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Comment Re:Great news (Score 1) 46

I am not sure why that should be all that important.

Are you also on board with infidelity, handmaids, and other means to have children that are not biologically related to both parents?

A lot of people want to have and raise their own children, not somebody else's offspring. What's the difference in biological substance between accepting egg donation and being a surrogate mother for the egg donor?

Comment Re:Oooo, scary! (Score 1) 45

You are 120% wrong, as usual. The US has nothing like this, and will prosecute companies that try to do it:

But the Chinese government decided to take a more aggressive approach by allowing private industry to conduct cyberattacks and hacking campaigns on their own, U.S. officials said.

Comment Re:Do Not Want (Score 1) 65

The HDDs under discussion will come down in price, probably to under $200 within two years.

I'll make your a bet: if these drives are less than $300 in two years, I'll buy you one. Otherwise you buy me one. That threshold is 50% above the price you predict. Deal?

Enterprise HDDs on the retail market (vs premium system integration costs) have been just about $20/TB for years. I discovered that they'll drop by 66% in the next two years.

Comment Re:Featuritis (Score 1) 54

Sure but Slashdot has previously covered the fact that curl's developers are writing off security bug reports, including about stream dependency cycles in the HTTP/3 protocol stack. It may be adding features but losing security!

(I don't actually think curl has bad security. Mostly I am just tired of reading about the same dude making yet another minor variation on his same complaint, without Slashdot acknowledging that the basic story is a repeat of something that it has covered at least three times before.)

Comment Bytes, bits, who cares? (Score 2) 37

transmitting data at 125,000 gigabytes per second [...] more than twice the previous world record of 50,250 Gbps

The data rate in this experiment was 1.02 petabits per second, so the first number is correct -- but almost 20 times what was given for the previous record. The previous record was actually a tad over 400 terabits per second, or 50,000 GBps if one insists on using more digits than needed.

Comment Re: Robotics? (Score 1) 111

VB.Net has explicit syntax that follows C#'s try/catch/finally: https://learn.microsoft.com/en...

They added that as the recommended replacement for Visual Basic's legacy "On Error" -- so I don't think your suggestion holds up. Having vaguely similar effects doesn't mean the two "both work out to the same thing just with a different syntax" any more than being Turing complete means different languages are fundamentally equivalent.

Comment Re:Real fact check: (Score 4, Interesting) 130

Correction: like the name of the database says, there are 380k reports of adverse events after people got vaccinated. Study is required to determine whether those were reactions or coincidences (or indirect consequences).

After I got the first two COVID-19 shots, I got a survey that asked whether I had seen a doctor for any illness since then. I truthfully answered: I had a tick bite that ended up with a rash around it, and I went to a doctor to exclude Lyme disease as a cause. When I later doing it about VAERS, I searched and found an entry that signed like mine. I don't know for sure it was about me, but I do know that tick bite and infection had nothing to do with a vaccine.

Comment Re:Effort to thin the ranks of legal immigrants :o (Score 2) 235

The wording is very careful. It's talking about people who were not authorized to immigrate to the US, but used programs that made it very easy to get forbearance of removal and work authorization.

For example,this page describes one such group: Hondurans who moved to the US before 1999, and have not left the US since 6 January 1999. They immigrated illegally but can work and avoid being deported because they have "temporary protected status". This is one of the programs that the Trump administration is ending, causing the status changes discussed in TFA.

Comment Re:Don't be overconfidence battery tech progressio (Score 1) 201

Your own "about 48 months" metric shows that you are being more carbon-intensive than me -- and that your short-term leases will only put you farther behind over time.

https://carsbibles.com/how-muc... also says that manufacture and transport of an EV are roughly equivalent to driving 20k to 40k miles in an ICE vehicle -- even before we count the costs of driving those miles in the EV. Factoring that in, the lower end is consistent with your 48-month number.

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