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Re:America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @11:27PM (#49904040)
Let's hope advertising doesn't come to .gov sites.
Shade structure is not required at all. California has also been experimenting with floating plastic "shade balls" in the water.
If it is a business no one cares about, then why has Google been fighting this?
Privacy experts are raising concerns after a Winnipeg bar flagged a woman as a nationwide public safety concern through its ID scanning system, which led to her being denied entry to a Calgary Stampede venue in July.

Alexandra, a Montreal-based lawyer, went to the Riverside bar in St. Vital on June 6, where a person working security scanned her driver's licence at the door using a Patronscan ID scanner.

Alexandra soon learned the Winnipeg bar is part of Patronscan's flag network, a system the Calgary-based platform uses to alert other venues about problematic people.

This company is working on a pollution capture device:

https://thetyrecollective.com

Re:Canyon HUD helmet for road riding on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @11:44PM (#48668599)
US.

Here are 2017 numbers (ok...only 96% that year). https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

Re:Canyon HUD helmet for road riding on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @11:33PM (#48668524)
Same author, same BS.
Re:Canyon HUD helmet for road riding on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @01:46AM (#48640835)
"one study suggests that helmet use may reduce the risk of head injury by 83%"

That one study has been thoroughly debunked...yet decades later it still gets cited.

https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2013/06/04/feds-no-longer-ba...

Re:Canyon HUD helmet for road riding on Monday June 22, 2026 @08:54PM (#48638714)
99% of bike fatalities involve car crashes. There is no styrofoam helmet which will protect against that, and the VaTech test notably does not model that type of crash.

To my knowledge, the only group that tried to test bike helmets against a car is Volvo -- and all helmets failed.

My son took CS10 a couple years ago, and even I (Masters in EECS from UCB) struggled with some really obtuse multiple-guess questions he showed me on the homeworks. Much of the classwork is done in Snap, a weird and stupid graphical "programming" language. If 1/3 of the students are failing, that may have more to do with the professor.
Re:MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @03:02PM (#48388331)
Enterprise Mac still has occasional problems -- mainly due to Microsoft crapware IT departments insist on installing.
Re: on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @03:50PM (#48375308)
A series of Youtube videos critical of Battleborn batteries has now led to a lawsuit by Dragonfly Energy.

https://diysolarforum.com/threads/battleborn-batteries-suein...

The CBOSS fiasco, which added $200 million in costs, certainly can't be blamed on Atherton.
There are some trials underway testing that hypothesis.
Re:Even "cat readme.txt" is not safe on Friday April 17, 2026 @07:12PM (#47811587)
An almost identical security issue in iterm2 reported 6 years ago:

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/10/09/iterm2-critical...

Re:Just Put It on a Map on Friday March 20, 2026 @09:26AM (#47454186)
Nice idea, except the actual mapper site requires a google login to view.
I can find only a single paper making this claim about marathoners. And that study has attracted a lot of criticism.
By that you mean the fines should be made much higher, right? Because traffic crashes have a huge economic cost.
> they cannot use that fact against you to prove it was in fact you driving- they have to prove that independently.

5th amendment protections are much weaker for civil cases though.

IANAL but she could also have a good case that it will be impossible for her to get a fair trial.

Some potential jurors will have seen these doctored photos. With the prosecution putting out obviously false info then it calls into question their credibility and any other evidence presented at trial.

Re:Xous Operating System on Saturday January 17, 2026 @05:36PM (#46662801)
Trust and transparency: https://betrusted.io
Re:LaTeX Coffee Stains [pdf] (2021) on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @11:50AM (#46528752)
Yes, but local permitting is a complete shitshow. For example, I should be able to plug in a simple balcony-solar system, but my PUC prohibits the technology.
Literally car-brained.
So Retinox5 from Star Trek?
That was the second one (Reloaded). Filmed in downtown Oakland and Alameda Naval air station.

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