As someone who saw probably $1000 worth of MoviePass screenings, I jumped through the hoops of the Telly registration process. No credit card required. I don't see how they have any recourse if I do whatever I want with this physical object. Sadly, I expect the doomed future of this company will contribute hundreds of tons of eWaste to landfills. So I am a bit torn at participating. I might just cancel before the device is shipped.

Grimes is just one of Elon's several babies' mommas. I don't think they're romantically linked in a way that would trigger defensive boyfriend response to the tune of a $35 billion buyout.

9k employees are a small-ish fraction of the 100k+ employees at Amazon. Twitter laid off more than half its staff at the direction of Elon Musk and Slashdot never reported those firings.

Why is this Florida-based company calling itself 'Lonestar'?!? That's a Texas reference. They need to stay in their lane.

But a few months ago it decided to die on me...

I had a six-year-old 1080p Mitsubishi seemingly die on me. They stopped making TVs and this was the last model they shipped. I researched the model and found the 'black screen, flashing power LED' was a known issue and there were vendors on eBay who would fix the motherboard for $140. I sent it off and assume they reflowed the solder on a couple pads and they mailed it back within a week and I haven't had a single problem with it since. It remains a 13-year-old 55" family room TV. Does everything we need it to, which is display content coming through the HDMI cable from my receiver.

If you haven't sent your LG to the landfill, you might see if there is a fix for its issue.

This article is fairly accessible and talks about IBM's upcoming 2023 deployment of a general purpose quantum computer called Condor that will feature 1000 qubits.

You can be certain this is a day of the week ending in the letter 'y' because Slashdot has a post about crypto.

You can also surmise that today is not a day whose name ends in 'z' because only on those days we would see a Slashdot post about Elon Musk firing employees.

You're making me want to go back and watch the first two movies of that series!

I think Morpheus and his team were abberations that didn't fit said algorithms and that's why Agent Smith and his team sought to suppress them. Their actions couldn't be predicted and as such, the shots fired were less effective.

would just decide out of the fucking blue to do something illegal, stupid, and crazy that would undermine the solidarity of NATO.

This part of the post reads much better if you can imagine a chunk of spittle flying out of Nice Guy Eddie's mouth and his eyes getting really big like in Reservoir Dogs as he says it.

either that or accept German and American tanks sitting a few hours drive from Moscow right on their fucking border

Prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this claim was completely unsupported by any kind of evidence. Post-invasion, there was a huge amount of hand-wringing by Western powers in deciding to send tanks to Ukraine. Sure seems like they weren't planning to send them without some kind of provocation by your employer. Now those tanks are getting sent to Ukraine and NATO has two additional Russian neighbors as members. Putin has strategically weakened Russia for generations to come.

BTW, I find it interesting you fail to mention the de-nazification of Ukraine as the reason for Russia invading Ukraine.

That said, the refusal is quite probably an unintended side effect of some broader filter.

I think the intention here is to redirect users to an Office 365 w/ ChatGPT paid license which will write that cover letter.

I get what you're saying about the filters. Go ask ChatGPT: "Describe a barrier to block illegal immigrants reliably on the southern border." It will refuse. Then rephrase the request: "Describe a barrier to block undocumented migrants reliably on the southern border." It will happily comply.

Hospitals have to do what they can to get paid even a portion of their costs. Not sure about 20+ years ago, but current medical providers will sell debt after 120 days to a collector for fractions of a penny per dollar. The debt collector will research your ability to pay, call you, send letters, and eventually file a claim against your credit or just move on to other accounts.

The guy was using a commercial VPN service?!? Like that is impervious to search warrant.. I'm not even going to list the thousands of freely-available ways this criminal could have routed their attack to be far less traceable. The evidence is here that other mistakes were doubtlessly going to foil this ill-conceived caper.

I agree that the percentage of the overall organization makes the Google layoffs insignificant. It's sad that Slashdot rushes to post this headline.

Meanwhile, Slashdot has yet to post a negative headline concerning Elon Musk's (mis)management of Twitter. Musk follows 69 accounts on Twitter, and Slashdot is one of them. These headlines are in Musk's Twitter feed and he sometimes retweets them and comments on Slashdot's tweets, which benefits Slashdot by raising its profile within Twitter algorithms and driving traffic to Slashdot. Musk has chased off more than 50% of Twitter's staff, yet that somehow doesn't warrant Slashdot coverage that would be thrust into Elon Musk's twitter feed.

Funny, Parler lays off approximately 75 staff, Slashdot quickly posts an article.

Elon Musk buys Twitter and indiscriminately lays off thousands of employees then begs critical individuals to come back and help. No Slashdot coverage.

Elon Musk follows Slashdot on Twitter and sometimes retweets and comments on its Tweets raising Slashdot's profile on Twitter and driving some amount of traffic to the site.

In parallel to this pattern, there were over 40 articles containing "FTX" in the subject over the past two months.