It holds back Google from total control over internet standards.

I went to read about this on Russian internet to see what this is about, here's a story about it:

https://www.interfax.ru/russia...

Apparently Russian Federation indeed has a concept of arrest in absentia. Story explains that this court order is for arrest of two months in absentia (literally "beyond sight" in Russian), which will be executed if Kasparov is arrested anywhere in Russian Federation, or extradited to Russian Federation.

It's not just Kasparov. There are four names on the list of those arrested in absentia by this court according to this story. Also story says that this decisions doesn't have the power of law yet, which suggests that it's being appealed.

Another interesting point is that this is a court in Komi Republic. That's the "middle of nowhere", wikipedia says total population of around 737 thousand people for over 416000 square kilometers. It's about as close to the "middle of nowhere" as you can get in Europe.

The main thing killing coal in US is natgas coming out of shale wells. Where piping infrastructure is built, gas becomes borderline free and outcompetes coal in almost everything.

I don't see this happening in places like Germany any time soon though.

There's also the point of massive coal buildup in China and India. These plants have useful lifetime of around 40 years, and they usually take well over a decade to pay for themselves.

So highly unlikely to happen outside Western nations.

You don't. These CPUs aren't outright dying by burning up. What's happening is that they're degrading too fast. So they'll still work, but be stable only at slower clock speeds and power limits.

It's actually more of intel defining the spec poorly. Intel has gone on record to say that their standard settings are just a recommendation, and running the CPU in infinite length turbo frequency and blasting power at it is still "in spec" because... spec only addresses overclocking via clock speed. Not increasing power fed to CPU.

And feeding too much power to CPU for a long period of time causes rapid and permanent degradation of silicon. Which is what is happening here.

To make matter worse, Intel is so far behind AMD in pretty much everything but gaming, that they're desperate for anything to let them keep the gaming crown. Which is what they can get by letting motherboard vendors blast the CPU with power, letting it keep turboing longer. Since Intel is already way more power hungry than AMD in top end CPU market, it doesn't really matter to them if they lose even more power efficiency. As long as that lets them be at least somewhat competitive in some games and benchmarks, it's worth it.

And customers who buy into this sort of thing become unwitting victims of this policy, because their CPUs also get degraded by motherboard feeding it too much power in default mode. Which is technically "in spec" according to intel.

And that's why the release is to... give the option to use recommended intel power settings. Which will slow the CPU down quite a bit. And if you blasted your CPU with too much power for too long, even this mode may not be stable any more, as your CPU has degraded too much.

There's an actual reason why you can't. Fraud prevention.

The actual angle here should not be to decrease fraud protection, but increase consumer protection. For example, legally mandate that it's just as easy to unsubscribe from recurring service as it is to subscribe to it. Or legally mandate an easy accessible, easy to use unsubscribe page that must be advertised with every invoice.

This is continuation of the same misunderstanding. You still think of it as a product, that you just sell with "hardened characteristic". You don't understand that in addition to up front costs, this imposes massive process costs for each process that was hardened.

Because security is the opposite of usability. And you have to choose somewhere on the spectrum between the two extremes. For each process. Which means that when you fuck around with heavy industrial processes and shift them away from usability, everything downstream is impacted. Best case scenario, everything is just slower.

Worst case scenario, everything breaks in spectacular fashion. And by spectacular, I mean "explosion that erases a couple of kilometers around it". Because some hardened network decided not to trust a sensor which wasn't "secure" in time.

A lot of routers already have a unique password printed on them when you buy them. So it makes sense if your IoT thing just has a unique default password printed on a sticker/lasered on. Or at least on the box.

This is a gross misunderstanding of security as a product, rather than a process.

Security is a process that is defined by things like level of risk, level of exposure, potential vectors of attack, value of targets and so on. So a lot of networks have low enough value, difficult enough access and high enough barrier to potential vectors of attack to be inherently trusted.

If no network is inherently trusted, a lot of industrial processes will break permanently. Would you like 50USD per kilowatt hour power? That's what you'll probably need to pay on top of what we currently pay for that level of security, on every industrial network from power plant level to grid level to hardware producer level to software producer level. Just to name one thing that is likely to crash the entire global economy if this extremely neurotic advice is followed.

And this is why people with hyper neurotic tendencies need to be kept from decision making at all costs.

Well, we all have retroviral genes in our genomes; so in one way there certainly has been "mergings", at least at the genetic level. But the nature of the two organelles being referred to; mitochondria and chloroplasts, in indeed different. Mitochondria originated as free-living Alphaproteobacteria that could, apparently, produce ATP through oxidization. Chloroplasts are the descendants of cyanobacteria, who could produce ATP from photosynthesis.

Both mitochondria and chloroplasts weren't merely enveloped by more primitive eukaryotic cells, they're division and reproduction is timed to that of the host cell, so that when the host cell divides, so do to these organelles. Additionally, both mitochondria and chloroplasts have lost a lot of genes over the 1.5 to 2 billion years that they have been incorporated into eukaryotic cell lines. Another critical aspect of both these types of organelles is that their genomes are not merely honed down to what look like the essentials for producing energy, but that those genomes are very conserved even as compared to the host cells.

If this is the case, even it's early in the evolution of this endosymbiotic relationship, it is a significant discovery.

That makes sense. It's talking about just the chatbot, which was trained on plain text.

Image and video generators are the ones with petabyte grade training sets.

Should've been Florida man.

Onion went politically correct about five years ago and all but died as a result. "Safe edgy" competes with mainstream, and that just doesn't work for Onion's niche.

If you still want anglo edgy counterculture predicting future insanity, Babylon Bee is probably the closest thing you'll get to Onion from over a decade ago. But it has all the weird hang ups of US Christians, since it's a Christian site. So not quite the same thing.

Literally everything else. Bing is meh but works. Yandex post split into the Dutch company for the West and Russian for the East has been better than google on the Western side. Even Ecosia doesn't suck all that bad any more.