something they have no authority to forbid!

There is absolutely no way the FCC (or any government agency) has legal power to block firmware updates on already-purchased hardware.

When you install software, you can see how big it is, in some OSes/installers you are prompted if that's okay, if you want to enable/disable optional bits, etc. When you install Chrome, it's a certain size to get a web browser.

However, at some indeterminate point later, when you RUN Chrome, it downloads a chunk of data (that's not a browser) that's as big as (or bigger than) the initial browser install. It does this per user on a multi-user system. It does it with no prompting or notification. For a home user, this could be annoying (I discovered this right when it started last fall because it exploded my backups); for a corporate (or especially government) environment, this is unacceptable behavior.

This would be like installing Solitaire, and while you're playing it installs Excel in the background.

Also the high-density LLM racks each can use more power than a typical home has available. My house has 200A 240V split-phase power, which is fairly typical - that's a theoretical max of 48kW. Just one nVidia rack can draw 120kW.

IIRC my typical home usage peak is around 12kW (I am in the southeastern US and have a heat pump, so the day or two every year or two it gets really cold I'll get resistive heating). So let's say I have 36kW "excess" (and assume the utility could deliver that to every house); that's one rack for every 3.3 houses. Now you have to build out the high-speed networking (we have FTTH but it's also not built with 100G in mind) and management for like 3-4 racks on my block.

This is the stupidest of the stupid.

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I really think Roblox is missing the point.

Sure, age-verification might impede underage use of their product, but there are a lot of adults that understand the age-verification movement to be an invasion of their privacy. Whether or not this is true, "perception is reality".

"should" is doing some heavy lifting there.

But if you're concerned about a cPanel server where you have a site, you could just exploit the hole to gain admin access and then apply the update.

iBCS support in the Linux kernel was removed in January 2008, and it was already unusable at that point (so wasn't deprecated, just removed).

Apparently nobody is using the Linux kernel's drivers for it, these days it's done purely in user-space with no need for kernel drivers.

The real problem is that given his rank, he would be in a position to hear things sooner than others further down the food chain. Anyone paying attention to who is doing any betting could have (or should have) asked what they might now that would cause them to place the bet they did. In this case, it boils down to an OPSEC violation, and that's illegal under any circumstance, punishable by UCMJ if not actual civilian law. The fact that the FBI are involved tells me that this guy will probably be facing UCMJ violations too (if he's lucky, court martial if he's not), and may not be a Sergeant Major any longer when the dust settles.

Curious, then, that if such a law was already passed that recently that the likes of Pelosi (and surely other members of both parties) still managed to get around it.
Congress (as a whole) acts as if their shit doesn't stink. It's high time they get reminded that it most certainly does.

I can think of four reasons ticket sales have dropped.

1. Much of what Hollywood has been putting out is crap.
2. Politicians increase taxes constantly, resulting in less disposable income for potential movie-goers.
3. Ticket costs increasing - Not much can be done there, theaters do it to compensate for the loss in sales.
4. Streaming is a thing. Why go to a theater to sit in a sticky, uncomfortable seat when one can wait a little while for the movie to hit $STREAMING_SERVICE and watch it from the comfort of one's own home?

Even when residential and office/retail type businesses pay flat rate, heavy industrial electricity users pay based on time of day. When there's high demand, they can even be cut off (in exchange for getting lower rates the rest of the time). Being able to buffer electricity use allows them to cut costs.

It's not scifi at all.

They hit the Earth's atmosphere at just below escape velocity (they were going 11.024 km/s, escape velocity is 11.186 km/s). If you do that at an angle that is too shallow, you skip off the atmosphere and enter an elliptical orbit. They intentionally did one skip to bleed off some energy, to give them a more precise entry to the landing zone.

LOL outsource it to the same SpaceX who's repeated failure to meet targets and obligations are the reason Artemis III won't be landing on the Moon? SpaceX was contracted to supply the lander and is so far behind they have no idea when (or if) they will, so NASA has re-opened the competition and is trying to get Blue Origin back in the game.