In the hard sciences, one usually is happy about advancements, not about keeping it secret until one publishes oneself.

Haha, no.

If you don't publish papers, you don't get a job and so you won't be doing hard science anymore due to an imperative to eat and find shelter. So no, no one is happy if someone takes their mostly complete results and scoops them to publication. It's also why that's widely regarded as what's technically known as a "dick move".

A t shirt?

Maybe a jumper. Maybe when a light jacket at the lower end. But a thick jacket at 12 degrees? Nope!

It would be good if it could locate lava tubes as well. Unlike lava tubes on Earth those on the Moon and Mars are sometimes kilometers wide and can run for hundreds of kilometers. if the interior of a section could be sealed it would create a huge habitat for minimal investment.

Wait what?

The nighttime lows in SF were 12C. That's think jacket weather???

I think Americans now spend so much time in climate controlled buildings that they've forgotten what weather is like.

I took the post to mean using Linux to build your own streaming unit.

Under that assumption, I'm suggesting it's a bad value proposition unless the act of futzing with the OS is the bit you like.

When most people watch porn, the fact that you do isn't really useful. The useful bit is whether you are willing to pay for it, and that's not gleaned from scraping your hdmi signal. That's happily given up by payment processors and sites.

Given these alternative routes the tv seems to find, such as unsecured nearby networks, I wonder if rendering it deaf and dumb would suffice. Allow it to connect to the network, but block all ports in and out. Would it be smart enough to drop the local network and seek other paths?

Why a linux box? You can pick from a selection of awesomely capable sticks or mini boxes that work perfectly, support wide formats, and never ask you to mess with an OS at all. And they're cheap.

It's rather rapidly becoming "worth the pain" since 2022. In 2021 over 95% of international trade was conducted using the USD, in 2025 it was just over 70% and this year will be lower. Just the CIPS and mBridge are replacing SWIFT, and after only two years A7 is already handling tens of billions of dollars in exchanges every month. Combine that with Bessant's panic at failure of recent Treasury sales and the upcoming sell-offs of Treasury bonds as the Gulf States try to stay financially afloat and we're looking at a whole new financial paradigm coming up.

Just tell the US to look in a mirror...

So it's overqualified for the presidency of the US. A milestone indeed!

May I suggest the following mod distribution? I think it's fair.

5 x troll
6 x off-topic
3 x funny

And since there are some people who will think I'm making some devastatingly clever statement they agree with, instead of just being a jackass...

2 x insightful

It can, lots of countries, especially America regulate things outside their borders.

Laws can be enforced against local subsidiaries or any foreign executive who happens to wander into an area you have an extradition agreement with. Or in Americas case, any country you can successfully invade to kidnap someone. And in Putin's case anywhere you can get an assassination squad in. Also Israel's Mossad unit is notorious for plausible deniable foreign enforcement.

This isn't a question of should, it's a question of what can physical be done.

Yes, and?

Countries, including America, have investigatory rules where you are not allowed to talk about it at all. Want to do business in a country? You need to obey their rules. And you don't have a leg to stand on complaining if you have similar roles because then you're not saying the rules are morally wrong, you're saying you're special.

It is absolutely not improper for the UK to do such a thing and the US would have no qualms about using a national security letter (is that the right term?) on an American subsidiary of a UK company. It's how laws and jurisdictions work. Having a foreign ownership doesn't give you special dispensation to break a country's laws. Apple UK are absolutely subject to every single one of the UK's laws. They're also subject to quite a lot of American ones, having an American owner, but that's their problem not the UK's, and doesn't give any special treatment other than what America can force on the world under the universal law of might is right.

Note this is all orthogonal to what I personally think of the RIPA (my quite strong opinions are in other much older Slashdot posts).

I care about things I can do something about. I'm disappointed that I can't change their mind, but I trust the universe to force their hand eventually. But being dissatisfied is not the same as caring.