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Zero chance of that happening unfortunately. The current Supreme Court would consider restrictions on corporate media ownership a violation of the first amendment, much like restri…

Trees did not evolve with bountiful access to titanium, but it would be interesting to ponder how they would have evolved on a metal planet

That sounds equivalent to writing an unconstitutional law and tacking on “btw, you can’t rule that this law is unconstitutional”. Which is actually possible to do by amending the U…

… … Is it still there?

The idea is that if the TV does not have WiFI or microphone capabilities, none of these are security issues.

I'm guessing it's more difficult to contract a respiratory illness if your lungs are already damaged, malfunctioning, and covered in tar. Plus, smokers are not exactly the pinnacle…

I think it's because friendship-level connections are a lot easier to make when you are in uncomfortably close physical proximity with each other and/or when you need to rely on ot…

Also see the Earth harp: https://www.williamearthharp.com/

This is only true in an environment where nobody from any company travels. However in a world where one company travels for conferences, lunches, in-person events, then that compan…

SPAC seems preferable for companies with an inexperienced board or who are trying to hide something from the public before listing their stock. I imagine SpaceX will eventually go …

Assume there are seven billion people on the planet. One of them knows the location of a specific hidden treasure. I know who it is and I ask you to guess who it is, but you have n…

I recently discovered that on iOS, you can press on the scrollbar to get direct control of the scroll knob. That allows you to quickly jump to any part of the document without havi…

They should be able to obtain a new certificate based on the same private/public key, in which case I don’t think any add-ons would need to be updated.

Yes, but unfortunately the executable bit would be preserved if the file was delivered by way of a .tar.gz bundle. A reasonable user expectation would be to double-click on the .ta…

Right, in the US, you can deduct mortgage interest and property taxes to lower your taxable income. There is a mortgage cap of around a million dollars where the deduction ends, wh…

Probably more like people wouldn’t go out to a cross-town bar or restaurant if they couldn’t take a taxi or lyft/uber to get there. For example, if mass transit is prohibitive (two…

Our elementary school has no bus and the trip there is about two miles, mostly down a street with fast traffic and poor walkability. The drop off process is at least 30 minutes eac…

On my car, when I start the car with my phone attached via Bluetooth, it random shuffles by default. However, if I start the car with my phone attached via USB cable, it plays all …

When you make a mistake on a typewriter with no delete key and no white-out handy, you could back up to the beginning of the error and type "XXXXX" over everything and start anew o…

And the NES robot, R.O.B. ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.O.B .

No, with a packet capture and the private keys from both sides, you would still not be able to identify the master secret negotiated out of the dh key exchange. However, both sides…

If you have vested options, then you can exercise one of them to officially become a shareholder at which point you will have access to a lot of additional information. As only an …

Cleversafe - exabyte object storage system vendor

If your system security depends in any way on a randomly initialized TCP sequence number, you're asking for trouble. It seems it would be preferable to use predictable values so pe…