Comment I hope Dr. Forbin has stock options (Score 1) 15
Too soon to welcome our new Colossus overlord?
[Spoiler: It doesn't end well for humanity.]
Comment Obvious solution ... (Score 1) 21
The vulnerability, if exploited, could have allowed an attacker to create an unlimited number of counterfeit ZEC tokens, completely undetected.
Each token needs a serial number so fake ones can be detected.
Comment Hmm ... (Score 1) 16
news publishers
News publishers argue that no old news will be good news.
Comment Question (Score 1) 40
If air is leaking out, is it not possible to do an EVA and try to see where it is leaking on the outside? Wouldn't the air freeze once it hits space? Yes, I realize there is the issue of what would carry away the heat, but shouldn't they still see something, even if it's a pinhole?
Comment Ironically (Score 1) 44
The moderators of the biohacking subreddit say that peptide and hormone replacement therapy companies have been surreptitiously spamming Reddit in an attempt to get their posts scraped by AI chatbots.
Not very "biohacking" of them.
Comment Re:The Federal Government is taking after Californ (Score 1) 72
Nope. The republicans control the courts there; to the point of discarding and disregarding the will and votes of the people entirely. So while neither party technically has that "trifecta" in Virginia, maga controls the state and agenda in Virginia.
I get what you're saying but your post didn't mention the Judiciary, just the Executive and Legislative:
There are 39 U.S. states where a single political party holds "trifecta" control, meaning one party holds the governorship as well as majorities in both chambers of the state legislature.
Comment Re:8-1 decision (Score 2) 72
Congress doesn't have these powers.
Yes, they do. Had you ever read the discussions in the Senate about the amendments, you would have known this very subject came up. Unfortunately, his orange lardness has hidden from public view those historical records, so what I'm about to say goes from my memory.
Essentially, if Congress has the power to enact laws affecting the country, it is up to the Executive and Judicial branches to curb that power. Madison, despite opposition to the General Welfare Clause, admitted late in the life that clause granted Congress a power to legislate on all national problems. His nature of limited government was undercut by that clause, for if the national Congress could enact laws affecting the country, it wasn't a limited government, was it?
Further, as mentioned in the debates, Congress could delegate its authority. It would be inconceivable for Congress to be involved with the minutae of the country, to discuss and debate whether this or that is allowed. Instead, as granted by the Constitution, Congress has delegated its powers to others. Namely, agencies such as the FTC.
It's really hard to find these powers in such a tiny document without decades of legal training.
No it's not. All one need do is read the debates in the Senate to understand the mindset of the Founding Fathers. If you want more, reading a few books about those Founding Fathers would suffice to fill your lack of knowledge.
Yes, they do. Had you ever read the discussions in the Senate about the amendments, you would have known this very subject came up. Unfortunately, his orange lardness has hidden from public view those historical records, so what I'm about to say goes from my memory.
Essentially, if Congress has the power to enact laws affecting the country, it is up to the Executive and Judicial branches to curb that power. Madison, despite opposition to the General Welfare Clause, admitted late in the life that clause granted Congress a power to legislate on all national problems. His nature of limited government was undercut by that clause, for if the national Congress could enact laws affecting the country, it wasn't a limited government, was it?
Further, as mentioned in the debates, Congress could delegate its authority. It would be inconceivable for Congress to be involved with the minutae of the country, to discuss and debate whether this or that is allowed. Instead, as granted by the Constitution, Congress has delegated its powers to others. Namely, agencies such as the FTC.
It's really hard to find these powers in such a tiny document without decades of legal training.
No it's not. All one need do is read the debates in the Senate to understand the mindset of the Founding Fathers. If you want more, reading a few books about those Founding Fathers would suffice to fill your lack of knowledge.
Comment Re:The Federal Government is taking after Californ (Score 1) 72
Adding: As of 2026, Democrats now have a trifecta in Virginia.
Comment 8-1 decision (Score 4, Informative) 72
For the TL;DR crowd. Clarence Thomas was the single dissent.
Comment Re:Oh come on (Score 1) 95
It was flogged to death and then some. They must've done every story variation under the sun , probably multiple times. Whats the point of just doing the same thing with new actors and slightly better CGI? Instead of reanimating corpses of old series the money should be spent on something new instead.
Sounds like U.S. politics, except for the better CGI.
Comment Re:Stargate is over. (Score 1) 95
Joe Mallozzi, one of the writers of SG1 did another series in the 2010s called Dark Matter, which started out incredibly well but suffered from Stargate Syndrome in S2, it was cancelled before the end of S3. A shame as it had a lot of potential if they didn't make the heroes effectively untouchable.
I enjoyed Dark Matter too, as well as Killjoys, which was a bit more of a romp. It's a shame that SyFy didn't continue them both.
Comment Re:Yeah. Just like James Bond or Star Trek (Score 1) 95
I only made it through two or three episodes before it clearly evoked the Eight Deadly Words. [Which are: "I don't care what happens to these people."]
That's pretty quick. Our President made it two years into his second season before (basically) saying the same thing, out loud, and (more) people finally started believing.him.
Comment Re:Yeah. Just like James Bond or Star Trek (Score 1) 95
The first season of BSG had to have all that in it. They were just attacked. They had no military to protect them. Their home planets were being nuked. Their government was non-existent. The survivors had to make a run for it without any preparations. They had to figure out how to survive without any backup.
Aside from Apollo's "hack" to fool the cyclons, the first season was strong in what it had to be.
Comment Not "entirely" local? (Score 1) 52
AI model
Guessing the the non-local part is telemetry for training and ad revenue?
Comment Re:And I'm sure Meta won't violate it (Score 4, Insightful) 65
They would never violate anyone's privacy, pinky swear!
And the number of times you opt out won't appear on your performance reviews, or factor into raises, bonuses and retention - double pinky swear
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