...The AI will grow sentient, irradiate the crabs to make them larger and stronger, merge with their nervous system, and these Bionic Crabs will then hijack ships and battle the humans for control of major cities. An injured renegade Google employee will gave a child a special fob that can stop them, but only if...

Microsoft owns the word Word.

My competing product is Macrohard Wad

SAS has been dead for 15y; it started with R and then Python absolutely destroyed it. No one teaches SAS in universities any longer, why would they? It's terribly expensive and absolutely fucking dead.

We migrated away from SAS back in 2017 and never looked back. The only verticals still using it are heavily regulated and running long-standing legacy code that they're slowly migrating to Python.

I remember absolutely dying when they tried to renegotiate our contract UP back in 2015. I flat out told them they were dead and we were moving away from them and they told me, "good luck managing your data without us!"

Two companies and 10 years later, we're doing just fine and they are not.

Ironically few of their products are "visual" any more. They got rid of WYSIWYG in their dev tools so now devs have to play fiddle faddle to get stuff to look right, and even then DOM shuffles them around in drunk ways under different conditions. It's a time-drain.

WYSIWYG isn't evil, it just needed a few tweaks to adapt. But fadsters were too quick to toss it out with the bathwater over buzzword addiction. Gittoffmylawn!

Thanks for clarifying. But I hope I didn't give the bastards any fresh ideas... Next thing you know they'll be including a suicide bomb inside it to go all the way beyond software-based bricking.

Whoops.

"Aflac" and nobody will ever fight for your name. Plus, it makes for a memorable duck mascot.

(Although rumor is they are fighting with Duck Duck Go over the mascot.)

Okay, and you deserve the funny mod, but no one seems to have realized it must be a dead man switch. If the robovac fails to contact its masters within some time limit, then it is ordered (at a deep level) to kill itself.

(Couldn't find this obvious comment in the discussion branch, but I can's see or search All from here...)

Propagation of the vacuous Subject unrelated to your actual topic. The original AC accomplished its goal of poisoning the discussion, but the vacuous Subject can be used for any form of sock puppet food.

So my Subject is partly a joke but mostly a forced bridge trying to reach the actual story. Yeah, I actually think the Democrats should have invoked the 25th on Biden just to prove it can work. Maybe that would have scared the YOB into running for Switzerland before he could continue demolishing the so-called "people's house"?

Veering wildly back to the topic of the actual story, me thinks too many astronomers don't yet know what they are talking about, but the real problem is the collapse of journalism. Even scientific research has to be converted into some kind of controversy or horse race in hopes of getting more eyeballs...

"Is there a 25th Amendment for journalists?"

FTFM

I propose yet another dimension of comparison for the various genAIs: Which tells the best jokes?

Give each of them a link to a Slashdot story and ask for a funny joke. But I would be certain to make it clear such a joke was not my fault were I to actually post it back to Slashdot...

(Sorry, but I'm too tired just now to do so much "work". Partly because I've been too busy measuring the LLMs on such dimensions as most insincere apologies, lamest sycophancy, and peaks of fury for stupid, verbose, and irrelevant answers. There are supposed to be some dimensions for positive results, but so far those have to be measured with infinitesimal or imaginary numbers.)

Perhaps the inevitable conclusion of the FP? Not that I can disagree, but I sure wish I could see solutions to the kind of thinking that believes "Those people deserve to starve to death if they can't buy bread. Being so poor is a capital crime!" No excuses allowed.

And the "Pro-Life" people love this even when innocent children are being starved to death? Mostly Africa first, where the people don't even count as human beings, but now coming to America...

So here's my joke: A fake Tesla logo. But look close and it's a starved child on a cross. Of course I'm only joking. But I'm also sure no sane insurance company would issue a policy to cover a Tesla unless the parking space has surveillance cameras to detect anyone playing funny games with the hood ornament...

We don't want to be associated with a fascist regime when the wind changes.

Maybe its variable: acceleration starts, stops, reverses, rinse, repeat...

"China will win social unrest"

I trust Windows Server 2003 more than I trust Windows 11. It's less stable, but Microsoft isn't in control of your machine.

u b from Gen-LB: Lawn Booters