A huge appeal for ride share over taxis is that the cars showed up quickly when summoned because there were so many "drivers" just waiting for a ride...

Good luck with that - the ride-share operators have zero investment in California, so if they cant negotiate a contract the operators are happy with they can just leave the state.

I wonder what protections the gig workers have if a Lyft or an Uber decides to leave the CA market, do they have to give certain notice?

I don't think this is really going to turn into the victory the drivers think this is...

As I read the article, Apple already pulled the sophisticated encryption from consumer iPhones, so the data on Apple iPhones in UK is no longer protected by anything that intelligence agencies can't crack (in other words, UK iPhone users can't secure their data from gov't access).

You seem to think that he's put the laptop on his rib cage, not his abdomen - the rib cage is his upper chest, his abdomen is his lower chest.

Really? Carrying around a computer that can ONLY be used where there is a spare monitor, keyboard, mouse and power outlet is "more convenient" than a laptop that is self-powered and has a built-in keyboard, trackpad, and display?

No, it isn't - and you know it isn't, but you just had to be a contrarian... you can always hook up your laptop to your friends 'spare' monitor, keyboard, mouse and wall outlet if you like, if you find that "more convenient"

Yes, laying on your back, laptop on your belly, for up to eight hours/day would likely have no negative effects on your posture...

If only voice to text was a thing...

(See assistive technology)

Hopefully he'll get a desk, or maybe start doing his school work at a proper table/chsir, rather than horizontal in his bed for countless hours...

The issue, as described in the article, is prolonged exposisurecto long-term, low temperature heat, described as too low in temperature to actually burn skin - they give examples of prolonged use of electric blankets or hot water bottles.

No, he was convicted of illegally structuring of bank withdrawals to evade bank reporting requirements.

Had he said "I'm paying hush money to someone I sexually abused a few decades ago earlier", the whole financial part of it would have been legal.

And instead of Cisco, they should all buy Huawei?

Only Democrats think Trump can run for election in 2028, but they never really can explain exactly how he could do that... Almost like its a completely baseless claim dreamed up by Democrat fundraisers to try and bank ANOTHER billion dollars to run against (the boogie man) Trump in the next election...

Seriously, you understand that if all goes according to plan, and Trump survives to the end of his term, he will be out of office in January, 2029 - when will this migration off MS Windows to Linux be completed? Their target is by the end of 2027, or just over one year before Trump is out of office (and yes, we know he'll leave office, he arleady left office once in 2021, remember?)

No, he didn't he wanted to buy Greenland. CNN BBC

And that assessment is based on your deep knowledge of modern military strategy? What about raw materials? 80 years ago we rolled a couple million soldiers into europe without a significant presence on Greenland, why couldn't we do that again without Greenland? Greenland is a useful location for defensive weapons, which explains why the US has historically had many small defensive and scientific military bases in Greenland in the past.

But yeah, somehow we would need Greenland to invade Europe. Right. Because cargo planes can't cross the Atlantic? Because supersonic stealth bombers aren't a thing?

Please, maybe sit this one out?

I largely agree, but the Juice wasn't worth the Squeeze - we were approached by an activist dad who waged an all-out frontal assault on the school district trying to convince us that "if we just ran Linux on our current desktops we could save millions of dollar/year and the kids would be using better tools".

We didn't spend "millions of dollars/year" on MS licenses so the savings promised (by him) were impossible, and his other claim, that we wouldn't have to replace out desktop computers every 5 years was based on his personal experience running Linux on 10 year-old computers in his basement for his children. WHat he didn't factor in was the fact that very few of the 3,000 users of community desktops and laptops in a public school district take as much care of their computers as his own children. After 5 years in public use, those computers were ready to be replace for physical damage BECAUSE we bought our "new desktops" as three year old off-lease desktops by the pallet at great discounts. When we replaced a computer in 2010, for example, it was likely a 2001 model - 2001 -> 2004 as a corporate desktop in a major corporation, then from 2005-2010 in a 7th grade classroom - it was ready to be replaced. If we held on to a desktop for ten years, it would have been 13 year-old technology and a 13 year-old device when it was replaced.

The pitch was Linux would save money, we showed it would not - but if there was an outside reason to migrate, that could have helped justify the move, but imagined savings alone, in 2010, weren't sufficient.

No, you can't just "redesign" a system serving the educational needs of 3,000 students and satisfying all state and federal reporting requirements.

Let's all, for the sake of argument, agree that converting an email server from Exchange to running "relaying SMTP" on two scrap desktops is whole lot easier that converting an entire 3,000 user-base to a completely new OS/ecosystem.

Replacing a single point in the network (email) with a FOSS solution is trivial, but that would have resulted in literally ZERO savings, since the Exchange server and outlook licenses were bundled with the desktop licenses.

We were successfully managing 1,500 Windows and Mac desktops with exactlyone Windows Admin and exactly one Mac Admin, along with a DBA/Report generator person to help admin staff get the reports/data they needed.

We had absolutely zero interest in SSHing into individual desktops to run scripts - managing the desktops with Group Policy was a simple, well-known mechanism. I don't mean this as a disparaging judgement, but your comments are really about today, 15 years after the fact - I'm talking about the state of the systems in 2010, not 2025, and your comments make me think you've never seen how a well-run windows shop is administered.

Thats your opinion, and that's fine, but that was what we were familar with.

Its hard for me to believe you could manage 1,500 linux desktops in 2010 with fewer than two admins like we had. And honestly, the Windows environment, when properly structured and maintained, is not nearly as problem-prone as most Linux enthusiasts claim.

Again, Hard to imagine saving significant money over the then TWO ADMINS for 1,500 desktops, nearly 3,000 users. If, as a practical matter the two existing admins were replaced with two Unix admins earning 50% more (effectively going from two headcount to three, in budget terms) then the complete, $10 savings versus the per-desk annual license cost of Windows is gone. If the two replacement Unix admins cost 10% more, that would make Linux just as expensive as Windows.

Schools are a funny business, yes they get three months off each year (sort of, summer school is a thing), but imagine, as a thought experiment, converting a school district with 1,500 desktops and 3,000 users (student and administrators) from Windows to Linux. Installing the OS on 1,500 computers, that's doable, no fun, but doable. But, there's a whole lot of automation and tooling bundled into Windows Server and Group Policy, much, but certainly not all, would need to be either purchased, implemented, and trained on between school years, And since school districts rely on boring things like attendance records (for federal funding), similar replacement software would need to be found, installed, trained on before the next school year. Oh, and the students AND faculty would, believe it or not, need some level of training on the new software tools AND operating systems without overly impacting their educational progress as they learn the new environment.

AGAIN, this is 2010, the world was not "browser-based", applications were distict local software packages installed on computers/servers.

The only practical solution would be to develop the new environment/ecosystem (OS, Servers, desktop images, application suites, and administration tools) in parallel, over a school year. That means you've got the Win Admin and Mac admin on staff, plus the two new Unix admins, plus a handful of experts in either Linux applications for schools or programmer analysts designing and implementing Unix-based solutions to all the issues run into during the migration.

That implies a huge (one-time) headcount increase - how many years of $10/desktop/year savings would it take to recoup those costs before we start "rolling in the savings"? And, where would the money come from - would the state give us sufficient money to hire several Unix experts for a year or two to migrate to Linux? Would the taxpayers approve a ten-year bond to increase their property/school taxes to pay for these future savings?

In the world of hand-wavy social media, migrating to Linux from windows is easy, heck everything (today, not 15 years ago) is browser-based, so whats the difference? But the reality is a bit tougher.