Hope springs eternal that "the next big thing" will keep people from recording stuff, and provide a one-way direct link to customers' wallets. Meanwhile, I just posted here, https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fcom..., and until Sony makes a camera that won't record a video on a TV screen, anyone can make a bootleg at any time, if they try hard enough.

On "IP rights": what's to stop me from renting a video, and then just pointing my 4K camera at it to record while playing? Assuming I have a tripod, and can get the ratio close enough, can't I make bootleg videos that way? Sure, it's more work, but it's probably less hassle than futzing with HDMI adapters, and such.

Seems like the general thinking is, "Fuck this place; we'll go to Mars when stuff gets bad." Like we can just be-bop on over and populate Mars whenever. We're not very smart.

Those restaurants deserved to fail, then. Pay people a decent wage, and they'll work for you. This is a fundamental axiom in business.

Way back in the dawn of CS - around late '80s - my compsci teacher was an EE that got roped into teaching an Intro to C class. How hard could it be? Ha. I'd already spent a year playing with Turbo C, copying programs from Dr. Dobb's - there's a blast from the past - so that when the prof occasionally slipped up while giving the lessons, I gently hopped in and said, "I think you mean $this," for whatever value of $this. He knew he wasn't an expert, so he welcomed the corrections.

Nah, son, you need to encourage your kids to go into orthodontics. I don't know what the coursework is like, but I know people dumber than me that managed, and after entering practice, their biggest problems were what to do with all of the money. Not even exaggerating. I worked for a small outfit of three doctors, and I remember them doing fuck all for actual work - the assistants did the majority with the docs doing some tweaks and final pass - and spending more time worrying about their race horses, and how to balance their business losses against their gains to minimize taxes. If I'd gone into orthodontics 20 years ago, I'd be sitting on piles of cash about now.

How does a group anonymously send a letter to "Congress"? Is there an address and mailbox for anonymous letters? Do you just let it slip out of your pocket while walking on the steps of the big building and a staffer picks it up to process? What are the mechanics of this?

Parents don't bother getting involved until there's an issue du jour. I served on a school board, and it was something of a surprise if we got anyone other than those being paid to be there - school officials and local news reporters. Then, we'd have a contentious issue, people would fill the room, a lot of shouting would ensue, the issue got "resolved" - or not, but we couldn't do anything more about it - and attendance dropped to zero again.

Parents could make a difference if they cared enough to show up to board meetings where these things are discussed before they're rolled out to classes.

I had a TRS Model 100 and programmed the class assignments in BASIC during class, and then translated them to Pascal - I'm old; get off my lawn - before turning them in for grading.

He didn't say "all": he said a "big percentage."

I get that, because I've done similar while dehydrated, though not while flying a plane. But aren't the cockpits typically nice and comfy?

Soon, Texas will announce their investments in NFTs to diversify their retirement portfolio.

They should've wrapped the vehicle in soft, fluffy pillows to soften the impact.

Black Mirror did this: Season 1, EP 2: 15 Million Merits.

> Fuck that ridiculous iPhone treadmill.

Your bias is showing. Sure, some people are ridiculously insecure and pretentious, and buy new shinies because "new shiny," but not all of us Apple users are like that. 8 or 9 years ago, I was using a 5C, that I got from my grand-daughter when her parents bought her something else. Then, I got an SE that I was going to buy for myself, but my kid pulled a fast one on me at Micro Center, and bought it for me, that punk. I still have that one as my stationary music player, and it still works fine in other aspects as well, but my kids bought me a model 14, so I use that. I've had that one a few years, and feel no need to upgrade until it doesn't work anymore. Or my punk kids buy me another one that I don't need.

Apple puts out phones every year because, surprise!, people reach the end of their phone's life, and need a new one. Apple is not forcing anyone to upgrade on the yearly. If you feel like you're being judged for using an older phone, that's a you problem.