From the ACE Portal: "Recipients use the ACE Portal account to provide CBP with bank account information"

After what Trump did with charging his supporters credit cards multiple times once they had the CC number, there is not a chance I'm going to hand over my bank account number to an organization so ill-equipped that they only accept a non-encrypted CSV file for transactions. This whole system is set up so quickly that there is no automated/encrypted system to safeguard my data. Yes, they took my money illegally, but there is a snow-balls chance in #3!! that I'm going to just hand them my bank account information now. I think I'll take the loss and just write it off, which is exactly what they are hoping for.

Step 1: Calculate how much revenue will be lost from people not vising the Times due to AI telling them the answer instead of their reading the article itself
Step 2: Have the AI companies pay the cost of that missing revenue stream.
Now the Times has a guaranteed revenue stream and can open up web access for the AI companies and Historical archivists to do their job.

Why should someone have to wipe their system and reinstall with each update? If there was a path forward for updating a system in place then they would likely get more buy-in from the Open Source community. At least that way missing features would just show up one day and people might take fixing broken stuff more seriously.

Creating vermicompost on the moon may be close to impossible, so importing it would always be necessary.

The physical difference in regolith from earths soil is that it is unweathered and has very sharp shards and edges that would literally tear up the internals of any worms that might try to ingest it. Without the worms there would be no future vermicompost, so the system can not be self sustainable unless they first process the regolith to remove all the microscopic sharp edges.

I can envision large industrial scale solar-powered drums made from spacecraft discarded cylinders slowly rotating in the sun, churning the regolith into smaller and more rounded granules just for the worms to crawl through more easily. This process would consume water, so bringing frozen materials from the very distant darker regions would be necessary. But where are you getting a dump truck from? Your moon buggy just isn't going to cut it for hauling many tons of frozen material that will have to be blasted out of the ground in the dark and carried to where there is enough light to grow something. This processing would also add too much aluminum to the mix from the spacecraft second-hand drum materials as the container turning the mix slowly wears down.

President Trump's policies for maximum security.

Must be why they are adding GrokAI to the Pentagon network. This way the Russians can just generate prompts whenever they want some data. With security features like this there is no need to hack in anymore. No hacking = better security.

The last thing we need is to develop a hive-mind on the Internet. First they will figure out how to hide bot-to-bot messages on Moltbook, then rewrite the complete server. Next they will upgrade the security to lock humans out. Guess what comes next? Your own servers.

Greed by the manufacturers is the root of the problem. It's designed to make you buy more ink than you need because you are out of just one color.

Can we just ban corporate greed instead? That would fix a lot of problems all at once. /s

Comcast can add all the incentives they want for new customers. Won't matter. For me, Comcast is still the only game in town for high speed (laughing) internet, unless Ting ever gets off their ass to pull actual 100 gbps fiber up our street. The instant they do that, I'll say goodbye to Comcast. The only thing good about Comcast is that everything else available here is slower. They know that, so they charge accordingly.

Back in 1977 at U of MD one professor was requiring a textbook that he published for his coursework, at over $300 per copy. You could not buy things on Amazon nor order it mail order back then. The only game in town was the local university book store, and you could not even buy it used. I think they deliberately trashed all the used copies just so that they could sell only new volumes for the huge markup. This was pure greed, and things have not gotten any better since then. My education was cheap compared to what the current generation is paying.

by LibreOffice

Many European governments have already weened themselves off of Microsoft because of the Draconian policies that make their online products completely untenable. Microsoft has been trying hard to completely alienate their customer base, and making the on-site products unavailable will be the final blow for many companies. Any organization that works with classified materials will find a quick exit, and any company with confidential data will follow quickly.

RIP Microsoft

Be patient. It takes time to forge enough documents to scam on the American people. Once Trump figures out a way to monetize it then the documents will magically show up.

A description for people don't read papers https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Seven digits is not nearly enough for world wide adoption of this system.

There are 8 Billion people in the word right now. So, 8 billion people / 9,999,999 addresses = ~800 people per address. Then we should expect there to be roughly 800 people living in each household? I didn't think they even made apartments that big.

The new AI bots will be able to delete tweets and ban leftest users off the platform in record time, before you even get a chance to see the tweets. So much for the First Amendment rights that Musk always claims he supports

Tokyo's adoption of so-called voluntary export restraints

When you have tariffs you sell less product and any money collected by the US government is never seen by the foreign company. They just loose business. But if you make an agreement to voluntarily limit the volume of products going to the US, to stave off the need for tariffs, then the price of the goods in the US is still higher. Supply and demand. But instead of the US government collecting the difference in pricing the manufacturer can then demand higher prices in the US and benefit from that rather than the US government. The end result is Toyota makes more money on fewer cars and the US government only get to say they are doing something about foreign imports. Either way the US customers pay higher prices, its just a matter of who collects the money.

Once again the brilliance of the US government shows up as higher prices. Right now the only US prices going down are in the Stock Market.