Does anyone know why the Maine Attorney General is involved? Palo Alto is pretty fair from Maine and I didn't see any explanation in the article. Does Maine have better disclosure laws than other states? There is a filing which includes:

Total number of persons affected (including residents): 27000
Total number of Maine residents affected: 3
If the number of Maine residents exceeds 1,000, have the consumer reporting agencies been notified:
Date(s) Breach Occured: 05/12/2023
Date Breach Discovered: 09/27/2023

so who knows if anyone would know about this were it not for the involvement of the Maine residents...

People think of legacy as a binary input: is the applicant a child of parent (grandparent in some cases) who went there. It is far more graduated, and reflects the previous donations of the parent who went there. Consider three different alumni along a continuum:

1) An affluent alum who has already given generously, been active in alumni activities (fundraising, etc.), arranged internships for students, is employed in an industry (finance, law) where connections are extremely important, has been bringing their kid to reunions for years, and who may have been a legacy admit themselves many years ago.

2) An affluent alum who has not given generously yet but has some potential (admissions will have a least an estimate of amassed wealth) , is in engineering/software where connections are important but not as crucial, has some connection to the institution, comes to reunions, but does not have a track record already of generous giving.

3) An alum who is not affluent, works in education or public service, who has not had much to do with the institution since graduating, but has fond memories of the institution.

These would all three be considered "legacy" applicants but it is certain that the admissions office would regard #1 as a much better "fit" for the institution than #2, and #3 may as well be someone with no connection to the campus.

There was an excellent Linux Router Project active around 2000, which ran on commodity PCs, booting from a floppy, running in RAM, no hard drive needed. For less than $50 (an old x86 box that someone would pay you to take off their hands, and maybe one or two ethernet cards) you could set up something that outperformed commercial routers that cost far more. I happily had a machine serving as my home router (named Wheezer after its somewhat noisy fan) for years but then it became common for wireless access points and routers to have that functionality.

I used to be one of the regulars. But Slashdot has lost the charming (to me) anarchy it once had. It was uncensored to the point where pretty insulting content up to swastika ASCII art only got modded down rather than deleted. This is no longer the case.

Today Slashdot is a semi-moderated forum like many others. And the headlines chosen by the editors are frequently clickbait and duplicates. That is indeed a thing which Phoronix does way better.

I'm here for the first time in months, discovered a few articles where writing a comment makes sense. That is what you are reading now. I will see myself out now and maybe make my next appearance in a few months from now.

It could be recycled many times. capture, turn into jet fuel => burn => capture again...

I would be more worried about running the capture plant on renewables and the ecological footprint of building the plant.

I think you predict the outcome of easier student bankruptcy wrong. Why would admission of those who don't need a loan rise?
What would happen IMHO is that it would become much, much harder to get a student loan.

Idioms do not always translate, even if you have every "component". In this case the Kaeseglocke

Apparently many of them do understand that college is not as likely to get them a highly paying job as it was for their parents. A completely rational decision.

ix 11xxx. ix 7xxx is Skylake warmed up, with modest improvements. Perhaps I should have been more specific.

I guarantee that cutting down on purchases of laptops was not Dell's advice.
But it makes sense for most employees I guess, computer tech is advancing slower than it used to. For most purposes halfway current machines are good enough. Halfway current meaning Zen or anything post-Skylake.

Various CPU reviews over the years disagree with that statement. As well as the PassMark CPU benchmark.

The CPU in the old PC (AMD Phenom II X4 910e):
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Phenom+II+X4+910e&id=364
Overall score: 2072
Single Thread Rating: 1079

and the new CPU from 2022 (AMD Ryzen 5 5600):
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+5+5600&id=4811
Overall score: 21589
Single Thread Rating: 3256

Now Passmark is not perfect, but even so it should be clear which CPU is faster

That last computer did get a separate GPU refresh at some time. As well as more RAM.

But in 2022 the CPU and the newer GPU were both hitting their limits, so it was time for a major upgrade. Also, CPU socket and supported RAM type had moved on => a new Mainboard and new RAM were necessary anyway.

I also like to keep a spare around that is still capable of doing most stuff. So that machine from 2011 got relegated to spare. A yet older one got cleared out and rebuilt with 80% new components. That is now my main PC.

Similar here, but I usually change main board, CPU, GPU, RAM, drive and power supply at the same time. That is enough to call this the birth date of the "new" computer.

My previous main PC (still around as fallback if the current one breaks) was put together in 2011, with a GPU and RAM upgrade at a later date. It was replaced in 2022 with a "new" PC where I combined an old case with new innards. It also was the one that lasted me longest in the role of everyday workhorse.

So being generous about the details, we can say that my longest lasting PC was 11 years old at the date of replacement.

It sounds like outright extortion to me. But perhaps law enforcement is too busy elsewhere.

Or someone will find a way to emulate it, to the point that AIs will become no longer distinguishable from humans.
And religions all over the world will have to reconsider their foundations, unless they choose to reject science.
Understanding the nature of free would be a fantastic achievement, but not without massive consequences for better or worse.