I've noticed that people who are disagreeing with people who reference the law or constitution directly as the source of decisions are being flagged as Off Topic or Troll.

We have gotten so far away from what is actual constitutional and what is not that people can't handle being shown what is true.

Fitting name because I'm perplexed why anyone would knowingly install this. (I bet they won't, it's going to be bundled on cheap PCs for sure!)

Yeah I think this is it also. In general I prefer office work, but I like the option of working from home in case of some kind of emergency, but where I work they this year classified my job as not WFH eligible, even though 95% of my work during the week is over SSH, or working in Office 365.

The T3U Plus for the price is a great adapter. We keep them around at work whenever someone needs to move a PC somewhere that doesn't have a network port and their not willing to pay to have a new line run. The regular T3U or the nano adapters though do not work very well. Stick to the T3U Plus.

That's correct. And from talking to someone who has had cancer, she had said that each so-called breakthrough is for a specific kind of cancer that does not translate over since each cancer is a unique thing that has different ways it forms. Radiation and chemo are the "poison the body and hope the cancer dies before the person does" approach.

Both apps are available in the associated app stores. iNaturalist takes pictures that you upload and attempts to identify them. Seek which is an associated app from the same people does it in real time with video so you can slowly pan around and it will start naming various plants and flowers.

They are trying to push manufacturers to not stockpile cheap older parts and instead, start selling more stuff like 14th gen that include the neural processor for AI support. So they can brand more thing as Copilot+ capable.

I struggled with some math in college that was "on paper". Meaning that I know it would take me 15 seconds to write a script to solve the math problem, but struggled to do it by hand on paper. I even remember asking the 70-ish year old instructor why do math symbols and programming symbols have to be different. Especially for boolean operations, I realized that it was pointless arguing but I at least wanted to say it out loud. In my university physics course I had my laptop out and would write little scripts for solving different problems where I could just plug in the numbers that the professor wrote on the board and immediately get an answer. She seemed impressed that I came up with that way for a solution.

"The area that Google did well in that would not have happened had I not been distracted is Android, where it was a natural thing for me. I was trying, although what I didn't do well enough is provide the operating system for the phone. That was ours for the taking."

The antitrust case was overturned by the Appellate Court in 2001. The DOJ and Microsoft settled the outstanding portions in November 2001.

Android Inc. was started in 2003, and was four guys using pre-existing Open Source components to build an OS for mobile phones. Google bought them in 2005, and the first handset using Android was released in 2008.

Bill, you had seven years and the entire backing of a massive corporation (including all of its employees and intellectual property) after the antitrust case was settled, and couldn’t pull off what four guys started and Google finished in five using Open Source components.

Yaz

We got a nasty-gram from Spectrum at a place I worked before because someone was torrenting Ted Lasso on our guest Wi-Fi network that's for contractors in our office building.

That's like describing the crucifixion of Jesus Christ as a carpenter having problems with a few big nails! :-)

Some quibbles: IBM prevented 32-bit OS/2 for 80386 not from bad planning, but an internal struggle to keep 32-bit PCs from biting into the AS400 mini computer business, and there were internal wars for the board approvals.

This was the end of the line for Gates's frustration with IBM, as OS/2 took resources from projects he and Balmer were convinced would take off. Publicly claiming that upcoming Windows 3.0 would not be "Presentation Manager Lite", MS still death-marched developers to produce the release, while devs allotted to IBM sat on their hands or did code reviews for IBM managers. Win 3.0 Program Manager kicked ass on Presentation Manager, it was definitely not "lite" - and it ditched all the heavy-baggage of IBM SNA requirements.

"OS/2 NT" is a bit misleading. Late in the endgame of the IBM/MS relationship, Gates discovered that Dave Cutler was being cut away from DEC, with a recalibration of Prism and the future of Alpha. Cutler had begun a 64-bit microkernel evolution of his VMS system. OS/2 3.0 was on the boards, still dragging MS resources and tying up IP. Gates hired Cutler to build an alternative, skunk works kernel from his Prism design work, with the hope of porting the Windows System 32 layer with dependencies etc. When the last bitter contract work was delivered for IBM, Cutler and the Windows team ground out the hard work of delivering their kernel, TCP stack, and Windows 3.11 port —Windows NT.

Most of this stuff is well-covered in Carroll's "Big Blues" along with Zachary's "Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT". I had a small part at the NT launch in Moscone Center, working for a ghost-writer on the Sybex NT book that launched at that event

I'm probably the lowest UID still occasionally active on Slashdot. It's a habit, that I'd be sorry to see go. This site is still my first pinned tab in Firefox.

Hell, I still even check things out on https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Feverything.blockstacke..., even though they are throwing me an expired cert right now!

Remember Blockstackers?

Goodbye, Mockintosh. Has ANYBODY ever seen one of these creatures, outside a shop flogging them?

"cancelling social security " I'd love that. I'm wasting my money paying into that system when I could be putting it into a mutual find that actually makes a profit.