A futures market is a prediction market as well. Most futures contracts are bought and sold with no intention of taking delivery. They are regulated at the federal level.

Straight forward gambling (activities where outcomes are determined by chance) is regulated by the states. However the Commerce Clause clearly grants the power to regulate interstate commerce to the federal government.

So we have a proper jurisdictional argument about who gets to regulate prediction markets and presumably who gets to collect the tax on innumeracy.

If the betting pools take money from across the country they are likely to fall under federal jurisdiction. That's my take on it, but I am not a lawyer, and I don't gamble either.

Over 60% of VMs on Azure run a version of Linux, not Windows - but you knew that, right?

https://commandlinux.com/stati...

It's already a has been. It seems the notifications from FB have amplified over the past several months, im getting notifications for trivial meaningless shit that people I follow are doing that I never used to get before. It's almost as if they are trying to lure people into signing into the app and getting stuck in a doom scroll for awhile. Once you actually get sucked back in for a bit it seems everything FB's algorithm jams in your feed is controversial and designed to provoke and to illicit some kind of response. Likely to up engagement with the platform. Im personally just about done with FB, Instagram at this point doesn't seem as toxic, but im sure once they finish killing FB IG will be next.

maybe partly, but the reality I know as someone who reads a lot of penetration testing reports, is big supposedly mature organizations end up putting useful credentials (as in not just some QA mock enviornment nobody cares about in CI/CD stuff) in their git commits, all the freaking time.

Cloud security is a s*** show a lot of places, even places with mostly capable people, it only takes one idiot or one careless person to really mess things up badly. That is the problem with PaaS/SaaS model generally.

Except it absolutely is Embrace-Extend...

It is embrace Linux, just so long as your are running it on their compute...It is extend Linux,they have already used their influence to stuff all manor of rather cloud-specific tooling into systemd, and successfully crammed that stack down on the broader community.

Finally it is extinguish in the software freedom sense the GNU side of GNU/Linux always cared about. Unless your are like beyond careful about every component you use, every bit of tooling you chose, and every other architecture decision you make the odds of anyone not a large enterprise being able to shift their application from Azure to some other cloud or their own compute/hosting is low. If you really do go the truly cloud agnostic route, you'll be giving up a lot of the value add features of the platform and paying a higher bill at the same time.

I don't disagree but the problem is identifying when we jumped the shark. Which I think happened damn near 100 years ago now when the SCOTUS blinked and let a lot of the New Deal happen.

We have now gone so long without 'keeping up with Amendments' in terms of actually enabling the Federal government to do so much of what American's of all political stripes currently view as good/necessary/appropriate it is really difficult to take "Textualism" to the logical destination it really ought to be taken. The 'soft textualism' we get from current conservative wing of the court is probably the best we can really hope for.

If you really for example did a legitimate read of the 9th and 10th amendments, probably half or more of Federal laws are unconstitutional or at least could not be applied to 90% of the instances they are. It would break our society...

This is real problem people who immediately shut down conversations around national divorce, or moving toward greater State level sovereignty as in letting people start thinking of themselves more as "Virginians, Floridians, New Yorkers", etc rather than "Americans" can't accept. We let a 80 years of sloth and neglect pass by as far rigorously applying the Constitution and using the Amendment process for real rather than feel good issues like Senate elections, and as far as keeping the American experiment on course, I am not sure you can get there from here now.

Let's break this down. Setting aside your particular moral views on any of the issues you just mentioned, you basically said people should ignore issues of morality and vote based on what is good for them economically. This is what a lot of mean when we say the political left are not 'good people'. It isnt even about any specific position what it comes down to is you really don't care or value 'goodness' it is ONLY about what you get personally in terms of wealth and security, and ideally in your minds at the expense of everyone else.

If we listened you rsilvergun, chattel slavery would still be a feature of the American economy. You'll deny it of course, and you'll agree salvery is bad but only because parroting some accepted social/moral position is means to end. The entire moral panic is a project too, I mean seriously WTF do think the act of calling everyone who disagrees with you bigots, Nazi's, etc is?

Face it when you look deep in side and ask the hard questions of yourself, you'll find you're really terrible person as are the people you defend and support politically.

"Computer brief me on $subject" is very cool, at least if you had some degree of faith in correctness.

Briefings are by definition going to contain some over simplifications. Something like Marketplace's "Make me smart" is probably a good format for audio to be consumed while doing something physical driving, laundry, splitting logs, cutting the lawn etc..

They patched it rapidly only to have a very similar vulnerability affecting the very same components drop like a day later.

Arguably the patching effort lacked real analysis, that should have been triggered, and got pushed out with the first obvious fix applied. On the other hand leaving users with only the option to implement a workaround that disables ipsec while a full fix is investigated, is also a problem...

I am not criticizing anyone here, disclosure vs time to patch, and regression avoidance in complex software systems is a difficult problem. While it speaks to things like code quality and security priority, I don't think when it comes to large software projects you can really charaterize either of those things with a methodolgy that amounts SELECT COUNT(*) FROM cve WHERE project = ....

It sounds like you two have a lot in common.

This wasnt a lawsuit for control. It was a lawsuit to force profits back to the nonprofit

Hmm....only up to about $4 or so here where I live in the New Orleans area...maybe a bit more...I bought at Costco yesterday and didn't really look that close at the pump, but was in the $4 range...

It is called summary judgement, and I honestly thought that was good news that it went to trial, and the court could find justification to stop business in America from being allowed to steal non-profits. I guess I was wrong. This will only make things worse in the long run.

This is a civil trial, not a criminal trial. There is no "jeopardy" there is no double jeopardy. This is a civil suit.

I hate seeing seemingly intelligent people view this as "I hate that business guy more than the other business guy", as opposed to "What rules should American business have to operate under".