A chunk of that money is unrecoverable due to various circumstances like death, and the money was just sitting in the bank, building interest. But of course it's being used by the bank to invest in also. All of that cash is going to get yoinked out of the banks, which is going to ultimately hurt the banks.

And who gets the money? Is it just being confiscated by the government for general use like a tax? Or is there some dedicated public program the money is earmarked for?

And I'm sure they know that there will be a chunk of accounts that technically COULD be updated, but it's just not worth the effort for the account holders, either due to it being too small to bother with, or it's a middling amount but has too many hoops to jump through, or hoops they don't WANT to jump through. So again, grab the cash. They're small amounts, but it's going to add up.

And of course there'll be the chunk of them that are fruits of illegal activity, where the owners don't want to take the risk, and so again, yoink goes the cash.

This is looking like quite a (self-made) windfall for the government?

Spreading known lies to the detriment of others ought to be illegal. But the politicians would never support such a bill. For too many of them, that's their bread and butter.

DHS/NSA/FBI has been doing something ILLEGAL for years?! I'm absolutely shocked!

Will there be a shred of accountability? of course not!

Like high speed photography, small lenses require a lot of light, and are useless without it. I wonder how practical something like this can be? At the very least they're going to need to be paired with some pretty high tech image sensors. Regardless, it also brings into question how high the resolution could practically go.

Small, high res, low light, and fast shutter speed are all competing against each other, and you usually have to at least compromise on one (or two) to do well with the others. If you're starting out with a very small lens, there's going to be a lot of compromise going on, which will greatly limit the number of applications you can use it in.

loved that performance in Total Recall.

So this is where we're headed? Fail to pay them and they explode?

USB-A is legacy and is going away. It's like serial ports and VGA. Get an adapter for single accessories (they're CHEAP, like $5 for two) or get a little travel dock if you need several USB-A ports and only have one or two USB-C. (or go wireless)

Everything is either going wireless (because it can) or USB-C (because of the laundry list of upgrades it provides)

In a few years the only new things I expect to see on the market that are USB-A are the handful of things still trying to get minimal power or charging. Though even charging is going away due to the low power delivery of USB-A.

Right now Woot's got a dual USB-C 35w GaN charger for $7, and a decent USB-C travel dock for $14. If you're still clinging onto USB-A, start your transition now. Just rip off the band-aid and get it over with.

I'm surprised that any (non-dictator) government today doesn't have a clear path-of-succession in place. The US has like six steps of succession iirc?
Sure, when you're digging that deep into the barrel you're not getting someone with the best of qualifications for the position, but at least you have a name.

Any group that complains they should be the only ones to use something as common as a generic feather in their logo loses all my respect.

And I don't like other groups caving to complaints like this because it sets a terrible example.

"They take much better photos but since there's no option for a cloud backup even if manually triggered, I'm left with finding a local solution that is always going to be more cumbersome."

Wifi SD cards exist and will let you transfer photos from camera to computer.

Go check out the artifical sweetener "L-glucose", it's glucose, but mirrored. It still tastes sweet, but the body can't metabolize it.

Tell me one thing you do now that you couldn't do on a 32-bit system.

The Apollo moon lander only had 8-12 bit memory.

If you need a 64-bit system to do what we did on far less in the 70s, well, that's a skill issue.

"Preventing police from having lethal force available isn't a real alternative"

Yes it is and you'd better re-read our constitution to show where it in fact is proscribed as a remedy - that removal of one's life without DUE PROCESS is a violation of the constitution.

So disarm the fuckers until they can show they're worthy enough to hold a gun.

Andrew Ferguson is probably sitting in the Epstein files.

"The issue is that gmail ONLY filters republican political spam"

No it doesn't, I have it filter out ALL political spam.

"Anyone who can't see the blatant hypocrisy is either ignorant, an idiot or is duplicitous."

No, you're just fucking stupid.

As a chronic imgur user from day one, yes imgur will transcode certain formats straight to webp.