Adams repeatedly stated it's completely random, and has no meaning whatsoever. The only thought process was it had to be a number, and a meaningless number at that. The entire joke relies on it not making any sense no matter how hard you try. Just a plain old number. Fans like you insist he's lying, and quite dead anyway, so who cares what his opinions are, right?

Yes, in the benchmarks where the 12900K "scores some wins" (meaning it loses as many as it wins) the Intel was set to maximum overdrive (270W) while the Ryzen was left at default settings (105W). But it's certainly cheaper! If electricity is free.

A few months? I installed the beta in 2016 when it was called "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows", and in 2017 it left beta and hit the Windows Store as WSL. WSL1 (2016) is a wrapper around system calls so it can run ELF binaries natively. It's GNU/Windows instead of GNU/Linux. What's "new" is WLS2 (2019), which is a VM. It's faster, unless you need files on the host, in which case it's...well, Microsoft strongly recommends you not use WLS2 if you need to access files on the host.

The penalty is that if you're found to not have a good-faith belief that the work infringes the work you named (and courts have ruled that "good-faith belief that it constitutes unauthorized use of your work" must allow for fair use) then you're fully liable for any damages resulting from sending the note, including all associated legal fees.

So the reason it's a terrible idea to carpet bomb Megacorps with fake notices, but that Megacorps are free to do so without concern, is that the penalty is proportional to the size of the target. If a Megacorp sends a bogus note to take down your github, then if you eventually prevail in court they have to cover your legal fees (chump change) and pay for any REAL damages that result from your github project going offline (probably $0). If you send a Megacorp's host a bogus note, then you have to pay their IMMENSE legal fees, plus the damages for a billion dollar corporation's website being down (probably $SHITLOAD). Or, if they host it themselves, your note goes in the shredder because the DMCA doesn't even apply. Assuming they don't want to sue you into oblivion just to keep their legal team busy.

If there's a non-sexual image in the database then the human being in charge of verifying matches would just dismiss it out of hand. If you don't trust Apple when they say that's what they'll do, then you shouldn't trust them to not browse your iCloud anyway.

Not literally. You are buying an Etherium token that has a URL in the metadata. Whoever runs the webserver (the seller, or the NFT gallery they sold through) owns the URL. They're free to delete the image if it gets DMCA'd (and have done so when a scam artist sold an NTF for an image they didn't make). They're free to sell multiple tokens for the same URL. They're free to put the image at several URLs and sell tokens for all of them. Now perhaps depending on the sales agreement with the gallery you might be able to go after them for breach of contract, but naturally the sales agreement says "go fuck yourself". The person who bought an NFT that got DMCA'd is out of luck. The gallery said that the were only buying a token. They still own that token so nothing of value was lost.

According to the link it's 1GB, not 100MB. It also doesn't call it "the amount a human can read in a lifetime", it calls it "hopefully representative".

It's just pseudoscience. They claim it's not the pH of the food/drink, but its effect on the body. Lemon juice and apple cider vinegar are acidic in terms of measurable pH, but they are "alkaline promoting", whatever that means. Meanwhile milk is neutral in terms of actual science, but highly acidic in terms of pseudoscience.

This comment page takes 18.5 seconds to render if I turn off uBlock. That's not because of bandwidth (I have 150megabit, and the render time is about the same when most of it is coming from cache). It's because javascript loads javascript loads javascript loads javascript loads javascript loads ads. I'm simplifying. The daisy-chain is several hundred URLs long. It's mostly because a 2.4Ghz i5-2430 is ancient and nowhere near Slashdot's minimum specs.

Yeah, 80mb is exaggerated. For example this comment page on /. uses only 1mb of resources from only 80 different URLs. It's typical right? Most websites don't have any images or videos at all, right? Just text. Chrome fully renders it in 1.3 seconds. "Render" means it draws it on a canvas. How much memory does that canvas require? Do you want it to not buffer the canvas so that it has to do a complete re-render whenever you scroll?

Of course I have an adblocker and noscript. Let's try in a fresh Chrome profile...11mb from 800 different URLs. Chrome fully renders in 18.5 seconds.

"Scientists have disproved Newton, now taking aim at Einstein!"

Intel puts instructions into "licence classes" as an analogy to drivers licences. The slow instructions (AVX-512) are in Licence 2 in Sky Lake chips which restricts the CPU from certain frequency scaling ranges (300-800 MHz penalty). Supposedly Ice Lake's licence penalties are less severe.

Yes, it says to report people walking down the street looking into car windows, scammers pretending to be utility workers, and strange vehicles circling the block. That's hella fucked up. Fucking snitches get stitches or wind up in ditches! Slit their throats! Like the previous article about Ring where /. was absolutely outraged that security cameras caught a thief who was smashing car windows and stealing electronics people had left in their cars. HOW DARE THEY! Cellphones want to be free! It's absolutely beyond the pale that these fucking snowflakes think you should be able to stop someone from smashing your window in and rifling through your things. So they SNITCH to the PIGS and then the MAN comes with their STATE MONOPOLY ON VIOLENCE and they ARREST the poor innocent "enemy of the state" whose only "crimes" were theft and destruction of property. Talk about a political prisoner. Easily 100x worse than 1984 am I right? That's right, we're talking about 198,400.

it's not clear the passenger had any sort of contractual obligation to fly the entire distance of the flight.

When he bought his ticket he agreed that he would board every flight at the scheduled time or else pay a cancellation service charge. It's part of most airlines terms and conditions. The questions to decide are "is this clickwrap agreement a contract?" and "is a clause that says if you miss your flight for any reason, the airline can charge you any amount they choose, an unconscionable clause?"

Here's my facebook story. I've started seeing ads for "casinos". Each one has a different keyboard-smash name. The ads are all identical, a picture of a politician and "You won't BELIEVE what he said" and they link to a fake news site. It's meant to look exactly like the real news site, and the sidebar is full of real stories from the real news site. But this article, this page, is fake. The " incredible thing" from the clickbait headline is that this politician has legalized online casinos and personally endorsed keyboard-smash casino, a casino so shitty that every time you bet, you win. The "comments" are full of people saying they hate this politician (realism) but, they clicked anyway and are now all millionaires because you just can't lose! So, obvious bullshit, close the tab. Can't. Chrome doesn't allow it to be closed. Back? Disabled. Then it starts the infinite popup chain of "YOU WON ENTER BANKING DETAILS TO CLAIM PRIZE".

I reported them all to Facebook and was told to fuck off "This is fully compliant with Facebook's ad policy".