At some point, it stops being a mob and starts being a vote. And while it makes sense to not allow people to drag random folks onto the platform just to vote your way, it doesn't make sense to limit voting on an important issue to the 0.1% of users who pay close enough attention to notice. So I can see both sides on this one.

Maybe the right thing to do is to require a certain level of activity to earn the right to vote, then dump the canvassing rules. That way, any canvassing would only serve to increase turnout, rather than truly padding the ballot box.

GHG went up because of all the gas turbines deployed in a rush during the wind/solar rollout blitz. But it should not be ignored that making the cement for both the nukes and the wind turbines generates huge amounts of GHG. Why I excluded the material fabrication emissions in the discussion. Sadly, no free lunch.

Nuclear cannot replacce gas turbines. Gas turbines are dispatchable power, nuclear is not. A nuclear plant takes hours to ramp up and ramp down production - so it works the opposite of solar and wind, which are also non-dispatchable power sources.

Dispatchable power sources accommodate changes in load instantly (within minutes) - battery, hydro, and gas turbines are dispatchable as they can be brought online and their output adapted within minutes (or in battery, seconds).

Nuclear is called "base load" because they can only run below demand - if demand suddenly drops below a nuclear plant's output, disaster will happen because there will be too much power.

Of course, the problem is using gas turbines for base load power - that is polluting and expensive.

Where Canada has an advantage though, is that they've been able to deliver new nuclear reactors on time, on budget. Canadian built reactors are coming online on time or early, on budget or less. Canada has a demonstrated capability for this - all other nuclear projects are late, really late, and way over budget.

Nightmare Eclipse showed us Bitlocker is a joke. It's not remotely real encryption and easily breakable .. on Win11/2025 server, NOT Win 10. This wasn't an exploit. It was a backdoor. Meanwhile Veracrypt needed a public backlash to get their dev signing keys reinstated so people could get their updated kernel drivers on Windows (and remember, TrueCrypt its predecessor mysteriously disappeared in 2012 with the former author telling people to use BitLocker instead!)

No he didn't. He didn't break Bitlocker. He found a set of circumstances where Windows unlocks the disk and dumps you to a shell prompt without authentication. Yes it's a fault, but it's just like a lock screen bypass on your phone.

But it's a problem that affects all disk encryption - if you encrypt the OS, you need to decrypt to boot. Now some early systems required you to enter your password on startup - they needed to unlock the key. Of course, it also means every reboot must be attended - you could not reboot a system because someone must be there to enter the password.

Then PCs started getting TPM devices, and this allowed them to unlock the disk by encrypting the disk key with TPM keys kept on the chip. But the problem now is that the disk is unlocked. So any authentication bypass will get you access to the encrypted disk, and that's what Nightmare Eclipse found. (The problem affects everything).

Of course, if you steal a drive from a PC, none of Nightmare Eclipse's vulnerabilities would work - because the disk needs the Bitlocker key to unlock, which is contained in the TPM module of the original PC, so it's only useful if you take the whole machine.

But what it is is an authentication bypass - which means it's just another way to bypass the login dialog. Bitlocker unlocking comes as a side effect.

Many of the comments to this article downplay the jobs replaced by robots, after all, that's what the assembly line is all about, right?

I find it interesting that most of the comments related to AI's potential for replacing jobs, often take a decidedly different tone.

It's the start of regulating reporting.

1. Trusted (gov approved) news sources have to show first: this proposal
2. Reporters/media sites have to apply to be trusted or semi-trusted (not shown first), otherwise they are untrusted
3. Illegal to link to untrusted reporting

No, they are trying to constrain the spread of inconvenient truths.

Wages have never been "proportional to productivity", not ever.

Wages (the price of labor) are based on two things, like the price of anything else: supply and demand.

If you do a job that anybody can do (supply is high) and demand is low, wages will be low. If you do a job that only a select few can do (supply is low), and it's in demand, wages will be high.

The idea that wages should be tied to productivity, exists only in the imagination.

Actually, 70% of the middle class is no longer part of the middle class, because they moved to the *upper* class.

https://www.pewresearch.org/ra...

Yes, the middle class shrank from 61% to 50% of the population. But of that 11% drop in the middle class, 2 of 3 moved to the *upper* income category.

Yes, 1 of 3 did move to the lower income category, and that's not good. But it's nowhere near as bad as saying that "70% of middle class jobs lost were due to robots." That's simply false and made-up.

And Fascism does not work very well either, but that does not prevent the current U.S. moving in that direction.

Not even close...not even with ultra liberal side of Democrats pushing facistic actions and promoting facist laws/rules and societal changes.

And all the while to promote facism they are using the term against anything center left to middle right as facist.....making the term meaningless over time much like they've done with nazi and racism....they've overused them so much then just have no meaning anymore.

This is the actual problem with nuclear power. And by the time it comes around, the people who made the decisions have already safely moved elsewhere or into pension.

Anything But China

American first, or anything manufactured on our shores......first.

Somebody wired up all those ICBM missile silos too

On the other hand, people might also genuinely thing their country, the people and the land is worth defending, at all costs.

I mean, c'mon....at the very least, we have "Ranch Dressiong".....you know...?

But then you need about 5 acres for support equipment and another 40-100 acres for a security perimeter (minimum). It is also just 1/3 the capacity needed for current generation data centers.

Kind of like how any economic system better for people in general is called communism.

nah....we all know that any form of economic system even resembling communism would not be good for anyone...at least not the common folks, only those at the time.

Sure, Capitalism sucks....but it sucks a whole lot less that ALL other forms of economic systems.....history has shown us this time and time again.

They say two things, one is that folks don't know how to deal with a released person:
"Their case manager may need to consult a dozen or more paper files or databases to learn whether they were convicted of a violent offense, if they require mental-health medications, if they can stay with family or need housing, and which vocational and educational programs they may have taken, among other factors."

The other:
"Not only would a more-efficient system help released inmates get the support they need, it could highlight who is likely to offend again after release."

So sounds like making more informed parole decisions?