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Comment Re:The climate changes have been obvious (Score 2) 151

You do realize that local weather patterns will change because of world wide climate change, don't you? The jet stream over the country has changed its pattern which is why we get colder winters and hotter summers.

Or less rain than usual in one location and more rain than usual in another.

There's a reason it's called climate change and not weather change.

Comment Re:Remember what your votes created. (Score 3, Informative) 69

Yes, yes. DOGE was so great, nothing's being reported. Multiple people who worked in DOGE have come out publicly and stated they found almost not waste. One guy went in saying he expected to find $1 billion in waste. Instead, he found, maybe, $11 million, and that number is probably high he admitted.

In fact, almost all people said the same thing: the amount of waste or fraud in government services is insignificant. That government is more efficient than people want to believe, and that it is trying to update itself, but being such a large organization, and all the checks needed to prevent waste and fraud, it takes time.

Now go whine about something else which doesn't exist because you heard it on the Fox tabloid.

Comment Remember what OSHA says (Score 2) 69

Every rule is written in blood (or words to that effect).

There's a reason regulations exist. Some might seem comical or outdated, but there's a reason for them.

By saying he's going to remove regulations (what regs are in place now?) what he's saying is it's going to be a free for all. Run fast until something breaks, even if it means unregulated AI takes down entire financial systems or tells people a teaspoon of cyanide in your brisket rub is a good thing.

But then, this shouldn't be a surpise. Trump is well known for not liking regulations because it interferes with his corruption. It's why he fired all those inspectors general for government agencies when he came in or why Bondi just fired the DOJ's top ethics lawyer.

When things go wrong, and they will, guaranteed it will be Obama's fault.

Comment Re:I don't like the phrase 'Conspiracy Theory' (Score 1) 154

Nope, conspiracies don't ever happen.

The 9/11 hijackers did not plan their actions in advance. Just by sheer coincidence, 19 people just happened to be taking those four plane flights. And by coincidence (no coordination) they all got the same spontaneous idea at the same time, an idea they had never spoken about before: let's hijack the plane and crash it.

Crazy people babble on about "evidence" like people taking flight lessons, sharing vehicles, etc. but we know those things cannot possibly be true, because conspiracies are not real.

If you have a hypothesis of x and then find lots of supporting evidence for x and it becomes the prevailing explanation, that creates a theory of x, but there's one exception: when x is a conspiracy. Conspiracies are a special case, because they don't really happen.

Comment Remember (Score 5, Informative) 73

They want you to pay. Everything they're doing is to extract the maximum amount of dollars.

Lower cost electricity through renewables? Gone.

Lower cost for health care? Gone. In fact, if Republicans get their way, everyone will be forced into Medicare Advantage, the most expensive Medicare available, for three years. And you can't get out of it.

Lower cost for broadband service? Gone.

Whatever it takes, you will pay.

Comment Re:ooh stopped clock! (Score 2, Informative) 53

Vance is still a deeply sketchy person.

Vance is the person who says people shouldn't be given a handout, yet crows about the full ride he got to Harvard. Because he was poor.

Vance is also the person who whines about elite universities brainwashing people with "socialist" ideas, while having gone to said elite university.

Vance has also said that Trump was America's Hitler, that Trump is a total fraud, that he never liked the guy and was a Never Trumper. Now he licks the boots of America's Hitler and carries out his policies.

Submission + - 158-year old company goes under due to lax password (bbc.co.uk)

smooth wombat writes: KNP, a Northampshire transport company, shut its doors last week, putting 700 people out of work. The company, which had existed for 158 years, didn't go under due to tariffs or competition. Instead, it is thought hackers gained access to the company's internal systems and data by guessing an employee's password, then encryped everything.

The company said its IT complied with industry standards and it had taken out insurance against cyber-attack.

But a gang of hackers, known as Akira, got into the system leaving staff unable to access any of the data needed to run the business. The only way to get the data back, said the hackers, was to pay.

"If you're reading this it means the internal infrastructure of your company is fully or partially deadLet's keep all the tears and resentment to ourselves and try to build a constructive dialogue," read the ransom note.

The hackers didn't name a price, but a specialist ransomware negotiation firm estimated the sum could be as much as £5m. KNP didn't have that kind of money. In the end all the data was lost, and the company went under.

KNP director Paul Abbott says he hasn't told the employee that their compromised password most likely led to the destruction of the company.

"Would you want to know if it was you?" he asks.

Comment Re:Just say no (Score 1) 105

It's pretty easy to beat this. Just stop buying from Delta.

Do you have any idea how difficult this is? That's like telling people to stop buying from Amazon because of how awfully they treat their workers and all the fake Chinese stuff they sell.

It's impossible to do. I haven't bought from Amazon in years, that's how difficult it is.

Comment Why DVDs are better (Score 4, Insightful) 22

I know there are people who will grumble and whine that DVDs are sooooooo outdated, but this is another example of why they are superior. You never have to worry someone else will take it away from you.

You bought it. You own it. Unless someone breaks into your home and takes it or your home burns down, it is yours forever. You can watch it as many times as you like whenever you want. You are not restricted to someone else's schedule. Nor do you have to worry about it breaking up because the signal got botched.

Further, DVDs don't change. No one can alter the movie with "new and improved" scenes or added "features". Han will always shoot first.

That Microsoft has told users there are no refunds is further justification why DVDs are better than streaming.

Comment Re:Well done! (Score 0) 28

Sensible humans? The ones in India? The most populous nation on the planet? The one where air pollutants are so thick in major cities it looks like fog? Where farmers openly burn their fields to make way for next year's crops contributing to the air pollution? The country which the article states will increase its use of coal-fired power plants? Those sensible humans?

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