Yes, and that's the problem for Disney -- theme parks can only physically accept so many people per year, and they can't (easily) build more of them. So theme parks can't be more than a small amount of their total income; to really make the big money, the Mouse has to ship products that can and will be purchased by everyone. In practice, that means movies; ideally good movies, but at a minimum, popular movies.

>"Always seemed weird to me that the States were hampered by Congress from deciding on these types of things."

It isn't just weird, it isn't supposed to be that way. See the 10th Amendment (Bill of Rights):

"The powers not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution, nor prohibited to the states, are reserved to the states or the people."

One of the simpler parts of the rule book to understand. And, yet, somehow, it is just ignored. It is pretty clear that time keeping is not delegated to the Federal government by the Constitution (nor is education, child care, health insurance, marriage, speed limits, retirement, gun control, or countless other things). Therefore, the powers surrounding it should be left to the States (or the People, meaning completely uncontrolled by any government). The most popular way around it is invoking nonsense about "interstate commerce clause", effectively trying to find a loophole to make just about anything a power of the Federal government.

Oh well.

I do love it when malware advert javascripts can upload random new firmware updates into my mouse and keyboard turning them into stealth keyloggers. This is great.

This feels like when Flash sandbox breaks became a thing, but worse. At least in those days we got smooth fullscreen vector animations and games to enjoy. I'd rather Flash had just been bloody fixed instead of browsers themselves becoming Shit Flash But Holy Cow It Runs Worse And Gets Worse.

You'd have to really be terrible to let it happen. First, you have to authorize the device to be accessed - and almost always web serial devices are using libusb. They have to as no OS allows direct access to USB devices - you must always go through a driver. Libusb is the only thing that really pipes a USB device through to userspace. And if you're using libusb, the OS driver is not running.

And to accomplish this, you almost always have to override the OS settings to prevent loading the OS driver over libusb, especially for things like keyboards and mice. It's possible, but it's complex, and it's why in the early days, you had many peripherals saying "do not plug in without installing driver".

Honestly, it's far easier to develop just a malware program in general than to try to break out via web serial. And if you already have the user to run the malware, why bother with web serial at all?

Also, it's a permission you need to give a website, and almost none request it because it's only for web=based IDEs to program embedded things.

You want a larger surface area, you attack things like WebGL, which you'd want to do as there are performance critical paths in getting from the browser to the GPU, and many of those paths are not protected very well

That is a compelling argument for more granularity. Of course, the argument against is going to involve things like visiting a friend or family gathering (wedding, funeral, reunion, dinner) or business (with fixed working hours for some service or job interview) in your same State/Province, not that far away, and suddenly you arrive at the wrong time with potentially disastrous consequences :)

I get that might be more expected near a State border or time zone border. But if we end up with a mosaic of different times in non-border areas, it really could get hella confusing.

In any case, the State/Province should be able to handle this far more effectively than an over-reaching Federal mandate (which is the whole reason most power/control should be at lower-levels of government).

It's still a new code base and one that can access hardware so it's understandable that people would be nervous.

At the very least it should probably be something that has to be enabled in settings. And maybe it does I haven't looked into it. There are too many examples of security vulnerabilities that can bypass permissions. That's what the grandparents is worried about

>"Ah, like how the Yukon went to permanent DST a few years back and most of BC going to DST this year. Of course in BC, it is up to individual towns etc to decide and along the east they're still debating it."

I hope this legislation does pass. But I also hope that it doesn't get more granular than whole States. Having just parts of States be different (counties/towns/cities) will start to get quite messy and confusing. Nobody will be able to easily keep track of that.

From an immediate switch is billionaires want to be in control of the energy supply so they are slowing the transition in order to make sure that they control the solar farms and the wind farms and you have to go to them to get electricity still just like you did when they controlled the coal mines and the oil wells. This is acceptable because the alternative is to make energy production publicly owned and people really really really really hate public utilities and the concept of just having something that we all benefit from. It doesn't feel Fair because they can't own it.

Also it's hard to explain to people that just because you won't let Elon Musk own the electric grid doesn't mean somebody is going to snatch your car and your toothbrush... It's really hard to get people to grasp any level of nuance. It doesn't help that 60% of them read at the level of a 12-year-old...

Being put in the theaters. They did this with the Star wars 3D cartoon back in the day. The one with a young ahsoka.

Basically it's streaming content they're putting in the theaters. It wasn't so bad when they did it with Ahsoka because they made kind of a fun event and did stuff like got the guys who dress up as Stormtroopers to show up at movie theaters. This one seems kind of cheap like they're not putting anything behind it... It feels like the windows millennium of Star wars releases where they just wanted something in the theaters so the public doesn't forget that Star wars exists and that you can see it in movie theaters.

>"Neither the article, nor its source, explain what this site is for, why anyone would go to it, why a website would cost so much... nor anything else."

Yeah, I don't understand why so much money would be needed for just a "web site". More must be going on.

>"I rely solely on my distros to provide updates, including things like kernel firmware. Though I have no idea what the fuck kernel firmware is or does."

The idea is primarily for certain non-open-source firmware, like the BIOS/UEFI, and closed firmware that resides inside controllers that are supported by Linux (like RAID, iLo, higher-end network cards, various controllers, WiFi, etc) to have a central, vendor-neutral site. Various firmware may or may not be part of your distro, depending on its stance on closed-source binary blobs and what type of hardware. As far as I know, no distro has motherboard firmware available has part of their system, just the fwupdmgr program, itself. The actual place that the fwupdmgr downloads from is, indeed, the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS). It has been around a long time. I have used it several times to check and update the firmware on my various Linux ThinkPads.

It adds daylight hours to the time of day that people would be likely to be shopping. That was a heavily implied by what I said and I just kind of figured you could understand that without me saying that sentence in that blunt a fashion but well, here we are.

The problem with this country is the majority reads at about the level of a 12 year old. 6th grade that is. This is a fact you can look it up. Even pretty well educated people often read at the level of a 12-year-old.

So you have to be insanely blunt with them and that's tough to do when you're someone who reads at say freshman college level.

For unionization when you've already fired 1/3 of the entire industry. At a certain point you're running it so a bare bones staff that the threat of layoffs no longer really exists unless the company is just completely shutting down. And you can't really offshore anything that you haven't already offshored because at some point you need people to make art that resonates with the locals.

>"Marketing was NEVER going to allow units like mi/kWh or km/kWh to be used for flashy new EVs, since those (single-digit!) numerical values would be so much smaller than [ICE] per gallon figures."

I was wondering why they used kWh per distance instead of distance per kWh. The Ariya uses the latter on the dash and manuals, as do most of the postings I see from other EVs. I actually had to convert the article's strange backwards units so I knew what they were talking about.

>"It looks like mainstream EV tech doesn't leave much left on the table for efficiency while also providing amazing performance, and so it takes some questionable choices to make a more efficient EV."

Correct. Motors are already very efficient (80 to 90%) and newer designs can eek out only a few percent more. Weight and areodynamics are all that really remain. Weight is always something you can play with, but the materials start to get extremely expensive when replacing steel (which is cheap and very strong). We understand areodynamics quite well at this point, so that isn't going to get much better without extreme sacrifices in things drivers want- space, visibility, headroom, etc. So EV efficiency is hardly worth worrying about.

What can be improved a lot is range, charge speed, cost, and safety. All of that comes down to battery technology. And there are ongoing improvements there with lots of possibilities. It wouldn't surprise me in 10 years if newer EV batteries double their range (power per volume/weight), double their charging speed, and become far less volatile. All while possibly having even more service life and costing considerably less.

Thanks, +1 Informative :)

Then again, how many projects use Xilinx parts?

Most FPGA projects are using Intel/Altera parts - MiSTer, etc.