The Weinersmiths (of SMBC fame) wrote a good book analyzing the problems of space exploration and especially colonization. It's worth a read, and is a lot more realistic than the sci-fi fantasies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Maybe they'll take $TRUMP.

Furthermore, Colorado is not a swing state by any stretch of the imagination. The presidential race in 2020 went to Biden by 13.6%, and the state is only getting bluer over time.

One source I saw said that the passwords were for the BIOS, which wouldn't be much of an exposure except for a very, very determined, motivated, and skilled expert who had physical access.

*automatically generated summary*

The 25% claim is marketting bullshit.

The future is bots talking to each other.

Until proven otherwise, I'm invoking Betteridge's Law of Headlines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Sure, geothermal brings heat up to the surface, but how does that heat compare with the same amount of energy generated with coal or nuclear?

CBS thought it was a group https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2...

And, oh yeah, we're making a big push into AI!

That's a very good example of exactly the position the authors are complaining about:

1. Asserting that it "obviously" occurred, and insulting anybody who doesn't believe

2. Claiming "evidence" without actually citing any evidence

3. Asserting that there's a widespread conspiracy to cover it up, again with no evidence

Read the article summary, and look in a mirror...

But the joke going around is that they run their whole airline on a single Commodore 64!

As someone who came of age around 1980, I have to laugh at the description of the past four years as "runaway inflation". But I digress...

The US unemployment rate overall is only 4% currently, which is low by historic measures. If there are "mass layoffs", it isn't reflected in the job numbers yet. Maybe AI is the real reason...we'll see how things shake out in the next few years. I can certainly see less demand for code monkeys, since you can generate semi-reasonable code for many situations with a simple prompt.

On the other hand, when I started my first job in 1981, I expected automatic coding of some sort to eventually replace coders. The programming environments are obviously vastly better now and do a lot for you, but the demand has stayed pretty high for coders for the past 40 years, since computers and software permeate our lives so much. Maybe we've just reached saturation on software demand, since everything that uses electricity already has a CPU in it.

The obvious lesson is to NOT allow security updates.

Melinda Gates is also on the list, with $13.3 billion net worth.

You get to see ads now, too. Awesomeness.

Without the required features, that version isn't even supposed to boot up, according to the article, so the watermark won't appear unless you trick the OS into running on unsupported hardware. Non-story.