For all that money they are supposed to be spending on improving weather forecasting, they aren't doing a very good job. The European Model is considered to produce better forecasts. For US weather. Drop the screwing around with highly theoretical climate models and get better at "operational weather forecasting and warning responsibilities".

Climate Science politics may very well be distorting the forecasting function. You don't start out with your idea of the weather and then seek out data, models and scientists to support what you'd like to see.

They do label the cable "USB" on the box.

Doesn't the EU have a new standard in place that mandates All new small and medium-sized portable electronics including Laptops have a USB-C connector and must support fast charging the battery from that connector?

I don't know about the UK, but in the USA, copper thefts are commited by drug addicts*. And as they are a protected species and communications and power cables are a significant resource necessary for their survival, nothing can be done.

*They actually harvest fiber optic cabling and aluminum high voltage conductors as well, being unable to distinguish between these and copper.

A major natural gas producer.

"That'll teach people to stop sniffing our farts."

Will they allow outside raw sewage? Or will we have to buy it at their snack bar?

Those aren't bed bugs.

Don't tell me that "A.I. Weekly" is going out of print. We just got a new puppy.

... to screw over the company, he should have purchased an enterprise VMWare license. And then negotiated a cloud contract with Oracle.

[Saw this posted elsewhere]

Like every f*cking business demands that I put my phone number on checks, on-line forms and every other thing before they will do business with me.
Just use a credit card or phone pay, you say? They already have your phone number attached to your account and will hand it over to every merchant (or person claiming to be one) that asks.

My trick: The phone number I give out is a land line. Have fun uploading your crappy app to a Western Electric Model 2500. My cell phone does nothing but make voice phone calls. There is no 2FA, BitCoin trading password or other shit on it.

Repetition does not necessarily lead to comprehension. After all ...

500 million poor Indians just burned down your cities in protest. How are your carbon emissions now?

In a car when a major part is replaced or upgraded, and then it is sold, the seller shows receipts

Yes well cars have many components which cost thousands of dollars and are mechanical with an expectation of lasting years, so there is a meaningful depreciation. Also a car has many systems and is much more complicated than a laptop.

Then you have laptops which pretty much have the SSD and Battery. Every other module is not a single part but many electrical parts and ICs. Monitoring the hours or usage activity is probably not the right thing to begin with for 99% of the parts in a laptop.

Everything degrades so slowly that wear is not much a consideration - a LCD with 5000 hours on can even have a slightly lower failure rate than a brand new one; a depreciation based on usage doesn't really work, because with electronic components it's not strongly related to how much longer the part will last.

Buyers' main concern should be do you have components with failures, when was the manufacture (How old are those caps and ICs), and have those failures been fully corrected with a stable resolution and not a band-aid. And do you have a latent defect that is going to cause a frustrating experience such as random system crashes which has not been tracked down to a specific component. (EXAMPLE: Is the reason this laptop is on the used market is because the owner got frustrated with random glitches and therefore discarded it?)

This is why extensive hardware monitoring testing is suggested. I don't mean casual tests. Run those CPU and Memory at 100% for 72 hours each, sure. But having that device log whether it's run Error-free under normal use over a long period of time should be a huge part, and just as important as some short term stress test.

99% of a laptop's parts are expected to last 5x as long as you would ever use the device. That CPU's lifetime is determined by the date of manufacture not its amount of usage. That LCD that's good for 80,000 hours before it degrades to half amounts to about 30+ years of usage. You could expect a bunch of those 10-cent capacitors on board to die out and numerous other failures of individual electrical components before the largest parts itself degrades from actual use, And there's no way to directly account for the usage and status on all those individual PCB elements.

it's mostly a matter of not highway robbing their loved ones, who haven't done anything wrong.

100% Agreed. These costs are not justifiable for "safety measures".

They are inmates. There is no way a 90 cents a minute - that's $54 an hour is justifiable for safety reasons.

For that price you can pay the wages of two guards who are paid about $17 an hour to personally and individually monitor the inmate every second they were on the phone and listen to every word in that conversation. But you only need one guard to personally monitor them and record their call to $0.02 worth of disk space.

Also, the cost of guarding and monitoring inmates is a state duty not to be placed entirely on the backs of the prisoner and their family.

All but Naloxone. What right do you have to intefere with another's decision to die?

Notify who? The people whose resumes have been borrowed? What are they going to do?

Notify the prospective employers? Maybe. But FBIs counterintelligence unit doesn't typically operate to build court cases. Most of the evidence they accumulate is inadmissible due to the methods of collection. They are more interested in watching foreign ops.