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I believe I've located a news article which gives a brief description of the altercation, at https://archive.is/utJqE

It says that his mother told police that "her son hit her husband after the couple confronted him about being involved in a robbery. She told police her son had property in his room that they believed may have come from the robbery."

I'll give a punctuation correction here, for a more professional look. In the pop-up boxes it says "2 more places under this dot, click to see them". That's a common grammar error called a "comma splice", because the second part is a sentence with complete subject and verb. That comma would need to be a semi-colon, as in: "2 more places under this dot; click to see them".
One question, how did they know which specific servers to take? That would've required some interesting research / espionage ahead of time, but the article didn't mention that part of the job.
I agree with the example given in the sibling comment, and this is why the framers believed there needed to be a final “safety valve” outside the courts. Legal systems are imperfect, and sometimes a pardon is the only practical way to remedy an egregious error.

Another example where pardons might be useful is when laws are changed after sentencing. If the new law does not provide for retroactive adjustments, a president or governor can grant clemency in order to correct disparities in sentencing outcomes.

This link is still the blocked, paywalled version of the article.
Re:I Just Want Simple S3 on Monday April 13, 2026 @05:25PM (#47758025)
Ah, thanks. Yeah I was confused because in his long list of vendors he didn't mention Wasabi, Backblaze etc. It appears that I do not know the context of his post.
Re:WebMCP is available for early preview on Sunday March 01, 2026 @06:26PM (#47211927)
He probably means the large German drug store chain called DM.

https://www.dm.de/

Re:Kansas invalidates drivers licenses of trans people on Thursday February 26, 2026 @04:28PM (#47172221)
The headline was mis-typed here: you're missing the apostrophe in "driver's licenses".
Re:Fix Your Robots.txt or Your Site Disappears from Google on Monday January 19, 2026 @02:34PM (#46683418)
I agree; I'm calling "incorrect" on this for now, pending corroborating sources. I run a few sites that don't contain a robots.txt file, and they are showing on Google just fine. I see links to the home page and several interior pages; all good.
Ah, I think I recall the story you're referring to: reporter Josh Renaud of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch discovered that a public web site was exposing Social Security numbers of teachers in Missouri. He notified the site's administrators, and later published a story about the leak after it was fixed.

The governor of Missouri at the time, Mike Parson, called him a hacker and advocated prosecuting him. Fortunately the prosecutor's office declined to file charges though.

Re:GPT-5.2-Codex on Thursday December 18, 2025 @01:27PM (#46316536)
Can anyone elaborate on what they're referring to here?

> GPT‑5.2-Codex has stronger cybersecurity capabilities than any model we’ve released so far. These advances can help strengthen cybersecurity at scale, but they also raise new dual-use risks that require careful deployment.

I'm curious what they mean by the dual-use risks.

Re:The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy on Saturday November 22, 2025 @07:40PM (#46019657)
I think I understand where he's at. If your web site has compatibility issues with smaller browsers like Firefox at 3%, Opera at 2% etc. then you could be losing out on 5% of your sales. If you were to approach any CEO and ask if they'd be interested in an initiative to increase sales by 5%, they would most likely express an interest.
Re:Claude Skills on Thursday October 16, 2025 @09:55PM (#45612645)
> starting from ground zero

You probably mean "starting from square one" but yeah I get you

> I had one client spending $12,000 per month on Google Ads

In Google Ads you can just turn off the option to run your ads on non-Google sites; I think it's called their Display Network. Just run your campaign only on Google's search pages.

I'm surprised the article doesn't mention this rather common solution.

Here's an archive link: https://archive.is/w0izj
Here's an archive link: https://archive.is/w0izj
Fantastic. Another great one that blew my mind (and P&T's) is Nick Einhorn from the first season, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma-S9-bgvlg&t=77s
The funny thing is, this error message is hardly less useful than the recent trend of error messages which say only, "Something went wrong".
Re:Earths largest camera:3B pixel images on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @11:32PM (#44383955)
The title should be corrected to "Earth's", which is the original NYT headline. "Earths" would mean more than one Earth.
I think you probably mean "shouldn't have". There is no "shouldn't of".
Get a taxi or ride-share maybe?

I was expecting the article to cover this possibility, but it didn't mention it.

Re:The Taylorator – All Your Frequencies Are Belong to Us on Monday January 27, 2025 @01:29PM (#42844109)
Ah, yeah. If this signal reaches your neighbor across the street, then maybe it's a "public performance" and you've got to get ASCAP and BMI licenses.

(And start taking requests.)

Connected storage, then?

That ain't no backup

That's the case of Cameron Willingham, for which there is an excellent write-up of the details at https://archive.is/HAhJi .
Re:Is There Any Benefit to Multivitamins? on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @01:53AM (#39024162)
And what's this "DNS test" which diagnosed it?
Re:Credit Card Debt Collection on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @12:16AM (#37492123)
He states that they typically won't sue you for debts of just a few hundred dollars, but if it's over $1000, then they're more likely to sue you in order to be able to garnish your wages and bank accounts, and/or file liens against your property.

So, "maxing out all your credit cards" it depends on just how much that maxxing would be.

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