They don't care for reasons they choose not acknowledge.
Their revenue appears unconnected to Slashdot importance, or is sufficient without the effort to restore quality. I find this interesting.

That's why they choose not to respond to (not the same as "ignore") valid criticism. The enshittification of Slashdot is deliberate. It's easy money for minimal effort.

Slashdot owners could easily replace editors with AI and arguably should since the threshold for acceptable "quality" has been so low for so long no one would notice.

The forecasters don't know where you'll be when it matters. That's why it's your job to look up the data yourself.

Why do you say that? TV forecasts are averages over a region. That's by design. Do you really want the TV weather presenter to rattle off rain and temperature and humidity numbers for every block in every city in the whole state you live in? No, they just give indicative data. It's not going to apply to you. It's a guideline.

If you want to know if you're going to be rained on, go get a radar image map with rain data updated every minute, and work out if the clouds will cross your street at the exact moment when you will be standing on it.

The basic rule is: don't do the crime, if you can't do the time.

Copyright exists, for better or for worse. It's no excuse to claim you can't determine copyright attribution because of the scale of your stash. This is true for anyone, whether you're a company looking to infringe for profit, a nonprofit looking to infringe for humanity, or a person looking to infringe for personal convenience.

Go kick the butt of the supreme courts who impose rules if you don't like the status quo, or go live in a country where the rules are different. There are some.

All you achieve when you act like a scofflaw and a whiner is that people dismiss you, quite rightly. Generations before you managed to follow the rules,. The problem isn't the copyright law per se, the problem is you are not doing your part in changing the law, citizen. It's your job to leave your country a better place than you received it.

My prediction, raising prices even to break even will cause "interest" in AI to plummet.

But without AI, how are the automatic doors going to sound authentically self-satisfied when they say "glad to be of service"?

There used to be a time when Java had support everywhere. It seemed unstoppable, there was so much community support.

Then it faded (etymology: early 14c., "lose brightness, grow pale," from Old French fader "become weak, wilt, wither," from fade (adj.) "pale, weak; insipid, tasteless" (12c.), probably from Vulgar Latin *fatidus, which is said to be a blending of Latin fatuus "silly, tasteless" and vapidus "flat, flavorless.")

Gen-X. Check your math.

I was in 2nd grade then. We loved it, in part for the novelty and in part because we were allowed to take flashlights to school (relly cool when you're 7).

Unfortunately, that in itself is a punishment. You miss time from work, often have to pay through the nose for an attorney, etc.

It may be the only recourse left, but it can be a costly one that wouldn't be necessary if law enforcement would be more conscientious.

The root cause here was a cop more interested in having a power trip and dumping on someone than in actual justice, law enforcement, or keeping the peace.

It's kind of a knock-on effect. *IF* we could actually trust cops to look at the evidence before they go accusing, threatening, and inconveniencing people with this bs, it might be something like acceptable. But we see over and over that we can't.

And that's BEFORE we consider the nefarious uses that could be made of the data. Unfortunately, we sometimes see evidence for that in the news as well.

See also, high school kid with a bag of Doritos.

That's the point, No I do not. Bitlocker protects against the wrong threat.

That's hilarious, they don't have a *real* military?

I don't know what you consider a real military, but assuming that you think the US has a real military by your standards, I'll point to Afghanistan, where a rag tag of AK-47 wielding militiamen just kicked their ass out of the country. Same in Iraq, which caused a 10-year trauma in the US population as evidenced by the amount of movies produced about the conflict aiming to heal the psychological wound and the political impact. Same in Vietnam, where the troops ran away after years of misery. Note that the French got beaten in Vietnam too, and the Russians got beaten in Afghanistan.

War is not about technology. It is about strategy, tactics, destruction, and politics. It is about bullying the other side into submission, and then punishing them after they give up. Last man standing. There are no other rules.

Why not? Life is too short to worry about what your CEO is promising, and he's the one being paid to take the risk. Do your thing, polish the resume, and keep abreast of new technology trends.

I know of a few people who lost data due to bitlocker and regretted using it. I know nobody who has protected data due to bitlocker and was glad they used it.

So there's that.