Create a cloud account at your own risk!

When you're subject to usage pricing, you never know what sort of unintended interaction will cause your bill to go nuts.

I would not be surprised if this weren't the only example of somebody not doing anything wrong, and yet incurring huge charges for things they didn't do.

That's all part of the plan. It will be a squeaker, so by telegraphing the intended disruption, they raise the FUD factor to ferment interest.

...the labor associated with childbirth? Because that would be a really nice use of AI, saving a lot of people a lot of pain.

While the government is weighing in on computer nerd holy wars, they should issue a statement as to whether one ought to use emacs or vi.

There is no true Scotsman. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... )

This is a classic.

Heh, oops. Nope, just somebody who thinks about angles more often than radiance.

Of course, that's just what an AI would say.

...will be where all posts will written entirely by AIs, thereby freeing all of us from reading or writing any of them.

Humanity will be freed of the shackles of internet forums and social media, will start to interact with each other in the real world, and there will be a new golden age.

It will all end when the Crapularity hits, as the efficiency of AI in generating worthless forum posts (which humanity will have been totally ignoring) becomes so fast that it uses energy at a rate faster than humanity can generate through a combination of nuclear fusion collection of 90% of the solar radians hitting earth. The entire industrial and technological infrastructure will collapse, most of humanity will end up dying off, and we'll be thrown back to the stone age.

Does France still allow the sale of spotlights? Because... electromagnetic radiation...

Which gets worse punishment : committing actual grand theft auto, or hacking Grand Theft Auto?

I'm sure that the lawyers will make a powerful argument that the economic harm is orders of magnitude larger in the latter case....

Wrong things on Stack Exchange?

No! That could never happen!

Well, that's what they tried to do. That was three weeks ago. The latest news (what this article is about) is that on their second or third try, the backed nearly all the way down, and are no longer doing that.

The reason I say "nearly" is that they're not trying to de-authorize the OGL 1.0a just for now; they haven't said they won't try to do it again in the future. (And, yes, I would agree with you, as does, for instance, Paizo, that that's not something they can do, and Paizo has said they will defend that in court.)

So, for now, WotC isn't trying to do anything that bad any more. They've gone back on trying to un-open all the gaming content that's been open for 23 years. Slashdot is a few weeks behind on this story. There's been a LOT of very heated response (and fairly one-sided anti-WotC response) on gaming message boards and th elike.

It's always rich when a billionaire complains about excessive employee compensation.

I don't know if this is talked about, but for mere scientists trying to *use* HPC facilities, this is often the truth:

Myth: our CPU/Accelerator performance metrics are meaningful even though our filesystems bog many jobs down to death

This sounds like a feature, not a bug...

I can predict with confidence that we are NOT reaching the end of blowhards making bold and broad pronouncements.