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Comment Re:fake news!!! (Score 1) 99

Dated June 10th 2025.

Here, I'll spoon feed you the relevant part of the linked story:

ARC is apparently selling data to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which is a part of the Department of Homeland Security. ARC entered into a contract to provide data beginning in June of 2024, and the contract remains in effect until 2029.

I don't like Darth Cheeto. I don't like that he ignores the law and the constitution when it suits him. But you cannot blame him for something done by the Biden administration.

Comment Re:USB floppy emulators (Score 1) 150

Well,
I googled for it yesterday and got a few dozen factories as hits ...

Great. Post some of those links. Hell, post one of them.

Yes, and each floppy disk usually had hundreds of floppies. [then some spiel about legacy users]

I'm going to assume that the above is just a typo, and you meant "each floppy disk drive." Even still, it makes no sense. Are you seriously suggesting that legacy users are consuming three times the annual production of the entire market at its peak? Do you not know what the word "peak" means?

Comment Re:outsourcing (Score 1) 84

Right, so you pay $10M in programmer salaries, make $5M in revenue, and have to pay tax on your $3M in profit. Kinda puts a wet blanket on things. And every time you grow you go through the same thing -- expenses now, taxes now, deductions later.

Sure. But that's a one time issue, and after five years your carried forward deductions add back up to 100%. The change was just a short term revenue boost for the government, not anything that affected anyone long term.

Comment Seriously?? (Score 1) 20

WiFi should have been a solved problem 10-15 years ago if not earlier. If FreeBSD is ever hoping to keep up linux it really needs to sort itself out. I ran FreeBSD 6 back in the day but eventually gave up on it because Linux just powered on ahead not just in usability and functionaluity but ease of install and setup and that matters not just for Gary Gamers laptop but also in the server room and on VMs.

Comment Re:outsourcing (Score 1) 84

At least in tech, there's a new wave of outsourcing going on since the R&D tax credits ended a couple years ago, but it doesn't get talked about as much as the "AI stealing jobs" hype machine.

R&D tax credits did not end. The way they are accounted was changed. IIRC, instead of being able to claim 100% of the credit in year one, you claim 20% of the credit in each of five years. This is a rolling period, so after a five year adjustment period, the credit is essentially a wash.

Comment Re:Paper strips (Score 1) 150

If you look at the record of Republicans voting to fund the FAA since then (22 years is a long time ago), you'll find that they generally haven't been giving the agency the resources they've been asking for, even just to maintain a level of operational effectiveness, nevermind adequately fund a whole new ATC system.

Your link only says, essentially, "congress should have given us more money" and not "evil mustache twirling republicans are the reason for our problems." So, I did look.

The FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (first I could find post Dubya administration) was, indeed, somewhat contentious (most house democrats voting against the final conference bill, though the senate was less divided). I don't know why the bill was controversial, maybe it was direct funding, but I don't have the data. The FAA Reauthorization Act(s) of 2018 and 2024 were both broadly bipartisan, so I will make the (possibly poor) assumption that 2012 was about other things rather than a specific dollar amount.

From 2009-2024, the democrats have controlled the senate for a total of ten years, the republicans for six. The democrats controlled the house for six years, the republicans for ten. The democrats controlled both houses for four years, the republicans for four years. The democrats controlled the executive for twelve years, the republicans for four (and each with a two year period of full control of government, with the democrats having a ~3 month period of theirs including a filibuster proof senate majority).

So, where is the evidence of your claims that this is a single party problem? Which record should I be looking at?

Comment Re:Paper strips (Score 1) 150

When the bureaucracy needs money and manpower to accomplish useful work, and one side has consistently denied them that money and manpower, I think it is more than fair to point the finger at Republicans. Anything less is just being purposefully ignorant.

Given that a Republican controlled congress (with broad bipartisan support) and a Republican president appropriated that money and manpower 22 years ago, I would say that you are the one being purposefully ignorant.

Comment Re:But iCANn think of many reasons to resist capit (Score 2) 18

I have this mental picture a retirement home full of demented nerds flashing printed copies of Goatse at each other.

The thing that gets me is the consistency. It feels as if there's a union foreman somewhere who has been ensuring at least one is assigned to every story since the late 90s.

<OldManVoice> Back in my day, it was all about hot grits and a petrified Natalie Portman, and Goatse was just a giant gaping asshole without a dick shoved in it, dammit! We had CowbowNeal and polls, and we liked it that way! </OldManVoice>

Comment Re:USB floppy emulators (Score 1) 150

When was the last time someone made a floppy diskette?

Just now. Every second while you are reading this: thousands run out of the factories....
However you likely have to look to Taiwan, Korea or Japan to get them.

As usual with your claims, [citation needed]. Floppy disks being sold today new all appear to be old stock manufactured in prior years or used, rather than rolling off a production line (and, really, "thousands per second?" If we define "thousands" in the lowest possible term (i.e. "two") that would be 7.2 million per hour, 57.6 million per eight hour shift, 288 million per five day week at one shift per day, and roughly 15 billion per year... which is triple the number of floppy disks sold per year at the peak of the market).

Comment Re:Paper strips (Score 2) 150

That's what happens when the shitass Republicans block updating the system for a few decades. And when America-hating senile assfucks in the vein of Ronald Reagan try to sabotage the system and leave us woefully behind in staff recruiting.

I'm just gonna put this right here.

Two decades ago, Republican majorities in both houses and a Republican president.

Comment Bollocks (Score 2, Insightful) 202

If we're not intelligent then the term is meaningless. And we're more that just a search engine (well, you might not be) because we have self awareness (yes, we do , its not an "illusion" as some idiots claim because otherwise who or what is the illusion fooling?)

"Many (most?) have labored under the hubris that there is something mysterious and unattainable about the human mind"

Few people claim that. What they do claim is that the human mind is way more complicated than was assumed plus it works in a different way to ANNs anyway - biological brains do not use back propagation. What they do use in lieu of it isn't really understood plus its not only the neurons that affect brain state and operation. White matter and various chemicals plays a big part too.

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