That certainly was a failed experiment but, sadly, many refuse to learn from history.

Why do so many feel the need to repeat that failure? We really should be giving year long STANDARD time a try instead of the DST garbage they are trying to foist on an entire nation again!

And if anyone wants an extra hour of sunlight in the evening then they should be the ones to get up an hour earlier every morning and just let the rest of us sleep in. An entire nation should not be forced to suffer for the made up convenience of "saving daylight" for a few people who refuse to change their own schedules.

When I was younger I did shift work, typically it was 7a to 3p, 3p to 11p and 11p to 7a.... When I was on a day shift I had plenty of evening sunlight to work with.

Perhaps more folks should give 7 to 3 a try (as opposed to 9 to 5). That would be much better for the rest of us instead of changing the clocks twice a year. And when I worked mids I slept during the day so (in my experience) sleeping while the sun is up isn't that big a deal, despite the complaints we so frequently see on the topic.

And, as I’ve gotten older, I find the twice a year time shifts to be more and more of a PITA. While I was still working I would have killed to get rid of DST.... even though I had no trouble sleeping when the sun was up I, for one, found that daylight in the morning made it easier for me to get going (and it’s better for kids going to school too).

I joined FB shortly after it started just to keep in touch with a few folk... I don't recall how long I hung on but it probably wasn't much more than six months before I killed my account on FB... so I joined the crowd of people quitting FB more than 20 years ago.

But then I don't post all that much to the few sites, like this one (& ars technica or gocomics), where I do occasionally post. I never even thought to join twitter or any of the other plethora of "social media" sites. I spend too much time on my computers as it is 8^)

If this is all about the mirror business then why should the FCC have such a prominent role in it's approval?

If this was a communications satellite then the FCC would have a partial role in it's approval, but testing this mirror idea has nothing to do with communications and that is the middle C in FCC.

And then there is the ignoring of the poor results when the Russians tried the same thing in the 90's. Does anyone (with more than two brain cells to rub together) really think something approved of by the current misadministration is going to be more successful?

The only groups that should have anything to say in the approval process are NASA and the Space Farce (that tRump started as a distraction during his first term). But then they have their MAGA toadies in place too so we could probably expect the same results.

When I was younger I did shift work and wasn’t too put out by it. Typically, it was 7a to 3p, 3p to 11p and 11p to 7a.... When I was on a day shift I had plenty of evening sunlight to work with.

Maybe more folks should give 7 to 3 (as opposed to 9 to 5) a try rather than changing the clocks twice a year. And when I worked mids I slept during the day (so, in my experience, sleeping while the sun is up isn't that big a deal).

And, as I’ve gotten older, I find the twice a year time shifts to be more and more of a PITA. While I was still working I would have killed to get rid of DST.... I, for one, found that daylight in the morning helped me get going (and it’s good for kids going to school too).

If someone wants an extra hour of sunlight in the evening then they should be the ones to get up an hour earlier every morning and just let the rest of us sleep in.

I am (grudgingly) willing to admit that the, so called, daylight saving time MIGHT make a little sense for maybe a month before and after the summer solstice and only in the middle latitudes.

What we have now is moronic and all year long would be simply insane. Plus, the further north or south you go it is just plain stupid to go with DST at any time of the year, at least that's been my experience living in north, south and middle latitudes in my lifetime.

And let's not forget that yearlong DST was tried in the 70's and it failed badly and was changed back. Why do so many feel the need to repeat that failed experiment? How about giving year long STANDARD time a try?

Yes, I know I'm in the minority here, but that's nothing new... rational thinkers always are.

,,,,am I the only one confused by the FCC, not the FAA, making this decision? That just sounds all kind of wrong to me.

Drones/UAVs are flying machines and, as such, should be governed by the FAA, not the FCC.

Now the allocation of frequencies and transmitters used to communicate with drones would fall under the FCC, but not the whole flying machine and what I read is the FCC is banning these flying machines, not the FAA. Perhaps I missed something in the text.

Then again, given the current administration, I'm not terribly surprised by such over reach. It is what they do.

I used Firefox and Thunderbird and was quite happy with both. Then I noted a bit in the config (using about:config in the address field) about sending data to google. I disabled those unwanted bits and kept a wary eye on things. Mozilla continued to "new and improve" both applications and eventually reached a point where I went looking for alternatives. I landed on Palemoon and FossaMail, which I'm still using (for now).

Every so often I think about migrating back and then I read stuff like this and there is no way in hell I want that AI crap embedded in the applications I run.

So a resounding NO, just HELL NO to Mozilla!!

Sounds like things have changed quite a bit since I was stationed there (86-89).

I was a programmer on a main frame with top secret data. The user names we were issued were convoluted enough to make half way decent passwords and the passwords were even better. Certainly nothing so bad as your example.

Memorizing both took me a while and, of course, we couldn't keep a copy of our credentials anywhere but inside the SCIF. And even then they were kept in a sealed (&initialed) envelope that was kept inside a double safe (a safe within a safe) that required running down the two people with the separate combinations.

Fortunately for me (sorta) I was one of those two people so I only had to find one other person when I needed to gain access to the envelope with my credentials in it. But then I had to remember the combination to the one safe I had access to. Still more memorization since it wasn't written down anywhere that I knew of.

Not exactly a post-it note on the monitor frame type of situation.