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Comment Re:ok? (Score 1) 47

> So don't let random people you don't trust onto your home network?

Let?

If you allow WPA2 anyone with a laptop and Kali can get on in under an hour.

Depends on who you're defending against.

Spooks will probably get on while you're away when an IoT device associates and set up an APT in your printer.

Which violates the 3rd Amendment IMO but I LARP as someone living in a Republic.

Comment Linux Firmware Tool (Score 1) 47

Not tested here yet, but this exists:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fsedrubal%2Fbr...

I'm a bit hesitant as I don't remember the outcome of the Brother toner lockin scare a few months back. I think it wound up being overblown but I'll check before updating.

Worst case I move the printers to their own subnet, because I probably should have a decade ago.

Comment Re:Him, what about healing the original heart (Score 1) 36

It might be possible to decellularize the heart and then use pluripotent stem cells to rebuild it but it might also need to be exercised for a while before implantation

A main advantage would be, aside from rejection, that an artificial heart could be used for a couple months while it grows. This would save donor heart supply.

Good idea, I think.

Comment Re:...will have to act immediately to remove mater (Score 1) 38

The article is paywalled but if the profits outweigh the consequences they'll stay.

Russia has some businesses practices that are illegal but reasonable so the fines are $30 a year. Some politician got his win but not really.

It's either cynical or a business license depending on how you look at it. In many US places being in businesses is illegal if you don't pay the government for the privilege of earning a living.

On the other hand EU fines US Big Tech hundreds of millions for stuff they don't like. Apple is implementing several functions that were "technically impossible" just a year ago.

But, yes, if the liability is high they have to leave to protect their investors.

Comment Open Source (Score 5, Insightful) 80

Yet another reason to use open source virtualization - the legal cost of proprietary can be unbounded.

Plenty of former Oracle customers use PostgreSQL now for similar reasons.

The Fortune 50 can afford the risk of proprietary but most small businesses can't.

Unless you violate the BusyBox license you shouldn't have any worries.

I wonder if any insurers are covering this yet.

Comment Black is Bad? (Score 0) 53

A full system crash is a bad thing - most people could agree to this.

So after all the kerfuffle about IDE controllers having master/slave drives, microcode blacklists being offensive, etc. Microsoft of all companies is making their crash screen black?

I don't care but it's shockingly inconsistent.

At least the Andorians won't be offended anymore.

Comment Low-T (Score 1, Interesting) 72

People ought to be incentivized to reduce plastic on their own, especially food, due to the estrogenic effects.

They say it's a "great mystery" why males have historical low testosterone and women have messed up cycles.

I just found out last week that my chewing gum (notionally a xylitol-carrier) is made with "gum base" which I presumed is a mixture of several plant and tree gums.

Nope! FDA allows, and the market dominates, mixtures containing polyethylene, polystyrene, etc. Real gums went out when I was a kid.

I'm not on the microplastics scare wagon but this is out of control!

Bobby is doing great things with coal tar dyes, so maybe there's hope for plastics (then wheat contaminants, ideally).

Comment Re:Where's the work ethic? (Score 1) 31

Both methods can get you "a job".

If you want to be a 9-5'er that's fine but outside of the trades that's really unstable work. Pink slips and bankruptcies everywhere.

Work your social networks (family, church, community groups) for opportunities to earn money on your terms, if you can handle it.

Comment Re:The end of copyright (Score 1) 83

Interesting because the moral argument is about reproduction.

I own a notepad and a pencil. But if I start writing "A long time ago in Galaxy far, far away" and continue as such, 'you' will threaten to beat me up and put me in a cage for years (if I persist despite threats).

That just obliterates real property rights in favor of imaginary property rights. And real property rights are the basis of a peaceful civilization.

On the other hand, the AI bros have a moral obligation to not suddenly destroy society's creative engine of thinkers to make a quick buck.

On the other ... tail ... the lizard at Facebook has no morals. People expect their government to protect them from such predators because their government school taught them a fairy tale version of what government is.

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