This is Slashdot :)

This also clarifies things (why am I not surprised):

Muslims believe in Christ too. Does that make them Christians? Or, by the same mechanism, are Christians also Jews (Jesus was a Jew)?

Be careful what you ask for, apparently Google's AI agent is indistinguishable from their normal web-search crawler and who wants to be invisible to Google? I don't know if the same applies to Microsoft and Bing.

I remember several sites crashing at that time.
Someone had tested a Linux setup in advance and had triggered a crash, a fix was released. A fair number of sites did not apply the critical fix before it was needed and a fair number of admins had to answer the question "why". One of those sites was Amadeus and that affected me so I noticed.

Let me guess, the most secure elections are those that have only white voters.

piece of crap, it was so incredibly bad that we decided to install the binary so that the security peeps were happy, and then we disabled the service.

It was making our servers unusable, and they refused to fix it when we opened tickets.

The period where this was true only started after the second World War.
Before then the US was just as egotistical and self-absorbed as it is today. That is the reason why it joined so late in both World Wars.
So you could say the US is simply returning to its default stance on world affairs.

Having the datacenters in Europe is just one of the requirements. More important is the legal aspects of who has control.

American and Chinese companies have to abide by the laws of their home countries first, so they will screw over Europeans every time no matter where the datacenter is located.

Also, all that money will be going into European pockets. For the longest time all those funds were spent on foreign companies with hardly any footprint in Europe.

I'm personally seeing the effect in Belgium, with companies in my field popping up like mushrooms in autumn. It used to be difficult finding a decent job over here, because my specialty was only in demand by US companies that weren't hiring in Europe. All that is changing,and so I think the money is well spent.

Yeah, PC sales were artificially high in 2025 because of the Windows 11 requirements, now prices have rocketed so sales are artificially low. The next step is presumably when the AI companies - and their investors - realise that they are not going to make a profit on all those tokens and some go belly-up. The Chinese are also going to be making more RAM and SSDs for their own market to avoid sanctions, prices are going to have to drop.

The number of life years lost is significant IIRC.

It's the southern states which see comparatively little benefit from DST.
What I - and presumably many others - find amusing about this is Tom Cotton - loyal to the point of idiocy - not being loyal enough for His Master. I'd guess that Cotton is now seeing more mileage in separating himself from his Glorious dead duck Leader except that his position on this particular issue has been clear for some time.

I love how this shows compassion for people who likely caused their own problems. Nurses are the best of us.

You are commenting on this as if the leadership we're talking about is acting competently and in good faith: that they're there to run a department to the best of their abilities.

That's not what they're there to do. And at that point problems become systematic, it doesn't matter who made this screw up when the entire department is being screwed.