Patent trolls have actually been losing some ground in ETX as of late, so they are coming over to WTX as apparently favorable. I can only see their scattering-roach behavior as a positive development, and living in WTX and having been summoned for service a number of times in this district court myself, I say keep em coming; we will keep tearing them new assholes. Despite having the appearance of a politically motivated court, I think that patent trolls will not be able to enjoy the same success as they have historically achieved in ETX. Slow steps in the right direction, I hope....

I lost a lot of weight after reading "The Hackers Diet" He was a real help to me.

more like legislators and their constituents are getting stupider. there is no need to pass additional laws for something that is plainly within the scope of the existing laws. It's counterproductive and can erode the scope of the original laws. It also limits potential future applications where AR/XR technologies could be used to reduce driver distraction and improve awareness, ya know, just like is already being done in things like race cars and fighter planes.

No, actually it's not necessary to specify this; the existing laws already have enough breadth to cover the case. When you start applying specific scope-limiting definitions on top of broadly applicable laws they cease being broadly applicable.

So, the real situation is actually the completely opposite of your intuition, and if the fine gentleman from Massachusetts passed his stupid notion by anyone even remotely experienced with law he would have been immediately rebuked. This is a waste of time, and also how I know he is an unqualified idiot. Good job, MA; glad I don't live there.

When you have a coffee shop (traditionally, this is a shop that makes a handful of drinks from milk and coffee) but all of your customers want to buy drinks made with stuff other than coffee and milk, this is what you get.

Milk foams up because it has loads of fats and proteins in it. If you want to make homogenized oat mash foam up the same way so you can sell it as a $6 cappuccino, youre gonna have to put fats and proteins back in it. IMO olive oil is a pretty good choice for Starbucks demographic.

If eating half a teaspoon of olive oil gives you the shits, I gotta say that's on you. You can always go back to having the traditional ingredients. By "traditional" let's be clear that I mean the coffee and the milk recipies that have been developed and endured worldwide for hundreds and hundreds of years.

Yes, exactly. If there is an attack vector available between the freaking ink cartridge and the network that is on HP.

It's not really surprising to see a system fall apart when it has no reason to exist in the first place.

THEIR solution is no not give a shit what you think and do it anyway. The decision for many is quite literally life or death.

If you don't want them to do it, you will have to pay them not to do it. The financial incentive will come eventually; the smart move is to find it early.

> Yes it's not fair that third world countries are being asked to not do what first world countries did to become wealthy but the thing is, global warming doesn't care about fair.

It's the third world countries that don't care about being asked to do things the hard and expensive way, so they're not going to. Never mind that they couldn't in the first place. The factor of climate falls out of the equation as irrelevant. I contend that no human being is realistically making personal decisions based on the potential impacts of climate change beyond how it affects their present, ongoing relationships with other people. When the only people who can afford to care about those things are bathing in gobs of sweet, cheap energy? Well.. have fun arguing amongst yourselves.

Please stop with the extravagance; you're gonna make me want to attend a Climate Summit.

I don't think the world economic equivalent of a Mario Kart blue shell is gonna work. It doesn't help the stragglers; it just hurts the leaders; there is no alignment.

I have supported a good number of employees over the years living or traveling in remote areas of all types. I have done enough of this that I have experience with pretty much every access technology there is: Dialup, frame relay, ISDN, SONET, ethernet, DOCSIS, every flavor of DSL including specialty long reach stuff and dry loop DSL. Cell networks everything from WAP to UWB; satellite ive done evertyhing from 2400bps Iridium, BGAN, Hughes, Viasat, Starlink.

Starlink and cell networks are the same thing from a network access and architecture perspective. They have the same issues and technical concerns around scaling wireless capacity. If cell networks qualify, Starlink qualifies, QED.

From my experience I can say that none of the technologies have ever been able to adequately solve the problem of affordable rural broadband. But I can say that of all of these, Starlink is the only one that has ever successfully supported a remote employee to everyone's satisfaction at work. The FCC is certainly right to be skeptical of Starlink's ability to scale, but I agree that I'm at an absolute loss to understand the justification for the double standard. If you put all the providers and technologies through the same thought experiment, not only should none of them ever get any money, the entire concept of subsidizing rural broadband won't ever work.

Either the FCC should cut Starlink back in or they should eliminate the program entirely. I could advocate equally for both approaches and quite honestly after having watched so many false starts in this space over the last 30 years, I personally favor giving the whole fucking thing the axe.

I have an older model of the zenbook duo, but the question is still applicable. Simply put, you don't put it on your lap and work; that is a ridiculous question. It's not what this hardware is designed for, and it's not a valid criticism to make against it. If you want to put it on your lap and work, buy one of the models from ASUS or any other manufacturer that are designed for it. I personally recommend the 13" M2 Macbook Air.