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Relevance of this information:

https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16172545/us-sp...

Yeah. This year there is El Niño, but the rates and severity of hurricanes is unchanged over the long term.

https://www.heritage.org/energy/report/keeping-eye-the-storm...

Just so I understand you correctly:

1) It's "fucking bad" that we are at a 60-year low for hurricanes this season.

2) It's "fucking bad" that "global warming" will cause more hurricanes in the future.

So how does it actually work? Climate "scientists" have been telling us that Earth has severely warmed already, and they've been telling us that the warming will cause more hurricanes. So when is that going to begin exactly?

So what will likely follow is a 'takings clause' case by the owner, who can no longer use their property the way they want.

Article reminded me of this: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/microsoft-outlook-bill-gat...

I've got a 65" LG C2 OLED TV (from 2022) that I hacked with https://rootmy.tv shortly after I purchased it (and before LG updated the firmware to prevent the hack).

It seems pretty safe. When it's on, I can ssh into it. When it's off, it doesn't reply to ICMP pings, and doesn't appear to be using much power.

I guess the newer LG TVs have gone to shit.

Under Proposition 19, some people can still move without penalty, as long as they're over age 55, and move to a new property located in California.

https://www.ocassessor.gov/tax-saving-programs/savings-senio...

So the Linux qemu-img tool can still convert VM disk images from .vmdk into formats compatible with all the other hypervisors. Is there something more to the process of VM migration from VMWare than just using this tool (and manually creating the proper virtual hardware profile in the new hypervisor)?

Obviously the types of supported virtual hardware will be different between hypervisor types, but that's usually something that can be dealt with separately.

The illegal immigrants do pay plenty of taxes, but how many of them pay Federal Income Tax? It's not something that you can do without a SSN.

Laws based upon speculation that you may act dishonestly are wrong. I've seen lots of police statements about arrests and detentions where the officer basically says, "We didn't know that he was not going to do something illegal."

Putting somebody in a position where they have to prove a negative is plain wrong. The prosecution needs to prove a positive, unless you're in Plymouth, Massachusetts where the prosecutor is required to disprove all defense assertions about mental illness, or the jury will acquit.

I read about this story on Reason.com a few days ago. The mother is getting her law license and is now worried about the repercussions of her having a criminal record.

https://reason.com/2026/09/02/virginia-mom-gets-6-month-susp...

Well, at the time, Indians (Native Americans) were the largest populaton of non-citizens residing in the country. That is no longer the case today. (There are 10 times more non-citizens than non-citizen Native Americans today.)

So what do you make of the phrase in Amendment 14 section two; "excluding Indians not taxed."? Do you suppose maybe they were trying to limit the representation to citizens?

I believe that most people are in favor of fixing the problems caused by the improper allocation of additional congressional representation to areas with larger populations of non-citizens. This piece complains about the upcoming changes without going into any depth on the problems these proposed changes will resolve.

This new service is provided free to people who already have TSA Precheck. What I would like to know is if it's also available to those who have Global Entry. I let my TSA Precheck lapse after getting Global Entry because I saw no benefit to keeping it.

Just one more reason to never use Chrome. Their removal of MV2 to prevent UBlock Origin from working is another.

Seems legit, but how can I trust them to survive if they're not collecting revenue?

Reports say that the newborn died from a ruptured spleen and tested positive for measles. ARS doesn't seem to mention that in their article. No real surprise given their consistent anti-Trump administration position on everything.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/health/measles-deaths-pen...

Gates would have had access to Dartmouth BASIC, which he likely referenced and possibly plagiarized while writing Altair BASIC. Back in that day, people shared software freely, so Gates took advantage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_BASIC

Some were predicting it, and those predictions got a lot of publicity.

https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2019/09/20/nolte-clima...

Maybe consider voting Reform the next time around?

In the US, it's "legal" for "law enforcement" to use Stingray equipment, which transmits on licensed cellular spectrum and interferes with customers who use the spectrum, sometimes even preventing calls for emergency services. This should be a plain and simple violation of FCC regulations, but who's going to enforce that law against law enforcement?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_use_in_United_States_...

Anybody who feels that their communications are secure on their mobile devices is deluded. There are countless access methods at many levels, even in the US.

There are laws in every country (including the US) to ensure that communications can be monitored when such monitoring is "authorized."

"Usenet is a cesspool, a dung heap" -- Patrick A. Townson -- published in May 1994 in The UNIX-Hater's Handbook.

I agree 100%, but my relatively new house already had Cat6 everywhere, and I did not think it was worthwhile to start tearing up walls. Also, lots of the connected goodies use PoE++ which you cannot do over fiber.

(I'm aware of some instances where the light in the fiber has been used to power local electronics, but AFAIK there's no standard for this, and it's probably not an economical solution for me.)

It would be easier to support making changes to our lifestyles to protect our future if the climate change alarmists weren't so bad about making outlandish predictions of doom.

https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2019/09/20/nolte-clima...

I upgraded my entire home network to 10GBase-T earlier this year, and I get 10Gbps speeds everywhere, but I run Linux everywhere, except for a few Windows VMs, which also get 10Gbps. I think the TLDR for this article comes down to "Windows networking sucks", which everybody should already know anyway.

Another example of the "house of cards" that we've built.

There's also Green Hills, which has a far better product (Integrity) vs. WRS VxWorks. Somehow VxWorks has better marketing and more sales, because their product is cheaper.

Both are commonly used for space-borne platforms, and I've done development for said platforms with both.

There's never been much of a "market" for systems like this. Even at SpaceX scales, nobody would ever be able to sell enough chips to make the effort worthwhile. The only reason to do it is to fulfill a need in a niche market.

Every time I read an article like this, I get depressed about all the hours of my life I've spent waiting for computers. I'm 64 now, and I've been using computers since I was 14. (Batch mode, using punched cards on an IBM 370 was the first computer I programmed, while I was in high school.)