So much for "promoting safety" and being "ethically aware"

Once most people are on Microsoft accounts on their Windows box, Microsoft will turn off the loophole that gets you a local account, and switch to a subscription model.

Because smart quotes are fucking stupid always, not just when used on slashdot.

Used to be anyone posting on slashdot had been around long enough to turn smart quotes off for all the OTHER problems it causes, but long gone are the times when slashdot was "news for nerds"

A lot of US govt propaganda being repeated here. In the past 24 years since Putin came to power, Russia has improved in every measurable way. The life of the average citizen, from median income to life expectancy to healthcare coverage to education to even little things like how the subways operate and the amount of (or lack of) trash on the streets, drug use, homelessness, violent crime... has improved. It is a society on an upward trajectory.

I'm a pretty old fart, so I was already an adult in the year 2000, and I remember life in USA vividly. Things over here have declined in every way possible since then. There are streets where I grew up in, where I used to go to school, go to work, and they are filled with human feces and drug addicts sleeping on the sidewalk. Median income (real income, adjusted for cost of living) has plummeted. Press freedom has completely disappeared in USA, whereby every newspaper is just a govt stenagrapher repeating what they're told. Entirety of Congress and the federal government are just bought and paid for agents of the military industrial complex and big pharma.

And yes, the US govt blew up the Nord Stream pipelines. Personally ordered by President Biden himself and carried out by US Navy Seal divers planting C4 during the BaltOps exercises, then remoted detonated later. Read Seymour Hersh's report.

Depends. I don't know about boats, but the classic car we bought is now worth 2x what we paid for it, including the rather expensive repairs and maintenance. Just buy the right car... As in many enterprises, your profit is determined when you buy, not when you sell.

Replacement electronics aren't really that hard to find. Even modern recent cars have aftermarket parts that can be used.

You don't see any 10 year old cars rebuilt because they are barely out of warranty and are still running fine. The technology is vastly superior in that respect to what it was in the decades you mention.

Between my wife and I we've owned 4 cars from new to at least 20 years old, and a fifth that we sold around 15 years old cause newborn babies and 2 seat convertibles don't really mix, but beyond the water pump it was all original.

You're argument that your new car can't be serviced is bunk, you haven't needed to and if you did, the dealer probably paid for it.

Replaced the ECU in a 1996 Jeep just a few years ago. No there aren't any third party replacement infotainment computers for tesla yet ... because tesla is still fully making them.

Most governments operate their own web sites for official publications. I'm fine with them making announcements on commercial social media, after all that's where the eyeballs are. As long as it's not only Facebook, but all the other major platforms as well. By the same token, I'd have a real problem with the government ignoring a particular platform for the wrong reasons, for instance Twitter / X "because Elon Musk". Dropping Facebook over data privacy concerns is understandable, but on the other hand the people there ought to know by now what happens to their data.

It's a bit of a non-issue... as long as the social media posts don't become the official publications rather than just links to them.

Does the fact that it's propellantless necessarily make it a perpetual motion machine? The thing still needs power, and presumably you'll have to put in as much (or more) energy to make it go than any kinetic or potential energy it'll gain. Compare it to an electric coil levitating in an electric field, except this thing pushes against... I don't know, invisible unicorns maybe. Seems improbable, but not because it somehow has to be a perpetual motion machine. Unless I am missing something in the lack of conservation of momentum.

I have historical held the belief that Palestinians were the ones irritating Isreal and Palestien is lucky Isreal hasn't wiped them off the planet. They have the military to easily do it until the rest of the middle east jumps in if the US doesn't.

HOWEVER, my wife and her family are Jews and my sister-in-law has always followed and supported Isreal ... until the Gaza raid.

There is pretty strong evidence that the Gaza attack was not just allowed, but even engineered by Isreal in order to set the stage to wipe the Palestinians off the face of the Earth using the attacks and kidnapping as an excuse. Given Isreals history and past tactics, that seems to entirely fit their MO, counter intelligence... they happen to have some skills there ...

If true - that doesn't justify Palestinians attacking Isreal civilians, kidnapping and killing them ... that is still flat out, 100% wrong.

But it's not possible at this point to sit back and only blame Palestinians.

The entire region has been fighting itself like rabied dogs for THOUSANDS OF YEARS. No one involved is innocent and even if we all shook hands right now, they'll be multiple generations of hatred that will have to leech away before any peace can happen.

You are entirely disingenuous by acting like Isreal is innocent and the good guy here who has been wronged. That's bullshit. They are all indoctrinated with hatred towards their neighbors starting at birth.

As long as you keep making it us against them when you all live right next to each other, you will continue to live in a war torn sithole while the rest of the world moves on and feels sorry for you.

I don't hate Jews because I don't want Palestinians killed any more than you could say I hate Palestinians because I don't want Jews killed.

It's your shitty prejudice attitude that causes this shit to continue.

YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.

What the fuck is wrong with your mind that makes it so not wanting some to die makes them hate others? That's some of the most ignorant fucking logic I've heard in a while.

Why is your only solution to kill people? Again, you are EXACTLY what the problem is. Indoctrinated prejudice that drives you to fight something you don't even understand.

It's not unique to Isreal, it's the entire region. You probably just happen to be Jewish and blinded by history.

Isn't the ocean, like... big?

I thought the pacific ocean was like, half the planet? And a couple of miles deep?

How far down are these cities sinking?

So the only time language is important and needs to be understood is when it's in a legal context ...

And all other usages of speech, the DICTIONARY DEFINITION of the word, and how it's used in the real world ... all of that doesn't mean shit because you decided the only thing ever relevant at all is in a legal context?

You've made a lot of posts on this article calling people idiots, but you're really the only one here that doesn't grasp the language and communicates like an ignorant idiot.

Imma bet $10 you don't actually understand what idiot means either.

I'd guess you're what 15-16 years old, flunked most of your English classes and are now here to tell us how everyone else is doing it wrong.

Come back after puberty is over and you aren't acting like an idiot yourself

is humans. The average human body generates more bio-electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat.

I have enough battery to run for a few hours during an emergency, then a generator kicks in. That's probably a better investment than just a bunch of batteries.

Youre looking at it with the wrong perspective. He didn't introduce the breaking change in the RC, it was already there, he realized it during the RC.

He added a method to detect previous injected broken code before release. Which is one of the things your RC is for - to find broken stuff.