Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable

Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table

David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel

And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill

Plato, they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle
Hobbes was fond of his dram

And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart
"I drink, therefore I am."

Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed!

FTFY

I'm guessing their IT support didn't employ anyone with actual IT expertise. Maybe it was led by the company owner's kid.

In what manner are they "cloud" games then?

iOS offers the concept of "focuses" - I believe Android has something similar. You can define what apps and which people can (or can't) bother you during given times of the day / days of the week. You can have them fire automatically based on day and time, or manually. You can define as many as you like.

I've got focuses set up for work, home, and the standard 'do not disturb'. I've also got one I defined - 'REALLY Do Not Disturb' - which blocks almost everyone except my immediate family, as well as most apps. I actually use that one at work a fair bit, whenever I need to concentrate on a project... I just tell my co-workers that I'll be incommunicado for a while and flip that on. (My boss knows he can still get through via text, if he needs to - Teams is blocked)

No, there have been plenty of times the US government has tried to pressure Apple into creating back doors into their products - and I've no doubt we'll see it happen again. Apple has resisted because privacy is a major selling point for them US law (at least currently) allows them to refuse the government's requests.

But this was basically a case of the UK telling a US company they had to give them access to all data on *all* iPhones worldwide - not just UK iPhones. If the UK had made a law specific to UK users iPhones, Apple likely would either have acceded or would have just turned off the relevant services in the UK. Apple has certainly done similar things at the behest of China's government.

Nor the sharpest bulbs?

However, as the article points out - the attacker has to already have gotten operational software onto your system for this to be useful to them. If they're pulling pieces that aren't, in themselves, harmful... antivirus isn't going to flag the traffic regardless. Which is an approach we've known about for some time.

No, it'll be called 'Goofy'.

Swollen areas in the vicinity of Sedna's bottom.

The product is called SharePoint, right? And what's happening is your files are being shared with everybody in the world. So what's with all the whining?

It's right there in the name!

Yeah, this is me as well. If there's something big I want to buy that's not particularly time-sensitive and is likely to be an Amazon purchase, I'll just hold off until Prime Days and see if it gets marked down.

- In 2024, this was a Jackery battery (our older Yeti 1000 had given up the ghost).

- In 2025, this was a TP-Link mesh wifi system (we'd been chugging along with an old Airport Extreme for 12-13 years - still worked, but lately it's needed to get power-cycled somewhat more frequently).

What I'm (mostly) not doing, during Prime Days, is making purchases I hadn't planned on just because I noticed something is on sale.

I suspect the US military budget could be cut by a *lot*... but I think those decisions should be based on a non-partisan, as-objective-as-possible, thorough analysis of what the country actually needs to spend in order to defend itself and to participate in the defense of its allies.

Unfortunately I don't think that's likely to happen, regardless of the party in power. Trump and his sycophants arguably have made the situation worse, but it's not exactly a new problem.

I've seen stories worrying about "gamifying war" since the US military started moving heavily into drone warfare - so for a couple decades at least.

What the Ukranians have done is, of necessity, figured out how to take advantage of technical advancements and do it cheaply, effectively, and en masse - unlike the US, where the military has had carte blanche for-bloody-ever and don't even bother to think about doing anything cheaply (a million dollars to kill one guy? No problem!).

Well, we'd have lucked out that it was them and not the Noonien-Singhs.