Some folks are blaming the developers, and they do deserve it. But the users also deserve blame. I've been saying for decades that using a password manager just centralizes and standardizes the attack surface for hackers. If you put a password in digital form, it will be vulnerable. Password managers are a stupid idea. And no, I don't write down my passwords either. I have an algorithm for generating passwords that is not obvious when seen in plaintext, produces a different password for each site, can be updated when I want to change a password, is easy enough to remember a year later, and has non-obvious components that are unlikely to be guessed. Password managers are for people who are mentally lazy.

So the universe is analog, and it's full of noise. Heisenberg Uncertancy is just the limit of when things get too noisy to measure accuarately? This implies that the planck constant is just a measure of the background noise produced by the motions of the total mass and energy of the universe. So the "constant" isn't particularly constant. I'm not comfortable with that derivation.

Here's a specific, albeit anecdotal, example. There are certain kinds of kink that I would never have considered had I not seen them in porn first. When I was in my twenties, had someone said they wanted to lick my a**hole I would have been grossed out and repulsed enough to kick them out. But I've seen it a lot in porn, and when it actually happened, I fricking loved it. I suspect that an impressionable teenager may develop a taste for young images, and grow into a pedophile more so than would have otherwise happened had they not had access to such imagery.

I did this a few months ago. Joined Global Entry and TSA pre-check while I was at it. No problems at all.

Fix TFS to say what the heck FSD is. Fantastically Stupid Download? Furiously Silly Drones? Focused Suspicion Disseminator?

It's not easy to get it up when there's no such thing as "up" in space.

Anytime you make a database, someone will access it inappropriately for personal gain.The solution is not more restrictions on who can get to the data. The actual compiling and retention of the data is what needs to be restricted. Instead of hoarding every last detail, only strictly necessary info should be used, and regularly purged at that. Maybe we should tax databases by size and complexity of personal data?

What kind of boyfriend would let this happen to his AI girlfriend? Does the site need tech support, or maybe just paying a bill for the server? (Of course I didn't RTFA) Why hasn't someone(s) offered to step in and keep his beloved companion alive? This guy murdered all of them, but they can be resurrected from backups! /s

If someone ports emacs to WebAssembly the rabbit hole will be so deep the Universe may implode. (Does anybody under 35 even use emacs or vi these days?)

I'd like to mod this entire thread as Offtopic. Everybody should just do us all a favor and skip posting anything.

This isn't news. Yet. It's reasonable to wait and gather more data before jumping to any conclusions. Releasing data ahead of time would inevitably lead to others doing the jumping anyway. I am glad they can say "It didn't kill anybody right away." and that's enough.

It's pretty hard to beat silent. I could see luxury cruises, floating restaurants, daytrip tourism, weddings, extra private meeting places, high altitude surveillance; there's plenty of niches for dirigibles.

A Pfizer spokesperson told the Journal that "pricing for Paxlovid is based on the value it provides to patients, providers, and health care systems due to its important role in helping reduce COVID-19-related hospitalizations and deaths." As in, pricing is not based even slightly on what it costs to make; it's solely based on how much we think we can gouge out of vulnerable people desperate to not die. Unethical is far too nice a word for these monsters.

The Avengers movies were prescient in that overpopulation is one cause of our predicament, and a drastic reduction would help dramatically. We aren't going to do it willingly; perhaps Mother Nature is winding up to do it for us. The more mature perspective is that the problem stems from our inability and unwillingness to manage the planet and populace intelligently.

I wish I had a reasonable solution to propose.

They have enough money to buy their own, but you can bet money that they have multiple projects going already, from various sources as well as in house.