Last time I checked (6 months ago when I did my taxes for 2024), H&R Block's desktop tax software continued to work on Windows 7. I switched to it from TurboTax a few years ago when TurboTax refused to install due to a Windows version check.

While I'm sure H&R Block doesn't officially support Windows 7 anymore, it doesn't seem like they're in any hurry to mandate later versions of Windows.

Or just proof Mel Brooks is broke.

Mel Brooks is on this list of the top 50 richest comedians with an estimated net worth of $100 million. I don't know how reliable that estimate is, but it certainly flies in the face of any claim that he is broke.

The outer part of a meteor will heat up and melt away, but the interior of whatever remains on impact stays cold.

html-load.com seems to be part of an adblock circumvention ("adblock recovery") system called Ad-shield. It must have been added to Slashdot recently.
One explanation:

Short description: On the site is a inline script which load a other external script and listen for a ping from that script. When you block the script no ping will be send -> blocking detected -> force "breakage". My fix is to defuse the inline script itself so no tracking will be loaded and no "breakage" will appear.

https://github.com/List-KR/mic... may help, though I have not personally tested this yet. For now I have disabled all javascript for slashdot.org, which prevents issues at a cost of some site functionality that I only occasionally miss.

We have cell phone alerts that take care of that and we can look up WX instantly on the Internet.

Try doing that in much of Vermont and you'll see why cell phone alerts are insufficient for emergency notifications and information.

Wait. What? Who is denying prisoners prescribed medication?

This recent news article comes to mind, describing how someone was jailed pre-trial for two days on misdemeanor charges, and was denied medication to prevent rejection of a transplanted heart. He died a few days later.

One case doesn't necessarily reflect the state of prisons everywhere in the US (and yes, this was a jail rather than a prison), but this was pretty egregious.

... a plan from my carrier with SMS and voice. But no data.

How about Tello?
https://tello.com/buy/custom_p...
"No data" is an option if you click the left arrow enough. Paired with unlimited voice and SMS, it's $8/month (plus taxes I assume).

Anyone who enjoys Garfield Minus Garfield should experience this Garfield-related work of art too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's an impressive 1-hour monologue pretending that one particularly unfunny Garfield comic strip, "the pipe strip", is profound and full of intellectual depth.

I added this to my userContent.css (for a Firefox variant). It seems to have fixed the pillarboxing issue for now.

@-moz-document domain(wikipedia.org) {
.mw-page-container { max-width: none !important; }
.vector-feature-page-tools-disabled .mw-content-container { max-width: none !important; }
}

In reality I expect they do it by doing something like following a single character from start to finish. I can see some interesting scenarios doing that, say a character dies. If you see the episodes of other characters first you see some ominous signs something bad happened (but no confirmation), but once you know the character is dead and watch the remaining episodes you'll have this tragic knowledge that the characters lack.

Arrested Development season 4 did something like this: each episode generally followed a single character through their part in the season's collection of interwoven events, trying to tell a story that sort of worked on its own but contained numerous references to other episodes in the season. I enjoyed it, but it didn't quite capture the magic of the first three seasons which also contained lots of callbacks/foreshadowing/multi-episode arcs but tended to have more self-contained stories.

I recently ported a secondary line to Tello (in the US). Tello uses the T-Mobile network, and for all practical purposes acts like T-Mobile for me, but my billing, sim card activation, etc. were all done through the Tello website. Monthly bills are much cheaper than they would be with T-Mobile, and I haven't run into any surprise fees like this.

My understanding is that traffic for MVNOs like Tello might be deprioritized in times of congestion, but I've yet to experience any noticeable slowdowns.

My understanding is that it's a deliberate Android permissions issue, and simply rooting the phone is not enough. Directly recording call audio requires the CAPTURE_AUDIO_OUTPUT permission, and according to this post:

CAPTURE_AUDIO_OUTPUT has android:protectionLevel = "signature|privileged", so it can only be held by apps that are installed on the privileged (a.k.a., system) partition or are signed by the platform signing key.

I should have a new phone arriving soon, and when it does I intend to try moving Call Recorder to /system/priv-app.

There are still things to be learned and preserved from the Pentium era of computing.

For instance, the composer of the original soundtrack for EverQuest (1999) pushed the limits of what could be achieved with wavetable synthesis on sound cards like the SoundBlaster AWE32. Sure, we have the MIDI files and sound banks, but attempts to recreate the music with emulators still sounded incomplete. It took some investigation using original hardware to determine what was missing. One such finding: https://www.takproject.net/for...

There are some noticeable differences in the effects processing that the Awe is doing to certain instruments in comparison to my recordings. Examples are the breath control modulation of the flute (qeynosbard) and the brass (qeynosarena).

Nope. Not transactions, only totals. A more recent article from TaxUni:

https://www.taxuni.com/irs-vie...

But this proposal doesn't suggest reporting any individual transactions that aren't already required to be reported.

"The IRS wouldn't receive details on individual transactions but, rather, gross yearly totals."

"Financial institutions would report the information on an expanded Form 1099-INT. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the forms would include one box for total deposits or inflows and one box for total withdrawals or outflows."

Note that this gives no additional information on who money is sent to or received from, or the size of individual transactions, just the total amount of money flowing into and out of an account in the span of a year. This isn't quite the invasion of privacy you're making it out to be.