If the article is correct, the way to make money is to figure out when this is going to catch up with the BNPL companies and then short them. Good luck timing it.

That 42% late payment rate, though, is likely more a feature than a bug. Late payments mean more fees.

Make the fine for paying ransomware 3x any ransom paid. If a company is really set one paying the ransom, it will come with a much higher price, and use that money to fight cybercrime and protect infrastructure.

You might want to consider how the incentives for the government work in that situation.

We were just talking about how one of the most useful, long term skills I picked up in school was my architectural drafting class in high school where they drilled us on perfect print.

Sure, but that's print. As other have pointed out, most of the advantages of cursive have gone away since the introduction of the ballpoint pen. Some of the simplified letterforms (e.g. the lowercase 'a') are useful, but looping and joining aren't. Cursive is long obsolete as a writing form. At best it's more aesthetically pleasing while being less readable; more commonly it's just ugly unreadable scrawl

Yes, I had a couple of drafting courses when I studied Engineering and the prof was an absolute stickler for perfectly-formed letters. I resented it at the time, but now find it very useful to be able to write legibly.

I never took a typing course, but it was trivial to learn to touch-type once I got a computer and started programming. I don't know anyone who has had a computer for more than a few months who can't touch-type.

I'm old enough (almost 60) to have learned cursive in school, and it really wasn't a big deal and I certainly never suffered from it. But other than my signature, I don't think I've written anything in cursive in 3 decades or so. Almost everything I write is typed on a computer, and the small amount of handwriting I do is done using non-cursive printing because it usually involves filling in a form.

If you are studying history or classics or whatever and need to read old manuscripts, then sure... you need cursive. But almost nobody else does nowadays.

The only exception I can think of is if you want to hand-write notes in class, which I found made them stick in my memory much better than typing them. In that case, you need cursive to be able to write at a decent speed.

We got our "peak oil" anxiety dose yesterday, and now we gotten the expected end-of-antibiotics scare. All that's left is to dust off the doomsday clock people: there still a few hours left to complete the trifecta!

Can't imagine it'd be all that difficult: Trump is somehow president again, so there's every reason to crank the 'ol doomsday clock forward a bit and make a headline.

It probably makes more sense given their scale for them to have their own power generation -- solar, wind, and battery storage, maybe gas turbines for extended periods of low renewable availability.

In fact, you could take it further. You could designate town-sized areas for multiple companies' data centers, served by an electricity source (possibly nuclear) and water reclamation and recycling centers providing zero carbon emissions and minimal environmental impact. It would be served by a compact, robust, and completely sepate electrical grid of its own, reducing costs for the data centers and isolating residential customers from the impact of their elecrical use. It would also economically concentrate data centers for businesses providing services they need,reducing costs and increasing profits all around.

Medical authorities like to talk about agricultural use and people taking them for colds, because that keeps people looking away from the actual main source of multi-drug-resistant bacteria: hospitals.

Work is salvation. Work gives meaning. Work builds and maintains.

Unless there is an integral understanding of this oresent throughout a society, a statement like "work is a necessary evil" is just... I don't know... Detrimental?

Then there is wind. There are places where the wind never stops, the Allegheny Front for instance.

Pennsylvania has been getting high winds for the past two months. Sometimes as high as 30+ mph sustained gusts. They should be producing enough electricity for the surrounding states.

This sort of attack is inevitable when you have open-access software repositories. If anybody can upload a package, that implies any bad guy can upload a package. So:

• Ask yourself if you really need a package for this, or is it simple or straightforward enough you can code it yourself and avoid the dependency and the associated supply-chain risks.
• Do your research. Don't just grab the first package that looks like it fits your needs. Review all of the results, then look at who published them and look them up on the web. Look at their web site. Look at what other packages they've published. Look at how active they are aside from the package you're looking at. Toss any that have red flags like no history aside from this package.
• Validate your packages. Authors often sign packages. If they do, get their keys and enable validation so you only accept packages signed by the author you know. That way if a package gets hijacked it'll fail the signature check.

I so want twenty years ago back.

The only one who found that line noteworthy was you.

The rest of us only find it noteworthy in the context it was in.

I looked at his bork.php script. It's a bit simple-minded with pretty limited vocabulary, so I don't think it'll have all that much effect on the AI training.

I just give Facebook's bots (and many other user-agents) a "403 Forbidden" response and go about my day.