Let me spell it out very plainly because you don’t get it. It’s my car. It’s my battery. When I plug it into the wall, I expect the charge in my car to go up, not down. That battery is part of my car that I need to use to drive around town. At no point do I want the electric company to commandeer the power in my car to reduce my range.

MF’ers need to stop using my car, my battery, and my electricity like their own personal infrastructure they can control as they prefer.

I plug my car into the wall in order to charge it and increase range. At no point do I want to supply power back to the house and decrease my car's range. That defeats the purpose of having a car: to be able to drive around.

Cars are not meant to be temporary batteries to supplement the power from the electric company.

Remember when we were all techno-optimists who thought we would end up with 401Ms and even 401Gs? We're as dumb as the flying-car believers.

He was here to save our asses. We should have shown a little gratitude.

I put off going to Star Trek conventions for years. I always assumed I could go in the future and see all these people who played my favorite characters. The death of Nichelle Nichols finally made me realize that if I ever wanted to see these people while they were alive, I needed to finally do it. I finally went to my first convention in 2024. I saw Koenig, Shatner, and the crews of the other shows. It was fantastic.

I am sad I didn't go earlier when I could have also seen Nichols, Nimoy, Kelley, and Doohan. I wish I realized much earlier that they had a limited time left for me to see them myself.

Point being: if you want to see these folks who played characters you loved, don't wait! We all have a limited amount of time on Earth. If it's important to you to sit in the same room, breathe the same air, and listen to their stories in person, then do it now. Don't put it off to later.

Sort work by priority. With or without AI, the high priority, high impact work gets done. The ability to use AI and code fast means that teams can now also address the low priority work that has low impact... Big whoop. Companies are increasingly learning AI isn't worth the extraordinary cost.

The whole point of a login system is to authenticate users and enforce access controls. When someone enters valid credentials and the system grants access, that is meaningful evidence that the system recognizes their access rights. You can't simply dismiss that fact and insist that access was unauthorized without explaining what authorization was missing.

Of course, a successful login doesn't grant unlimited privileges. Systems can restrict access to specific files, databases, or functions. But there is a difference between being denied access by the system and being accused of misusing access the system actually granted.

The Supreme Court recognized this distinction in Van Buren v. United States (2021). It ruled that using authorized access for an improper purpose does not, by itself, violate the CFAA's “exceeds authorized access” provision.

The burden is to establish what access was prohibited and how the person crossed that boundary. It's not enough to assert that permission was absent despite the system accepting their credentials.

I'm sorry, I don't buy this story from the police agencies that these guys didn't have permission. If you can log into a system, then you have permission to access that system. That's the whole point of the login process: to determine who can authenticate and authorize usage of a system.

If police agencies wanted to remove permission, then they should have blocked their former users' credentials from accessing the system. This nonsense argument shifts the blame from the agencies mismanaging their users to the individual users who should have been disabled and not allowed to access this information in the first place!

This part of the story seems intended to excuse the sloppy security of police agencies.

I don't know if you're a russian bot or some deluded idiot, but it amuses me to do a breakdown of your post.

NATO turned what was originally intended to be a mostly peaceful show of force like the temporary invasion of Georgia into a war of attrition.

First of all the "peaceful show of force" "temporary" invasion of Georgia involved a few hundred dead in the first two days, and another 5000+ civilians killed in the ethnic cleansing after that, all for a land-grab to seize control of territory covering half of Georgia's coastline that Putin wanted.

Secondly, the "peaceful show of force" "temporary" invasion of Ukraine involved hundreds dead, ballistic and cruise missile attacks on all of Ukraine's largest cities, and Putin publicly admitting the goal of overthrowing the Ukrainian government... and that's just within the first 36 hours. Within two and a half months Russian officials began admitting the intent to permanently annex parts of Ukraine, proceeding with a constitutional amendment a few months later claiming to annex vast territories that Russian had not remotely taken control of, and which Russia is not remotely capable of capturing. Donetsk alone has a population of over a million, two million if you include the metro-area. Russia spent months and many thousand of lives to capture, and later lose, villages in the range of low tens of thousands.

Remember WWI when the lines were pretty much static for years and then suddenly it was all over?

Yes, I remember. As I recall it wasn't exactly "sudden". As I recall... Russian casualties were around five million killed, wounded, or captured, the Russian economy was collapsing, Russia was running out of food, and Russian literally lost it's own capital to civilian rebellion. A few months later the Russian government collapsed and surrendered vast territories including Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, parts of Poland and Ukraine to Germany and its allies (known as the Central Powers). Right about that point the U.S. joined the war reinvigorating the Allied Powers. Germany&friends knew they couldn't win a protracted war. They attempted a quick win, and, in short, they failed. The Allied powers steadily beat them down, with the allies eventually breaking through the lines and progressively liberating territory. With the Allies steadily advancing and the war obviously lost, German forces began rebelling and Germany surrendered.

That's what's happening here. Russia has most of Donbas plus a buffer zone in some other regions that directly border Russia. Ukraine is throwing men at the front lines for Russia to kill but is running out. Territory held is largely irrelevant compared to the number of men killed and weapons destroyed.

So much to unpack there, but it's amusing how you cite "territory held is largely irrelevant" given that the tide has turned and Ukrainians are now the ones breaking through lines and liberating territory from Russian occupation. It's not much yet, but all the map trackers show the reversal. Russia is now officially loosing more territory than they gain. Russia WAS slowly gaining small bits of land, largely through sending meat waves of untrained ill equipped soldiers at Ukrainian lines until the Ukrainians ran out of ammo and had to fall back. However now 7 out of 10 Russians killed are killed by drones. The "no man's land" between the two sides is now many kilometers wide. Any Russian trying to advance gets hit by a drone. Russia has also losing on average 1 air defense system every day, and rapidly depleting. Russian supply lines are getting pummeled by drones. Russian refineries are getting pummeled by drones, with progressively worsening fuel shortages for both the military and for the increasingly rebellious population. Cheap advanced Ukrainian drones are taking out expensive crappy Russian drones, including Russian's new jet-drones. Practically every country on earth is asking Ukraine for their military drone tech, the Russians can't remotely match it. Russian's economy is also fucked, but that topic pretty needs a separate book to cover.

Interesting side notes on weapons destroyed. Russia is destroying it's aircraft almost as fast as Ukraine is, between incompetence and maintenance failures and friendly fire shooting down their own aircraft. Also the nation that is the biggest donor of tanks to Ukraine is... Russia. Ukraine captured countless Russian tanks intact because the Russian military is so abysmal incompetent and corrupt. And as I mentioned, Russian air defense units are depleting. The war is now approaching 5 years, longer than the entirety of WW1. Ukraine is a small fraction of Russia's size, and Russian is literally losing and headed towards another soviet-union-style collapse. The biggest shock to the world of this entire war is just how worthless Putin has made Russian military, through systemic corruption and systemic incompetence.

Polls show the Ukrainian population isn't interested in surrendering. They are defending their homes. It's simple, the war will end when all the soldiers go home. When Russian soldiers go back to their homes in Russia, and when Ukrainian soldiers go back to their homes in the currently occupied parts of Ukraine. Although that's not likely to happen until Putin either expires or is overthrown. Not only is he fanatical enough to drive his country to collapse in the attempt, he knows if he did end the war in failure he'd get killed or overthrown for it.

Anyway, pointless reply to a bot or a useful idiot. But maybe some random passer-by will find some bits interesting. I don't know about the rest of the world, but mainstream US news rarely mentions the Ukraine war anymore, and certainly not in any detail.

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That’s fine if they’re charging less than a hotel. Problem is that they now want to charge more than a hotel. Then they add a cleaning charge. They’ve priced themselves as more expensive than the hotels while handing guests a chore sheet. That’s ridiculous.

Yes, it’s galling to get charged a cleaning fee after washing dishes, drying them, putting them away, washing the bedding and towels, folding the towels, making the bed, taking the trash to the can, taking the can to the curb, sweeping and mopping the floor, vacuuming, etc.

The truly galling thing is that the list of chores existed for the guest in the first place.

Airbnb competes with hotels. A hotel will send a person to your room every day to replace your towels, make your bed, tidy the room, refill your toilet paper, and take out the trash. They do it automatically as part of the cost of renting the room. No extra cleaning fee involved.

Airbnb charges you the same or more than a hotel. And, that comes with a list of chores.

Yes, they may also charge you a cleaning fee on top of the list of chores, which is extra insulting. But, the real problem was the owners expecting the renters to perform chores when they’re supposed to be a guest.

A hotel cleans up after its guests. They happily come to your room every day and make the bed, take out the trash, and tidy up the place. Airbnb competes against hotels. Airbnb units are just as expensive as full service hotels. But, those units have also been requiring guests to wash dishes, wash bedding, remake the bed, sweep floors, take the trash to the can, take the can to the curb, etc. Hotels take care of you while you get a list of chores at Airbnb. It’s clear that hotels offer a better experience today. Airbnb isn’t worth the money and hassle.

That’s all true outside the US as it is inside. There’s nothing uniquely terrible about America or Americans regarding this topic.

I love the idea of Facebook money being used to teach kids how to block advertisements. $25B should be enough to teach every single kid in New Mexico how to do it, going forward forever, as a permanent addition to public school curriculum.

I was going to suggest that maybe we could even use a tiny portion of the money to establish a state DNS server that blackholes the adservers the way pi-hole does. Then kids stuck running proprietary "apps," instead of accessing things through their Manifest-V2-compatible web browser, wouldn't have to install their own DNS server.

But then I realized the aforementioned ad-blocking curriculum ought to have resulted in every kid building their own pi-hole at school anyway, so a state pi-hole is unnecessary.

Only if you upgrade to goldtooth.

So every kid needs to have a brokerage account now?

No, each kid needs to get an X ("The Everything App") account.