This is, of course, capitalism-worshiping nonsense. Corporations are legal fictions. Having bought one, you have become the owner of the entire fiction, including the name. They are SCO now in every sense that matters, and I say that as someone who used to run SCO software and who knows several former SCO employees. That SCO is dead, hopefully this SCO can also die soon, but they are legally the same SCO.

False. As a hosting provider Microsoft doesn't care what OS people are using, they just have to host it. But as an OS provider, Linux is still competition, so they still have a reason to attack it.

It's a crap argument anyway because the point was to keep Linux from becoming relevant on the desktop.

There's also just the general fact that they don't softball shit. If something is anti-consumer they say so. It just so happens that everything Nvidia does these days is anti-consumer. Remember when they were the underdog? Those were good days because they were trying hard.

You're not giving them to robots, you're giving them to the OWNERS of the robots.

And nobody is going to ask you or me. They're just gonna do it. And half the country is too busy worrying about trans girls in sports to stop it, it whatever moral panic comes next after that. Maybe violent video games again.

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You do realize this quantum computer has only 98 qubits and, to quote the summary, "To perform quantum computations of practical importance in science and commerce, even the most optimistic estimates suggest that quantum computers must be enormously bigger and better -- of the order of a million qubits."

Oracle is joining in on the hype, but that doesn't make it any closer to a practical tool.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Playing the lawsuit lotto, the hope is they eventually win big. I hope they win a tiny award that settles the matter while also never covering their decades of legal costs.

You're right. My numbers are a bit off. For someone average and not great shape they could perhaps sustain 100 W, and would have a speed of around 15 mph on a 100 m run. If someone was a decent athlete, perhaps an amateur that races some times, they might be able to sustain 350 W, which gets them up to 25 mph on 100 m run.

I usually cruise around 20 mph (more like 40 mph down the hills, where I am keeping up with country road traffic). Just big heavy bike, no toe clips, no e-bike, etc. I'm not in particularly good shape. But I'm a big guy with a fair bit of stamina so I can go slow and steady for a few miles at a decent pace. Purely to get from point A to point B, not my preferred form of exercise.

So I'll revise:

24 mph is almost as fast as someone on a bicycle with moderately training.

Paper airplanes have almost hit the 100 meter mark for flight (98.43 meters by Liu Liwen). I'm not sure how fast such a paper airplane flies, but that's also an impressive bit of trivia.

24 mph is almost as fast as someone moderately out of shape on a bicycle.

Please cite where Starship launch costs will be pennies. I will wait. The total cost has been $15B for 13 launches with less than a 40% success rate according to SpaceX's own standards.

Part of concern back then was anonymity was not guaranteed as the US government was rumored to have some way of breaking encryption that such a service would use. It turned out later that one standard, dual elliptic curve random number generator is suspected to have been backdoored by the NSA.

The problem for Xinuos is even if they succeed at proving this, it means nothing legally. As the district court and the appeals court noted, Xinuos does not have standing to sue. The assets Xinuos purchased from SCO Group in 2011 specifically excluded claims related to IBM/Project Monterrey. Those claims were settled between SCO Group and IBM in 2021. Xinuos tried to argue before SCO Group's bankruptcy court that they had a stake which the court denied. The second reason is statute of limitations restricts any claims Xinous to at most 3 years after they purchased the copyrights in 2011, not 10 years later in 2021. Thus IBM won summary judgement.

No need for that, just store coolness in the house. Chill the house sooner, it's not just air, the mass of the house itself also cools.