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It’s still gross negligence to place punctuality over safety, regardless of the reasons behind this behaviour.
> The accident from January this year in Spain was also a collision, but because a train derailed, while another train passed it. This can't really be prevented by a current train control system, other then not allowing the derailment to happen in the first place.

Or by putting all the signals to red after the derailment of the first train so as to stop all the circulation on the line, which seems not to be the common practice in Spain unfortunately.

Wait until all the DCF77 clocks around the continent will start to diverge from the official time of the country in which they are located.
Or EUVD-2026-108169.
Re:gTLD Reveal Day: 1372 unique strings on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @03:31PM (#49997693)
It is interesting that a company applied for .roma when .roma.it is already available for registration at the same price as a standard .it domain.
Re:IANA's email about why example.com changed on Friday October 02, 2026 @08:45AM (#49932895)
The choice to include Russian is interesting, given the times.
Re:216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video] on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @03:11AM (#49622447)
Because Firefox never released its Matchstick.
Wallpapers are probably randomly selected in a small pool of available pictures. I used 3 different Windows laptops today: one was showing the Harry Potter ad and the two others a nice view of Bamberg.
Re:Terpstra Keyboard on Saturday September 05, 2026 @12:20PM (#49578038)
Why is it redirecting to the website of a Romanian IT company?

Edit: it seems it's doing so on Firefox, but not on Edge.

Re:Iceland rejects reopening talks on EU entry on Sunday August 30, 2026 @06:30AM (#49497411)
I would say it’s the other way round: being in the common market means that they are already subjected to EU regulations, without having any representation in the governing bodies however.
Maybe they can now move to a .it subdomain, since they are not designated as a terrorist organization in Italy.
Re:iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @05:10AM (#49430968)
Can they block registrations from @private.icloud.com?
I’m in Italy now and I can open the Archive page with the article.
Re:Amazon Germany to Accept Wero on Thursday August 06, 2026 @04:01AM (#49193846)
I've been paying with Bancomat Pay on Amazon in Italy for a long time. Once EuroPA and EPI will be integrated together [0], it will be possible to pay with Wero on Amazon Italy as well.

[0] https://epicompany.eu/media-insights/europa-and-epi-launch-c...

> unilaterally converting some already sold bonds to '100 year bonds'

Is this even legal? I mean, is this possibility stated in some terms and conditions that one must accept when purchasing a bond?

Re:LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @02:16AM (#49002516)
Do you recommend any specific distro for this?
Re:Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database on Monday July 20, 2026 @10:24AM (#48979305)
"Very old" could mean that they were not up to date. What did they do when the backups didn't match the actual situation at the time of the breach?
> because Russia needed time to update glonass satellites.

Why is this? As leap seconds don’t occur on a regular frequency, I assume they are not hardcoded on the software or hardware on board, but the control centre uploads them on the satellites enough in advance once they have been scheduled. So why can’t the control centre just stop sending those updates?

Not saying this is the case of Roomba, but often devices need 24/7 Internet connectivity so that their manufacturers can sell traffic through their owner’s network.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48174465

Re:Microsoft Fire IdTech Team at Id Software on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @12:24PM (#48820020)
It looks exactly like what Microsoft already did to its browser engine Trident, which was replaced by Google’s Blink on Edge.
Re:Meta's Un-Stable Signature on Sunday July 05, 2026 @04:53AM (#48792445)
How can a watermark be unremovable?
They don't even have internet anymore...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr510de17jlo

Re:Dear Microsoft, enough is enough on Friday June 05, 2026 @04:34AM (#48409688)
Why is Microsoft pushing Windows users to use Edge? What does it gain if a user chooses Edge over Firefox or Chrome? Is it just about in-browser ad?
Re:A Man Who Reads Books for a Living (One Every Two Days) on Thursday June 04, 2026 @06:02AM (#48396415)
> The good news is that some of these habits are massive levers; biological age can drift decades (worst-to-best).

Do you have any good readings to recommend on this topic?

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