That doesn't seem to be in the Debian repository. (I don't have my Algol documentation anymore anyway, but once upon a time...)

You can do what one guy did in Washington - do a FOIA request. The photos and data are public records after all.

Don't make it a big FOIA request, just make it something targeted like an intersection on a date between two times, an hour apart. You travelled through it and want to see what information the camera got about you.

And maybe do more FOIA requests for other intersections as well.

The reason for the targeting is highly focused FOIA requests are less likely to be rejected as over broad requests and thus you are more likely going to get your images and data you requested.

What happened in Washington was the city councils got worried because the courts have started saying the FOIA request was perfectly valid and they have no reason to withhold the information requested. Councils were worried that the requests could contain information that stalkers might want. The courts kept saying to release the information, council kept pushing back, and then council cancelled the agreements because they saw they were going to have to release the information and they could not restrict who got a hold of it.

In other words, having the information available turned it into a liability for council because they had to release it as public records and there would be plenty of people like stalkers who would just love to get their hands on the information. So the only solution was to not collect the data in the first place.

The desire for stasis taken to extremes I suppose.

One of my favorites is some years ago when a Tesla caught fire, and the asshats tried to claim that Gasoline vehicles did not ever catch fire. That EV's were too dangerous.

Youtube, and my MIL having two cars incinerate themselves proves that Gasoline powered vehicles burn quite vigorously and fairly often.

But I meant Algol-60, which was the only version that was ever widely used.

Flavored hops? You mean like an IPA? The so called "Noble Hops" should be a real no-no, especially in any bottle that is not brown. Noble hops in anything else skunks the beer. No reason to use them. Cascade hops can be a little grapefruit-y, but snobbing about hops, means people can proclaim superiority about.

If you can handle hops, try Heineken in cans even though I might have to go into the witness protection system for such heresy, Canned Heineken doesn't skunk, and is a much more pleasant experience.

Do Central Europeans not drink anything else? I mean, that's home to Lambics, and one of my favorites Trappist Brews, Chimay, especially The large bottle barrel fermented version. I was introduced to that in pairing with German food.

I enjoy drinking many varieties, and have committed the cardinal sin of drinking some European beers I find lacking. 8^)

Well, when I went looking for an Algol compiler, I didn't find it. But perhaps I just needed to look outside the repositories.

What about "Don't write your stuff while wearing a plaid shirt."?
If the rules can't be enforced honestly, they shouldn't be present. And rules against AI can't be enforced honestly unless you hold the contest in a sealed room with no remote access.

The problem is that the context of the pre-2020 works will become continuously more dated. I can't stand most Victorian fiction, even Sherlock Holmes is weak outside of the short stories. Historical fiction really needs to be written from a viewpoint assuming the current context...which means it becomes dated. And this also works, though less powerfully, in the realm of fantasy.

IIUC, the human variant of that gene (FOX P2) is NOT shared with other extant species. But it also seems true that there were lots of other changes associated with it.

But if fewer people performing this behaviour died of starvation (or were too low in nutritional status to raise offspring to maturity - same thing really) than died of Salmonella it would still be a net benefit.

Good point.

Budweiser has a consistency process that keeps older brews in order to have taste tests. They are pretty precise.

One odd thing is that Budweiser at one point didn't do the headache thing. Then around 1970, something changed. In High school, I could drink it with no problem. Then something happened. two buds, and I'd get queasy, and a hella headache. three and I'd vomit. Switched to "Rolling Rock", and nary a problem.

Yes, I was underage.

If 250K is exceeding expectations, then the expectations are wrong and haven't been supported by the data for a long time.

I think the feeling is that most people don't drive vehicles much beyond 10 years or 100K miles. Because generally speaking once you get to that point in a car's life, repair costs skyrocket.

Sure, there are plenty of cars that if treated right will get you way beyond 100K with minimal problems (it's where Toyota gets their reputation), but many will start having issues around 150K or so.

The problem is, many people don't own vehicles that old so they never see it. After 150K, most vehicles are treated as "beaters" that get minimal service knowing that they're basically going to be scrapped on the first major failure.

It also doesn't help that most people's experience with batteries are ones that are basically useless after 5 years - cellphones, music players, laptops, etc., you get around the 5 year mark and the battery is expected to be relatively useless. So it's not unexpected that they would expect a car with a battery to be severely degraded after 5 years because everything else is too.

Microsoft is also a Delaware company, just like a few million other companies (thousands of which exist at the same address).

There's a reason why DE is the chosen state for many companies to incorporate.

(They were a WA company until 1986)

It is NOT universally required. Incidentally, the FSF may well go after getting that.

That would severely limit where your device can be sold and used, though.

Intentional emitters of signals have to be certified if using a licensed band. That is the law in basically every country around - even tin-pot dictatorships don't want you emitting RF they don't know about.

Now, there are bands the FSF is free to use an unlicensed transmitter on - bands where the owners require licensing (i.e., the owners take on the job of certifying the design) like ham radio. Or the unlicensed bands, like 2.4, 5 and 6 GHz ISM. Here the regulations are basically along the lines of "do not have spurious emissions in the licensed bands next door".

The problem for the FSF is basically they can get it done, but then no one would touch it. If you wanted to produce a device and used the firmware, you likely couldn't put any blocks on what firmware your device runs (GPLv3), which means you cannot get your product certified because you cannot guarantee someone will run authorized firmware. You can put in hardware limiters (i.e., filters), but those things generally make your product perform worse.

The FSF is right on one thing - the firmware blobs are basically identical across users of the same chipset. The simple reason is that the chipset was certified with that firmware already, so if you want the least amount of trouble, you keep the firmware and hardware design the same so you can get through the gauntlet of certifications with the least amount of trouble. (They aren't cheap, you're looking at 5 and 6 figure costs just to do one certification pass so you want to minimize the number of passes you do. And for that you need to hire pre-certification labs which can do the runs and provide the analysis on what you need to fix before you run the gauntlet.

People do sell cellular chips as modules where the RF stuff is done on the module itself which reduces your need for certification and firmware blobs, but phone makers don't use them as generally they are more expensive overall. Chips from Qualcomm and such integrate everything in the SoC from WiFi and Bluetooth to the cellular RF into the main processor so all you need are some RF front ends which means you need only a minimal amount of extra chips. And those chips rely on firmware blobs to be loaded on boot, and those blobs are often binary to the vendor as well. (A place I worked at we had source code access to those blobs, it wasn't pretty).

Battery life has exceeded the naysayers pronouncements of early doom since the Prius which had to have a 150,000 mile warranty way back in the day, and hardly had anyone using the warranty.

Same with solar panels which I was told they'd stop working in a few years. In Cape May there are quite functional Solar Arrays that have been there 25 years. At a school.

Time to move the goalposts again.