China doesn't give a rat's ass what the copyright maximalists in Hollywood have to say. The restrictive bullshit rules they make up are not relevant anywhere else, not even codified in international treaties.

That's why the Star Spangled Banner is an old Poem on top of a British drinking song, and "My country tis of thee" is the music of "God save the queen" and yet if Pharell took a few notes from some has-been nobody there's a multimillion dollar suit.

The problem isn't "Chyna" nor digitization nor AI nor what copyright maximalists want. It's the screwed up laws we have in the US.

In honor and respect of only some of what I know Mitch Kapor has gifted the world, here is my suggestion for his MIT graduation paper.

Dear MIT Board and fellow students,
My actions of the past three decades speak for themselves.
Judge my by those actions, not a paper I wrote.

Best wishes to all of mankind, that I have benefitted and will continue to do so.

M, Kapor

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The above was written by my in honor and respect of what Mitch has done for this entire world. They are not his words. He is more shy, less confrontational, and I admire that. I am not those things and I think we should show gratitude to those who give their life's service to help us all out. Shout out to the EFF, CDT, ProPublica, 404Media, Techdirt, ArsTechnica, Quora (ugc=ugh), /., Bruce Schneier, Brian Krebs, Joel Snyder, Ken Adelman, and everyone else who HAS and continues to MAKE a difference on this planet. I wish I was as good as you, but hopefully my made-up Kapor words are part of a resonating message. Angels walk amongst us.

It's not "space travel" except for the 30 seconds up and 30 seconds down past atmo.
It's not even "space tourism" if you have to train for weeks and go up for minutes to get that little ol' jaunt.

It's space fuckery, and Blue Penis is leading it. Before that Sir Richard WhiteTeethSailBoat was. Two
pieces of shit who could contribute so much to education, environment, and technology instead just
padding their pockets by sending rich idiots into almost-space.

I like Jeff Bezos as much as I like tofu and polyester and other fake useless things.

Hi. I'm human. I'm also a guy who got tired of the house VoIP line being called roughly every hour by telemarkerters, robocallers, AI, to the point that I stopped "testing" them and put in a verbal CAPTCHA.

Now people who call the house line are asked to solve a complex math problem: what is the sum of two plus two.
Humans usually hit four within the five second limit. Robo/Tele/AI/Marketers do not. Sometimes the "human" who
is soon to be connected has not yet connected.

Those get sent over to Lenny. https://www.google.com/search?...

It's really great to get the monthly report on how many calls came through and didn't ring at all, and how many minutes were spent with Lenny.

https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

Time for these book authors (who want people to buy and read their books) to realize that an AI training by reading your book is... ...no different than my fifteen year old reading your book and better understanding words, phrases, sentences, constructs, analogies,
metaphors, and what an awful spite-filled piece of shit author you are.

If you don't want your work read, analyzed, stored, or value, take your pen and keyboard and shove both deeply up your "I'm an
author and I get to determine who or what reads my work" ass they never can come out again. There's an image for that but you'll
have to ask an AI to generate it for you.

If only Slashdot had editors.

It's not "Lowest common denominator." It's "Greatest Common Factor."

Learn your math before you pretend you know what you're talking about.
https://www.splashlearn.com/ma....

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Microsoft has been the bully for too many decades now. They are the #1 cause of malware, because they write horrible code designed to be backward compatible all the way with WFW. That's 30 years of obsolescence.

If you're done being the bully's bitch, get a better OS:

https://linuxmint.com/

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Dave Cutler STOLE VMS from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).

When found guilty of "transferring" that tech to Microsoft for W/NT Microsoft agreed to put out Alpha/AXP chips for DEC and associated software.

Dave's no hero. He's a thief. Too many links, so google away.

Even W/NT was designed to be one letter above VMS, just like Space Oddyssey's HAL was one step away from IBM.

VMS was awesome but Dave Cutler (who helped develop v4 not v5) never understood it fully. Add in Bill Gates wanting everything WFW 3.1 compatible and it was doomed to fail. Windows is the #1 cause of malware. It is purposely landlocked with its arm tied behind it's back.

Fuck Cutler. Fuck Gates. Linus is rough around the edges but he knows code.

Customer: I'd like the Denver omelette with no ham
AI: One den bear Amish without Amish coming up.
Customer: No I said Denver omelette
AI: Ok, so you want a flight to Denver. Is United Airlines ok?

Yeah, because IHOP servers are the smartest of the bunch and now they'll be replaced by hallucinating AIs.
Because at 0200 the first thing you want is a hallucinating moron AI taking your order.

WHAT could go WRONG?

Replace stupid CEOs with AIs.

No, I realize you're an ad hominem dick.

Good job, Dick.

> You're using it wrong.

No, you're just fucking your customers wrong, Broadcom. That's why this:
https://www.theregister.com/20...
https://www.ciodive.com/news/b...
https://www.reddit.com/r/vmwar...
https://arstechnica.com/civis/... ...
and so on.

Who's doing what wrong now? Greedy pigfuckers at Broadcom or IT professionals everywhere in the world.
Go on, I'm listening.

> ...a land area nearly the size of Palestine...

Palestine is a nickname coined in the 1960s by a terrorist (Yasser Araftat) for an area of land he didn't possess, but which he was offered in full (along with East Jerusalem) and each time rejected it so he could fulfill his ultimate goal -- kill and remove all the Jews "from the river to the sea." Terrorists are terrorists and that little destroyed piece of shit is where most of then hang out.

It is not the measure of the size of anything except "how many terrorists can fire from the tip of a pin." Much worse than angels dancing

The US State of Delaware has around 2000 square miles, and no known terrorists have tunneled into it, thrown LGBTQ/S+ people off roofs, forced women to stay barefoot in the kitchen wearing a black blanket over their entire bodies, or stolen food trucks.

Delaware. That's a good comparison.

Palestine is dead. There will never be a "two-state solution". Note that Hamas started this latest bout and they could have ended it anytime since October 7th 2023, and they could have ended it yesterday, and they could end it today. But no, they are committed to "killing all the jews."

Fuck Hamas. Fuck terrorists. Fuck the UN. There is no Palestine. Never was. Never will be.

They wouldn't pass an aptitude test, do 5 pushups, or contribute anything other than MORE GREED for their personal ego and "shareholder value."

That is not what the military is above.

This is yet more grift, tit for tat, and selling access to government and the military industrial complex.

Fuck Trump.

Yeah, 20%-60% "could be" ghosts. Sure, just like ghosts voting.

Any stat with a margin of error that high is just political puffery in preparation for killing off student aid.
We don't want educated people here. Defund science, burn books, imprison librarians.

All hail the King Orange.

Clearly someone wants a government handout to build more.

You don't need "new" cables or "bigger cables." Cables are limited by their ampacity, or "amp capacity" or current carrying. So you an up the votage, delivery more Watts (kilo, mega, giga, etc) without changing the cables.

In other words the original artile is a grift attempt and not written by anyone ... oh wait... Bloomberg... yeah, a grift for more money.

Pros: You can run more power through the same lines. You don't need new cables, new towers, or a lot of money.
Cons: You need new transformers (upconvert downconvert to/from higher voltage), and you can't burty the lines because of the resistance leading to heat factor.

This has NOTHING to do with "clean energy" anything. It's the same infrastructure in electricity delivery. The transformers get upgraded, but they'd have to be in any case. The power generation systems need to be upgraded to generate more power, but they'd have to be in any case.

This is an article to say "ClEAN ENERGY" and claim funds are needed for new delivery systems (cables, towers, substations).

No, it's not.

Ask anybody from an EE to an apprentice lineman. This is A/C power deliver 101.