I am not salty. I just run all my Linux systems without the systemd trash. Has saved me from having to do emergency patches several times now.

A PAC with $5m hoping to raise $15m isn't even close to SuperPAC territory. It's like claiming that somebody who can afford a Ford Mustang is rich.

Let me translate that into regular English for you. The purpose is to pay a fat salary to the people running it.
They're not trying to achieve anything. They're just trying to be a "political home" for people willing to part with their money.

You say there "is" a huge reduction in electricity needed.

However, the words, "is currently working to commercialize this tech" means we, and they, have no idea yet what the energy savings actually will be, if there are any. There may be. There may not be. And if it's more expensive, which remains possible, it doesn't even matter.

Well, if the battery is 3d printed to fill the chassis most of the failure states result in a 10,000 degree fire, so you may not even need to throw it away, it may simply vaporize.

Just an idiot pretending to be know-y.

Emphasis yours, because you're grasping at straws. You didn't even comprehend the details you're arguing over.

Hey moron, it is required if the notice wasn't conspicuous. You were almost there; you got as far as reading the words about conspicuous notice, but then you fell right on your face and said:

No. A checkbox means nothing . It's the same to have a checkbox, or not even disclose it at all. It either has to be conspicuous, or you have to get express consent. A checkbox is the furthest thing from being conspicuous. And a checkbox with details behind a link?! That doesn't even get placed on the scale; there's no argument possible under this law that linked terms are a conspicuous notice. That's the sort of nonsense that can get the lawyer fined for insulting the judge.

A Lisp Programmer, or a German or a Roman.

On the other hand, this is a great way to fish out the few bad ones. If you can't control a temptation to use power for personal gain, you shouldn't be a police officer.

This provides both opportunity, and also hard evidence admissible in court if someone takes it.

I.e. cop with tendencies to stalk would use other means to stalk that are less traceable. This reveals them.

The silly things that happened in the last decades is:
- decline in local capabilities
- don't build, buy cheap on the world market
- world market (China / Venezuela) reacts and supplies the market
- cry because some self invented enemy controls the world market
- invent lies and blame them for slavery and other absurd things, like pollution
- then invade and steal what you can ... worked in Venezuela, did not work in Iran

And: everyone involved knew the dates and could buy shares or options or make future trade deals to profit from it.

USA is a kleptocracy, last 50 years they stole from their own population, and since Iraq and Afghanistan they openly invade other countries and plunder the gold and the museums.

PRC leadership disagrees with you in the strongest possible way.

By putting entire state apparatus' resources behind efforts to procure those chips.

I guess the people making laws are still completely unaware that it is not them defining how reality works. Dumb and dumber ...

LLMs cannot be secured by guardrails. The easy and usually immediate jailbreaks demonstrate that nicely. Hence this "movement" has no chance of success.

What posting are you replying to? Because it is not mine...

Yes. One of the first things I change when installing Windows. Although I am not sure I will do that again, ever. Maybe in a VM.

Not true. New ones get added to the mix whenever MS makes Yet Another Really Stupid Decision.

These things are as old as the first computers with floppies or other removable media. Without the determined efforts by Microsoft they would have died out by now. So big kudos to them for keeping that part of ancient computing history alive!

In other news, IT Security people have no problems at all finding jobs, while coders really struggle.