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Yeah, unfortunately some of our workstations are MacOS and Linux based, so I can't solely rely Kerberos, we have to have LDAP (ideally LDAPS) involved. We were also advised by our email provider that they have used it for the company's Exchange provider but that was set up before I joined the company and I am not really seeing evidence of a cert being issued for that purpose, though I very well could have missed it.

Those who don't want to be dependent on the whims of a conglomerate and would like to actually possess the data files.

Sure, but FDIC insurance is per depositor, per insurable account category, per institution. Someone with three different savings accounts at the same institution each with less than $250k individually but more than $250k total still only gets $250k in insurance.

EDIT: I'm not saying the system can't, for a lack of a better word, be gamed, but ultimately that requires action on the depositors end, not necessarily the bank(s).

EDIT 2: Which means that any balance over that 250k in the same category would, in theory, count towards an institution's uninsured deposit balance.

Not every bank is going to be able to leverage a CMA that works the additional FDIC insurance. And even then, offering incentives or products does not mean a depositor will actually utilize them.

There doesn't seem to be much that they can do to game it as the calculations seem to be based on uninsured deposits. The bank doesn't control how much a depositor places in the bank.

And yet military spending amounts to about 11-13% of the country's annual spending over the last few years [1].

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/hist08...

So, that answers the general mining comparison, but that doesn't answer many of the other points, including things like the impact of refining (which produces chemicals far more toxic than just burning coal), the estimates of global mineral availability, and the sheer number of power generation facilities to produce (at a minimum) comparable levels of power. And that's without including things like empowering oppressive regimes like China's CCP and the Congolese government because we are forced to by minerals from them for many of these solutions.

Do you have sources that dispute, or just disparagements of theirs?

Of course, because when seconds count, the police are minutes away.

Home Assistant is a great self-hosted tool for smart home things. They have a list of compatible devices that may be useful. Would require setting up a home assistant server somewhere, but that seems like a small price to pay for managing your own data.

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/#camera

Message of the day, usually displayed at login.

I'm imagining some exec at Microsoft who went and saw Ready Player One in theatres, got to the scene where Nolan Sorrento says "We estimate that we can sell up to 80% of a user's visual field before inducing seizures" and going, "Sounds great, we'll get started!"

As this is all speculative, it's hard to say. But I would imagine that, were this study to be accurate, it would be something along similar lines of how long COVID appears to be unpredictable and inconsistent.

Focus your efforts on what you have control over. I am sure I am not the only one that despises have to use Windows and the spyware riddled mess that it has become, but I can't control it, so the only option (at least in the short term) is to focus your efforts on what you can control. Long term, maybe you will eventually be in a position to recommend/implement a switch, but don't let that take up all your time.

It is said that part of being an effective communicator is to stop, listen, and understand where the other person is coming from. Diversity initiatives strongest talking point is that a more diverse group of people, from many different walks of life, are better because people learn about the lives and stories of more than just one's sole experiences.

It is for that reason that I would recommend speaking to a pastor before issuing a blanket judgement on a group of people, the majority of whom are simply trying to live and spread a message of hope and salvation.

https://yearbook.wels.net/unitsearch to find a pastor near you if you live in the US.

See, now that is valuable information to have, and I wish the article's author had included these details. I had not looked up the FCC registrations when I did my quick search, but this makes total sense. I'm all for making sure that you have a license when you do these things to avoid the problem that is happening here, which is the shoulder overlap. I don't care what your content is, if you need a license, get a license.

It certainly poses an interesting question. In the context of this article I ran a quick search for any registered stations in the Portland area using 90.5 FM and I didn't find anything. Not saying that there isn't, but nothing I could find quickly.

Also, I don't know many pirate stations that would broadcast solely for the purpose of disrupting another station. My understanding was that most pirate broadcasters do so in order to send their own message, and so finding open signal space would seem to be key.

Yelp reports this location as no longer being used as a church, and the domain for the church has expired. Beyond that, the article did not comment on what exactly was being broadcast from this particular location, just the frequency. It's a bit pretentious to assume that this is a religious broadcast just from it being in a closed down location.

Also, a quick search for radio stations using 90.5 FM in Portland shows there isn't anything broadcasting on that frequency in the area. The FCC regulates this both for licensing and to avoid signal contamination. It's not doing any physical or mental harm when it's being broadcast on an unused frequency in a range of frequencies that are designated for exactly the purpose of radio broadcast. The operators of this broadcast station, whether it is actually the church or not, are not causing physical or mental harm but they are ignoring the FCC regulations around licensing a particular frequency for public broadcast use.

Disagree with another's beliefs and viewpoints all you want, but let's try to avoid assigning motive and/or blame as well as spurious accusations where they are not due.

I'm not denying that eventually most controllers will drift, but the speed at which these controllers developed a drifting problem was much higher than what is expected on average, even for cheaper made third party controllers.

These appear to be a much larger issue than what is normally seen by controllers designed by console manufacturers.

The issue is that the Joy-Cons joystick has what appears to be a design defect that, regardless of how much care is taken, means they have a high likelihood of developing what is known as "drift" or phantom movement without the joystick actually being engaged. This issue has been, at the very least, acknowledged by Nintendo, and for a few years now Nintendo has been repairing/replacing Joy-Cons for free (at least in the US) because of it. I don't know if there have been design changes, but Nintendo's public release response has been mixed in an effort to avoid as much culpability as possible.

Gun ownership in the United States is all over the place, and the amount of guns (handguns or long-guns) in one particular area is not always an indicator of high gun homicides.

Wikipedia's entry on Gun Violence in the US [1] highlights some interesting points. If you look at their infographics for household gun ownership by state [2] and the state by state murder rate [3] things are all over the place. While Missouri and Louisiana fit the 'more guns, more murders' narrative, California and Maryland flight exactly the opposite to it. Montana and Wyoming's gun ownership rates are some of the highest in the country, but they have some of the lowest gun homicide rates as well. This makes me seriously question the 'more guns, more gun homicides' narrative. Yes, the United States loves its guns, and that's honestly perfectly OK. With approximately 350 million guns in this country, for every homicidal maniac with a gun there are at least 10,000 responsible gun owners.

Beyond that, whenever there is trouble the first call people usually make is to, you guessed it, the guys with the guns (aka, the police). There is nothing wrong with calling the police in such situations, but these situations often are over in seconds. This has led to gun ownership supporters creating sayings like "When seconds count, police are minutes away" which is not exactly inaccurate.

There is also no greater equalizer when it comes to self-defense than can be found in guns. On that note, a CDC led study [4] ordered by former President Obama estimated defensive gun uses to be anywhere from 500,000 to 3 million instances per year. This number has, of course and rightly so, been challenged but repeated studies and surveys have shown that they were not far off the mark. Results from these efforts are usually around 1 million (with a recent survey putting it around 1.7 million [5]), which means that for every life lost in gun homicides, which currently floats around 20k (not including suicide since that's a different category), around 50 lives are saved in some fashion with guns. I certainly don't want to diminish those whose lives have been affected negatively by guns, but we can also not ignore their positive use in self defense.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Household_Firearm_Ownersh... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_states_showing_num... [4] https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/18319/chapter/3#15 [5] https://reason.com/2022/09/09/the-largest-ever-survey-of-ame...

Make your own spyware or don't use it at all!

Congrats to these teens and the work they have accomplished. If this holds true, that's a great achievement for them. The math that they have worked out is a bit beyond my depth but it sounds very interesting and likely a great addition to the understanding of large portions of the field of mathematics.

To the author of the Guardian article, no one cares about the color of their skin. Their skin color didn't enable them to do this work, and it didn't contribute to the work. Shame on you for making it a prominent part of your article headline.

EDIT: Some time between when the link was posted and I posted my comment the article title was changed from what the poster put and what the article headline is now currently. I confirmed before writing my comment, but unfortunately Wayback Machine did not capture this site before the change was made.

I don't know that I would classify what essentially comes down to group-think or even mob-mentality as humanity's biggest problem.

Yeah, I have an MSI Mobo in my home PC and an older model Stealth. Get rid of Dragon Center. It's an, albeit smaller, resource hog whose functions can be managed through the actual tools as opposed to Dragon Center.

In theory there should be a setting within the BIOS that should allow you to disable any sort of automatic BIOS updating. Unfortunately, I can't speak to Dell machines, but the HP ones I manage have a "Lock BIOS Version" setting I can use.

Did you reboot the computer a second time to see if it flashed the BIOS again? Once is a scheduled BIOS update, possibly triggered by an administrator. Twice is more concerning...

Which I believe actually helps to illustrate my point. The issue the FTC appears to have (and this comes from more than just this article) is with the cancellation process and not the subscription itself. The subscription is far more than just the cancellation process, just as a hard to find book is more than just its ease of acquisition. The enrollment (and if the FTC has their way, cancellation) processes of subscriptions are such a minor attribute to the subscriptions themselves that defining them by that attribute alone in an article headline seems like poor authorship.

Is there some measure of semantics involved here? Quite probably, but then I say that in the world of professional writing and journalism I would expect a higher level of aptitude and proficiency. Being able to write headlines or article titles that remove as much of the semantic fuel as possible is, I believe, not an unreasonable request (or even requirement) for such professions, unless that is what the author is trying to achieve.

Servicers could change the cancellation process without ever changing the subscription itself. The issue at hand is not the subscription, but the process with which one would cancel it.