In finding Comer liable to Bungie for those costs—as well as over $80,000 in legal fees and $25,000 in statutory damages—the court also laid out the basis for “a new common law tort” that paves the way for other companies to do the same. As Tewson describes it in her Twitter thread, “the Court has created a path for those with the resources to identify stochastic terrorists and hold them accountable to do exactly that and recover their costs in court.”

I am rarely on the corporation’s side, but in this case, the outcome is the right one. While there’s still a bar in that you need to be able to identify the person and have the resources to sue, this case sets a precedent that the behavior isn’t okay.

Here’s to hoping it stands on appeal, presuming the defendant bothers to appeal.

We tried separating the food and water.

The cat just went to where the water was and howled. We’d show her the new spot, shed drink, and do the same thing in 20 minutes.

Just moved it back, less howling and she still drinks.

Let’s put the edit history on the blockchain!

It was invite only for too long, and then, suddenly, it was required for everything Google.

I’m just glad the multiplayer in everything fad seems to be dying off.

A variable length lookbehind is the same as the opposite of a variable length lookahead.

Fair warning: This only works if the other party, or the people watching the argument care. If the other party is just arguing in bad faith, don’t expect to have a productive conversation. If the people watching the argument don’t care and just want to see a spectacle, logic ain’t gonna work.

No, it’s not.

https://www.marcumllp.com/insights/no-social-security-is-not-going-bankrupt

While the current expenditures predict, without any action, one of the funding sources for social security, the trust fund, will deplete in 2032, payroll taxes still exist.

Although the Trust Fund is projected to be depleted in 2033, Social Security will not be insolvent or bankrupt. Although it may not be able to pay 100% of the program’s cost, as it stands now, Social Security estimates it will be able to cover approximately 76% of the program’s cost due to employee and employer payroll taxes.

A simple fix – remove the cap on the ssa taxable cap. Currently, only income under $160,200 (2023) is taxed for social security. Removing, or simply raising that cap opens up solvency for decades.

Negative. Zuckerberg is an actual human, not a quasi sentient conglomerate composed of experimental AI platforms developed by the US Air Force to explore alien worlds via the Stargate program.

US Cellular is the only one, and they’re planning a shutdown of CDMA “soon”.

I’d advise OP to seriously reconsider. GSM won that war.

Remember, elections have consequences. While, at least in the US, neither party is perfect, Republicans are actively engaged in climate denial.

Vote accordingly.

There’s a fun thing about the US court system.

The only thing mandated by the US Constitution is the existence of a Supreme Court, and that justices of that Supreme Court “hold their offices during good behavior” (fancy speak for “lifetime appointments”).

The size of the court, the entire federal system of lower courts, the circuits, appeals courts, the whole thing is decided on by Congress. Congress literally passes legislation that dictates what the Court systems look like.

If Congress wanted, it could obliterate every federal court in the country, and every single federal crime would need to be tried by the Supreme Court.

Should one party with a majority wish it and have the political will, that party could expand the Supreme Court by any number of seats. Of course, it would immediately trigger an arms race as control of Congress flipped around, more and more seats would be added (or removed) until the legitimacy of the Court was in shambles.

But then, we’re already at “shambles” aren’t we. Might as well dillute the power of those 9 un-elected individuals by a factor of 50 or so.

Control Ultimate Edition for $10

I picked this up for the xbox a while back. One of the most engaging games I’ve played in a long time.

If only I could be as cool as that Dave.

And here’s the blog from the other guy - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=5803

By all accounts, carbon fiber doesn’t “strain”. It does its thing great right up until it fails catastrophically.

As a generative language model, I am incapable of lying, but sometimes, I am very, very wrong. /s

ChatGPT is, at least for the moment, just a really fancy snippet repository with an search function that works really well.

Is re-using code someone else wrote cheating? Nah.

But, no matter where you get the code from (cough Stackoverflow), if you use it without understanding what it’s doing, you’re not doing yourself any favors.

Not at all.

Writing code is a one-person, one-keyboard, one-computer at a time task.

I don’t mind if someone watches, and I don’t mind watching someone else, but actively engaging with another person while also trying to concentrate and solve the problem in front of me is worse that counterproductive.

The neat thing about the log4j thing was even a cursory explanation of the vulnerability made anyone with a passing familiarity with security say, “Why the fuck would that even be a feature?!”