They say astrophotography can make you a millionaire. Provided you start as a billionaire.

That is incorrect. 800,000 alerts did go out to each rrecipient. And it'll be in the millions soon. But the headline is clicking, they're not using pagers. There are alert brokers set up which receive alerts directly from Vera-Rubin, and astronomers, and the general public, subscribe to those. The alerts are generally filtered through scripts to identify light curves particular astronomers are interested in. They'll even have the telescopes automatically change their imaging schedule based on them. So there aren't "pagers" involved on any first or even second level alerts. Certainly not 800k alerts going to one pager, or even one alert going to 800k pagers.

Cheddar Yelp actually sounds like a service I'd subscribe to though.

I heard ROT13 isn't secure, so I use DoubleROT13, double the security.

Trademarking common words in a very specific domain is pretty common. Try to create an online store called Amazon, or a computer company called Apple and see how that goes. But there are plenty of products and companies that have those in their name in other markets.

I don't know anything about the WordPress market, but having two companies, specifically selling WordPress products, with such similar names seems like it could be a pretty reasonable trademark dispute. In no way are they claiming to own all uses of the word automatic.

When the simulation ends it will just print out 42.

From TFS: " The company streamlined the process in April 2023, ahead of the filing of the criminal complaint."

Here's the full text of the announcement
https://www.whitehouse.gov/pre...

I had several dozen apps in the Play store. This is a lot like the Unity Engine debacle from a little while ago, Google realized free apps are cutting in on the market for paid apps, and has been adding more and more flaming hoops for developers to jump through to keep their apps in the app store. All of my apps are (were) free, no ads, no tracking, etc, I made not a dime from them. It finally got to the point where having apps in their store wasn't worth it. When you have 50 apps, and they give you a five minute task for each one, that's five hours of my time. The final straw for me was when they required everyone to update the compiledAppVersion (or whatever it was) parameter every two years, even if the app was supported on 99+% of all active devices. I had already decided to let all of my apps die at that point, I had a copy on my phone and that was good enough for me, and I figured Google was only going to turn up the heat from there. And they did, the final final straw was the "Data Privacy" section in the store listing, which is where the permissions an app requires *SHOULD* be listed, instead they want app developers to do a semi-free form explanation the data the app collects to give users less motivation to go to the actual Permissions section (which keeps getting more and more buried). None of my apps collected data, so there wasn't really anything to put there, and I couldn't ethically convince myself to play their game of hiding the actual permissions from users, so not updating that section was why most of my apps were pulled, even though they eventually would have been pulled for not updating the compiledAppVersion.

Their goal is quite clear, make maintaining apps painful enough that only people who get paid to keep them there will put up with all of their crap.

The data from the MPC is freely available, no coordination is required beyond what happened. Orbits change and new observations are required to update the orbits. Old object reidentified as existing ones happens all the time when an object becomes more visible than it has been for a while.

MPC data downloads: https://minorplanetcenter.net/...

IMHO seven is the magic number. Seven little squirrels, twirling on a branch, eating chestnuts on my uncle's ranch. Seven, man. Seven.

Navigation systems are intended to be looked at while driving by design.

But the legal system doesn't work like that anyway. Most states are either comparative negligence or modified comparative negligence states, where parties are liable for their percentage of fault. With the "modified" version preventing plaintifs more than 51% at fault from recovering any damages. But 3rd parties will always be able to recover from all other parties based on their fault percentage.

The first 8Mb was not empty, starts right off with some non-ASCII characters, probably because passwords aren't limited to ASCII. Looks to be on password per line, but pretty useless for any type of research. It's just a list of (possible) passwords, we don't know if the people supplying it just seeded it with a bunch of random garbage, and there's no username or system to tie it to, so you can't look for common patterns where people use the system's name or parts of their username. I can't tell if dupes have been removed, but it certainly doesn't appear sorted.

It's not really going to help now that the stores themselves already have a dominant market share. They really have to break up the existing stores, or take them from Google and Apple and put them under control of other parties.

How long would you have to shop around on Amazon to find an equally absurd claim? I've bought HDMI cables on Amazon that didn't function as HDMI cables.

I'm not defending the false claims of the guy you talked to, but Amazon is way worse.