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Comment Re: Come on (Score 1) 202

I'm on Facebook* because other people I care about are on Facebook. Sony PSN was the only other I service I've used where that was a critical factor. Not the same as Amazon or T-Mobile or anyone else abusing AI.

* I'm unaware of FB having a paid subscription, even if it exists nobody I know has mentioned it. If that was a reference to the blue check I only have one friend who has done that and it was for professional reasons.

Comment Black hole maximum rotation speed (Score 1) 41

the outer edge of the mass exceeding the speed of light

That intuitively makes sense, but I thought part of the black hole cheat is that it doesn't have an edge. I thought they were literally singularities, with a circumference of zero. Apparently not the case?

How a thing with a circumference of zero could meaningfully "rotate" is beyond me, but I thought this (and many other suspected properties of rotating black holes) was supposed to be beyond my ignorant layman understanding!

Comment Choose protocol before choosing implementation (Score 2) 30

An adversary can coerce a proprietary software producer to compromise the code. That's what we're going to see here.

An adversary cannot time-travel to when a protocol was invented, and compromise the protocol. (Though I guess the NSA can come kind of close to that, by "helping" as it's being developed, w/out the time-travel part.) That's what we're not going to see here.

Ergo, proprietary apps will remain unable to provide secure messaging, but secure messaging will remain available to people who want it.

Comment Makes sense (Score 1) 38

The terminations would follow a previous round of layoffs in May that hit 6,000 people and fell hardest on product and engineering positions, largely sparing customer-facing roles like sales and marketing.

If you got rid of the people who produce the product you don't have a need for people to sell the product.

Comment Shorts suck (Score 4, Insightful) 21

I have inadvertently clicked on what I thought was a video only to be forced into Shorts, and what an abysmal mess. The Short plays, but I don't like the placement on my monitor. I touch my mousewheel and I'm flung into some alternate universe where the Short I was on is now gone and something else is trying to take its place. And you can't get back to where you were.

YT has fast become nigh unusable. About the only time I go there is to watch a news video because the news website makes it as difficult as possible to watch a video on their site (BBC excluded), or I happen to come across part of a song and want to hear the entire thing. Other than that, there isn't a need for me to go there.

Comment Re:Can't you just raise premiums? (Score 1) 66

And then people drop their insurance because it's too expensive. Such as in Florida, though in their case it's more related to hurricanes and roofing scams.

Sure, the state can, and generally does, offer insurance of last resort, but that's not inexpensive either. But then, the taxpayers are the ones footing the bill.

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