In the United States, if you’re going to call a man a pedo, you really need to make sure your shit is buttoned up tight. Because if it’s not, you’re going to have a tough time defending the libel lawsuit.

Now, if you’re a homeless person on the street, or an anonymous Internet poster with “dozens” of views, you probably won’t get sued. Because the chances are you don’t have enough money to make a lawsuit worthwhile.

For a company that has money that could be collected in such a lawsuit, it’s a lot easier and cheaper to just not say that.

Okay. Now go to File Explorer and right click to create a new text file and try to name it “con”. That’s three letters: con. You can’t do it. Not allowed. Because CON has been reserved (in every directory on every drive) for piping to and from console since MS-DOS 2 or so. (I think 2 is when they stole pipes from Unix)

Okay. Now, open just about any kind of desktop window and double click in its upper left corner. In > 9 windows out of 10 that action still closes the window even though the “close window” button was moved to the upper right corner by Windows 3. Even though a bunch of modern applications don’t even have any icon there at all any more.

What the lawyers say is not under oath unless they go to the witness stand and swear in. The main reason is that lawyers mainly are in the court to make opinionated arguments, not to give facts.

Lawyers do have a “duty of candor” to the “tribunal” at all times, however. This is because they have taken an oath (different from the witness oath) to become “officers of the court”. This means they cannot knowingly misstate facts or law to the court.

But the maximum exposure on a duty of candor violation is court sanctions, like fines or adverse court outcomes, possibly contempt, and bar discipline, and so on. It’s not the crime of perjury.

There is a rule that covers fake citations, AI or not. But it’s not immediate.

What’s happens is the court makes a disciplinary referral to the state bar association, which handles barring and disbarring. At minimum there’s some kind of additional bar discipline hearing before adverse action.

Each federal court, district or appellate, can also independently revoke admission to the bar of that individual court.

ICE went on a massive hiring spree several months ago. There were like no background checks whatsoever. People could get hired online without much of any experience or credentials.

It sounds like ICE may be starting to roll some of that back.

How the heck do you cross examine that?

Your thumbprint or face ID can also be “searched”. But your unlock code is testimony, for which you have the right to remain silent.

What source control doing??

The current Lake Shore Limited route is 1,543 km. Doing that in 2.5 hours requires an average speed of 617 km/hr. At TGV top speeds of 320 km/hr it is a 4.8 hour trip.

As far as I know, 600 km/hr requires the development of additional technology not in operational use in other countries.

Linux requires at least 32 bit machine words, and it always has. Linux was originally written for Intel 80386.

Linux requires a hardware MMU to support virtual memory. There are patches that can make a no-MMU kernel, but it drastically changes the experience to do so.

In addition to recovering human remains, the search of East Texas also recovered several parts of flight deck panels.

Just as in the Challenger accident, several switches were determined to have been moved their nominal positions.

By correlating the recovered switches with the telemetry data that was transmitted after loss of voice signal, the investigators concluded that at least one person in that orbiter was alert and working the problem within <1 minute of when molten metal started to penetrate the crew cabin and the seat belts started to fail.

The text of the deal hasn’t been released. No terms in a joint communiqué. The only information we have on what’s in this deal is coming from the social media posts and anonymous background sources.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they haven’t actually closed on a final text yet.

What’s going to happen is:

• The big players know that the token pricing crisis is coming up.
• When the price increases hit, regular users are going to scramble for alternatives.
• Local models will be an attractive alternative for many users. The cost of hardware and energy will constrain local model power, but many will be willing to live with it.
• So these would-be cartel members want to hit the local and open weight models with the “safety” card. Otherwise they might be holding the bag on all of those data centers.

“You see, it’s just too dangerous to humanity to experiment with AI at home. You need to use a safe provider like Open AI.”

Lighting still really hard, yo.

A former Navy physician found that riders were experiencing as much as nine Gs of acceleration as they went through the loop.

v² / r is a bitch.

La Paz, Bolivia is at about 13,000 feet. That’s pretty high up.

But are sockets not files?

pagefile.sys has entered the chat.

At 0.0, breathalysers can’t be used as evidence. They’re not accurate enough.

For what it’s worth, in US aviation, the standard is 0.00 BAC and 8 hours “from bottle to throttle.” But breathalyser evidence is treated with a 0.02 threshold for measurement tolerance.

Their lawyer is trying to get lower bail for them. That’s why he’s saying this stuff.

I believe the government is still trying to get remand with no bail.