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Comment Re:It takes a special kind of moron (Score 4, Informative) 48

I agree, but the people sending in the DNA don't have murders in their past, and so they're not stupidly handing themselves to the authorities on a platter. It's that nice-as-pie extended family member they don't suspect of anything untoward who's getting caught for a murder that may have been committed 20 years ago.

Comment I have two Subarus from 1998 (Score 1) 155

I have an original Impreza WRX I bought new, and a Forester I bought earlier this year. Both came with cassette decks (since replaced with new-fangled CD players with a USB socket), and none of this full screen entertainment rubbish. They're both on about 100,000 miles and should last another 20 years. The Forester doesn't even have ABS or airbags, but it's a nice comfy ride.

Nowadays cars are smartphones crossed with xboxes crossed with ankle monitoring devices.

Comment What next, ban under-16s from installing Firefox? (Score 2) 237

First off, kids will just find lesser-known social media sites that aren't blocked. Or they'll all install some free multiplayer mobile game that has public chat and use that to communicate.

Second, isn't Mozilla adding some kind of free web-based VPN to Firefox?

Third, I'd bet on many kids knowing more about the internet and getting around the rules than I trust a bunch of politicians to dream up and enforce those rules.

Comment Re:UBE (Score 2) 62

My previous house had panels 15 years old which were still producing the same daily power when I sold the house as they were when I installed them. My current house has a system that looks even older, and works fine.

In some areas I guess you could get 10mm of dirt or something coating the panels, but here there's very heavy rain on random days in Winter which will wash your car away, let alone a bit of grime.

Comment Revenue changes WILL be steep (Score 3, Informative) 54

... but in which direction?

I usually try out an LLM by asking for a list of 5 ten-letter words with the same letter at the start and end. The one I tried last night gave me a mix of 9, 10 and 11-letter words with none of them having the same letter at the start and end. I could have got better results by throwing darts at dictionary pages.

Comment Meanwhile my Logitech Z5500 from 2005 works fine (Score 1) 90

I like the Z5500 setup so much I have four of them now - one I bought new for around $500 in 2005, and three more sets I've bought since for 100-150 each. One under my desk on my PC, one on the sim rig, one set in the bedroom with a wall mounted TV, and one in the lounge for music. Sound quality is amazing.

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