Daily Tech News 15 March 2024

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Intel's 6.2GHz 24 core i9 14900KS is here. (AnandTech)

Priced at $689, it's a theoretical 150W part with a 253W maximum short-term power consumption that uses 375W here in the real world.

PassMark doesn't have any scores up yet but I doubt it's worth the cost and heat for most users. A 14700 will give you 75% of the performance at less than half the power consumption.

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Western Digital's SN5000 is a budget SSD that can hit read speeds of 6GB per second. (AnandTech)

It's QLC and DRAMless which is a bad combination for server workloads, but if you're doing typical desktop stuff where you want to load and save files quickly rather than perform millions of tiny updates within files (the way a database does) it should be fine.

Price is... Not mentioned. And whether this is worthwhile depends entirely on that price.
GPT-4 can now play Doom... Very, very badly. (Hot Hardware)

Likewise.
Google gets one right: Every major AI except Google Gemini leaks private information. (Ars Technica)

Samsung banned the use of third-party AI tools by all its employees last year after three leaks of proprietary information were traced back to, well, that.
The FTC and DOJ say it should be legal to fix McDonalds' ice cream machines. (The Verge)

The company that makes the machines is as notoriously litigious about third-party repairs as the machines themselves are notoriously unreliable.
Let a thousand Nintendo Switch emulators bloom... Maybe. (The Verge)

Nintendo sued the Yuzu emulator for "facilitating piracy", and the developers settled the suit and vanished.

Since Yuzu was open source, though, there is now a swarm of clones for Nintendo to contend with.

Disclaimer: There is no fork.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2024 04:02 AM (T4tVD)

2 Slow night in Blogland.....

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2024 04:04 AM (T4tVD)

3 Tap....Tap....Tap....

Is this thing on ?

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2024 04:05 AM (T4tVD)

4 (Willard from previous Thread)

It's raing and stuff out I didn't want wet
Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2024 01:57 AM (fwDg9)

Dark too !

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2024 04:06 AM (T4tVD)

5 Evening and morning to all on a . . . well, I was going to write "glorious" Friday, but it's really not that glorious. Except in that it's Friday, I mean. Though I hope *yours* is glorious.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2024 04:07 AM (omVj0)

6
There is no fork... to give?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 15, 2024 04:08 AM (RKVpM)

7
Where are my manners... Happy Ides of March.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 15, 2024 04:09 AM (RKVpM)

8 And in yet another example of Democrat over the top heated rhetoric- TX Latino Democratic Congressman compares "Latinos for Trump" to "Jews for Hitler":

https://tinyurl.com/26f9dwnk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 15, 2024 04:13 AM (Ki//m)

9 G'Day everyone
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2024 04:16 AM (fwDg9)

10 I may have to follow Pixy with an equally comprehensible Farm Report.

Whole Cottonseed (FOB Gin) N/A N/A
DAP (Diammonium Phosphate) 700.00-1185.00 881.00
MAP N/A N/A
25-S (Liquid Nitrogen 30-32% spread) 275.00-300.00 291.00
Urea 450.00-585.00 503.00
10-34-0 (Liquid ammonium polyphosphate) 600.00-950.00 775.00
11-37-0 (Liquid ammonium polyphosphate) N/A N/A
10-10-10 (N-P-K) 425.00-540.00 480.00
Lime (Spread) 65.00-90.00 76.00
Potash (Potassium) 450.00-580.00 485.00
Ammonium Sulfate 450.00-755.00 560.00

Farm Diesel Fuel per gal

Posted by: Miklos, out of season at March 15, 2024 04:19 AM (v+0wn)

11 Farm Diesel Fuel per gal

Posted by: Miklos, out of season

Does that include the Amish Farms ?

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2024 04:24 AM (T4tVD)

12 7 Where are my manners... Happy Ides of March.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 15, 2024 04:09 AM (RKVpM)

And just where is our stabby-stabby commenter on this fine morning?

Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 04:27 AM (o3SCB)

13 Does that include the Amish Farms ?
Posted by: JT

We are busy committing rapes and murderings

Posted by: the Amish at March 15, 2024 04:28 AM (v+0wn)

14 8 And in yet another example of Democrat over the top heated rhetoric- TX Latino Democratic Congressman compares "Latinos for Trump" to "Jews for Hitler":

Really, really white hispanics.

Posted by: Tacos Tacos Uber Alles at March 15, 2024 04:29 AM (l3lOm)

15 Tap....Tap....Tap....

Is this thing on ?
Posted by: JT'

I'm here, I had to strap on my gun and walk to the office where I have a ton of stuff to do.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 15, 2024 04:30 AM (43xH1)

16 Where are my manners... Happy Ides of March.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 15, 2024 04:09 AM (RKVpM)

And just where is our stabby-stabby commenter on this fine morning?
Posted by: m

Et tu, m Brute?

Posted by: Miklosius on behalf of Her Stabbyness at March 15, 2024 04:30 AM (v+0wn)

17 Disclaimer: There is no fork.

There is no "there" there.

Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 04:30 AM (o3SCB)

18 Disclaimer: There is no fork.

I wept because I had no fork.

Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 04:31 AM (o3SCB)

19 I'm here, I had to strap on my gun and walk to the office where I have a ton of stuff to do.
Posted by: LenNeal at March 15, 2024 04:30 AM (43xH1)

At least yer not drinking water out of a muddy hoofprint !

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2024 04:33 AM (T4tVD)

20 Funny story: there is a Turkish outfit that makes really, really nice Turkish walnut grip panels for all kinds of oddball/antique/foreign pistols nobody else makes grips for. They've been kicking around for years, and their products are terrific, but people ordering off Etsy or wherever were always shocked when their package shipped from Turkey/Turkiye!
So at some point in the last few months, they somehow imported a ton of product into the USA and are now shipping from a small town in the Midwest, working under the business name of 'Karen Jones'!!!!
I recognized them immediately and ordered a set of grip panels I've been looking at for at least 3 years. They arrived today and they're beautiful.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 15, 2024 04:35 AM (43xH1)

21 Disclaimer: There is no fork.

I wept because I had no fork.
Posted by: m

Then I met a man who had no spoon.

Posted by: What Miklos has is Paid for at March 15, 2024 04:36 AM (v+0wn)

22 21 18 Disclaimer: There is no fork.

I wept because I had no fork.
Posted by: m

Then I met a man who had no spoon.
Posted by: What Miklos has is Paid for at March 15, 2024 04:36 AM (v+0wn)

I wept because I had no spoon.

Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 04:38 AM (o3SCB)

23
Leprosy cases on the rise in the USA leaving experts stumped as to cause.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 15, 2024 04:38 AM (RKVpM)

24 I knew a man Bojangles who'd stir for you

A wornout spoon

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2024 04:41 AM (T4tVD)

25 DAILY LIVESTOCK TECH NEWS

Oklahoma National Stockyards Weekly Cattle Summary Jul 97.78
Compared to last week: Feeder steers and heifers sold 3.00-6.00 higher. Steer and heifer calves traded fully Oct 88.29
8.00-10.00 higher. Demand moderate to good. Spring is just around the corner and this has many graze out Dec 84.34
orders to be in top demand. Supply inlcuded: 100% Feeder Cattle (57% Steers, 0% Dairy Steers, 43% Heifers, Mar 84.67
0% Bulls). Feeder cattle supply over 600 lbs was 68%. May 84.79
Southeast Spot
Compared to last week: Slaughter cows 2.00-6.00 higher. Slaughter bulls 7.00-8.00 higher. Packer demand Cotton Price
very good. Limited numbers of good replacement cows available and demand is very good for all. Supply included: Thursday's close
64% Feeder Cattle (100% Heifers); 24% Slaughter Cattle (76% Cows, 24% Bulls); 11% Replacement Cattle 41-4/34 31-3/35
(24% Stock Cows, 50% Bred Cows, 7% Bred Heifers, 19% Cow-Calf Pairs).

Posted by: What Miklos used to do at March 15, 2024 04:42 AM (v+0wn)

26
Leprosy? "Look Ma, no hands!"

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 15, 2024 04:44 AM (RKVpM)

27 I knew a man Bojangles who'd stir for you

A wornout spoon
Posted by: JT

He'd say "Hiya" and dance a bit.

Posted by: Miklos the Old Vaudevillian at March 15, 2024 04:46 AM (v+0wn)

28 The grip panels are a weird business because maybe 15 years ago some guy in Montana 'inherited' a batch of brand-new Yugo pistols imported into the US in probably 1991? They arrived just in time to get frozen in Customs. They then sat 'on hold' for over 20 years until the sanctions were fully lifted, by which time this guy had bought out the business who ordered them, and out of the blue received a shipment of NOS brand-new guns he didn't even know existed. They were shipped in as 'sales samples' and have crazy low, 3-digit serial numbers. Real artifacts. He didn't even know what they were and offed them online for $400 each, mostly to people looking for a 'cheap 9mm'. I knew what they were and got two, but for whatever reason they lacked grip panels. The guns are long out of production and nobody makes panels for them, it's taken a long time to find properly fitting grips. I can't even get them in Serbia.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 15, 2024 04:47 AM (43xH1)

29 Leprosy? "Look Ma, no hands!"

Posted by: Divide by Zero

You sound like that guy Bob.

Posted by: A guy with no arms or legs in the middle of the ocean at March 15, 2024 04:47 AM (v+0wn)

30 Just looked out da window....

didn't see any of the daylight that we saved.....

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2024 04:47 AM (T4tVD)

31 The guns are long out of production and nobody makes panels for them, it's taken a long time to find properly fitting grips. I can't even get them in Serbia.
Posted by: LenNeal at March 15, 2024 04:47 AM (43xH1)

Can ya get them in Ma'ambia ?

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2024 04:53 AM (T4tVD)

32 Rand Paul, summary of his TikTok stance:

https://tinyurl.com/33mns6ek
(The Hill)

Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 04:55 AM (o3SCB)

33
Couldn't Internet Service Providers simply 'blacklist' Tik Tok?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 15, 2024 04:59 AM (RKVpM)

34 Rand Paul, interviewed by Tucker Carlson about "The TikTok Ban" (16 minutes)

https://tinyurl.com/2p8xsxdr

Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 04:59 AM (o3SCB)

35 Am I a Tik or a Tok?

Posted by: Non0binary 11 year old at March 15, 2024 05:00 AM (v+0wn)

36 33 Couldn't Internet Service Providers simply 'blacklist' Tik Tok?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 15, 2024 04:59 AM (RKVpM)

That seems reasonable--to me--since that would be a regulation, not a ban.

Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 05:01 AM (o3SCB)

37 Buck's article at The Pipeline gets at American Thinker mention today
Accelerating the Electric Vehicle Doom Loop

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2024 05:02 AM (fwDg9)

38 Can ya get them in Ma'ambia ?
Posted by: JT

Fondue sets for Namibia

Posted by: Miklos in best Garrett Morris voice at March 15, 2024 05:02 AM (v+0wn)

39 36 33 Couldn't Internet Service Providers simply 'blacklist' Tik Tok?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 15, 2024 04:59 AM (RKVpM)

That seems reasonable--to me--since that would be a regulation, not a ban.
Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 05:01 AM (o3SCB)

Presumably opt-in/opt-out?

Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 05:03 AM (o3SCB)

40 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 15, 2024 05:03 AM (v9vY1)

41 Uncertain times- a man reflects on a passage from The Letter to the Hebrews:

https://tinyurl.com/yn7jktf2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 15, 2024 05:10 AM (o94Nr)

42 Disclaimer: There is no fork.

First there is a fork, then there is no fork, then there is.

Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 05:18 AM (o3SCB)

43
Presumably opt-in/opt-out?

Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 05:03 AM

Makes sense. Everyone defaults to 'opt-out' and only the adult who pays for the ISP can go to the ISP's website and 'opt-in'.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 15, 2024 05:19 AM (RKVpM)

44 First there is a fork, then there is no fork, then there is.
Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 05:18 AM (o3SCB)

So Juanita's a magician ?

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2024 05:21 AM (T4tVD)

45 Parents could just not give their kids smartphones and tablets.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2024 05:23 AM (oZMsk)

46 Ugh, I had to jump through all kinds of hoops and drop names to get access to the Organization Todt interview archives, and their interface looks like it was designed by a marginally talented 4-year-old.
It's an archive built under intense pressure on German companies to document their use of forced labor in WW2, they didn't want to do it, and knocked it down to this one website of interviews you need special permission to access, and all the interview transcripts are 'tagged' so a simple cut-and-paste job isn't possible. The site is all but unsearchable as well, their keywords are nonsense.
It's almost like they don't want anyone looking at it.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 15, 2024 05:23 AM (43xH1)

47 I wanted to recommend to Blutarski another resource aside from the "Life Application Bible" . It is Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary On The Whole Bible. Henry was a 17th Century theologian, but his work is still very valuable today.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 15, 2024 05:26 AM (Ki//m)

48 I came to a fork in the road.

It was the Slauson Cutoff.

So I got out of the car, and

Posted by: Miklos in best Ed McMahon guffaw voice at March 15, 2024 05:32 AM (v+0wn)

49
When my daughter turned 13 I sat down and typed up a set of 'rules' for her for dating and curfews for the next five years. There on a sheet of 8.5 X 11 inch paper she could see that things became progressively more lenient as time went on.

My son was younger but the same rules applied. I think he was around 15 years old when some event would be past curfew time. My daughter mentioned it, and my wife and I huddled and decided to leave it in her hands, while encouraging her to get some concession in return for granting him leniency if she so decided. I forget what exactly he had to do in return, maybe vacuum her bedroom weekly for a month or something.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 15, 2024 05:32 AM (RKVpM)

50 Parents could just not give their kids smartphones and tablets.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Clay tablets might be OK

Posted by: Miklos of Ur at March 15, 2024 05:33 AM (v+0wn)

51 St. Patrick's life offers lessons in faith, hope and courage:

https://tinyurl.com/bdd6syy3

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 15, 2024 05:39 AM (EPorA)

52 Tough crowd here, tough crowd

*nervously loosens tunic*

Posted by: Rodney of Ancient Sumer at March 15, 2024 05:39 AM (v+0wn)

53 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 15, 2024 05:40 AM (ju2Fy)

54 Where are my manners... Happy Ides of March.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 15, 2024 04:09 AM (RKVpM)
*
And just where is our stabby-stabby commenter on this fine morning?
Posted by: m
*
Et tu, m Brute?
Posted by: Miklosius on behalf of Her Stabbyness at March 15, 2024

***
Not only is this the Ides of March (amazing how we still remember that 2,068 years later), but until the late Forties or so, it was also the federal tax filing deadline. I guess the sheer volume of tax returns after WWII convinced the IRS to move the date ahead a month.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2024 05:41 AM (omVj0)

55 49 When my daughter turned 13 I sat down and typed up a set of 'rules' for her for dating and curfews for the next five years. There on a sheet of 8.5 X 11 inch paper she could see that things became progressively more lenient as time went on.

My son was younger but the same rules applied. I think he was around 15 years old when some event would be past curfew time. My daughter mentioned it, and my wife and I huddled and decided to leave it in her hands, while encouraging her to get some concession in return for granting him leniency if she so decided. I forget what exactly he had to do in return, maybe vacuum her bedroom weekly for a month or something.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 15, 2024 05:32 AM (RKVpM)

Sounds like great parenting!

Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 05:44 AM (o3SCB)

56
Not only is this the Ides of March (amazing how we still remember that 2,068 years later), but until the late Forties or so, it was also the federal tax filing deadline. I guess the sheer volume of tax returns after WWII convinced the IRS to move the date ahead a month.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2024 05:41 AM

Back in the Roman calendar, corresponding to 15 March was marked by several religious observances and was a deadline for settling debts in Rome. (Wiki)

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 15, 2024 05:46 AM (RKVpM)

57 *sniff* I have no forks to give. *sniff*

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 15, 2024 05:46 AM (ju2Fy)

58 Short road today
Forward Dog 9 out

Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2024 05:46 AM (fwDg9)

59 Not only is this the Ides of March (amazing how we still remember that 2,068 years later), but until the late Forties or so, it was also the federal tax filing deadline. I guess the sheer volume of tax returns after WWII convinced the IRS to move the date ahead a month.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

People should get a tax bill once year, in October, payable before any election day.

Posted by: Miklos so proposes at March 15, 2024 05:46 AM (v+0wn)

60 When my daughter turned 13'

When I was 13 I was carrying a pistol I'd made myself, fed with ammunition made from PowerShot blanks and steel ball bearings super glued to the crimped end of the case.
And rigged up with a... barrel attachment.

Posted by: LenNeal at March 15, 2024 05:48 AM (43xH1)

61 In the Roman calendar, the "ides" could fall on either the 13th or 15 of any month, depending.

Posted by: Miklos recalls that they had the Calends and the Nones too at March 15, 2024 05:50 AM (v+0wn)

62 43 Presumably opt-in/opt-out?
Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 05:03 AM

Makes sense. Everyone defaults to 'opt-out' and only the adult who pays for the ISP can go to the ISP's website and 'opt-in'.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 15, 2024 05:19 AM (RKVpM)

I'm poking around online and it looks like the ISP could provide a "filter" that the subscriber could opt out of.

Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 05:50 AM (o3SCB)

63 When I was 13 I was carrying a pistol I'd made myself, fed with ammunition made from PowerShot blanks and steel ball bearings super glued to the crimped end of the case.
And rigged up with a... barrel attachment.
Posted by: LenNeal

Cornpop!

Posted by: Preznit Pop-Pop at March 15, 2024 05:51 AM (v+0wn)

64
Sounds like great parenting!

Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 05:44 AM

Eventually she moved out, rented an apartment with a friend. But she took her curfew printout with her and eventually gave it to a friend with a teenage daughter.

I think the most important part was being able to show that parental controls are a temporary 'feature' of good parents. You have to shield your children until their brains catch up to their bodies.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 15, 2024 05:52 AM (RKVpM)

65 You have to shield your children until their brains catch up to their bodies.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Why you hate old men with poor mental acuity and a good sense of smell?

Posted by: Preznit Joey B. at March 15, 2024 05:55 AM (v+0wn)

66 wikipedia: internet filter

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

Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 05:55 AM (o3SCB)

67
People should get a tax bill once year, in October, payable before any election day.

Posted by: Miklos so proposes at March 15, 2024 05:46 AM

I always get a kick out of people who think the government is *giving* them a refund. No, you dumbasses, you overpaid every week for an entire year, and it's your money you are getting back.

But you can't fix stupid.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 15, 2024 05:56 AM (RKVpM)

68 wikipedia: internet filter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_filter
Posted by: m

I tried that link, but the Internet "filtered" it.

Posted by: Miklos, shrugging like a Frenchman at March 15, 2024 05:56 AM (v+0wn)

69 Haha! One of my buddies had the brilliant idea of getting helium balloons, letting half the helium out and refilling them with acetylene from his dad's welding tanks. Then he attached a length of cannon fuse and would let them fly upward at night. When they went off it was better than any firework!
BOOM
He did this with one, and for *reasons* walked through the house with it in his hands. The carpet in the living room set it off with static electricity. It slammed his arms into the door frame and sprained both his wrists. He was deaf for about a week. The best part was, he was wearing a cheap rock band T-shirt, with the logo painted on. So he had 'AC/DC' imprinted on his chest for almost a month!
LOL

Posted by: LenNeal at March 15, 2024 06:02 AM (43xH1)

70 Ex con skips job interview to save an accident victim:

https://tinyurl.com/578x5ynu

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 15, 2024 06:04 AM (18hhx)

71
The problem with the 'nanny' software is that it costs money and takes time to install and monitor. An act of Congress requiring all ISP's to block Tik Tok would be simple and immediate. Then set up guidelines for an 'opt-in' option. Maybe a postcard with a check box.

Schools with wifi would hopefully decide not to opt-in. Parents with children too young could decide not to opt-in. Not that I like China but we rag on them for stealing our intellectual property.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 15, 2024 06:05 AM (RKVpM)

72 Since I know this isn't the crowd to care about mid-1980s Japanese Punk ('Aggressive Dog' is terrific), I offer up 'Three Man Army' 1971 album, 'A Third Of A Lifetime' (YT):

"The group was formed by Adrian Gurvitz and Paul Gurvitz, formerly of The Gun. Following the band’s dissolution, Adrian played with Buddy Miles and Paul played with Parrish & Gurvitz, then reunited as Three Man Army. Their debut album, A Third of a Lifetime, featured both Buddy Miles, as well as Mike Kellie (from Spooky Tooth). Tony Newman, who had previously played with Sounds Incorporated and Jeff Beck, joined for the group’s next two albums, and a fourth album was recorded but not released until 2005. Newman then left to play with David Bowie, and the Gurvitzes united with Ginger Baker as the Baker Gurvitz Army."

Posted by: LenNeal at March 15, 2024 06:13 AM (43xH1)

73 Not only is this the Ides of March (amazing how we still remember that 2,068 years later), but until the late Forties or so, it was also the federal tax filing deadline. I guess the sheer volume of tax returns after WWII convinced the IRS to move the date ahead a month.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

People should get a tax bill once year, in October, payable before any election day.
Posted by: Miklos so proposes at March 15, 2024 05:46 AM (v+0wn)
---
Et tu, Miklos?

Posted by: The IRS at March 15, 2024 06:13 AM (BpYfr)

74 It is Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary On The Whole Bible. Henry was a 17th Century theologian, but his work is still very valuable today.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Thanks, Fen. I'm enjoying the guide you suggested but I really wish I'd gotten the large print edition. So now I'm in the market for a reading magnifier. I usually read on my Kindle, but I figured I'd find hardcopy much better for this resource.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 15, 2024 06:16 AM (Wb+1f)

75 Good morning morons

Local TV news reports the city will install 33 new "speed safety" cameras that will automatically ticket drivers who speed..

Once again, focusing their attention on normals. The report was filmed in my neighborhood. Great.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2024 06:18 AM (RIvkX)

76 Oakland police report an increase in smash-and-grabs while drivers are in their car.

"We are actively tracking this trend." Robberies are up 27% year-over-year.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2024 06:20 AM (RIvkX)

77 Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 15, 2024 06:16 AM (Wb+1f)

I understand. It is very hard to see things in a smaller print Bible. I have to use a magnifying glass.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 15, 2024 06:21 AM (Ki//m)

78 Firefighters in KY rescue man in truck dangling off bridge:

https://tinyurl.com/4pe27sbx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 15, 2024 06:23 AM (Ki//m)

79 Dad is joyful seeing his 10 year old playing in the church band:

https://tinyurl.com/3wj98ata

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 15, 2024 06:27 AM (Ki//m)

80 Local TV news reports local residents blocked off a lane on a street they decided was too "dangerous"

Everyone in this sh*thole is f*cking fascist.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2024 06:27 AM (RIvkX)

81 but I figured I'd find hardcopy much better for this resource.
Posted by: Blutarski

Noted, you Christianist Supremacist

Posted by: Blue haired trans-prosecutor at March 15, 2024 06:29 AM (v+0wn)

82 Oakland people should move to Mexico, where it is safer and cheaper.

Posted by: Miklosian Solutionations LLC at March 15, 2024 06:31 AM (v+0wn)

83 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 15, 2024 06:33 AM (DeFcY)

84 80 Local TV news reports local residents blocked off a lane on a street they decided was too "dangerous"

Everyone in this sh*thole is f*cking fascist.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2024 06:27 AM (RIvkX)

"San Francisco residents install lane barrier without city approval 2 years after teacher killed"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYYfRXMSBqY

Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 06:33 AM (o3SCB)

85 In the Roman calendar, the "ides" could fall on either the 13th or 15 of any month, depending.
Posted by: Miklos recalls that they had the Calends and the Nones too at March 15, 2024 05:50 AM (v+0wn)
------------
Isaac Asimov commented that the Roman calendar must set some kind of record for inconvenience.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 15, 2024 06:33 AM (DeFcY)

86 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird

txt me

Posted by: Earl Grey at March 15, 2024 06:34 AM (v+0wn)

87 Do they have any idea what would happen if I also felt free to do my own lane closures??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2024 06:36 AM (RIvkX)

88 I always get a kick out of people who think the government is *giving* them a refund. No, you dumbasses, you overpaid every week for an entire year, and it's your money you are getting back.

But you can't fix stupid.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 15, 2024

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Until last year I always tried to balance withholding against what I expected my tax bill would be. Usually I came pretty close; one year I'd get $50 back, another I'd have to send that, but it was always pretty small. in '22, though, I didn't have SS withhold anything, and I had a bigger bill than usual the next April. So for '23 I had them take out 10%. It was way too much and I got a very big refund (just got it, in fact).

Since I plan to retire, I've had them reinstate the 10%. I've already paid two months' worth, so in 2025 I should not have a big bill.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 15, 2024 06:36 AM (omVj0)

89 Bing sends me notifications about stupid articles that have no relevance to me, but they do have a very nice picture for their site today:

https://www.bing.com/

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 15, 2024 06:38 AM (Ki//m)

90 ‘Don’t fear the reaper…’

Posted by: Eromero at March 15, 2024 06:41 AM (o2ZRX)

91 ‘Don’t fear the reaper…’
Posted by: Eromero at March 15, 2024 06:41 AM (o2ZRX)
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Non timetis messor.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 15, 2024 06:42 AM (DeFcY)

92 90 ‘Don’t fear the reaper…’
Posted by: Eromero at March 15, 2024 06:41 AM (o2ZRX)

memento mori

an object serving as a warning or reminder of death, such as a skull: he placed the picture in his room as a memento mori | the skulls and bones on monuments were memento mori.
ORIGIN
Latin, literally ‘remember (that you have) to die’.

Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 06:43 AM (o3SCB)

93 Snow. Lots of it.

Posted by: Don Black at March 15, 2024 06:44 AM (oCjPU)

94 In and out before my personal insult poster arrives for the day. Have a good day, everyone.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 15, 2024 06:45 AM (Ki//m)

95 Captain Obvious and m, I’m getting hearing aids next week. Wanna make sure old reaper don’t sneak up on me. Too loud on the BOC.

Posted by: Eromero at March 15, 2024 06:47 AM (o2ZRX)

96 Julius Caesar and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.

Posted by: Today, on Non-Drag Queen Story Hour at March 15, 2024 06:49 AM (PiwSw)

97 Julius Caesar and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
Posted by: Today, on Non-Drag Queen Story Hour at March 15, 2024 06:49 AM (PiwSw)
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That's what Shakespeare wanted to title the play, but he was talked out of it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 15, 2024 06:51 AM (DeFcY)

98 Is Brian Kilmeade drunk, here? Interviewing--or, interrupting--Rand Paul:

"Rand Paul Calls Out Fox’s Brian Kilmeade for ‘Lying’ About TikTok Ban"

https://tinyurl.com/2nc6rn22
(Daily Beast)

Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 06:53 AM (o3SCB)

99 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 15, 2024 06:55 AM (u82oZ)

100 95 Captain Obvious and m, I’m getting hearing aids next week. Wanna make sure old reaper don’t sneak up on me.
Posted by: Eromero at March 15, 2024 06:47 AM (o2ZRX)

mazel tov

Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 06:56 AM (o3SCB)

101 Gotta make preps for a medical visit, and then a road trip to see Jewells45. Busy day.

Everyone have a great day! And may you not come close to that bad person Cancer.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 15, 2024 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

102 Captain Obvious and m, I’m getting hearing aids next week. Wanna make sure old reaper don’t sneak up on me.
Posted by: Eromero

SPEAK UP YOU YOUNG WHIPPERSNAPPER

Posted by: Miklos fumbles for his ancestral ear trumpet at March 15, 2024 07:02 AM (v+0wn)

103 Salty you've been on the road a lot

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2024 07:03 AM (RIvkX)

104 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at March 15, 2024 07:04 AM (86W+h)

105 101 road trip to see Jewells45
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 15, 2024 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

Great!

Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 07:05 AM (o3SCB)

106 SPEAK UP YOU YOUNG WHIPPERSNAPPER
Posted by: Miklos fumbles for his ancestral ear trumpet at March 15, 2024 07:02 AM (v+0wn)
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Fun Fact: Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, inventor of the metronome (among other things) also invented the hands-free ear trumpet.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 15, 2024 07:05 AM (DeFcY)

107 Say hi to Jewells, Salty.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 15, 2024 07:06 AM (DeFcY)

108 Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, inventor of the metronome (among other things) also invented the hands-free ear trumpet.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Mine is autographed, but I need glasses to see it.

Posted by: Miklos did say ancestral at March 15, 2024 07:06 AM (v+0wn)

109 Good morning! Zut alor! They set the posts for the pergola yesterday and then it rained like a cow pissing on a flat rock. No hail thankfully.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at March 15, 2024 07:08 AM (DIB8X)

110

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 15, 2024 07:08 AM (X4yCj)

111 Yo Wut Sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2024 07:09 AM (ENQN6)

112 Shrek ears, all organic.

Posted by: Eromero at March 15, 2024 07:09 AM (o2ZRX)

113 *hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton

*f*ck*

Posted by: Huma at March 15, 2024 07:09 AM (v+0wn)

114 Byeeee.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at March 15, 2024 07:10 AM (DeFcY)

115 100 95 Captain Obvious and m, I’m getting hearing aids next week. Wanna make sure old reaper don’t sneak up on me.
Posted by: Eromero at March 15, 2024 06:47 AM (o2ZRX)

mazel tov
Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 06:56 AM (o3SCB)

My dad was really anxious about the pain that was rumored to come from wearing hearing aids, but there was only very slight pain and only very briefly. He was delighted with the augmented hearing.

Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 07:10 AM (o3SCB)

116 Yo Wut Sup
Posted by: rhennigantx

Egg Drop

Hot and Sour

Wonton

Wat yu wan?

Posted by: Fang Fang to Go at March 15, 2024 07:11 AM (v+0wn)

117 >>> Since I know this isn't the crowd to care about mid-1980s Japanese Punk

Some of us might

Posted by: fluffy at March 15, 2024 07:12 AM (86W+h)

118 Salty, give Jewells (and yourself) a big hug from me.

Posted by: screaming in digital at March 15, 2024 07:12 AM (1eY81)

119 Egg Drop

Hot and Sour

Wonton

Wat yu wan?
Posted by: Fang Fang to Go at March 15, 2024 07:11 AM (v+0wn)

And here's me having just deleted my bookmark for urban dictionary. Figures.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2024 07:13 AM (GkFGh)

120 Mornin' Horde. My shed is due to be delivered and built today!

Mom will journey 4 minutes down the road to stay at my brother's this weekend so I can work my ass off getting organized over here.

Posted by: screaming in digital at March 15, 2024 07:15 AM (1eY81)

121 THX 1138 > Intel 6.2GHz 24 core i9 14900KS

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 15, 2024 07:17 AM (MHhQj)

122 It is weird to watch in real time as an entire industry experiences that once you're OK with telling an intentional lie about anything one can imagine, you eventually become OK with simply being unintentionally, boringly, innocently wrong about anything, too.

Their malice has bred its own stupidity.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2024 07:17 AM (GkFGh)

123 ‘GOD is not a man, that He should lie..’
So there you have it.

Posted by: Eromero at March 15, 2024 07:24 AM (o2ZRX)

124 PassMark doesn't have any scores up yet but I doubt it's worth the cost and heat for most users. A 14700 will give you 75% of the performance at less than half the power consumption.

--

It would be interesting to have tests to determine if 1000 fairly geeky people could tell the difference with the system with a 14700KS, a 14700K, a 14700, or the 13 equivalents.

Posted by: Moron Robbie- 80% positives in a mate to a man is a soulmate, the same 80% to a woman is settling at March 15, 2024 07:25 AM (Wg1x4)

125 Mrs. F. should have hearing aids she insists she hears everything I say.

Mm hmm.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2024 07:29 AM (RIvkX)

126 Local TV news reports the city will install 33 new "speed safety" cameras that will automatically ticket drivers who speed..

Once again, focusing their attention on normals. The report was filmed in my neighborhood. Great.

The State has been grabbing Normals by both ears and screaming in their face "GET OUT OF CALIFORNIA NOW!!!"

How much longer are Normals going to ignore the message?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 15, 2024 07:30 AM (TfEvu)

127 mornin yall. Is there a more obnoxious pair on the planet than the Duke and Duchess of Suckex? How the fk do they persist?

Posted by: fd at March 15, 2024 07:31 AM (vFG9F)

128 The problem with the 'nanny' software is that it costs money and takes time to install and monitor.

-

And, as we're learning at this very moment with trying to figure out how to safely allow a phone on certain days, nanny / parental control software is mostly ineffective at best and destructive of the family relationship at worst because it damages the sense of trust the parents have spent years cultivating because kids don't understand just how harmful the internet can be and that they don't have the experience to begin to navigate it safely.

My go to right now: "The internet isn't for kids, and we're trying to figure out how to let you use some parts of it, and it might been a flip phone with no data until we figure out exactly how to move forward."

Posted by: Moron Robbie- 80% positives in a mate to a man is a soulmate, the same 80% to a woman is settling at March 15, 2024 07:31 AM (Wg1x4)

129 Posted by: screaming in digital at March 15, 2024 07:15 AM (1eY81)
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What is going inside your fresh, new shed?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2024 07:32 AM (RIvkX)

130 Mornin' Horde. My shed is due to be delivered and built today!

Posted by: screaming in digital

Well, maybe

Posted by: Alf and Ralph Monroe, with Mr. Haney as Quality Control at March 15, 2024 07:32 AM (v+0wn)

131 It is weird to watch in real time as an entire industry experiences that once you're OK with telling an intentional lie about anything one can imagine, you eventually become OK with simply being unintentionally, boringly, innocently wrong about anything, too.

Its even weirder still that without context to this statement that it can apply to so many industries and intentional lies.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 15, 2024 07:34 AM (TfEvu)

132 .

NOOD

Morning Report is here.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 15, 2024 07:35 AM (qPw5n)

133
JJ

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2024 07:35 AM (ENQN6)

134 It is weird to watch in real time as an entire industry experiences that once you're OK with telling an intentional lie about anything one can imagine, you eventually become OK with simply being unintentionally, boringly, innocently wrong about anything, too.

Its even weirder still that without context to this statement that it can apply to so many industries and intentional lies.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Not us, though

Posted by: Your Loving Government *smooch* at March 15, 2024 07:35 AM (v+0wn)

135 I had a client years ago that wanted monitoring software installed on all his employe's PCs. The program captured every keystroke and mouse click. There was so much data that he never looked at it after the first time. Somebody has to monitor the monitoring software in order to monitor the monitored.
Nowadays that guy would be all in on AI to do it, but he had way more money than sense so would probably fire everyone the first day when the AI ratted them out for looking at toenail fungus ads.

Posted by: fd at March 15, 2024 07:37 AM (vFG9F)

136 127 Is there a more obnoxious pair on the planet than the Duke and Duchess of Suckex?
Posted by: fd at March 15, 2024 07:31 AM (vFG9F)

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 07:37 AM (o3SCB)

137 What is going inside your fresh, new shed?
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Lawnmower, wheelbarrow, my big ladder, any other yard and gardening implements I acquire, and a bunch of random stuff that's currently junking up 2 rooms of the house. Christmas decorations, china, and such.

Posted by: screaming in digital at March 15, 2024 07:37 AM (1eY81)

138 Since I know this isn't the crowd to care about mid-1980s Japanese Punk

Some of us might
Posted by: fluffy'

Really? Cool! all available on YT:

-Aggressive Dogs
-G-GAS
-Kyosanto
-Sakevi
-Gauze

Posted by: LenNeal at March 15, 2024 07:41 AM (43xH1)

139 26
Leprosy? "Look Ma, no hands!"

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 15, 2024 04:44 AM (RKVpM)
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Stubby?

Posted by: Ciampino - Stompie at March 15, 2024 07:43 AM (qfLjt)

140
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy"

Perfect example. I hated them too.

Posted by: fd at March 15, 2024 07:43 AM (vFG9F)

141 The original Ides of March was good.

Here is Leonid and Friends, covering it.

https://tinyurl.com/4jyzmh62

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 15, 2024 07:44 AM (a1415)

142 Stopped and questioned in Florida...

Arrested in South Carolina.

Anybody who these moke's citizenship status?

https://tinyurl.com/yun5bbwc

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 15, 2024 07:53 AM (a1415)

143 Researchers showed pictures of spiders and snakes to babies to see if it scared them. Guess what, it did.

Posted by: fd at March 15, 2024 08:23 AM (vFG9F)

144 141 The original Ides of March was good.

Here is Leonid and Friends, covering it.

https://tinyurl.com/4jyzmh62
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 15, 2024 07:44 AM (a1415)

They're so cool.

Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 08:36 AM (o3SCB)

145 137 What is going inside your fresh, new shed?
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Lawnmower, wheelbarrow, my big ladder, any other yard and gardening implements I acquire, and a bunch of random stuff that's currently junking up 2 rooms of the house. Christmas decorations, china, and such.
Posted by: screaming in digital at March 15, 2024 07:37 AM (1eY81)

Partly a staging area for Stuff Going Outta Here!

Posted by: m at March 15, 2024 08:38 AM (o3SCB)

146 >The FTC and DOJ say it should be legal to fix McDonalds' ice cream machines.

We're being governed by memes.

The ice cream machine at McDonald's isn't broken. It's being cleaned, which due to FDA regulations requires an hours long steam cleaning and disassembly cycle. "The machine's broken" is simply the easiest way to head off arguments from annoying patrons.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at March 15, 2024 09:41 AM (0Go0g)

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