A standard would reduce the barrier to entry, which would increase competition. Can’t have that.

Guess I didn’t realize it’s hitting humans on Long Island pretty well.

https://www.cdc.gov/west-nile-virus/data-maps/current-year-data.html

“… is now recovering at home … is expected to make a full recovery …”

To save you a click. (There’s not much more in the article.)

Unfortunately, the article doesn’t mention where he got it. Was he visiting some lab or did he get bit someplace some locals should be taking precautions?

(He’s retired, but I don’t know if he still has a presence in the industry or not, giving talks and doing visits.)

My thought on that is that they needed a new location so their image didn’t just look like a modified version of another of the victim’s public images, so NK searched for a stock photo for a professional looking location. Ars has just located the stock image they started from.

My guess would be that they needed to get a mid-point between existing photos of the guy whose identity they stole and the guy that would show up in the video interviews.

I think it’s that the parent company took out huge loans to buy Redbox. And that’s the streaming service they setup has ongoing costs and overhead, like licencing. And the loans they took out to make their own content.

Anybody else spend way too long trying to figure out why there were umlauts over the “n” in the second panel? 🤦🏻

The actress was born in Cleveland, Ohio. So there’s that.

The 5th circuit is a treasured location to forum shop to get the outcome the plantiffs are looking for.

https://prospect.org/justice/2024-04-15-americas-fifth-circuit-problem/

Kodak used this calendar for 60 years. The company’s decline started within a decade of abandoning the calendar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

If Apple cares about protecting privacy they’d use an open, interoperable, cross-platform standard instead of just making cracks like, “just buy your Mom an iPhone.”

Why is that kangaroo making huge, green origami swans?

I’ll just leave this here: https://www.thunderbird.net/

I could be wrong, but “capital gains” to me means only on the increase in value. So if they bought the house for $200k, they would be paying tax only on the $300k.

https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/commercial/thanks-to-big-data-landlords-know-how-to-squeeze-the-most-out-of-renters-eb7e5f02

https://www.housingwire.com/articles/yardis-rent-setting-software-illegally-drove-rent-prices-up-for-millions-of-renters-lawsuit/

Hey!! I worked on Supernova! (In the model shop at Digital Domain, running a LaserCam.)

https://feddit.rocks/comment/1246842

https://www.cafedvd.com/ does rent-by-mail too. Issue for me is that they’re also West Coast, so any request/rental takes a good week to get to the East Coast.

Anybody know any place doing this out East?