That’s what HE said!

Small price to pay for distracting people from the Epstein files.

Done by Israel. Seemed obvious from the start.

Totally different. This is a multi-way religious war with Sunnis and Shias taking sides, and then Jews and Christians piling in. And on top of that is oil and nuclear weapons.

Iran has been kept destabilized by the rest of the world for the past 50 years because it brings stability to the rest of the region. KSA, UAE, Oman and Qatar are all quite happy to have Iran playing defense, as is Pakistan (traditional Persian lands and culture overlap most of the current national boundaries).

The main players in the Middle East have been fighting for the last 3,000 or so years, and it hasn’t been a cold fight. The US is traditionally willing to pour just enough weaponry into the area to keep things off balance.

That’s the way; study political science in university and set up a PAC towards your election for some far off date. Have anyone interested donate to the PAC, and then spend years trying to get elected after you graduate, using those funds for your campaign — many different types of activities can count as campaigning.

A dip in arrests, but did the extrajudicial renditions to Texas stop?

The silly thing is, those in their 60s and 50s are Generation X — you know, the generation with a lower population that boomers and millennials usually forget exist.

Android phones don’t have a BIOS for the same reason that Macs don’t have a BIOS and Raspberry Pis don’t have a BIOS — they run on the ARM architecture, not the Intel-compatible PC architecture.

As such, the bootloader system is compliant with a totally different reference system; ARM (Acorn Reference Machine) has been around almost as long as the IBM PC compatible architecture.

As for the “why are phones more locked down” bit, it’s because they’re supposed to be appliances, not general computing platforms. You want your phone to always work, so if you receive a phone call, text or email, it’s likely going to work.

Although the real answer is that if you buy a computer, you own the computer and get to decide what goes on it (well, unless it’s locked down to Windows or macOS). Phones contain bits that are owned by your carrier, bits that are owned by the manufacturer, bits that are owned by the software developer. And each of those groups doesn’t want anyone else messing with their private software.

Remember that old phones with no SIM are still able to call 911. You can use them as emergency call boxes.

I have to admit I’m pretty ignorant in low-end laptops.

Business class laptops tend to be able to charge at 100W over USB-C, but often have a dedicated charging port as well (Magsafe for Apple, rectangular charge port for Lenovo, for example).

For any laptop that draws 100W or less, I believe they’re required to charge over USB-C in the EU. Barrel jack is cheaper though, so they can shave a couple of dollars off the price by using it, which could lead to significant profits in increased sales, since most of the competition is using the same basic parts.

“Worst mass casualty event” — are they saying that the war is over?

Key summary:

A device authenticated to a wifi router can abuse MAC IDs to become an AitM between the router and any other device on any of the router’s networks.

This attack can be pulled off from a compromised IoT device on a guest network that is supposed to be limited to Internet access and not be able to see other devices.

On the plus side, the US government has now ensured Anthropic will do more than the bare minimum in the US.

Of course, that means it’s now OpenAI making kill decisions.

It’s easy to find another interpretation: Israel is a useful stooge for Western powers. They do what they’re told to do.

After all, it’s western powers that created modern Israel in the first place, partly to keep the region destabilized so that the Middle East wouldn’t threaten the Western power bloc.

Great; that means the bloodiest hardliners will rise to power now.

Have you been in a coma since 2018?

American scum have always been American scum, and strong supporters of Putin and Orban.

“What would usually take, for an analysis piece, maybe half a day to a day, was really being crunched down to a few hours, and (it) was scarily accurate,” says Kolga, who tested out Cipher in its early stages and still uses the AI agent to expedite his work.

Next up: Dems working on secret report found Epstein and Trump were friends!

Of course it’s a broad generalization; my point was that the tent cities aren’t predominantly made up of people who hit the kill line, that the situation isn’t that simple.

Fixing the kill line won’t affect tent cities that much; there are further societal issues that are also at play.

In China, substance abuse is handled differently as is mental health issues… so you don’t end up with those people in tent cities either.

This doesn’t mean those people don’t exist in a state of suffering; it just means they’re not publicly visible.

Sounds better than the current solution; I have a feeling it would only take a generation for the same integrity lacking folks to figure out how to game the system though.