I noticed that the article is filled with phrasing indicating a pronounced prejudice by the author, as if the final move to BEV is a foregone conclusion. I don't agree with that, as there are other potential carbon-neutral solutions that don't have its limited range and dead-weight issues. While generating fuel from captured carbon isn't currently cost competitive, once you consider the carbon cost of battery manufacturing, it's not that far behind.

I personally do not want any of the current BEVs, but am seriously considering a PHEV within the next year. Why? Because my driving requirements include not only mid-distance commuting, but long-distance, multi-state trips. Trip time is important, so I'm not looking to plan my stops around charging time and infrastructure. Until I can stop at any Buc-ee's to swap my depleted range-extending battery pack for a fully-charged one, a BEV just doesn't work for me. For now, a PHEV is lighter with its small ICE instead of a long-range battery, and just serves my needs better. Toyota has the best product for me.

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan has realized that fast-moving changes to the subscription pricing model that force a change in customers' expenditures is causing many customers to reevaluate their loyalty to VMware products. Rather than pony up additional cash, Tan has seen many customers give Broadcom the virtual middle finger and switch to alternative platforms such as those based on OpenStack, Harvester, or other low or no-cost technologies. In a last ditch effort to salvage what's left of their customer base, Broadcom will be providing some ongoing security patches for customers who persist with their perpetual licenses instead of ceding to Broadcom's blatant extortion demands.

This.

Parent post nailed it. The greedy pricks saw how successful Netflix was, and wanted a bigger piece of the pie. So they fractured the streaming services by pulling their titles and offering them as exclusive content on their own services, not realizing that they were driving us right back into the arms of the pirates.

Sadly, we're not working with sensible people here. They're still using the assumption that every pirated movie is a lost sale. A family in poverty is not going to spend $10k/yr on movies, but they'll pirate them for free. Yet these idiots calculate that as a loss of $10k and 5% of an employee's salary lost to piracy. No. That's not how it works.

Nobody feels bad stealing from a greedy lying thief. That's how much of the public views Hollywood, and it's their own damn fault. If you want credibility, use credible numbers.

I think that's the biggest contributor to recent increases. Even a low-speed bump can be enough to cause the insurance company to total the vehicle.

I hope Consumer Reports or a similar organization starts ranking vehicles on their ability to be repaired, looking at how quickly costs go up as the severity of a collision increases. And I hope the insurance actuaries pay attention, as those that have the highest cost of repair SHOULD cost more to insure. When a car model can't be sold because it costs too much to insure, then and ONLY then with the manufacturers start prioritizing the ability to repair a vehicle. Right now, the incentive is reversed because repairs are profitable for them.

That was my first thought when I saw the position was "temporarily" being filled by the COO. Haven't they learned anything over the last century?

On the surface, it makes sense to focus on operations, and the COO is often groomed as a CEO's successor. Sadly, history has shown that the quickest way to stagnate a corporation is to put your COO in charge when the visionary CEO leaves. I.E., Microsoft/Balmer, Apple/Cook, and many more.

Much has been made of the change in focus from engineering to finance when McDonnell-Douglas leadership took over. I agree with Emirates that anything short of a return to engineers as leaders is a continuation of that mistake and will only exacerbate their fall from grace.

What is this world coming to when there is no honor among thieves? There's supposed to be professional courtesy in every field, isn't there?

I've been running Harvester in my home lab. It is an open source HCI solution based on KubeVirt. There's additional overhead in the RKE2/Longhorn layers and all the pods handling metrics and other tasks, but it performs the basic VM function well enough. It offers HA clustering and VM migration as well, if you have enough hardware to create a cluster, and allows one to explore the world of kubernetes on the same platform through Rancher.

It focuses more on enterprise features than either ProxMox or VirtualBox, and is good for the kuber-curious...

Law enforcement loves to tell the courts that, when a citizen is on a public street, they have no legal expectation of privacy.

Until that precedence dealing with expectation of privacy while in public is changed, I think we should have just as much access to public recordings as the police do. And being a publicly funded organization, purportedly for the public's protection, all body-cam footage shot in public space should be publicly available. Once they enter a home or business, then there should be more restrictions on who can access or view that footage, but video collected from the streets should be fair game.

If that is too open for the police force; if they feel they should be able to have private moments in public space, then they can join us citizens in a push to legally acknowledge that there can be an expectation of privacy even while in public spaces.

... which should be an indication to the streaming industry that their goods are overpriced. Cable or sattelite TV, with their bundles of useless networks, is just not worth the monthly cost, so I cancelled my service and now subscribe to several streaming services.

It is now playoff season for American football. I can stream NBC on Peacock, CBS on Paramount+, and ABC on Hulu. If the game is on FOX, the solution stated online is, "Watch your local FOX game for free across all devices — just sign in with your TV provider credentials."

No, thanks. I stream because I don't have a TV provider. So what reasonable choice remains other than to pirate? And once I find the service that provides what I actually want, why am I still paying for all the other services when they're also available on that?

Remember when Google had "Don't be evil" as part of its mission?

Companies are often founded by pie-eyed dreamers who have lofty goals and good ambitions. Successful companies draw the eye of the greedy who are more interested in monetizing than moralizing, and so they start down the slope from empathy to evil.

This. My son had a lazy AP history teacher that was using AI to grade their homework. Rather poor AI at that, judging by the class GPA...

"That land is sacred. Nobody should be allowed to put their ancestors' remains there."
- First nation pointing towards the moon

"That land is sacred. Our ancestors' remains are buried there."
- First nation pointing towards the mound

Space.com's headline is "Can't phone home." Even CNN says "Stops communicating with Earth." This is news for nerds. Slashdot had the opportunity to make the headline more accurate.

The spacecraft can still receive and respond to commands, it's just transmitting garbage data. Communication is lop-sided, but it is still communicating. If you want to stick with the "phoning home" metaphor, you could say Voyager drunk-dialed Earth.

Not that you should pity the cable companies, but the broadcast networks have been screwing them for some time too. These are the channels that broadcast their content to a local population center because they are funded by advertisers. You know, for the people that live close enough to the tower that all they need are rabbit ears or maybe a Yagi antenna.

However, once you boost that broadcast signal a little and pump it out a coax cable to feed to your neighbors, Oh, no sir. You have a CATV system there, buddy. You need to give the broadcasters a carriage fee for the privilege of bringing their signal into people's homes. You know, the same signal they freely broadcast as they collect advertising fees.

Double-dip much? Yeah, don't blame me for pirating your shows, you greedy pricks!

Intel has quite a few foundries in the US at various ages, ranging from 300mm up to the most current 20Å. They've now opened their foundries to other clients. While the capacity is not sufficient for true independence, I'd be interested to know why Huang didn't mention them once in his diatribe.