What's the French for "woof, woof woof"?

I assume they'd already jurisdiction-shopped and were expecting it to be rubber-stamped in a country that's somewhat more dysfunctional (try setting up a business in Greece some time) than other EU countries which would have given them a harder time over it.

If only those pesky Europeans were like the US, put Kushner on your board of directors, make a donation to the ballroom, and all of your regulatory problems just... go away.

"Thank you for calling the US government. We're very sorry but we're quite busy right now running UFC fights and harassing Gavin Newsom. Next up is thinking up new distractions to amuse the Dear Leader. If you're worried about silly things like the cost of living or what's going to happen to your 401k, please call the psychic hotline for advice. If you'd like to hear this message in Spanish, please press 1 and an ICE team will be by shortly to deport you".

Moving off a platform that auto-expires constantly in order to force you to migrate to a newer ($$$) platform that will also auto-expire shortly after you move to it does seem to be a good idea.

For reference, we recently declared VC++ 6.0, from 1998, unsupported, not because there's a problem with it but because getting it to run under the latest Win11 is too hard. Having said that, binaries built using VC++ 6.0 still run fine under the latest Win11, and that's a nearly 30-year-old dev.system which, admittedly, is quite a bit better than what MS is shipping today.

It's not random at all, you just need to rephrase the headline as "Company that paid $40 million movie bribe to Trump gets competitor's AI partially shut down".

Friend of mine, who has a Chinese wife, gets all his dentistry done there when they go to visit her family. He says it's way, way better than what you can get done locally, and at a fraction of the price.

In other news, a study reveals that Annual US spending on pork correlates with Lululemon's stock price.

Trump had a team in 2016 that were absolute masters in using Fecebook while the Democrats were still doing the equivalent of banging rocks together. When he stiffed them (Trump not pay someone? Say it ain't so!) he didn't have the same advantage any more in 2020. This has been pretty well documented in numerous articles and books, the way they used Fecebook's analytics in 2016 was just stunning, makes Cambridge Analytica look like interns, and since they paid Fecebook to run the numbers for them no-one batted an eyelid.

So alongside the "Surprising exactly nobody" icon that I've hinted at several times in the past, /. now needs a "What could possibly go wrong" icon: "Hey, let's give a stochastic parrot your credit card and see what happens".

They also won't impact their use by scammers:

Percentage of scammers affected by the proposed rule: 0%

Percentage of domestic abuse victims affected by the proposed rule: 100%

Not saying that this is deliberate, but that this is one of those simple, obvious solutions that's completely wrong.

It's not solid-state, it's pseudo-solid-state, also known as marketing-solid-state.

Unfortunately the web site doesn't specify which of the pseudo-solid-state technologies it uses.

You can tell how beneficial a regulatory measure will be by looking at the groups it upsets.

That was my feeling too, who still uses POP3? Someone on dialup with a 286 PC?

Well in my case they have to send me a fax to make an appointment to call me on my cellphone. This has been effective in stopping 100% of scam calls.

In particular, isn't Majorana the one where MS had to invent a new type of physics in order to make it look good? Or extend things into seven demensions [*], or some similar trickery?

[*] Yes, that's a deliberate spelling.