This seems like such an obvious improvement that I was curious about the one commissioner who voted against it. It turns out he, Andrew Ferguson, is expected to be nominated and confirmed to be the head of the FTC under the upcoming administration. Some info about the anticipated new head of the FTC:

* UVA undergrad and law degrees
* worked for private firms defending against anti-trust enforcement
* clerked for Clarence Thomas
* worked for Republican senators on judicial confirmations
* solicitor general for Virginia
* appointed to FTC in 2023

We will see how things change under his leadership.

When there are 42 AGs listed, I wondered which states didn't sign on. Here they are:

• Alaska
• Arizona
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Louisiana
• Missouri
• Montana
• Nebraska
• Ohio
• Texas
• West Virginia

That adds up to more than 50 owing to DC and some territorial AGs.

Does anyone know why the Maine Attorney General is involved? Palo Alto is pretty fair from Maine and I didn't see any explanation in the article. Does Maine have better disclosure laws than other states? There is a filing which includes:

Total number of persons affected (including residents): 27000
Total number of Maine residents affected: 3
If the number of Maine residents exceeds 1,000, have the consumer reporting agencies been notified:
Date(s) Breach Occured: 05/12/2023
Date Breach Discovered: 09/27/2023

so who knows if anyone would know about this were it not for the involvement of the Maine residents...

People think of legacy as a binary input: is the applicant a child of parent (grandparent in some cases) who went there. It is far more graduated, and reflects the previous donations of the parent who went there. Consider three different alumni along a continuum:

1) An affluent alum who has already given generously, been active in alumni activities (fundraising, etc.), arranged internships for students, is employed in an industry (finance, law) where connections are extremely important, has been bringing their kid to reunions for years, and who may have been a legacy admit themselves many years ago.

2) An affluent alum who has not given generously yet but has some potential (admissions will have a least an estimate of amassed wealth) , is in engineering/software where connections are important but not as crucial, has some connection to the institution, comes to reunions, but does not have a track record already of generous giving.

3) An alum who is not affluent, works in education or public service, who has not had much to do with the institution since graduating, but has fond memories of the institution.

These would all three be considered "legacy" applicants but it is certain that the admissions office would regard #1 as a much better "fit" for the institution than #2, and #3 may as well be someone with no connection to the campus.

There was an excellent Linux Router Project active around 2000, which ran on commodity PCs, booting from a floppy, running in RAM, no hard drive needed. For less than $50 (an old x86 box that someone would pay you to take off their hands, and maybe one or two ethernet cards) you could set up something that outperformed commercial routers that cost far more. I happily had a machine serving as my home router (named Wheezer after its somewhat noisy fan) for years but then it became common for wireless access points and routers to have that functionality.

ps. The first Mathgen paper was accepted despite being written by "Professor Marcie Rathke of the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople", which shows the level of scrutiny some journals give to submissions, see https://thatsmathematics.com/b...

Ten years ago, Nate Eldredge wrote Mathgen, a system for generating math research papers:

https://thatsmathematics.com/m...

These were pretty early efforts by current standards but some of the results have been accepted by journals, see https://thatsmathematics.com/b... showing that somehow not all mathematics research journals give the greatest scrutiny to submissions.

With the intervening advances, it seems likely that these will become more common.

20 years ago same typical F.U.D storm against Linux was every where.

You think terms of ICE cars.

Tesla years ahead from competition. Tesla may %30 profit from each car. Which traditional OEM's can't.

Macs compatible with macOS Big Sur:

• 2015+ MacBook
• 2013+ MacBook Air
• Late 2013+ MacBook Pro
• 2014+ iMac
• 2017+ iMac Pro
• 2014+ Mac mini
• 2013+ Mac Pro

Ones that support Catalina but not Big Sur:

• 2012 and Early 2013 MacBook Pro
• 2012 MacBook Air
• 2012 and 2013 iMac
• 2012 Mac mini

No, you Americans didn't care who would take over for years. There was a system after all and it would protect you.

When that trust is gone, you are doing politics now and you are doing it with anxiety for the future, and naturally your worries are now expressing and at times it becomes quite violent. At least according to your discussion standards.

Now is the time to feel the mood of an average middle eastern citizen

Microsoft, Microsoft never changes.
The Gates waged war to gather desktop dominance and wealth,
Ballmer, built an empire from his lust for throwing chairs and selling office,
Nadella, shaped a battered Microsoft into cloud super power,

But Microsoft never changes.
They destroy Nokia for their flawed Mobile strategy

And Microsoft never changes.

Epic's Unreal engine does not good (let say like Unity3d) at mobile.

However, for the last 2 years, Epic has been extremely developer friendly. There are a lot of developer friendly moves such as free assets in each month, free quixel megascan access, increasing the revenue share limit for Unreal Engine to one million dollars, cutting only 5% from the game sold in the Epic Store.

Yes, game developers are not Linux zealots, however Apple seems to have a headache.

If the Unreal Engine version 5 does what it promises, the game market changes from top to bottom.

The challenge in modern game development is to optimize the objects, characters, and graphics prepared in other programs, more importantly to the game engine in accordance with the atmosphere promised by the game.

So now I can create a GTA 5 clone with the free content I gather here from the internet, from here, but none of the existing game engines can run this game at the proper frame rate.

Now Epic says, I made a game engine like Microsoft Word. Copy paste what you want. Build the world according to your desire. Moreover, if the material you have is insufficient, I give you the Quixel Megascans system for free.

I'm not sure about mobile. However, this changes everything in deskopes and consoles.

And it seems to have a say in the movie industry.

As Pain In Ass grade Linux Zealot in my youth. I use various linux desktops back in day (1998 - 2008)

From my point of view Enlightment is the best linux desktop. It was represeting different aproach than the other much more popular windows clones.

Anyway.

One day after upgrading Ubuntu to new verison and getting sick of the configuring dual montior setup. I gave up Linux Desktop.

More than 12 years I do not have any problem with windows with 2 or more monitors and I'm still not so sure for any Linux distro.

And because of state of mess in Linux desktop

I always Pray for the benevolent dictator linux Linus Torvalds, god bless him.