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Way down at the end of the article, they finally get to the heart of the problem:

And even before 2020, educators nationwide were warning that they lacked the appropriate mental health and social service supports to adequately deal with behavior challenges.

In the late 00's, there was a push to address some of this and school districts were hiring and building out counseling services. Then 2008 hit, the economy cratered and the first thing cut was those same services. An entire generation of students missed out on what could have been much better mental health and social services, because of big banks gambling. But hey, at least we saved those big banks from their own hubris and mistakes, right?

Even with their recent problems, if you are driving any significant distance to the airport, you're far more likely to be killed in a traffic accident on the way there than you are on the airplane.

Over the past decade, California has doubled its minimum wage for most workers to $16 per hour. A big concern over that time was whether the increase would cause some workers to lose their jobs as employers' expenses increased.

Instead, data showed wages went up and employment did not fall, said Michael Reich, a labor economics professor at the University of California-Berkeley.

“I was surprised at how little, or how difficult it was to find disemployment effects. If anything, we find positive employment effects,” Reich said.

Quoted from the article and emphasis added for those with reading comprehension difficulties.
Wages got decoupled from profits many years ago. These sorts of increases are about bringing them back in line.

Setup a trade. Russia gets Vasyl Maliuk (The Head of the Ukrainian SBU), if they hand over Putin for trial at The Hague for War Crimes. While I don't believe Maliuk is guilty of anything (other than prosecuting clandestine actions in a defensive war), I also suspect he'd be enough of a patriot to take one for Ukraine, if meant Putin was held accountable for this war.

Not too surprising. AI is the latest technology to go though the Gartner Hype Cycle. We are currently riding high in the "Peak of inflated expectations". And I just really cannot wait for the whole thing to crash. I've not been hit by the Xbox problem, but I work in the Cybersecurity space. And you can't swing a Cat-5 O' Nine Tails without hitting a security vendor touting their "AI Features" in their products. And they all suck, every single one of them. What they do really, really well is generate false positives with exactly zero supporting evidence, artifacts or documentation. Here's one of Microsoft's. That's the description of a real alert in a real Microsoft security product. The page could have been a full-screen, auto-playing video of Sam Kinison screaming "Fuck You" and it would have improved the usefulness of the page. At least it would have been funny the first time. And with AI's being black boxes most of the time, you never have any clue as to why the alert was triggered. Instead of a clear "here's the logs/packet/process which was seen". It's basically, "we think something bad happened, god luck figuring it out". It may as well be a random number generator on the back end for all the usefulness it provides.

I'm sure AI will one day be useful and even now it likely has it's niches. But the current trend of "sprinkle some AI in it" and hoping for the best isn't working.

This all sounds a lot like the moral panic around alcohol, which led to Prohibition in the 1920's. And that turned out so well...for organized crime.,
This is also the same type of panic which showed up around dancing, comic books, movies, TV and a whole host of other forms of entertainment down through the years. At some point, we need to accept that entertainment can be addictive, and too much can be bad, but that's not a legal (or tort) problem, but a social one. We don't need to give credibility to the Jack Thompsons of the world with their pearl clutching and attempts to control everyone. Instead, we need to be offering help and treatment to those who have trouble self-regulating.

At the same time, I'm all for taxing the hell out of microtransactions, much like many nations do with alcohol. Put it on a sliding scale. Directly buying cosmetics which do not affect gameplay can be on the lower bound with a marginal tax. Anything which has an effect on gameplay gets taxed at a higher rate. Anything which involves a random chance is either directly outlawed or taxed at a crippling rate. And "points/coins/gems/widgets" as a required currency to buy anything is flat our outlawed and the people who came up with the idea get fed feet first into a chipper shredder.

And Windows Me never even made the list.
Having been an early adopter of it, I know why.

Assuming this is the printer. It looks like it has both wired and wireless networking. Does it work over wired ethernet or does that fail as well?

What are you smoking and why isn't it legal in Virginia?
State marijuana legislation has nothing to do with the flow of FedGov money into NoVa. The area owes its wealth to two factors:

1. Proximity to DC, including areas which used to be part of DC. With easy access to the Federal Government, both businesses and organizations want to be there.
2. It's not Maryland. Because who the hell wants to be in Maryland? Kidding aside, Virginia has lower taxes and is usually considered more business friendly than Maryland.

Also, both DC and Maryland already have legalized marijuana and neither of them have been cut off from the FedGov money train.

Lastly, "Republicans in NoVa"? I'm sure there are dozens, but if you start driving West on I-66, you're going to reach the border of West Virginia before you hit a major enclave of Republicans.

The early XBox UI was great. Then Microsoft decided that what you really needed to see when you fired up your console was ads. Also some horrible Mii clone. Because the Switch was popular. It went downhill like a body over a cliff from there.

However, let’s face it, Valve isn’t about to just let Microsoft run a GamePass app on SteamOS either.

SteamOS is Linux (Arch). If Microsoft wanted to put GamePass on Linux, there's no reason it wouldn't run on a SteamDeck. Valve isn't trying to create the same sort of "walled garden" which you get with other consoles. I have several games loaded up on my SteamDeck which aren't from Steam. And I can even add them to the Steam interface. Microsoft software not running on the SteamDeck is entirely Microsoft's choice.

The original game was fun for a while, but got repetitive . And, of course, once the servers shut down, multiplayer was dead.
Will be interesting to see what they do with it. I just hope it's not Hellgate: Microtransactions.

It's always a "chicken or the egg" situation. Right now, there isn't much need for a home router with anything faster than a 1Gbps port. In the prosumer space 10Gbps is available, but it's not super cheap (about $300 with SFP module). But, if something like 50Gbps becomes common, manufacturers will be incentivized to make products for it. The economies of scale and the effects of competition will kick in and prices will come down.

I'm old. I was at one of the events where Intel announced 1Gbps over copper. This was supposed to be impossible, there was no way to push 1Gbps over Cat-5 cables. But, with Cat-5e and Cat-6, they had cracked it. At the time, there was no way this was ever going to be a cheap technology and it was intended for large enterprises for major switch interconnect runs. Now it's everywhere.

Maybe 50Gbps to the home won't happen. And this is just some exec blowing smoke. But, maybe they'll do it and kick off the market for cheaper equipment in that class. While I do agree that we're lacking the "killer app" to make that much bandwidth to the home necessary. Things like music and video streaming came about after the advent of faster speeds. It wasn't until we had DSL that people realized that streaming music, in real time, would be a thing. We needed the bandwidth to be there for the use cases to be discovered.

The investigation report is going to be interesting. While bridges can only take so much punishment, they are usually designed to survive some collisions with their pylons. I wonder what the state of the bridge was, prior to the collapse. If it's anything like the rest of the infrastructure in the US, it was probably not good. Though, this may also be a case that the designers in the 70's planned for a collision with a cargo vessel of the times, which were tiny bath tub boats compared to the super container ships we have now. The Dali was built in 2015 she is a 300m ship capable of carrying 116851 tons. That's a lot of mass for the pylon and it's barriers to stop.

Cultural appropriation is US culture. The UK and Ireland were just some of the earliest donor countries.

Mr Trump’s lawyers notified an appeals court earlier this week that their client has failed to raise the capital to cover the bond, saying finding a surety company to help them was proving a “practical impossibility”.
The former president has approached “about 30 surety companies through four separate brokers”, his attorneys said, but had so far come back empty-handed in the face of “insurmountable difficulties”.
“Critical among these challenges is not just the inability and reluctance of the vast majority of sureties to underwrite a bond for this unprecedented sum, but, even more significantly, the unwillingness of every surety bond provider approached by defendants to accept real estate as collateral,” his attorneys wrote.

Wait, so you're telling me that all those surety companies aren't willing to loan money to a known grifter who is famous for not paying back his loans? I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked!
Ok, not that shocked.

From the unsaflok.com site:

Dormakaba uses a Key Derivation Function (KDF) to derive the keys for some of the Saflok MIFARE Classic sectors. This proprietary KDF only uses the card’s Unique IDentifier (UID) as an input.
Knowledge of the KDF allows an attacker to easily read and clone a Saflok MIFARE Classic card. However, the KDF by itself is not sufficient for an attacker to create arbitrary Saflok keycards.

Security is hard. Cryptography is even harder. Don't roll your own algorithms, it's just asking for a problem. And given that "oversight", I'd bet that the rest of the kill chain involves equally bad encryption or hashing being used on the cards.

While I do enjoy the place, it can be an echo chamber. And you seem to have upset the Indigo Blob.

I hate the Orange Baboon as much as the next person, but from the article:

The Justice Department opened the latest case in 2019 under former President Donald Trump.

Unless Time Cook has a sudden change of heart and starts sucking up to Trump, I doubt that Apple is going to get a free pass.

Absolutely, no matter how careful they were about the relationship, Willis had to know this could create the appearance of impropriety. Which is exactly what the judge ruled and likely any sane judge would have ruled. Willis may as well have asked, "how can I snatch defeat from the jaws of victory?" Because she absolutely found the answer.