Die Another Day (and all the Bond movies) have been playing on the TV. Someone must have liked the Icarus weapon and thought, "let's work up to that".

I managed an IT team of 6. Only one had a masters degree, the others were all bachelors, college, or high school grads. It was the one with the masters degree that was clueless enough to utter a threat of physical violence to an employee of a photocopy repair company. Pretty sure he meant it as a joke, but it didn't come across to the repair guy as a joke. The repair guy reported the incident, the incident was reported back to our company, and HR said he has to go. Not bright.

I really think Roblox is missing the point.

Sure, age-verification might impede underage use of their product, but there are a lot of adults that understand the age-verification movement to be an invasion of their privacy. Whether or not this is true, "perception is reality".

The real problem is that given his rank, he would be in a position to hear things sooner than others further down the food chain. Anyone paying attention to who is doing any betting could have (or should have) asked what they might now that would cause them to place the bet they did. In this case, it boils down to an OPSEC violation, and that's illegal under any circumstance, punishable by UCMJ if not actual civilian law. The fact that the FBI are involved tells me that this guy will probably be facing UCMJ violations too (if he's lucky, court martial if he's not), and may not be a Sergeant Major any longer when the dust settles.

Curious, then, that if such a law was already passed that recently that the likes of Pelosi (and surely other members of both parties) still managed to get around it.
Congress (as a whole) acts as if their shit doesn't stink. It's high time they get reminded that it most certainly does.

I can think of four reasons ticket sales have dropped.

1. Much of what Hollywood has been putting out is crap.
2. Politicians increase taxes constantly, resulting in less disposable income for potential movie-goers.
3. Ticket costs increasing - Not much can be done there, theaters do it to compensate for the loss in sales.
4. Streaming is a thing. Why go to a theater to sit in a sticky, uncomfortable seat when one can wait a little while for the movie to hit $STREAMING_SERVICE and watch it from the comfort of one's own home?

How about just having a radio or transponder kept off most of the time, and turn it on occassionally to communicate? He also couldn't have gotten to far, so the search area wasn't huge.

Hahahahaha.

General Beringer: "What does the Whopper recommend, Mr. Mckitrick?" Mr. Mckitrick: "Full scale retaliatory strike" General Beringer: "I need some machine to tell me that?"

It's going to get to the point where you are assumed to give consent to being recorded just by going through the drive-thru. #1984

Humans have angst and many might view that as bad, but a healthy fear keeps us out of trouble. AI doesn't have that, no matter how much it tries to simulate that. I code with AI but I would never let it be a sys admin.

If this is left to some algorithm, this will likely prevent any cosplay guns like the Star Wars stormtroopers, etc.

A good percentage of slashdot reader grew up when there were no smartphones, so a smartphone is more likely a tool to look up stuff, email, etc. For the generation that grew up with smartphones, they were not taught to use it as a tool, but as an entertainment device. Walking around with a TV stuck in your face all the time is a huge distraction. So I can see the appeal of ditching the smartphone to break habits.

Oh, that is what Lobot is wearing!