Did you just send me back to the Hot Grits Slashdot or did I miscount my gummies?

Warp drives violate casualty so they can't be real.
However, if aliens develop a warp drive, and it fails, then we can get notified about it using a special type gravitational wave detector which do not exist yet but should be funded.

As an ancient greybeard hearing that a development methodology design to "fail faster" works as advertised.

This is code for straight-up Socialism or Chinese Style "Capitalism". Picking winners and losers by the Government.

I would instantly agree that we need to stop picking winners like we do now under Crony Capitalism, but putting that power more in the hands of Bureaucrats and Politicians is not the solution.

Along those same lines, Windows 11 is dropping support for older Intel Processors lacking certain features. Supposedly, it's to improve virtualization, but how much would it cost to just not support that virtualization as well on older processors?

It's a boon to PC manufacturers that push Windows 11. The big PC makers say "Works best with Windows!" on their websites and don't highlight or give you any price break on units with Linux installed. Didn't I read that MS requires that they get a payment for every PC sold, whether it runs Windows or not as part of their licensing agreement with the manufacturers? I know the manufacturers get a big break on Windows copies from retail.

I thought Apple should have bought Dell when Dell went private a few years ago, made PCs with no Windows advantage, pushed Linux and maybe even Darwin on these new PCs. I'm not saying don't sell Windows too. They could keep the Dell and marketing separate to not dilute the Apple brand. They would have enjoyed massive buying power for PC parts, screens, batteries, SDs. They could have gotten Dell for a tiny fraction of their massive war chest a few years ago. Could have had most of it financed, too, just like the deal to go private did. This idea might have faced anti-trust scrutiny.

Apple should have recognized that MS wasn't going away and as long as they are there, they are a potential huge competitor in many of their markets.

It would have also been revenge for the obnoxious remarks Michael Dell made back in the 90s when Apple was experiencing hard times.

Now somebody tell me how to get these cold, sticky grits outta my pants.

And get off my lawn!

Insomniac Hacker Releases More Than 1.3 Million Stolen Files...
At first I thought "Aww poor hacker. Can't sleep at night because of the situation? How nice of her to release all the data, just because she can't sleep and feels guilty"...

Only $2K to offer up the last 6 hours of my day to our corporate overlords?

Where do I sign?

well I'm sorry to hear.

for undoing it! (did you undo it with meta moderation?)

Why wasn't he invited? Is it because he's crazy?

The article is poorly written and doesn't explain what exactly is the problem with remote work.

When I hear "Ruby on rails" I imagine a girl called Ruby, tied to the train rails, shouting in horror. Hence, It's a poor name selection.

Also, Ruby On Rails is related to the demise of one of the companies I worked at. They started a new project and some new employee decided to do it in Ruby. Bad idea since he was the only one in the company who was familiar with it! After a while that employee flipped out and left the company. The company had to hire some another company to finish that project, which wasted a lot of money. That started the downward spiral, which began with delayed salaries and ended with total bankruptcy.

Also I don't like that the tool for installing Ruby packages is called gem. Why pollute the namespace like that? It should have been called ruby-gem instead.

So while I don't have much idea how Ruby is good or not, I just have mostly bad experience with it. Bye Ruby!

Wow!

Our democracy is being undermined by the people we've elected.

Maybe we should teach kids about taking responsibility for keeping a humane, functional society.