Form 4473* for all phone transfers?

*Hint: It doesn't work for firearms. It just creates an income opportunity for cartels.

Doors? Top? What part of Just Enough Essential Parts did they miss?

Yes. But it was tried and settled once. Not repeatedly.

One example is AlphaFold an AI program which predicts folded protein structures "with near experimental accuracy" from amino acid base sequences. This ability is going to have a huge impact on many practical problems like pharmaceutical development, agricultural science, and engineering custom proteins. For example, since the human genome has been long since sequenced, the program means we now, with a fairly high degree of certainty, know what all the protein coding sequences make.

I'd say that's a pretty significant result.

If you work in technology long enough, you see this over and over. Every time something new comes along, it's actual usefulness gets buried in the breathless media response by a mountain of bullshit. But that doesn't mean the uses aren't real.

... settled already? With fines and penalties, mandated fixes or vehicle buybacks, etc? Isn't this sort of like beating a dead horse? Or beating the glue that the dead horses were rendered into?

"account owners (parents)" might end up being your 15 y.o. daughter's 26 y.o. boyfriend.

Dial the timeline back a few decades and ask yourself why all the middle school girls were suddenly dating 20+ y.o. guys with mullets who drove Trans Ams.

I sprang for the $200 ChatGPT a few days ago. It turns out not to be better than the $20 one. This could be related to a change that happened some time in the last week that seemed to make the model lazier.

The solution is easy. WiFi 6 is only just starting to come out in the marketplace. If TP-Link hijacks the standard development procedure, solidifies a workable WiFi 8 quickly, and manufacturers/users in Europe, Asia, and Oceana all start using WiFi 8, skipping WiFi 7 entirely, the US will be left with an inferior standard that only they have gear for, with no option to use WiFi 8 for many more years because the only manufacturers making it can't sell in the US.

I had no concern with Joe Biden being Catholic, but I *would* think something was fishy with the *Electoral College* if six of the last nine presidents were Catholic given that fewer than one in five Americans are Catholic.

I'm not saying Catholics (or Jews) shouldn't serve on the Supreme Court, although maybe it would be good idea to have some justices who weren't Catholic or Jewish. Maybe an atheist, or polytheist.

... an East Coast thing. Out here in the West, our Democrats slavishly follow California.

One of the casualties of the Internet has been newspaper science desks. In the post Sputnik era, major city newspapers built teams of reporters with science and technology backgrounds to cover breaking science stories. To make use of that manpower in between big stories, they'd do a weekly science supplement, which was one of my favorite parts to read. These bureaus even had people on staff who could cover breaking news in *mathematics*.

That's all gone now, and you can see the impact of that in the scientifically ignorant summary you are objecting to. Twenty years ago, no major city newspaper would ever print anything that stupid. Today just the New York Times and Washington Post still have a newspaper science desk, and those are much reduced. Smaller newspapers barely cover local government anymore, they tend to just reprint opinion, purchased content, and press releases by politicians and corporations, and dueling reading letters on hot button issues. Actual shoe leather find out the facts journalism is in steep decline. In other words cheap content is more profitable, and science reporting is the least profitable content of all. The most widely consumed remaining sources of science information are non-profit -- the public broadcasting outlets.

I'm not implying anything. I'm saying the Pope's opinion is particularly significant to more than half the Supreme Court. They won't necessarily take those words as marching orders; I doubt that they would even agree that all the other Catholics on the court are good Catholics. But it means those words are automatically more weighty than if, say the Dalai Lama or the Lubavitcher Rebbe said them.

If we're not Catholic ourselves, I mean.

I'll tell you why: 2/3 of the Supreme Court justices are Catholic.