I hate to break it to you but XP-7 only existed the way it did because Microsoft was under an injunction preventing them from bundling services with the OS. They actually intended to have Microsoft accounts (then called .Net Passports) tied to activation in XP.

Our new one has the option to not have a clock and just be blank so it’s extra annoying when somebody leaves the timer on and the screen stays on blinking ‘cook time’.

It’s the opposite for me. I live in a place that gets fairly humid during different times of the year so cassettes don’t often make it If they were left in a car or a garage or something similar. Whereas most of the CDs that survived my teenage years still work.

There was a similar incident where they found a sailor on one US Navy ship had their own Starlink terminal because they were broadcasting an SSID. At the end of the day, you can’t fix stupid.

Seriously, stop being a troll. I’m done with this conversation. Not one time have I used the word violation.

Believe it or not I pay attention to usernames. I was talking about the link you just posted that mentions the liability assumed by the signers of the BAA.

Maybe read it again? My job requires me to be HIPAA and FERPA certified, I am confident in my interpretation of the situation.

The answer to your question is in the article you posted… did you even read it?

Have a great day, I’m done talking in circles.

What?!? The entire purpose of HIPAA is to put liability on misuse of data. At this point, I have no fucking clue what your point is.

No I can’t cite something that doesn’t exist. I literally just said there isn’t one… so I am not sure what your point is.

I am a software developer who does custom EMR software specifically because the places I work for can’t use the cloud. But okay I will try…

There is no certification process in place for using a cloud to store HIPAA data. It even says that on the page that you linked. Legally, any organization that used this service would be opening themselves to further liability under HIPAA.

This is because DevOps is the updated version of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. You have always been able to self host it because that used to be the only option.

They do that because there are some things that you can’t put in the cloud, like HIPAA protected data. It’s absolutely a rip off, but that was their solution.

IIRC the person most responsible for Liquid Glass now works at Meta.

To me this just feels like the next step of ‘shipping a game before it’s finished’.

Idiocracy is about what happens after the current time when smarter more level headed people are trying to put the pieces back together. We are in the prequel era, things are going to get worse before they get better.

Though this does vary by locale, in most places legally it’s only permanent if you have to leave it there when you move.

For a permanent installation, yes, just like a large solar installation. But I can go down to Lowe’s and get a gas generator capable of similar output as the balcony solar and it won’t require any permits.

No it isn’t. The same thing happens with the kind of gas generators you can get from your local hardware store all the time.

Obviously. I was just pointing out that it isn’t an issue unique to solar.