...requires age verification on traffic coming from known VPN addresses
A state enacting such a law should be required to publish their official list of The Known VPN Addresses.
People running websites should not be required to make up that data, or have to pay to subscribe to someone else who makes it up. If the gummint wants to force something that ridiculous on us, the gummint should make the taxpayers, not the webmasters or their users, pay for it.
Well, someone had to add the ads, so there must be at least one pair of eyes on it, right?
Advertising has been on this site for over 20 years now. The only difference is which ads are here, but that's all automated as well. We see slightly fewer mail order bride ads now, which is a likely a good thing, but otherwise its nothing different. There's no reason for a human to screen them.
How do we get this legit complaint in front of more eyes?
I say this often, but honestly when was the last time any new code was written here? Stuff breaks over time but it has been years since anything was added or updated. We all know that of course Unicode is over 20 years past its promised rollout (beating even Duke Nukem Forever in terms of development hell cycle), but really it seems unlikely that there are any software developers left working for this site. I'm not sure there are any full time employees at Slashdot at all anymore.
In other words you can put the complaint in front of more eyes but it won't find any more eyes that can do anything about it.
It's irreversible in that it's a pain in the ass, so they would prefer to not help.
It's reversible in that other forces (e.g. negative publicity) can be greater than the pain in the ass.
her expecting me to read her mind and magically know how to please her in every way, (a very long list), was always a factor.
oh, so by dating you mean watched 80's comedians all day . got it.
No, it means there are communication problems, which is far more common and cliche than even 1980s comedians.
Not getting any sunlight until past 10.00 AM is so annoying,
Well not getting any sun past 4:30 in the afternoon is also so annoying.
Gosh, it's almost as though people in different geographic areas have different needs and desires. If I didn't know HOW IMPORTANT it is that we all be forced to do everything the same, I would suggest that timezones be regional, agreed upon by local governments. But of course that's heresy since not every local government would make the exact same choices.
If the governor wants New Yorkers to be able to get cheap RAM at AI bankruptcy auctions, shouldn't they build the datacenters now?
If you wait a year to give permission, the bubble will have popped long before any hardware ever gets shipped, so the bankruptcy auction won't have anything to sell.
You simply cannot make solar financially viable there.
What makes solar financially un-viable in Austin? I live a long ways from Texas so there might be something really obvious here that I'm missing. I know the solar power arguments are older than the hills at this point (I remember roof top solar panels from many decades ago) but I'm interested in what about that location makes it doomed to not work out.
Or is there just no way for Tesla to make it financially viable? Could a more honest company pull it off in a different way?
It occurs to me that I had an advantage over kids today, in that there were different forces at play, such that I had to take tests in classrooms, so it was either learn shit or get a bad grade. I don't think of the forces that put me into classrooms as all that exceptional, but I think the young 'uns really do have one really unusual one, that I (as well as my parents' generation, now that I think of) just, somehow, skipped right over.
You see, back in my day, we did a lot less of this
Quite a few students had expressed anxiety about being in a classroom after a gunman killed two students and injured nine
.. and instead we just let the ever-pending horror of nuclear war terrify us. And the neat thing about nuclear war, is that someone is going to hatefully and gruesomely murder you no matter where you where you are, so a classroom isn't really all that different than home.
I'm wondering, what can we do to help younger people be terrified out of their minds all the time instead of just in common-sense situations like crowds? We need to help them understand that they're safe nowhere, so they're not-particularly-unsafe anywhere, so they can show the fuck up and take exams.
ZFS
Car manufacturers should be taken to the woodshed over this awful decision.
Why not the car buyers? The manufacturers are only responding to what buyers want.
That could well be a chicken-and-egg problem. Are the buyers buying what's available because it's available, or are the manufacturers making it because the buyers actually asked for it? I'm not aware of any Equinox driver anywhere who ever complained about it not being tall enough (or it being short enough to make it unnecessarily difficult to run over small people) yet Chevy raised the hood anyways.
The other problem is that the auto manufacturers see a distorted picture of car buyers. New cars are too expensive for a large fraction of all drivers; many drivers won't ever buy a brand new car. New car dealers are selling to people with more money, and making decisions around what those more affluent people might want in their cars - or more so are telling such people what they should want.
You can't cheat the phone company.
