Can't read your shit unicode. How long have you been on /.? FFS.

Examination of North Korean missile parts after exploding in Ukraine, show that the control systems are mostly made from western components, including many that are supposedly American IP. So good luck to America stopping any hardware designed in America. At least until all chip plants and electronic subassembly gets moved out of China to some place like, North America.

Someone is paying a lot of money to pump these "EV sales are crashing; EVs are FAIL" stories throughout multiple media channels the last six weeks. Reality is that EV sales growth is flattening out a bit from astronomical to just high, and absolute EV sales continue to climb. But when e.g. Norway has had 40%+ EV marketshare for new car sales for 5 years sales increases are eventually going to flatten out. Same thing will take longer in the US but is happening to a certain extent in Southern California, which is a large part of the overall vehicle market in the US.

I have heard of it most often with cornfield subdivisions in older towns becoming exurbs/suburbs: before the house is built the land is technically still a farm and the owner can drill a well, but after the house it built it is a residential property that is served by city water. But there are a lot of weird variations on that kind of thing.

I have had a number of coworkers in different real estate regulation jurisdictions fall into a trap with ground coupled heat pumps: in many jurisdictions a ground-coupled heat pump is classified as a well, and those jurisdictions had regulations saying that in residential areas wells can only be installed on unimproved land. Once the foundation is poured it is no longer unimproved. Check with your builder and building code office to determine if you need to drill the hole first before other construction starts.

Corporate XYZ country wanted software professionals of all types to be lumped into the 'unlimited overtime' bucket with emergency workers like police, firefighters, ambulance medtecks/paramedics, etc. for Y2K reasons. And no one has removed IT from that shit classification in many places even though it isn't required anymore. It isn't in all jurisdictions but in quite a few. For example, the exemption is valid in Canada in the provinces of Ontario, Alberta, BC, and Nova Scotia. Together these provinces make up around 63% of the population. Most everyone else has a legal limit on work hours.of around 48 hours tops.

Did you ever hear of The Gimli Glider? It was an Air Canada 767 that ran out of gas mid flight because someone screwed up imperial to metric conversions. Canada had recently converted to the metric system and not all industries were caught up. The pilot actually managed to glide it to an old WW2 training air strip in Gimli, Manitoba, north of Winnipeg, that had been converted into a drag strip for cars. No one died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider#Miscalculation_during_fueling

But we can tell that you wish you were. That's why you're going to vote for Putin's stooge, Trump. Since you don't like looking up actual facts, when Ukraine separated they held a referendum in all the country's oblasts (their states), asking if they want to stay with Ukraine or Russia. A properly monitored referendum unlike Russian ones where people are forced to side with Russia at the point of a gun. 90% of people wanted their states to be in Ukraine with the exception of 2 places, which still had a majority vote to be Ukrainian. So stop watching RT and Tucker Carlson, and get your head out of your ass. And truthfully, I do think you are a Russian troll, even if you are in America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Ukrainian_independence_referendum#Results

So are you saying they don't hash the passwords?

Should it even matter if the site uses properly salted and hashed passwords? I mean, the actual human readable password shouldn't be stored anywhere on the site. And each site will be doing the hash at a different time, on a different machine, so presumably the seeds are all different so the hash even for the same password should be different. How are they getting the actual passwords? What am I missing? Or is this something about password managers and single point of failure?

We have a hard enough time shedding the energy that is already hitting us from the sun, and they want to double down and increase the amount of energy the earth has to absorb from the sun. Just stupid.

We need to cool the earth, so what do they propose? Gathering up huge amounts of energy in space, finding a way to concentrate it, and then send it to earth to be turned into mechanical energy and more heat (that pesky nothing is 100% efficient thing). On top of the energy that is already striking the earth. SMH

Because people don't know how to moderate in large groups, and society is on an EV stampede that has a lot of momentum and by the nature mentioned by the OP they are trying to kill H2 because of loud senseless idiots who continue to slag it. It's hard to get funding to move things forward when loud, often self absorbed and/or self interested (Musk) groups keep shouting stop. And doing so they will kill the earth because EVs cannot work in most of the world due to transmission of energy. Europe is talking about mandating H2 refueling stations every 200km minimum. And companies like Toyota still believe in H2. And for transport trucks, EVs are dog shit. Half of a truck's weight will be battery, severely cutting the amount of goods they can carry. EV wankers are going to be the death of the human race.

As far as US football goes IMHO Mike Ditka of people was right about helmets and concussions: the more advanced helmets get the harder players learn to hit with their heads. Make the helmets 30x more concussion resistant and players will learn to hit things [1] 35x harder. Ditka advocated going back to leather earflap helmets to reduce concussions and while it was said in a "back in the day we were real men" mode I'm not sure he was wrong about that.

[1] yeah, I know, there are rules changes in place to prohibit direct hits with the top of the head. We'll see how that works in the long run [prediction: it won't]

Maybe the switch to wide screen doesn't work for all. Maybe it would be more efficient to have several side by side 4:3 monitors than one wide screen, in order to look at more documents in the least space.

It is making a statement that is actually the answer to a question that has no relevance to the current discussion, and was not even asked to begin with.