I think the device's vulnerability to it depended on the revision. Not to mention that, if I recall correctly - and it was a while ago - the problem could actually be with the disks rather than the drive. Or rather, the problem was basically infectious. It was caused by the drive heads overextending, but damage on the disks could cause the drive heads to overextend, damaging the mechanism. The thing is, those damaged mechanisms would then damage zip disks put into them. Then those damaged disks could be damaged in such a way that they would cause another zip drive they were placed in to experience the same damage.

At least, that is my vague recollection of what I remember hearing at the time, which I can't remember the source of, so I can't vouch for its accuracy. It did seem like a decent explanation for serial failures though. Some people would insist that theirs never had a problem while others would complain about them failing over and over again and it is entirely possible that it is because, after they replaced it, they would try to get their files off their disks and then the problem would spread to the new drive.

My understanding is that they were supposed to have fixed it in later versions, but other posts on this article suggests that it was mitigated rather than outright fixed and that some units were simply less vulnerable than others.

Except of course that the parent poster was actually talking about national average gas prices (though they were rounding up to $6 from around $5.50). I am guessing you are talking about gasoline, not diesel but, either way, the national average for those was never as high as $9 or even $8+ in 2022.

Breaking the DRM is illegal in most jurisdictions due to the Americans insisting on it as part of trade deals. Illegally acquired rips would be considered piracy, even if no one cares. I know I don't care and neither does my government but strictly speaking, it is illegal.

You do realize that falls a bit flat because of the fact that Trump was a rich Democrat. There is a significant overlap between that period and his affiliation with Epstein.

This seems to be the open-access link but in searching for that I saw another article from the authors about the small intestine metabolizing fructose into glucose.

So it's probably more complex than we thought. Another 5-6-fructase pathway, I'd guess, haven't read it yet.

With the ESA supplying the spacecraft, most of the software is likely to be competently written and/or open-source. This will prove to the Martians that there is indeed intelligent life on Earth.

It's a good question and one I'm working on trying to get an answer to. By giving AI hard, complex engineering problems, and then getting engineers to look at the output to determine if that output is meaningful or just expensive gibberish.

By doing this, I'm trying to feel around the edges of what AI could reasonably be used for. The trivial engineering problems usually given to it are problems that can usually be solved by people in a similar length of time. I believe the typical savings from AI use are in the order of 15% or less, which is great if you're a gecko involved in car insurance, but not so good if you're a business.

If the really hard problems aren't solvable by AI at all (it's all just gibberish) then you can never improve on that figure. It's as good as it is going to get.

I've open sourced what AIs have come up with so far, if you want to take a look. Because that is what is going to tell you if good can come out of AI or not.

I would think it goes further. If the company has already failed (ie: no longer exists) then the action is not taken by the company but a former employee of that company (even if said former employee was the CEO). Former employees are not granted special authority over PII or over company-owned information.

Irrelevant. PII protections are not subject to company discresion.

The conversations are not private, but PII laws nonetheless still apply. Anything in the messages that violates PII privacy laws is forbidden regardless of company policy. Policy cannot overrule the law.

Now, in the US, where privacy is a fiction and where double-dealing is not only perfectly acceptable but a part of workplace culture, that isn't too much of an issue. The laws exist on paper but have no real existence in practice.

However, business these days is international and American corps tend to forget that. Any conversation involving European computers (even if all employers and employees are in the US) falls under the GDPR and is under the aspices of the European courts and the ECHR, not the US legal system. And cloud servers are often in Ireland. Guess what. That means any conversation that takes place physically on those computers in Ireland plays by European rules, even if the virtual conversation was in the US.

This was settled by the courts a LONG time ago. If you carry out unlawful activities on a computer in a foreign country, you are subject to the laws of that country.

I don't understand the basis for opposition to the US blockade. This all kicked off with a banking crisis brought about by overextending loans to the IRGC. A US blockade gives the US more leverage for negotiation, straight reopening or regime change and denies the regime critically needed funding in the process. It does not interfere with any commerce to non-Iranian ports neither does it prevent deliveries of food or humanitarian assistance to Iran.

Can't read hex? What? And who is speaking of "straight up replace IPv4"? Who is saying that? What are you responding to? If you want to use IPv4 on your private network knock yourself out. Nobody cares. IPv6 is only needed for public Internet.

"SLAAC, RAs" is the same shit. DHCPv6 is optional and AAAA records are no different than A records. All of the elements are the same and the protocols work the same way with only minor structural differences. Any router that is going to provide routing and DHCPv4 services is going to do the same for IPv6. You just have the added option of forgoing DHCPv6 if not needed. "Still another dozen services required"?? What dozen services? "to get full interoperability with v4" ... What interoperability? IPv4 and IPv6 are separate protocols that do the same shit. There are abstraction layers in higher level systems (DNS, Dualstack...etc) allowing both protocols to be used by higher level applications seamlessly but they generally do not interoperate. There were/are mechanisms that allow IPv4 to be a carried over IPv6 but they are generally unused.

The ship sailed on compatibility the day a fixed size of the IPv4 packet header was cast in stone. The problem is address space not structure of packets, protocol design or any other consideration. Any change to increase address space REQUIRES global changes to ALL systems to maintain a network in which each peer is addressable by every other peer.

There is an insufficient space of possible addresses to meet demand. Either you invent some kind of extension mechanism with tunneling layers or you deploy a new protocol. The tunneling bullshit was not production quality and soundly rejected by the market. Dualstack works as a production quality solution that has been in widespread use for decades.

The Internet is a network of peers and there is widespread value in this persisting. This value is not derived by the existence of any particular L3 protocol. Common applications include interactive games, P2P/file sharing, voice and video conferencing, remote access, providing information services..etc.

This is gibberish, there are far more people and devices than IPv4 addresses and it is impossible to uniquely address them with a 32-bit address space no matter how carefully number resources are allocated. The 56 bit nonsense reminds me of Eugene Terrell's unhinged rants about ternary logic on the IETF lists decades ago.

It does no such thing. All hosts have privacy extensions enabled by default where the host portion is constantly changing.

Of course not neither is anyone suggesting doing this. Most deployments are dualstack where both protocols are used concurrently.

There is no meaningful difference between IPv4 and IPv6 other than expanded address space.

IP is the wrong layer for either security or queue management.

It was an unusual campaign in that 95% of campaign promises weren't not just unfulfilled but 180* opposite of policy. Ultimate con man.

But now that Philippines is nearly out of oil China has made overtures to take care of their oil needs which have been defacto accepted.

The quid pro quo isn't stated yet but US caused their oil crisis so this announcement isn't real.

What an odd thing to say.

I rip my DVD and Bluray discs to a NAS and play them with Jellyfin. There's not even an optical player near a TV anymore. The last one died in about 2008.

But I have put some of those files on USB before for the kids.

Used Blurays are about $5 usually and much better quality than any streaming service rental.