A lot of these stores use third-party contractors to make their price changes. They don't pay them well or follow up on their work in many cases, so the contractors might end up placing a few and ditching the rest. It's no surprise to me. Rapidly-changing prices is a paradigm shift for these entities, and they haven't pivoted very well. I feel like the regulators care more than the stores ever will, or even their customers.

He also said, "which is much higher than previous missions have gone." So both his choice of units and words are a bit wonky. Are they really going to be okay?

Well, that's going to revolutionize interrogation I suppose. I don't think the practitioners will appreciate the assist though. It threatens their artistic expression.

The impact of these laws is far larger than a single VPN vendor. Switzerland has long been regarded as a neutral, safe place for data flow, but that reputation has taken some hits from the Proton mail fail and the attacks on bank privacy and now these new laws. I suppose the largest danger here is that Switzerland gets passed up as an AI hub in favor of less repressive governments, in terms of data privacy.

So, financially it's a bust. Surely there is some compensatory social value? But I can't really credit that. It's just too easy to add another encryption layer for sensitive information flow for the really bad guys with the incentive to do so. At this point, you're just compromising regular citizens, catching some low-level criminals, and harming your economy. What am I missing? If anything, it pays to remember that people are generally stupid and that politics are a force multiplier in that respect.

Looking at this from another angle, it sounds like the data brokers helpfully gathered all of their useful pages in your one-stop shop, robots.txt .

I'm always excited by the practical application of science, so I gave this some thought. In my estimation, the biggest impediment to this process is going to be the heavy metal concentration. It might be possible to use the resultant fertilizer for non-food crop use like forestation or biofuel production, but it becomes a problem if you ever want to convert those regions since the metals will mainly remain in the soil.

Another issue is that collecting human urine prior to wastewater dilution isn't really practical. On a commercial scale, you could probably substitute livestock urine as that is easier to control and collect at the source.

Once the material separation processes for heavy metals matures a little bit, this seems like a pretty neat idea.

Right now, CA is curtailing energy at times and in quantities of hundreds of terawatt-hours, exceeding hundreds of billions of dollars of potential in many months. So, I don't think "overflowing" is a misstatement. The overflow of just 2 years would have paid the entire 2 billion dollars for this project. It isn't chump change at all.

Now, grid problems I can understand. These are challenging times for the grid as consumption spikes due to evolving technology and state policy; however, supersaturating the grid with even more power at this time seems premature. I'd rather see a focus on infrastructure.

The timing for this seems poor as California is currently overflowing with solar energy. At least the storage capacity will help shift some of that from (currently) useless to useful. Maybe they're hoping to build a few AI centers with it? I wasn't able to dig up any plans for that with a casual search, though. As it stands, I don't think they'll be able to recoup the costs of the project within the lifetime of the equipment unless the price of energy suddenly skyrockets.

I've been using RSS Guard for a couple of years now. I like to have a variety of news sources and viewpoints, so I read through a couple hundred article summaries each day and zero in on the 20-30 that interest me.

It's still a bit early to call the results, but it seems like both Canon and Sony are taking advantage of Fujifilm's large price increases to pad their own pockets, strategically. Well, businesses being opportunistic and cutthroat is certainly no surprise. Fujifilm is just creating a vacuum for greed to fill. At least they are diversified enough to hold the line, probably. I think the US part of their revenue is only about 15-20%.

Not to mention, when the tariffs disappear eventually, the customers lost to Canon and Sony probably won't come back easily either.

I wonder if this kind of thing will make it easier for something like X Money to slide into the competition mix. Although since it's in partnership with Visa, it seems like there could be problems on that front. Elon Musk has expressed displeasure with the practice of payor censorship especially as it affects the cultural exports of Japan and other vendors of anime and anime-styled games.

At first I thought that the name Littleton Electric Light and Water Departments was a bit redundant until I considered the ramifications of calling it Littleton Electricity and Water Departments.

Sure, there is plenty of systemic failure within the legal system. Good luck stamping that out, and I would welcome the news. However, the sheer hubris of Mrs. Holmes applying herself to the task as if she were any kind of victim doesn't sit well with me. The hallucination she's presenting makes me wonder if she uses some AI copilot for making her press releases.

I suppose they'll copyright my hosts file next?