Comment Re:But ... think of the children (Score 1, Troll) 26
s/their/they're/
(sigh)
Comment But ... think of the children (Score 1) 26
Theranos Fraudster's Partner Launches His Own Blood-Testing Startup
What will happen to Billy's and Elizabeth's 2 kids once their *both* in prison?
Comment Ya, no (Score 1) 58
For the simple reason that I can't stand their home page and don't want to spend time fucking around with it to completely, and permanently, simplify it -- Edge has a similar problem, but I was able to clean it up for the rare cases I use it on Windows. Also, Bing results are often less likely to answer my questions.
Comment What Happens Next? (Score 1, Informative) 98
Trump/DOGE de-fund NOAA and w/o any data there won't be any problems -- like he hoped during COVID,
"If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any," Trump asserted.
Google trump covid stop testing fewer cases
Science!
Comment Workaround for Adafruit (Score 2) 201
High Tariffs Become 'Real' For Adafruit
Get SCOTUS to re-classified them as a vegetable to avoid the tariffs, like tomatoes.
Comment Re:In related news ... (Score 1) 109
But Oregon has an EPA equivalent (their Department of Environmental Quality), which will require their own reviews and (as needed) mitigations before any extraction can occur.
Didn't know that; learned something - thanks!
Comment In related news ... (Score 4, Funny) 109
Predicting the federal government won't care about that for another 3.75 years
Comment maliciously abused (Score 2) 32
Security professionals have long argued that it is impossible to create a secure backdoor that cannot also be maliciously abused,
I can easily imagine that was the (unspoken) intent of the bill.
Comment Re:In other news... (Score 1) 56
... a U.S. Senator is an idiot.
To be fair, "idiot" and "uninformed" (or "uneducated") are different things. Many of people are uninformed about a lot of things, especially technical stuff, and some are willfully ignorant. Politicians often seem to fall into those categories. Their lack of self-awareness about it is whole other thing...
Comment Re:Why Starlink? (Score 1) 22
Has everybody already forgotten how Musk directly threatened to cut off Ukraine's access to Starlink, thus partially blinding their armed forces trying to repel Russian invaders? Why would any government rely on a satellite/data network controlled by a petulant child-man who might turn it off at any time in a fit of pique?
Replace Musk with Trump/Vance and Starlink with Military Assistance and you've got a similar situation with Ukraine. I guess sometimes you just have to deal with people like this and hope for the best while you can.
Comment Pro tip too late... (Score 0, Flamebait) 226
Biden should have included the word "Trump" in all the bills passed -- for example: "Trump Inflation Reduction Act" (just in case this happened)
Comment Re:Well, Duh (Score 2) 226
If it discriminates on race,
Just because he says it does doesn't mean it's actually so -- and that's for the Courts to decide, not him. Also, from TFS:
The act was written to help many different groups, including veterans, older people and disabled and rural communities.
Comment Unilaterally end a law? (Score 5, Insightful) 226
President Trump on Thursday attacked a law signed by President Joe Biden aimed at expanding high-speed internet access, calling the effort "racist" and "totally unconstitutional" and threatening to end it "immediately."
Well... A king could do that, but not a president. As president, his job under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution is that, "he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed". Someone should explain to him that oath he took on Jan 20, 2025 and read him the pertinent parts of the Constitution. That way, he can't credibly say, "I don't know" when (repeatedly) asked if he has to "uphold the the Constitution" in interviews. Google: trump I don't know
Comment Re: wait, we still have a Congress? (Score 1) 101
I did just read that some democrat either added or proposed an amendment to rename earth "planet Trump". At least the dems are giving the bill the respect it deserves.
Then he'll open a restaurant with that name and the actual planet gets sucked into a recursion loop
Comment Widening the digital divide (Score 2) 101
Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) called the Republican move "a cruel and shortsighted decision that will widen the digital divide and rob kids of the tools they need to succeed."
Another Gulf of America -- between the haves and have-nots, between the fortunate and unfortunate
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