For all they keep doing, the one thing they can't seem to do is make a checkbox to stop being harassed about updates. Apparently there is no way to do to this. It's much too complicated for them to figure out.

Perhaps they should put out a notice asking if anyone has the skills to create the checkbox and make it work.

Considerably more difficult than you imagine. Between them, they have almost 70 command-line options or flags. Taking into account that many of those behave differently depending on the presence or absence of other flags, there's a couple hundred different code paths. Then you need to handle directories, files, sparse files, sym- and hard-links, on and across different filesystems, not to mention the various file-like things scattered around (pipes, streams, etc.)

It's not rocket science, but neither is it trivial.

We knew that. But now we have proof.

Will anything happen because of that? Nah, I don't think so. A few token gestures maybe. A friendly mail to everyone saying to write better reasons, followed up by an informal mail that tells them to ignore the previous one.

This isn't a mistake. It's intentional. The more arbitrary and uncontrolled the police can act, the more it is feared, the more it is a tool for oppression and not a part of civil society, the more likely the cops will stand on the side of the powerful when there are protests or uprisings against the increasing oppression and economic divide.

Yea, that's why unions make almost zero sense for high skilled jobs. This essentially adds some foundation to the lowest performers while kneecapping top end pay ranges.

Blizzard doesn't create a whole lot of games to begin with. They work on the expectation of every game being a hit. Both Blizzard and Rockstar (with GTA6) run the risk of hitting their hubris, and I wonder if one of the two will have a massive flop by the end of the decade.

I think I have the last panel TVs built without Smart features. I'd rather replace old Roku's on a reasonable schedule than keep a TV used to spy on me. One, ironically, is a small 720P TV in our bedroom that my wife uses every night. It's unique in having analog 3 color video input connectors along with the usual AV and HDMI inputs. I gave one to my Mom years ago.

That's a pretty shallow(thought admittedly depressingly popular) analysis of the situation.

Being in public does leave you with no particular defensible expectations of not being observed, and possibly even remembered for a time, by assorted passers by; and typically also permits more direct tailing of people for observation purposes(subject to some, often slightly vague, threshold at which having PIs or paparazzi hunting someone remains a problem even in public; as we saw here where the police took the notion seriously enough to show up but not to do anything in particular).

What it has historically never meant, for technical reasons, was pervasive coverage and longterm retention. Which is certainly increasingly feasible with only moderate levels of investment; but is absolutely a novel development for what 'public' and 'no expectation of privacy' meant.

It's like defending the installation of a massive network of sprinklers because "you have no expectation of staying dry when you go outside; haven't you heard of rain?" Sure, nobody the weather to be sunny all the time, any more than they expect everyone to avert their eyes in public; but they would correctly consider the installation of irrigation equipment on every lamppost to be an intrusion on their ability to stay dry despite the fact that the sky has never extended them a constitutionally protected right to no rain.

The estimated cost is $21B, but as most of that is upfront the real cost is interest. The LCOE you see most often is $149/MWh, which is calculated at an interest rate of 4%. 4% is the 10 year government bond rate - the "can't fail" rate. It can only get the because it is government guaranteed, so it's a subsidised rate. Energy utilities using established technologies with a well understood risk profile and a "no risk" government contract usually get around 8%, which translates to a LCOE of around $200/MWh. If you think the initial delivery of a first of a kind technology has a higher risk profile then it warrants a higher interest - then the typical business rate of 10% might be applicable, which translates to $240/MWH.

None of those can compete with renewables, which usually come in under $100MWh. It only works if they can mass produce them, and they achieve their predicted 50% cost reductions. If they pull that off, this $20B will seem like one of the smartest investments in the 21st century.

Yes, we need regulation to crush all our competitors so no one else can enter this space and then we'll jack up the price

Reminds me of the scene in War Games where Joshua is playing the various games over and over and over:

Jennifer: What is it doing?

David Lightman: It's learning.

Get back to talking about how we're whooping Iran's ass at no cost to oursel-- SHUT UP, I SAID NO COST!!!!1

You won't see this on the Fox tabloid, but the acting Navy Secretary admitted at a Congressional hearing that Iran "blew the hell" out of a naval base in Bahrain such that the USS Abraham Lincoln (sound familiar?) couldn't dock for resupply.

So yeah. Whooping Iran's ass at no cost.

Kids are expected to sit in class for six hours a day then go home and potentially do homework for an hour or two.

The difference is, there are breaks in those six hours. You're in class for 55 minutes, then you get up and walk to your next class, rinse and repeat. Depending on your schedule, breaks could even be longer. You get up and move about. You're not stuck in the same chair for six hours.

Don't forget Paxton gave a lenient sentence to Adam Hoffman who raped a friend's kid for over three years.

No, there was no "empty space" around it. The space itself expanded in the cosmic inflation, per current theory.

Which I've always hated because it makes no sense. If space itself inflated, what did it inflate into? It's illogical, from any perspective, to say the universe was a speck of energy that suddenly expanded to create itself. If it expanded, it had to expand into something. You can't create yourself. If you say that, then all you've done is recreate, "In the beginning ..."

OPG has run the numbers and disagrees.

The unsubsidised LCOE (CAD/MWh) for the BWRX-300 OPG's SMR is at least CAD$220/MWh. Renewables in the area max out at unsubsidised LCOE CAD$113/MWh.

But your not wrong even so. They are the government so they get to charge / subsidise whatever they want. I'm sure the numbers work out just fine.

On the positive side if they can drop the price by 1/2 by manufacturing 100's of them, this billions of government subsidy money might end up being seeding the start of a new industry. They already have a sales in the pipeline to Saskatchewan, Tennessee Valley Authority, and 24 to Poland. But - those sales are all dependent on them getting the price down. No utility or private consortium is signing up to pay CAD $220+/MWh rate. That would be insane.

And here I was, thinking foldable phones would allow us to go back to smaller sizes. Guess I'll be sticking with my SE, which at least comfortably fits into my pocket.

Someone please bash some sense into Apple.

I'm sure there are people who want a mini-tablet in their trousers. I'm also sure I'm not the only one who simply wants a phone. That you don't have to think about every time you move or sit.