> Still no ability to leave gaps in the iPhone icon layout.

They're doing that in iOS 18.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.macrumors.com%2F2024...

No.

I'm a cis-gendered male and I had my butt in a movie-seat watching this one on opening day. I have no problem with the idea of a female buddy/superhero-movie. I was excited by the promos and early reviews promising that they made it colorful and fun.

It had colors. They didn't make it fun.

The problems with this movie have nothing to do with demographics.

It was simply written and directed poorly. It was a mess of plot holes and tropes thrown together without any sense of meaning and no catharsis. There were a few good ideas stuck in here and there, but never as more than a throwaway plot-device.

They did the characters and the actors AND the fans a terrible injustice. I walked out feeling very sorry for Iman Vellani having this as her breakout movie role. She leant a great deal of life to each of her scenes, but that simply was not enough. No actor could have rescued this train wreck. It needed a complete re-write. ...I'd say it needed a better director, but my understanding is that Disney screwed up so badly that the credited director actually left for other projects well before the movie was completed. So we'll never know whether Nia DaCosta was up to the task.

Are you running Big Sur?

It collapses several menu bar items into the Control Center, which can free up a good chunk of the menu bar.

I contract with a workgroup in a large enterprise where the IT department sends out similar messages.

Corporate IT takes it a step further, requesting that anyone who thinks they've received a phishing message forward the message to an IT mailbox where the message will be examined by a knowledgeable professional. They added a button to Outlook to make it easy to do this. Anyone who receives a phishing message and does not forward it to the IT mailbox may be dinged. Enough dings and they'll have to take a 3 hour cyber-security class.

Prior to this practice, I caught several users responding to phishing messages, mostly by virtue of the user having second thoughts and asking me about the message right before they hit "Send." Users in other departments in the organization were suckered by spear-phishing messages and wired thousands of dollars to scammers.

Now, they're paranoid. Users ask me about every message that appears to be the slightest bit suspicious, and they forward messages regularly to the IT mailbox. Sometimes, the messages are legit. For example, a poorly-drafted notice of a software subscription renewal. But it's clear that most people simply can't distinguish these messages without help.

Yes, sophisticated users are annoyed and critical of the distraction. But not everyone is a sophisticated user.

We only just knocked the last "Planet Nine" theory and now we've got ANOTHER ONE?!

See:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2Fstarts-with...

Well, to be perfectly honest, I did have the opportunity to get this model car without a GPS, if I were willing to lose a lot of other features with it and special-order it from the manufacturer.

The maker only offered the advanced "Safety and Collision-Avoidance" features as part of the "Technology" package that also included the NAV system, an upgraded audio system and heated seats. The tweeters are nice, but trust me, I really don't care about having a built-in GPS or heated seats. (And satellite radio. A complete waste with all of the tunnels and parking garages and tall buildings that I have to deal with.) Round here, an alarm that sounds when the driver next to you starts swinging into your lane without a signal is priceless.

And on top of that, no dealer in the region stocks that model vehicle without the Technology package, so if I were okay losing every safety feature of the car that made it worth the premium price just to ditch the GPS then I'd have to find a dealer willing to order one for me and wait up to several months for it to ship from the factory.

Between the two, it just seemed better to take the silly NAV that they were throwing in.

I use Waze for navigation. A 3rd party magnetic mount on my dash holds my cell phone at the perfect spot on the dash, above and to the left of the steering wheel where my peripheral vision catches it and I don't have to take my eyes off the road.

The built-in GPS is roughly centered on the dash below the windshield. Very hard to see without turning my head and looking down. And with roads constantly changing around here for construction, it's not really useful at all.

> Flyers left by whom?

This part of town is mostly multi-family town-homes serviced by a management company.

The fliers came from the management company.

In my community, there were fliers left on every door requesting that people not hand out candy from their homes due to concerns about children with dietary restrictions and "safety."

Instead, organizers designated several areas around the community where residents could reserve a spot for a table (table not supplied) to hand out candy under supervision from local volunteers. If the tables were not suitable, families were instructed to take their kids to the mall for "an authentic trick or treating experience."

I happened to need something from the mall, so I got to see their idea of a fun Halloween first-hand. Those shops handing out candy had hung photocopies of a tiny bitmapped 1980s "The Print Shop" style picture of a pumpkin near their doorways. They weren't permitted to hand out anything with chocolate, peanut, dairy, etc. so it was basically nothing but hard candies, mostly peppermints. 'Didn't look like anyone was hanging around for very long.

Halloween: Sanitized for your protection.

THANKS!!

Just knocked /. off of my "daily hit list" bookmarks list.

That "Video Bytes" thing makes me sad.

When is the Amazing Show podcast Coming Back?

I love those stories and I KNOW you've got lots more to tell.

If you're not bringing back the podcast, I'd be very pleased to hear you on The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe again!

http://www.myfoxphilly.com/story/20385390/fi

He drew a glove with flames on it.

From what I've read elsewhere, he was an honors student, a scout and he played on a Christian basketball team.

What profile does that fit?