Hey Russia, I have some 386's @ 16Mhz for you at slightly inflated prices! Act now and Ill include some windows 3.0!

Also it would take 69 years to write the entire disk currently at 230kBps. (the 60 days estimate in the article is with hundreds of parallel write operations on the same disk)

Rule in Starlink's favor, and instead of damages and legal fees, Starlink gets ViaSat's satellites. Starlink gets to keep offering services, and ViaSat doesn't have to compete unfairly anymore.

Telsa failed sobriety test. When asked to recite the alphabet it instead played trans-Siberian orchestra and started waving its doors around.

Can we shout "We are here" loud enough for the elephant to hear us? If so should we?

10/1/2025 [Employee name] Was fired from both Google and Facebook today when it was discovered that he was working as the CIO of both companies.

It would be a destructive scan.

So could this be used to do a complete scan of someones brain at the time of death, then later when computer technology advances enough virtually recreate that consciousness in a virtual world?

They could get around the entire problem with CGI crowds.

Sure they can, they just have to be as long as someones foot.

Now who wants a hectogram with cheese?

I have had something similar happen a couple times on slashdot - an ad redirects the whole page to a scam "You won a free apple laptop" page that tries to trick you into downloading malware. (for those who say it was a virus on the PC not slashdot, one of these times was on a fresh install of linux) This is why I have adblocker software and why slashdot is NOT whitelisted anymore. (Hint to slashdot's owners, Adopt the policy of the first poster and I may whitelist you again)

Don't blame me. I wanted it called Officey McOfficeface.

Even if the younger crowd had shown up more, it wouldn't have changed the results. assuming a 63% turnout for 18-29 voters in the first referendum and 100% in the second (adding 3.775 million voters) with 2/3 of the new voters voting stay and 1/3 voting leave and all other voters voting exactly the same as in the previous referendum the "Leave" camp would STILL win, though by a much smaller percentage.

Hulk Hogan is running third party... And is planning to fix the national debt by having the government advertise for Rent-A-Center as well as product placements and paid advertisements during congressional debates.

The city planners choose the location because the mountains made it a good defensible location in the middle ages. The town has been there for a long time.