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Comment Re:It's a system that was bound to break eventuall (Score 1) 26

The masters thesis I wrote over 32 years ago still shows up in search results. I can't imagine anyone being interested in it. I just pounded it out with minimal effort as quickly as possible to meet my degree requirements so that I could start a new job. I'd be happy if it disappeared... I knew that the university library was going to archive it, but in 1991 I had no idea that it was going to end up on a new (at that time) thing called the internet.

Comment Re:Money (Score -1, Troll) 26

It's not just hard drives, those hard drives need to be attached to servers, servers to networks, hardware must be replaced over time, humans must be paid to maintain the above items. Then there's index and search capabilities that must be provided. And arching over all this is that the information must be provided in a way that maintains standards including those of diversity, equality and inclusion, so now you need to pay auditors and lawyers as well. This 70 TB gets expensive pretty fast.

Submission + - German Tesla plant suffers close to $1B in damages after eco-terror attack (yahoo.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Arsonists calling themselves the Volcano Group left Tesla’s German factory without electricity on Tuesday, leading to damages the company claims could approach $1 billion.

More than 60,000 residents in Brandenburg and even parts of Berlin were also affected when a single high-voltage power mast near Tesla’s factory in Grünheide was set ablaze, raising broader questions over how to protect defenseless infrastructure critical to the economy from vandals, saboteurs and criminals.

"The complete destruction of the Gigafactory and the lopping off of technofascists like 'Elend' Musk are a step on the path towards liberation from the patriarchy," the group said in a statement sent to media, using a wordplay for Musk's first name that in German means "misery".

Tesla should sue them — and their funders — for the full cost.

Submission + - Lead from gasoline blunted the IQ of about half the U.S. population, study says (nbcnews.com)

Submitted by ArchieBunker
ArchieBunker writes: Exposure to leaded gasoline lowered the IQ of about half the population of the United States, a new study estimates.

The peer-reviewed study, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, focuses on people born before 1996 — the year the U.S. banned gas containing lead.

Overall, the researchers from Florida State University and Duke University found, childhood lead exposure cost America an estimated 824 million points, or 2.6 points per person on average.

Certain cohorts were more affected than others. For people born in the 1960s and the 1970s, when leaded gas consumption was skyrocketing, the IQ loss was estimated to be up to 6 points and for some, more than 7 points. Exposure to it came primarily from inhaling auto exhaust.

Submission + - French Court Issues Damages Award for Violation of GPL (heathermeeker.com)

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: On February 14, 2024, the Court of Appeal of Paris issued an order stating that Orange, a major French telecom provider, had infringed the copyight of Entr’Ouvert’s Lasso software and violated the GPL, ordering Orange to pay €500,000 in compensatory damages and €150,000 for moral damages. This case has been ongoing for many years. Entr’ouvert is the publisher of Lasso, a reference library for the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) protocol, an open standard for identity providers to authenticate users and pass authentication tokens to online services. This is the open protocol that enables single sign-on (SSO). The Lasso product is dual licensed by Entr’Ouvert under GPL or commercial licenses.

Submission + - OSS Shows Judges' "Random" Assignments Were Nonrandom (substack.com)

Submitted by judoka9999
judoka9999 writes: Most American courts have rules requiring random assignments of judges to cases. Public confidence requires it to prevent appearances of impropriety, like a judge hearing every case involving a government agency that previously employed that judge. After a front-page Wall Street Journal exposé showed that 131 U.S. federal judges had presided over 685 lawsuits involving companies in which the judge or judge's family owned stock, new data and analytics purport to show that one particular Boston federal judge's case assignments were four times less likely than a single ticket's odds of winning the Powerball jackpot. The findings were produced by formerly imprisoned alleged Anonymous hacker Martin Gottesfeld, whose story has appeared before on Slashdot. Gottesfeld has provided the source code of the program he used and the exact search queries he ran in LexisNexis to arrive at his results.

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