Pretty soon an education from certain states, like Iowa and Florida, will be disqualifying for getting into university or getting a job because those students will be too uneducated and/or too differently educated from everyone else -- unless all states dumb down their curricula to match.

Not sure what you mean by "pretty soon." Only 15% of high school students attending Baltimore City Public Schools in the city of Baltimore, MD tested at or above the proficient level for reading, and only 8% tested at or above that level for math. For many decades now, we've had regions statistically full of uneducated people, which happen to be 100% controlled by Democrats -- they're called inner cities. Make sure you disqualify every one of them while you're discarding FL and IA -- you know, for "equity."

No mention of the US continuing to voluntarily raise interest rates to combat severe inflation -- as recently as last week! From all measures, it's working, and the country may even avoid a recession outright. Sounds like someone wants to get in the news by making controversial claims. :-) Despite Fitch's odd statement, US treasuries are still among the very safest long-term investments in the world.

Then lets say the screen saver triggers or hibernation gets triggered or the home machine goes to sleep.

Probably a good idea to disable these things if you plan on remoting into a machine or having it do work after hours. I have found that most "power saving," "eco," and "sleep" settings conspire against the system getting work done at its normal levels of throughput or even against its general availability.

It's not a privilege, it's an opportunity to mod down those with whom you disagree, as well as the resident assholes on here. Call it what it is.

Slashdot is walking a very similar fine line. They know these political shit-posts draw the most clicks and ad rev, but if they don't reign in the resident political fucktards here, they're going to alienate a lot of their remaining core audience, permanently. Seriously, I can get the inevitable firstpost blaming Party X for Issue Y on every other fucking site on the web. This place is is rapidly losing the last little bit of magic which made it special decades ago.

Pussy. Keyboard warrior. The amount of hours you spend on here each week, for years, is fucking pathetic. What a waste of a life.

It's not a technology problem, or a landmass problem. We (US consumers) need competition, so we get more and better choices as Internet service consumers. If we need to subsidize community internet to get it, that's way better money spent than continuing to piss endless funds down a bottomless pit to the tune of trillions of dollars for decades, as we have with the Comcasts and other mega ISPs of the country for the past quarter century.

Also, people need to quit focusing exclusively on download speeds. ISPs should be forced to advertise all tiers of service in both up and down speeds. Yes, some of this may be partially resolved with DOCSIS 4.x, but we're still years away from that tech becoming mainstream for the majority of US internet users.

Yeah, I don't feel the need bring up 100% unrelated, completely non-technology topics just to hammer everyone with my political views again and again on EVERY FUCKING ARTICLE that gets posted on this site. Do you even realize you do this?

We all have the fastest internet we've ever had?

Yeah, and it's still utter shit compared to the rest of the developed world. And I say this as a US citizen and fiscal conservative. The money spent on Internet service in the US is some of the worst value for dollar anywhere.

Heat pumps are a southern thing. They drop tremendously in efficiency when the temperature drops sub-freezing, and freeze up hard when exposed to temperatures that upstate New York and other northern states consider a moderate winter, let alone a cold winter.

Mod parent up. This "no fossil fuel heating" nonsense is religion to these progressive crazies. Go tell the Scandinavian countries they're not allowed to heat their homes in winter by burning anything anymore -- you know, how humanity has done it since we lived in caves -- and see what they tell you. Below 40 degrees F, all that heat pump is going to do is blow lukewarm air on you and make your electric meter spin like a top.

I don't get it. Why not legislate something common sense and achievable, like requiring super high R values for insulation, doors, and windows?

Perhaps, but there also comes a time where the availability of something in society is widely considered to be a net-negative by many citizens. Without taking either side, this is precisely the Democrat view on guns and the Republican view on abortion. At some point, we may get there with social media too.

Agreed . . . this is Microsoft greenwashing marketing nonsense.

What this really means:

• * Microsoft is endlessly charging for stuff on the cloud -- recurring revenue, which is great for them and terrible for their customers
• * Microsoft makes more ad revenue from forced ads on Windows 11 and the cloud
• * This is actually worse for the environment because all those Windows machines spend more bandwidth pushing content and endlessly syncing things
• * It also means higher costs and less flexibility for the business because once I select my cloud vendor it's very difficult to move to a different one by design

I think lots of businesses will wise up and start to run their own private clouds to avoid renting their infrastructure and getting gouged. AWS and Azure are really pricing themselves out of the market in a lot of segments, whereas the hardware itself just gets cheaper and more powerful, but none of that benefit is going to the end user. What's old as truly again -- ever-increasing price hikes will lead to tons of small drop-in data centers that eventually replace a lot of cloud stuff over the next 5+ years. Just my $0.02.

Not nearly as tiresome as the same couple dozen posters spending countless hours here every week using the place as their own personal forum to espouse wacky political views and showing the world how smart they are about every single topic whilst calling everyone and everything else stupid. I don't know if they're paid shills or not, but Slashdot would be so much better if they just shut the fuck up and go away, even if just for a little while. Sometimes you just want to read about technology, not interact with antisocial cunts.

. . . when it's mandatory that the cops and military must use it.

It's a ponzi scheme like cryptocurrency

Everything you said is correct except this last sentence. Unlike crypto, there's always something intrinsically valuable about real estate, because it actually exists in the real world. It's a physical, tangible asset that you can live in; ergo, unlike crypto, it has some real value. Heck, in this context, the word "real" in real estate comes from the Latin word realis which means existing and true.