Comment Re:Dictators (Score 3, Informative) 55
The restrictions are a mix of reasonable nuisance management and paranoia about who is flying drones, what they can do, and chain of custody.
Beijing proper is a city with a population density of over 21,000 / km^2 -- so you can imagine the chaos if any tech enthusiast resident could fly a drone without a permit. Except for a couple of free zones in the outer boroughs, New York City restricts drone launcing and landings within the city to flights with a permit and flight plan, because otherwise the sky would be black with drones. Many cities -- both red and blue -- have zone restrictions for drone flights, and those currently hosting World Cup matches have tightened them for the duration of the tournament.
Comment Re:"Palestine" is a fictitious ethnicity (Score 1) 184
In Gaza, those "civilians" participated in the October 7th massacres, which drinkypoo endorses. If one recalls, when Hamas agreed to return the first batch of hostages, those hostages had to be protected by Hamas from the Gazan public, most of whom are goons. So Israel has the right to expel them anywhere, given that they've proven incapable of living peacefully in what was practically a "Palestinian" state
Judea & Samaria too, Jewish settlers have the right to be there. The demand that these territories be Judenrein is ridiculous, given that 20% of Israel's population is Arab
Comment Israel's aliya laws are fine (Score 1) 184
Nothing weird. Israel was founded as a home for Jews, who it was proven couldn't live in Europe bcos Nazis, Commies and other haters. It then became a battlefield b'cos muslims, who themselves never had compunctions about stealing other people's lands - from the East Indies to West Africa - decided that they'd be in a perennial war w/ them
Fast forward to today, and antisemtism - not mere opposition to Israel/Netanyahu - has made a comeback! You see that in the US - the demonstrations at Columbia U were not against Israel: Jewish students were targeted for bullying and harassment, and antisemitism has made its debut here on a largescale basis for the first time in history. Same thing is happening in Europe. All this started on October 8th, long before the Israeli operations against Gaza began
Given all that, Jews worldwide have a right to seek refuge in the single country that was founded explicitly for them. They have nothing to apologize for: there are some 20 Christian and muslim countries each where Christianity and islam are the official religions of the state. While Israel may describe itself as a Jewish state, every Gentile there has religious freedom. Far more than in any islamic country, such as an Afghanistan or a Bangladesh - and I'm not even touching a Saudi Arabia
As for trying to expand into Judea and Samaria, the Palis have proven that they are incapable of living alongside them in peace. No sympathy for them if they get expelled. I'll take those jihadists seriously when they start a jihad against Beijing, who has been doing a genocide of the Uyghurs and Hui there
Comment Re:who's the stooge? (Score 1) 184
No, what Israel did was in response to the terrorist attack in question. Hamas could have lived pretty well had they simply ended their jihad.
But then, they wouldn't be Hamas, would they?
Comment Re:Another con from the conman. Nothing new here. (Score 1) 153
Comment Edge over Chrome? (Score 1) 161
Comment Brave dependent? (Score 1) 161
Also, does Brave depend on Chromium for its updates? The same way, say Debian derivatives depend on Debian, or Redhat derivatives on RedHat?
I was under the impression that Brave was a complete fork of Chromium, just like OpenBSD was of NetBSD
Comment Re: Are there people in the government (Score 0) 77
Comment Re:RIP Chrome (2008-26) (Score 1) 161
Comment Re:Are there people in the government (Score 1) 77
Sounds like the precise argument why governments shouldn't be the ones regulating these things. Maybe private industry consortiums
For the same reasons that any internet standard goes through the IETF, not the FTC. Maybe there needs to be a SIG group that consists of all the major AI players, that can come up w/ the various conventions, best practices & so on. They can include in their coverage issues like Net Zero, privacy protection and the entire gamut
Comment Is Kali365 derived from Kali Linux? (Score 1) 10
Comment Re: Enshittification marches ever onward (Score 1) 54
No, companies just have to guarantee what they say in the spec. Take, for instance, overclocking! Some chips may run fine when overclocked some, but if they malfunction, it's the user who did that who should be SOL, not the manufacturer