> As private businesses, Plaintiffs' members have the right to decide what content is appropriate for their sites and platforms

Saying that private business can do what they want is a pretty weak argument. Regulating business is what government does. Florida already regulates firework sales, ice cream vendors, taxi services, car dealers, dance halls, exterminators, grocery stores, pet groomers, and many many more types of businesses. Social media platforms aren't magically exempt from regulation.

I've read the complaint and don't find it compelling.

Maybe this law will fall. But pressure is building on both sides of the aisle to regulate these businesses. I don't predict they will still be allowed to operate in ten years the way they are now.

> How bad is the user clickrate?

My clicks are meaningless. The "fake phishing" links our IT department sends (or more specifically the subcontractor sends) are obviously fake. My personal policy is to never click phishing but always click fake phishes. Sometimes I just write a script to do repeated wgets of the phish link from hundreds of systems as a "poor mans DDOS".

The only thing my click means is I caught *IT* trying to trick me.

Secure enclave was introduced on the iPhone 5S. Farook's phone was a 5C which was one generation older than that.

We run four datacenters with thousands of systems on CentOS.

There is zero chance that RHEL is going to get a toehold in these datacenters. My peers at other companies are feeling betrayed, even those who were running mixed RHEL/CentOS. Red Hat (IBM) does not comprehend the amount of ill will they have created torwards themselves.

Who?

It isn't that other markets are taking up chips that could go into automobiles, it is that other markets are taking up production capacity leaving less capacity for automotive chip manufacturing.

An implied problem here is that automakers want to pay bottom dollar for their supply. My company designs chips and we don't have problem getting production capacity because we pay what the market demands to get our chips made. Our volume is in the millions of units per month.

Because the automakers are cheap they also want to use older manufacturing processes because they are cheap. But when the auto industry slowed down due to COVID they all reduced their forecasts, leading to some of these manufacturing lines being shut down. There is no way to restart them because they relied on obsolete equipment that once scrapped can't be easily replaced.

Underpinning all of this is the lack of vision that allowed semiconductor manufacturing to be concentrated in 2-3 locations worldwide. Political leaders in Europe and America should be absolutely ashamed for not understanding how semiconductors underpin everything and allowing this critical technology to be moved outside of their borders.

The "union" isn't made up of employees. It is made up of "workers". This included people who are employed by completely different companies, like the transport company that runs the Google shuttle-bus, the food service company that prepares Google cafeteria food, the janitorial services company that cleans Google office buildings.

The most telling thing to me is how the formation of this club, which should be seen as "non news", is on the front page of the New York Times.

Today is not the day Biden official becomes President-Elect.

Today is the day that members of the electoral college cast their votes. Jan 6 is the day that Congress begins counting the votes and considering any challenges raised against those votes. It is not until Congress tallies and announces the results that the election is officially done.

This is nothing new, this is always how it works. The last time it was relevant was the 2000 election.

I'm tired of the press saying "now it is official". It isn't official until Congress makes it official and the press should know this.

Even Apple isn't providing the level of granularity I want for approving tracking.

I want to be prompted to approve each and every single piece of data collected about me at the moment it is collected. I also want to be prompted to approve each and every time a piece of data about me is used, and also be given the opportunity to permanently delete that data.

For example:
* Facebook.com wants to store your visit to "Google-backed Groups Criticize Apple" at slashdot.com on Jul-03: Yes / No
* Facebook.com wants to use data about your visit to "Google-backed Groups Criticize Apple" at slashdot.com on Jul-03 in order to provide a personalized ad: Yes / No / Delete
* Facebook.com wants to use data about your visit to "Google-backed Groups Criticize Apple" at slashdot.com on Jul-03 to estimate the average daily visitors to slashdot.com: Yes / No / Delete

I appreciate the direction Apple is going, hopefully it reaches the point where users have complete control over storage, usage, and deletion of their data.

Apple is moving too slow. Third party cookies were state-of-the-art years ago. It is time to block all forms of browser fingerprinting. Even better, Safari should implement a "tor-lite" mechanism where a certain percentage of requests get routed through another user's IP address.

I want Apple to take the forefront here and make it impossible to track users across the web or form any kind of meaningful profile on them.

Some Seagate Nytro drives have hardware compression built in.

The old Sandforce controllers did hardware compression. LSI acquired Sandforce. Avago acquired LSI. Avago spun-off Sandforce division to Seagate. The Seagate Nytro drives contain the legacy of the Sandforce technology.

> By contrast, the 737 Max had two separate computers.

The 737 Flight Control Computer (FCC) system has dual-dual redundancy. The 737 contains two FCCs that each contains two processors running independently. In the event the two processors in one FCC ever disagree that FCC shuts down. If the FCC that shuts down was the active one then the secondary FCC takes over. This system provides at least as much hardware redundancy as a three-way voting system.

A key problem with the initial MCAS implementation wasn't the lack of CPU redundancy but the lack of sensor redundancy. Each FCC was programmed to accept only one AOA sensor's input. In the event of erroneous AOA input to the active FCC there was no way for the system to detect the error.

MCAS as initially implemented also represented a very significant shift in the role of the pilot vs the computer. The 737 is an old air-frame that is fundamentally controlled by steel cables and pulleys. The Pilot has full authority over the aircraft and the computers are best seen as "pilots aids". MCAS inverted this expectation by inserting a new software component that had nearly unlimited authority over the pilot.

Contrast this with Airbus where the computer is responsible for flying the plane under the authority of the pilot. Under "normal law" on an Airbus the pilot has no direct control over any flight surfaces. The pilots commands are simply one input to the computer, but the computer ultimately decides what to do.

From the traditional Boeing 737 engineering point of view, having full redundancy on all systems wasn't necessary because the pilot is the one flying the plane and if one of the systems misbehaves the pilot could just turn it off. From an Airbus engineering point of view, having full redundancy on everything is critical because the computer is flying the plane.

For HDD manufacturers it isn't about units shipped it is about exabytes shipped. Focusing on units shipped misses the way the industry is driven. Consider that manufacturers are constrained by the number of heads and platters they can produce in their factories. These heads and platters can be configured into drives in multiple ways. High capacity drives require more heads and platters, low capacity drives require fewer heads and platters. Major HDD customers prefer large capacity drives so the drive manufacturers use the heads and platters accordingly. Yes, the HDD market is flat or shrinking, but the important thing to focus on is revenue and not units shipped. Source: I make HDDs in my spare time.

I trust the Audience Scores over the "professional" Tomatometer any day. The Tomatometer is too vulnerable to outside manipulation by professional reviewers acting in coordination to "upbomb" a movie they want to promote.

As an experiment I just thought up a handful of movies and mentally rated them on a scale of 0 to 100, then compared my rating to the TM and AS ratings at RT.com. When the TM and AS were in agreement I was generally in agreement too. When they differed greatly, oh boy, it was clear the TM rating was way out of line.

Greatest Showman
My=85 TM=56 AC=88

The Prestige
My=90 TM=75 AS=92

Last Jedi
My=40 TM=91 AS=44

Ghostbusters
My=35 TM=74 AS=51

Laserblast
My=10 TM=NA AS=13

LEGO Movie 2
My=80 TM=86 AS=75

Happy Death Day
My=70 TM=72 AS=66

Remember that RT.com is now owned by Fandango (and Warner Brothers) and no longer serves the purpose of providing honest feedback on movies. Hollywood wants it to fit nicely as another gear in the movie promotion engine. Allowing honest feedback about movies from consumers will no longer be tolerated as it doesn't fit the agenda of selling more tickets no matter what. In that regard it has followed the same path as other "captive reviewers" like most car magazines or video game review websites.

The effective way to implement this isn't "rescind" but "fork and rescind". A new kernel fork is created that eschews the new CoC and perhaps defines an inclusive alternative, then the license to the code is rescinded from to-be-abandoned CoC tainted fork. In this way development of the kernel is not disrupted but the CoC is excluded.