That article is dated September 30, 2016, which is probably the Friday referenced. I was curious, and found this follow-up, dated 11/04/2016, indicating that lawsuit was again dropped. it further stated that the first lawsuit was dismissed because the federal law cited did not apply (apparently it would have had to have been a race based rape, which seems like a really crazy law).

btw, this was based on a some simple Google searching. Here is a brief Wikipedia description of the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations#Katie_Johnson/Jane_Doe_(1994). Wikipedia seems to match both articles, and confirms that this is a 9 year old case.

Google says about 1/6th of European buildings use heat pumps for heating. A heat pump is just an A/C unit operating backwards. A reversible heat pump does both With Europe's warmer climate, as well as advances in heat pump technology, it seems like heat pumps would be viable in most of Europe. Heat pumps are more efficient and can use greener sources of energy. As well as reduce dependence on non-EU fossil fuel sources. All of that is a win. It seems like the added desire, if not need, for A/C could be used to encourage more people to switch to reversible heat pumps that can be used for both heating and cooling.

I have mine mostly turned off/opted-out, too. Particularly on my phone, the only notifications that are audible are text messages, which for me are typically from actual people, or important alerts, such as when my bank completes a significant transfer of funds (such as to my landlord). Everything else is muted.

Here's the thing, though: A lot of people don't want to spend the time to prune their notifications. With so many apps and websites defaulting to sending you notifications, it becomes yet another version of mowing the lawn. (And this is probably by design.)

OK, boomer.

Given that China doesn't allow everyday citizens unlimited access to the internet, we can assume the only ones allowed out are bad actors like badbot, so blocking China entirely would be a net benefit for the entire world. We'd have to get the VPN operators to cooperate, which is near impossible since they'd sell their own mothers for a quick buck.

And what is the societal benefit of "weeding out" an entire cohort of students before they have mastered the topic? It seems to me that the primary purpose is for colleges to avoid scrutiny and duck responsibilities for some deficiencies endemic to the education system.

I would argue that our modern concept of rule of law, comes from Achemenid Persia, which had a meaningful system for holding the people who made the laws, accountable for also following them.

The copyright stuff is a side issue. Wrap your head around this:

> officials are not required to disclose what exactly the charges are or who
> has brought them until the initial investigation is complete under Italian law

That is a *terrifying* abuse of power. They can show up to your house and just take you and your stuff into custody and NOT SAY WHY until their investigation is complete.

That is so many kinds of horrifying.

Apple and Microsoft already got Unix on the desktop the only way it'll ever get there. First, write a desktop OS, then hide the Unixish OS in a VM deep in the bowels of it where the 95% of users who aren't interested won't have to look at it.

Eh, that's probably true for a lot of people on Slashdot, who have actual stuff they care about on their devices. For someone like my mom, it wouldn't matter: if her phone were seized for some reason, the thing she'd be upset about would be the cost of the phone itself. (It's not even an expensive model. It's the one the phone company sent her when they shut down the 3G network in the area, because her previous phone did not support 4G.)

Regardless of that, there are some borders that you just shouldn't cross, at all, or at least not without an exceptionally good reason. The PROC is rapidly rising up the list of countries that are really not safe for Westerners to visit. I mean, it's not as high on the list as e.g. Myanmar, but nonetheless it's really not a good choice at this point. Be safe: go to Taiwan, or Japan, or Indonesia, even. And that goes double if you have family or friends in China, because visiting them there endangers them more than it endangers you.

And yes, this article is about people who are visiting China from overseas, specifically. For anybody with a mainland-Chinese cellphone carrier, this is entirely moot: the CCP already has all of the data from those, that's not news.

If they were doing this in 1985, or even 1995, I might think they were attempting to re-invent the IMAX format. But in 2025, with a quote in the summary about box office revenues for blockbuster Hollywood films, I don't think that's necessarily what's going on.

Rather, I think a lot of people have gotten so used to watching movies at home, that they don't bother going to the movie theater at all unless it's to see the film "on the big screen". Cinema revenues have therefore dropped so much, that the modest number of people who go to an IMAX theatre to see Hollywood's schlock on an even bigger screen (which is not at all the same thing as going to an IMAX theatre to see an actual IMAX production), are starting to look like a significant chunk of market share, and the (surviving) cinema chains are looking at at that, going, "Why is their screen bigger than ours?" So they put in bigger screens, but people don't know about it and don't suddenly flock to it, because IMAX is already famous for having the biggest screens. So now the theaters want to market the fact that they've got big screens. Which is fine, as far as it goes, but it won't stop movie theaters from rapidly becoming a fundamentally obsolete business model. It puts me horribly in mind of West Virginia, in the mid twentieth century, when coal mining was becoming less and less profitable, and instead of moving to diversify into other industries, like everyplace else that had been relying on coal mines as a major source of economic activity, the entire state of West Virginia collectively went, let's double down on coal mining and corner the market, and push coal from 60% of our economy, up to 80% or more of our economy, nothing can go wrong with this plan.