In some ways China has much better consumer-protection laws than the USA. Big business over there doesn't have nearly as much control over legislation and government operations.

It's rather ironic that our basis of government, originally intended for personal freedom, has been so heavily leveraged by big business that it can block the majority of common-sense limitations on market control.

What shocks me here is how long it took to become such a popular thing? Parking domains isn't that expensive, but certainly isn't free, especially in large numbers. The people doing the parking are basically squatting on property they speculate will have value down the road. They may as well collect a little "rent" on them while they squat?

I can remember when "domain tasting" first became a thing, I looked at it and thought, "This is a TERRIBLE idea, it's going to make it more expensive for people to start up their own web site and 'interesting' domains are going to be unobtainable by the average person just because some squatter thinks they're parked on gold." No random person is going to pay thousands of dollars for a domain name they fancy just for a hobby, so it's just going to stifle small private sites.

I don't know how it currently works, but back when it started you could "taste" a domain for months almost for free, and there was nothing stopping you from "tasting" it again the instant your current taste expired, So you could squat domains for an unlimited time almost for free. "gee, nobody would ever abuse that!"

Though now with the explosion of TLDs, it's widened the market so far that the squatters are finding it hard to cover all the bases. Raise their rent! (and make the price go up exponentially to KEEP it parked) Watch the squatters scurry away like the cockroaches they are!

Within days of the trade-secret-protected algorithm being leaked in 1994, a researcher demonstrated a cryptographic attack

ah yes, that. Don't DO that.

Anything that can be destroyed by public review deserves to be destroyed by public review.

So if you're afraid of releasing your security code, your code is probably TRASH.

"We generated mountains of AI slop, and then spent countless hours turd-polishing and searching for clips that weren't completely terrible to bring you the best slop we could manage!"

When someone says "they lost an engine on takeoff", ths is not what they usually mean...

It's amazing to see that we're only just now discovering we can use the power of wind to move boats around!

it's called WHITE PAINT

it's an incredible new innovation, you should try it!

If you're too stupid to "select all" and drag-and-drop to a new folder on your desktop, then you deserve to "lose" all your photos and videos.

As for the apps, there's one license of the app on the account, that's no longer wanting to be shared, so it's a "Marital Asset" that a judge can oversee the division of, along with the rest of the martial assets. It gets a little more complicated if one side wants some apps and the other side wants other apps, but they're rarely very expensive, on the order of $3 to $9, making them easily compensated for in the monetary settlement of the divorce. (app installations are just as fungible as cash)

That really only leaves "who gets the email address", and that's not a new problem created by Apple, that's been around for decades. Work it out, with the judge's assistance if necessary.

I think this whole thing is just coming down to bitter Ex'es in a messy divorce, looking for another public place to drag each other through the mud. Go handle your drama somewhere private, the world is not interested in being your stage.

The heat pump's working fluid doesn't have to be water, it'd be whatever fluid can phase change at a "convenient pressure". The released heat on the high pressure side would be used to boil water into steam, which could then be moved to a turbine to generate power.

That "working fluid" woud be what is circulating on the low pressure side, through the cooling blocks.

I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone trying to use the waste heat that all this computer power is generating? I realize that would impact cooling a little, but surely SOME of this can be recovered efficiently? Steam turbines are the usual way to turn heat into electrical power. Is there no way to do it for data centers?

For example, use a heat pump to concentrate the heat to above boiling temperature then use that to boil water to run a steam turbine. The heat pump would require some power to run, but I think you could run that at a net-positive for power?

that pardon cost? Trump doesn't strike me as the type to do anything like that for free.

I actually bought it quite recently, so I could take three bricks out of my laptop bag and replace them with just the one. Less space, less weight, and I love that built-in display. (it won't charge my watch unfortunately)

I've got a few spare older bricks from previous laptop purchases, so I can't say I'd need to buy a brick if my next laptop didn't come with one, but that shows my experience that bricks usually outlive their product. I also believe that most people have started accumulating unused bricks. (maybe it'll slightly lower the price of the next laptop I buy?)

USB-C negotiates voltage and current, and current (and thus watts) are supplied on demand. So an oversize charger will always work fine on an undersize accessory. (there's NO risk of "blowing it up" if you try to charge a 60w macbook with a 140w charger)

There are also cases where a larger charger works better. We have some high end windows laptops here running CAD and they are entirely capable of DRAINING the battery WHILE PLUGGED IN because they shipped with lightweight chargers that supply fewer watts than the laptop can use when run hard. We ordered in some larger chargers (and yes, they're beastly bricks) that can keep up with and even charge the battery while CAD is running hard. So, bigger IS better.

I picked up a 140w Anker awhile ago, it's got three USB-C ports with quickcharge, and two USB-3 fast charge ports, with a nice built-in display. (it even came with a 140w USB-C cord) That's all I need to take with me, no matter which accessories I pack. It's so much better than ANY of the generic USB-C bricks they're including with laptops nowadays. I honestly don't WANT to pay more for an additional bundled brick I'm not going to take out of the box.

We don't like the conclusion, so change the metrics by which we came to the conclusion.

A bit like "Our students can't pass the standardized test, so instead of fixing our education system we're going to dumb down the tests."

Same principle. Don't like the results? Change the test!

The first thing that comes to mind is they could place the owners / operators of the website on a secret watch list for detention if they ever happen to step foot inside jurisdiction. And this could affect them for years to come. Have friends or family in the UK? You're not going to be going on vacation to visit them. Great job offer from over there? nope. Does this apply to your spouse too? How about your kids? ALL the employees of your company? They're already being unreasonable, what makes you think they won't continue to get MORE unreasonable? (it's already been seen for places like China to take away passports of menial employees to try to squeeze money out of their company that's left the country)

Second is this may be the first step in trying to ban your domain from users inside that country via DHCP poisoning, blocking IP addresses, and such. Sure there's ways around it, but it still hurts your traffic.

I still think the whole thing is a silly over-reach, but it's their house, their rules. All they can do right now though is piss and moan about it and start adding up unenforceable fines, till you step inside their house of course. Or until extradition gets jacked into the law somehow.