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Comment Re:Stupidity or malice? (Score 1) 42

Hanlon's razor generally still applies to technology that the masses don't really understand. That being said, totally agree - though it seems like Mamdani's people don't really understand the social benefits of SBCs or devices like the flipper and how they might be used other than in FUD stories that propagate.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that one of the LED walls or something innocuous like that is driven by a Raspberry Pi.

Comment Re:Are not hidden cameras illegal in California? (Score 1) 62

He had permission from the building manager. Think about it: if it was illegal, how could any businesses or homes have any security camera?

IANAL period, muchless in California, so grain of salt here, but:

In addition to this, in California, if you're recording because you reasonably expect someone will be committing a crime. In this case, not only did the student not have a reasonable expectation of privacy, the professor had a reasonable expectation that the student was committing a crime. Source.

Comment Re:I laughed (Score 1) 56

This is the most American thing I have seen this year.

Ironically, American Quakers are the reason for stable pricing from sale to sale to begin with, so, I would definitely not call that the most American thing normally. But, this year, the Republican president is sponsoring national ownership of everything, so I can't really say departures from the norm in the US are odd...

Comment Re:Change one word (Score 1) 110

The House would only be involved if none of the candidates broke 50%.

Yes...that's what a majority would absolutely mean. Literally the only two times in the history of the US that no Presidential candidate has had a 50%+ electoral college vote, the House has picked based upon party lines. The Bull Moose party was the closest to being capable as I recall and they didn't even really come close.

Comment Change one word (Score 3, Informative) 110

It'll take an Amendment to happen, but the word, "Majority," needs to be removed from the Constitution. Replace it with, "Plurality," and we have a chance of a multiparty system.

As it stands right now, it's virtually impossible for an independent to be elected to the highest ranking office. If there is a three party Presidential race, the US House of Representatives makes the decision as to who wins. Unless we somehow get a large enough group of independents in the House of Reps, that'll be decided along party lines no matter what. Changing that one word makes it so the House doesn't make the decision, but the Electoral College does (I have problems there, too, but different topic).

Comment Re:overpriced vomit generator (Score 1) 20

The most common side effect I've seen reported is nausea. Sometimes that can lead to vomiting, but it doesn't usually.

Pedantic point, but accurate, my apologies.

I rarely get nauseous without vomiting (in my adult life, I think I was nauseous without vomiting once so far) so I directly correlate the two. I do know people who experience that more regularly, so again, my apologies.

Comment Re:overpriced vomit generator (Score 0) 20

Wut? Where did you get vomit from?

It's actually the most common side effect of Wegovy. I don't like defending a troll, but that's actually one of the biggest problems people have with the drug. To the extent that many of the people that quit taking it attribute the nausea as the biggest reason outside of the cost.

Comment Re:Are people this ignorant of basic online securi (Score 1) 79

I'm wondering what the overlap is in the Venn diagram of people smart enough to open the terminal window yet dumb enough to past random things into it?

Pretty sure it's a lot when the sites are explaining how to open the terminal from the run command or Spotlight commands. I highly doubt that these bad actors are expecting the user to know how themselves and would expect they're giving them explicit instructions.

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