Make things up on the internet? Who would do such a thing??
But in all seriousness, no. I don't have such an inflated view of the impact of my Slashdot comments that I post them for any other reason than to potentially prompt some interesting discussion.
Reddit turned itself into a transnational payment systems by choice. Of course they need KYC.
What does this have to do with crypto and payment systems? It's about blocking kids' access to porn on Reddit.
This isn't even a KYC system of the sort you'd see used by banks and crypto exchanges. Reddit gets confirmation of the users' DOB from a third party - nothing to do with their tax status, residency, etc. that you'd need to prevent financial crime.
I'm just waiting for the first breach. People's photo ID, their name and if they used their driver's licence their home address, and a list of all the websites they verified their age for.
I switched my VPN endpoint to a country that doesn't do this. No way I'm handing over photo ID for any website.
I wonder if this is actually a net benefit for Reddit, to the degree they compete with other sites with plenty of XXX content.
If there were such a leak, having verified your identity with "reddit.com" would be much less embarrassing than with "obviouslyporn.com". As other commenters have noted there are non-porn Reddit communities that are flagged as NSFW for a variety of reasons, giving the user plausible deniability.
Israel similarly ran a comprehensive cross-sectional survey of patients and found 0.3% of respondents were outright hospitalized, nearly 30% reported life-altering severe events making it hard for them to survive day to day, 25% with pre-existing conditions reported a severe worsening, and 4.5% reported being inflicted with severe neurological disease such as seizures, palsy, and loss of consciousness.
That simply doesn't pass the sniff test. I know hundreds of people who were vaccinated. If anywhere close to 30% of them were experiencing "life-altering severe events", it'd be impossible to miss.
Then is the very tight net that the USA has in detecting and intercepting missiles launched from Russia into the USA. Russia must know that the US Navy has destroyers and aircraft capable of intercepting anything launched against the USA.
Talk of a hypothetical "golden dome" aside, the US definitely does not have the ability to intercept the hundreds of nuclear ICBMs and SLBMs Russia has in inventory. Detect them and respond with a MAD-level retaliation? Yes. Shoot them down? No.
The flood at camp mystic should have used tornado sirens in the area.
Is the public already educated on the potential use of tornado sirens in that scenario? When I used to live an area with tornado sirens, if I heard one, my reaction would have been to get to a windowless area on the lower level of a sturdy structure - pretty counterproductive in a flash flood.
The heads need cleaning too, and those crappy cleaning tapes don't do a very good job.
Fortunately, a variety of corner stores still mysteriously stock bottled tape head cleaners!
A lot of suppliers bid low on the initial acquisition contract, because they know they can make up losses on the support side later on. The supplier is also more willing to take on more risk as part of the supply, again because they can make money back on the support.
If the support contract becomes uncertain because the military can go elsewhere to support the item, then expect the supply contracts to get a lot more expensive, and a lot fewer contractors willing to undertake fixed price deliveries for anything.
It's likely strategically worthwhile for the military regardless of whether it saves money.
It's annoying if you have to bring your iPhone to the Apple Store to replace a part, because no independent shop can do the work. It's catastrophic if you can't fix a critical component of your aircraft carrier, because you have to fly a contractor tech out to the South China Sea.
Gamification came to the drone war in August 2024, when the Army of Drones, a government-backed initiative to acquire drones for the armed forces, launched a “bonus” system
A drone operator who destroys a T-90M tank–Russia’s most advanced combat vehicle–with a disposable First Person View (FPV) drone gets enough points to make his unit eligible to receive 15 more (which would cost the armed forces around $10,000 in total). The system gives operators an incentive to find high-value targets and means that the units scoring kills are rewarded with prompt resupply.
On investigation, we were having dozens of http requests per second, from Amazon and Bytedance.
Anyone have any idea why they would need to hit your site more than once per page? My understanding of web crawlers is very simplistic but it seems like for your site with maybe dozens/hundreds of pages you could scrape the whole thing with dozens/hundreds of requests.
Let's see if using AI on these HK classics will yield a similar benefit before denouncing it.
Take a measured "wait and see" approach rather than pile on based on preconceived notions? Where do you think we are?
If I buy a $3k TV I expect it to come with at least a 5yr warranty, and I'm going to contact the seller or manufacturer regardless of my right/ability to repair it.
After 5 years? It's not a $3k TV anymore.
Harrison's Postulate: For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
