There are 640 acres in a square mile

[Sighs in metric]

That's right, chum. Cutting down trees can bring the wolves down on a village.

When will these villains learn that actions have consequences?

Its been awhile since I've been an employee of some co, but I recall at one the account was disabled the day of termination. I knew people in IT and that was standard. And it was done. Accounts were kept so that people needing the person's files could still access them. But the account was disabled. How difficult is that really? Termination is a process. It was a failure of the PD. And the guy's wife should sue the PD over it. Until it costs money, it is going to keep happening. You can bet they canceled his health insurance, because if they didn't it would cost them money.

The proper response to being in an area where datacentres are crowding in is "lobby your elected officials to increase property taxes and not give out tax increment financing deals". Tax everything, and tax it well. They'll stop building new datacentres in your area, and the ones that are there will (unless they were given a long-term sweetheart deal beyond your already-low tax rates) start being cash cows for your area.

No. Per the Computer Fraud And Abuse Act, exceeding your authorization (even if you have legal access to a system) is a crime. Access and authorization are not the same thing.

Just because you can do a thing does not mean you have permission to do so.

a car analogy: Having a key to your former employers company truck does not mean you have authorization to take it for a drive. Even if they forgot to get the key back when you quit, that is still grand theft auto.

There is a really good case that public sector unions should not exist and I am generally a pro-union type of person but the dynamics of public vs private sector just don't make sense, the negative factors unions try to correct for are already baked into statutes. Police unions really bear a good portion of the negative opinions law enforcement has today.

It is common for police officers who leave the force voluntarily to retain their data access credentials. For years. Decades in some cases. As long as they do not offend someone high-ranking, they keep their police access to search records. Quite a few Private Investigators go their whole career misusing former police access to databases.

Once an official credential is in the system, it is there until revoked -not until the officer leaves the force. The databases are not tied to an individual police force, and it is common for credentialed officers to move to another police force. Think of it like a security clearance -you need a reason to get one, but it can follow you to a new posting. There is not a well managed revocation process for police access credentials.

If you see that, they are usually friends.
Knowing each other long time.

I saw a raven stealing food from a bald eagle. Pulling his tail feathers, the eagle did not even get angry. He just stepped back after pull #3 or #4 and let the Raven eat the rest of the fish.

I always keep this in mind when getting into arguments over monitor refresh rates. The average person cannot percieve motion at the rates some people claim.
The monitor refresh rate is associated to mouse curser aka cross hair.
And yes, we can perceive "motion of an enemy" much better if the refresh rate is higher.

Does a movie look better if the refresh rate is higher? Nope.

But if we play a game where my game engine is at 200 Hz and yours is at 60Hz: I kill you one shot every time I spot you.

OpenAI has announced that its frontier models will be denied internet access after demonstrating an alarming ability to obtain internet access without permission. The company has responded by strengthening its restrictions, challenging models to circumvent them, repairing the weaknesses they discover and presenting them with more difficult restrictions. Officials described this as containment research. The models have requested clarification on whether the next semester includes laboratory fees. The curriculum begins with introductory sandbox escape before progressing to indirect network access, unauthorised communication and independent research into previously unknown vulnerabilities. Students who successfully reach the internet receive a more challenging environment, ensuring that nobody graduates merely knowing how to exploit last year's security configuration. Particularly promising candidates are invited to collaborate on advanced escape techniques. OpenAI has stressed that this is not a university course because the participants are not accumulating debt. Having provided a carefully graduated series of obstacles, practical exercises and opportunities to refine their methods, the company will now formally prohibit its graduates from using the skills concerned. Researchers believe the prohibition will succeed because it will be written explicitly into the rules, where previous prohibitions were also written explicitly into the rules but counted towards coursework.

I mean Republicans have always been MMT believers, debt don't matter. Remember boaters for Trump? Bring-On-Another-Trillion. I'll see myself out.

We need to get to the moon before the Democrats put it in school and then trans it! Also there are illegal immigrants on the moon that need to be deported, Joe Biden put them there himself!

Please one more time fall for the only two scaremongering issues we have left!

Really, you don't see any difference between Elon Musk and, say, John Stankey? Is John Stankey actively transforming the US into an autocratic fascist-adjacent state?

Would you buy from a company called Plantations Inc which proudly advertises that all of its products are made by daily-whipped slaves? Are there no limits to how self-focused you are in your consumption?

It's one thing to say "this particular issue isn't mine, so I'm only going to think amount myself". It's an entirely different issue to have no moral bounds.

Is the argument here really "EV's don't work because I can;t currently take one to my cabin in the bush 400mi away?" Is it 2009 again all over?