It's funny... I scratch my head when I see stories like this, up here in Canada we have a Do Not Call Registry and laws regarding it that actually have teeth. Get a robocall and they get a fine. Per call that's reported.

I haven't got a robocall in years. For a while I started getting spam text messages until I convinced the Do Not Call Registry folks that the law as written (specifying solicitation 'telecommunications' were what were prohibited), and even that stopped.

Bug your congressman for this. It actually works.

Agree on HP. Absolutely. I use a Brother (MFC-J6945DW) with refillable cartridges and may never need to replace it as I can replace the waste ink box and pads in it too. I had the same realization you did about HP a few years ago. It's worth the space to have a large format scanner, printer, and copier where is ink costs far less per page than the actual paper. It's a piezo print head too, so no thermal caking and needs a head cleaning maybe every six months. So there are good options now, and I encourage people to educate themselves and find them. ECO Tank (Epson) were an option, but for a long time they dumbed down any ECO Tank printer's drivers so it couldn't do borderless - they didn't want it competing with their photo offerings. This is less the case now, but you still have to be careful.

Anyway, as far as this legislation goes, unfortunately it doesn't necessarily mean anything. For the reason that it's pre-watered down:

Los Angeles is moving to ban single-use printer cartridges that can't be refilled or taken back for recycling

(emphasis added)

So all HP has to do is offer some sort of recycling program, which they already technically do in most cases and areas. Meaningless legislation that may even be at the instigation of the printer lobby to make it look like action.

This is fantastic news for septic systems. The problem with this type of waste is the plastic particles clog the microscopic pores in septic field pipes, leading to back ups. Before artificial fabrics, a septic field could last fifty years. Now many people have to dig it up and replace it every five, or else just accept the need to have their septic tank pumped every five years.

Putting a trap on the laundry hose helps, but is still imperfect. After my last field replacement, I investigated a lot of filters and use the best I can get. So far my last septic field has lasted fifteen years. But a tree-root-caused breech I had to repair where part of it was dug up shows it's only operating at about 50% throughput. So any improvement is a very good thing.

A better solution might be to regulate that all fabric needs to be made of bio-degradable material. And by that I don't mean these types of materials that are marketed as degradable but which need strange and unusual conditions and expensive composting facilities to make them actually do it. We don't have a lot of these yet, but a hard deadline might make that more viable.

Is that the offline version of their web site?

Hence the Mars Climate Orbiter crater.

And this is a bad thing exactly how? How to steal a company: Make vague insinuations, up the volume and call it evil citing more vague issues, threaten to ban it, and then say, well, if you turn over control maybe we'll let it slide. No different than protection money for the mob.

Gotta love how the biggest loudmouths for a competition and innovation-based economy use clubs to bludgeon the foreign competition to death with.

Universities stopped being centers for actual education a long time ago. They are not institutions of higher education, they are institutions of higher degrees. About 98% of anything I learned that is useful, I taught myself.

The reason the elite send their kids to schools is the continuing status symbol that an expensive university is. It's still the masonic handshake. The expensive schools are more about making business connections and about the ones with real money finding talent to exploit than it is about any sort of actual education.

Well, I can't know that, can I? All I can see is the "by Anonymous Coward" you're hiding behind.

But to answer your allegation anyway, no, I haven't watched it. It's a little too close to home. There is a child prone to tantrums that was given the button to nuclear weapons parked just south of me. You'll forgive me if I exercise a modicum of "head in the sand" and not watch a movie depicting what I am genuinely worried about.

Ah. So I take it that comment hit the mark. Right on both counts? (far from civilization and a trump supporter).

Just to put all replies in a single place, this is to one a few messages up...

Well, one might hope that the mid-terms will pull his teeth, but he's a) spent two years pushing the boundaries of what a president can do without legislative authority, and b) shown a willingness to park troops in your own cities and has openly threatened to use them if local votes don't go his way. A poor showing mid-term and/or lead-up polls that suggest this is coming might just accelerate the timeline I proposed.

At 3% uptake, this doesn't surprise me about TS's user demographic. We all know that in the USA there is a direct correlation between distance from civilization and odds of being a rabid republican. What pleasantly surprised me was how low the Truth Social (read Kool Aid) uptake was among even the 50-ish percent that voted for him.

I still believe there will be a coup attempt at the end of his term. Or rather, a more serious one than last time. Rising possibly to the level of a short civil war (depending on how many unit commanders ignore those 'ilegal' orders spoken of recently). But this low uptake gives me hope that if actual violence breaks out that it will be short, and that the good guys will win it the end. And that it might not spill over here. Here's hoping.

I find it actually comforting that Truth Social is only at 3%. As an outsider, it's hard to tell just how large a base the truly rabid crazies have. DT seems to only make announcements there, and he pushed it pretty hard, so to see it only has a 3% uptake makes me have more genuine hope for my southern neighbour than I have had in a long time.

Sounds like Zorin's success is primarily due to marketing. "Hey Windows Users, Come Here" worked.

Though, I will add, caring about work flows and little details, like serving up little things in ways that people actually use, is genuinely helpful. Mint started innovating like that in the beginning, but it has ossified and no one there cares about actual work flows.

But about 99% of what Zorin does, Mint does too. Just Mint doesn't draw flashy arrows around it. Marketing works.

Perhaps I've been living under a rock, I had no idea what this was. After reading the article and, now, a few others, I still can't figure out what exactly he's trying to do or why. What is the problem he's triying to solve... does he or anyone else seriously believe there is a real danger for someone not to be able to distinguish AI from a human? It seems like a made up solution to solve a made up problem and mostly a tempest in a teapot.

I'm not feeling it either... what I am is feeling shocked that so many people actually dish money to Youtube. Are there really that many paying customers (read suckers) giving money to Google for that?

If I were Disney, I'd move everything to Disney+ and tell Google to suck...er...eggs.

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This is actually in Visa's best interests. What is going to happen is the cards with yearly fees will have the lowest per-merchant charge, which will let Visa start leveraging people into those cards. Just watch Visa debit start charging merchants more just to entice merchants not to accept them. This is nothing to do with being a concession Visa is making to merchants, and everything to do with using merchants as a weapon against their own customers to make them accept higher interest rate and higher-fee cards.