He's making a pun that requires some infra-dig knowledge.
  The TLA "MCP" in this slashdot article is referring to "Model Context Protocol".

Burroughs Corporation's named the operating system for its mainframe line of computers "MCP", referring to "Master Control Program" from 1961. MCP is still around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The movie TRON had a character named TRON.
TRON is the abbreviation for "Terminal Real-Time Operating Nucleus" from 1984. It's in nearly everything these days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The movie TRON operates on more than one level.
At the surface, it's a video game story where the player get pulled into the world of the game, and the TRON program helps battle the all-consuming MCP.
On another level, it parallels the rise/conflict/evolution between mainframes and microcomputers.

True, but the esp32 microcontroller chip that's at the root of all this costs only a dollar or two, so no MBA is going to approve funding a redesign.

It's about the ESP32 microcontroller chip that's in everything.
Already discussed at length on slashdot
https://hardware.slashdot.org/...

I remember reading this in the linked article about five minutes ago, so I believe your assertion of earlier speculation is true.
"The possibility that Earth's geological history follows a long-term rhythm has been debated for decades.

The idea dates back to studies published in the 1980s, when researchers first proposed that mass extinctions and other major geological events might recur at regular intervals. Earlier studies identified similar periodic patterns, but the idea has remained controversial."

What a bunch of POS psychopaths.
I have some bonds maturing, and I'll definitely put the proceeds into MSFT and LPL.

What political leaders are doing is begging people to share better, and that's democracy
What the feds are doing is written in the large users' contracts, so it isn't communism, it's the market..

Large customers such as manufacturers often have contracts in which they agree to cut usage or power down when told to by their power provider under certain conditions. Among the conditions is FERC declaring an emergency. The manufacturer gets a large discount under normal operating conditions.
Often those plants have their own generators so they don't actually have to shut down, but those generators cost much more per kWH to run than what the utility charges under normal contract conditions. But when spot prices hit $2,000 a MWH, putting your workers on treadmills sounds like a good deal. (It's not)

Some utilities have agreements with homwowners in which a device is placed on their AC units that allow the utility to cut power to the AC during times of stess. The contracts I'm familiar with have some sort of time limits on how long each cutoff lasts, but still, that's the market speaking.

Winning occurs when they don't need to listen to anything the USA says because it no longer matters.

Ask who benefits from global warming and you will understand why Trump is doing this.

It's simpler than that.
2400 acres is equal to the floor space of 300 Library of Congress buildings, so just envision 300 LoC buildings in Texas.

Aedes Egypti is not native to the Americas. They arrived with European colonists. There are about 3500 different species of mosquitoes so wiping out Aedes will leave about 3500 species.
There are many species that eat Aedes mosquitoes and their larvae as part of their diet, but none are dependent. Those fish that are known for being mosquito eaters are also not native and like everything else prefer to eat other things.

Mosquitoes are tiny and offer very little nutritional value, so the caloric cost of hunting them isn't profitable for anything significantly larger than the mosquito. Bats, for example, get less than 1% of their diet from mosquitoes.

After we deal with the Aedes, there is still Anopheles and Culex blood-sucking species to get rid of, and good riddance to all of them. They offer nothing and kill millions. It's not just humans that suffer, these blood suckers are a curse to many species.

I could be wrong, but this sounds like a number of people had to be involved to pull this off.
I suspicious of the whole story down to wondering if there really is a "David Rush" and if so, was the person arrested even that David Rush".

I'm older than DSL and was an early adopter.
Unless the technology has changed recently, DSL has a limit of about 18,000 feet of good wire between the house and exchange, and much less if on a concentrator. Almost all places where DSL might work already have fiber or cable.

It's not an option for most people in rural areas.
Also, DSL sucks.

He got off with a very light sentence. Kelvin Evans has lengthy criminal record, near two dozen arrests with a half dozen trips to jail.
And he was on parole when he stole Beyonce's stuff.

My belief is that Beyonce didn't want the hassel of being involved with a trial and giving depositions and so on, so her lawyers were looking to just be rid of him and let the prosecution know that.

Kelvin Evans has lengthy criminal record, near two dozen arrests and was on parole when he stole Beyonce's stuff.

So they want to place boxes full of ddr5 ram in people's back yards thinking they'll still be there tomorrow morning.