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Comment Re:TL;DR: Gotta keep the bubble going (Score 3, Informative) 127

The Commerce Clause has been interpreted so broadly that there's literally nothing that it can't apply to. Wickard and Raich held growing your own plants on your own land for exclusively your own consumption was interstate commerce because *maybe* you would have bought from another seller and that somehow maybe affects the 'overall market' which is interstate.
With that level of indirect, tenuous, theoretical possibilities based "logic" the outcome of any Commerce Clause case is decided simply by choosing the outcome desired based on politics, policy, or bribery, then working out the justification.

Comment Re:So paper does seem to be (Score 1) 48

Lucky. In the 90s-early 2000s for me, we had a computer typing class in middle school... and in highschool... a computer typing class, and an Office class you had to be a senior to take and I had too many more important classes (I was already highly proficient in it and programming VBA for years). So for me they were just games classes. Type out the days work in 5-10min then just play games. No internet, which ironically we had in every other class and the library... in 7th grade History of all places we learned HTML to make a website for a project.
I would have loved any kind of serious computer class.

Comment Re:What happens? (Score 1) 237

Really doubt it's going to keep most off. Every class has at least one kid who will know how to beat the block, and that kid will show everyone else. Like probably a lot of /.ers I was that kid once... Nearly everyone certainly wanted a copy of the tools I wrote to bypass the school site blocker, and that was just with the school library computers. Nobody else in class could *make* the tools, but it made me feel cool as an unpopular nerd so I made sure to simplify it enough for everyone.
Also there's free VPNs. Teens wanting to get to a forbidden fruit don't care about the privacy and ads from them. And I'm sure other ways will be found. Whoever thinks this will keep any significant percentage off has clearly forgotten what it's like to be that age.

Comment Re:Good job (Score 1) 38

I asked it one of my favorites... how to do something very unusual in a specific programming language. A traditional Google search easily surfaces on the 1st page the 1 major forum thread demonstrating how it is indeed possible with a full sample and lengthy explanation, 10y old now, my 2 public GitHub projects expanding on the subject, 1 and 2y old, and articles mentioning them.
Gemini failed like all others, falsely claiming it's impossible. I'd say it failed worse than any AI yet, as it offered an mostly wrong method of using the requested language as a front end as an alternative, where others manage that at least. It then became even more nonsensical than others attempting to press forward.

Comment Re:I don't understand what the issue is. (Score 1, Troll) 265

The Trump administration clearly considers anything less than discrimination in favor of conservative white people to be "DEI". Have you looked at some of the grants they've canceled for "DEI"? It also includes things entirely unrelated to anything conceivably covered by the definition and anodyne statements that everyone is welcome.

Comment OSK always broken (Score 1) 96

My Surface tablet has taken to booting into the menu... with enough tapping an on screen keyboard pops up... but it's *never* worked. If you didn't buy a keyboard with your tablet you'd be shit out of luck because that's the only way you're ever getting Windows to progress past that. No timeout to default.

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