I went to look at the pictures, curious about this move to the cloud, and noticed the low ceilings. Was this some unique data center space? Those can be fun sometimes. Maybe the takeaway here is that Windows shops aren't worth trying to do on your own hardware and Microsoft just prices them into Azure?

> because they do not get math. One wonders what they will think of Musk's leaked 4chan account. The guy is unabomber-esk nutjob if the leak is accurate. Or maybe L Ron Hubbard and Lyndon LaRouche had a crazy baby.

Probably not malicious compliance, but the MITRE funding has been extended. Hopefully until after this presidential term so at least things can return to normal levels of idiotic instead of batshit crazy. https://www.forbes.com/sites/k...

Seriously, since when is slashdot a blog for suggesting weird theories on foreign policy. This should be titled "user msmash wonders if Sri Lanka's current political situation is due to Organic Farming failures. What does slashdot think?". Not really the right forum for this kind of political debate nor the right way to infer such an outsourced connection. Reads more like someone that has a axe to grind (no offense intended -- just how it read to me also).

I swear. I feel like we are entering idiocracy. You can look at my account number. I've been here for awhile. A long while. This just makes me sad because it's so fucking stupid that it worries me that there isn't anyone making sense anymore. Just for 1, first thought off the bat, sunlight, maybe. just maybe. probably, is a good idea in any stream. just a guess. I'm not a botanist. just a guess. 2nd. YOU HAVE FUCKING ZILLIONS OF CEMENT FREEWAYS EVERYWHERE. ZILLIONS. NO FUCKING MENTION OF PUTTING SOLAR OVER THOSE? DEAD PETROLEUM HELL HOLES?. Sure. When in doubt, cover anything that might sustain life and block out the light from the rivers. Wouldn't want to do that on the 405 in LA. Jesus. Rant End. I'll just pour myself another drink on covid year 3. Long live Linux

> some eager beaver officer to close a case for a promotion.. This is Wisconsin -- where they have time to track down this ancient case but zillions of rape kits are just sitting around unprocessed.

6,500 / .37 means it'd only take 17k years to get here. Thank goodness it's not going to hit Earth. They would have to completely remake the movie Melancholia.

Arming the women YPG fighters would be far more effective. Frankly, in my limited understanding of the region, the women YPG fighters are the only normal people in the whole region.

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

> Trump is trolling the Republican party

I heard it's because he realized if he wins the nomination he has to move into a smaller house in a black neighborhood.

Compression of RAW to JPEG and the alteration of JPEG images leaves a distinct signature in it's Error Level Analysis results. Using a simple utility like http://www.impulseadventure.co... to automatically prescreen images would relieve a huge burden from their shoulders. For authenticity, requesting the RAW after the JPEG to see if the compression gradients are uniform would work as a nice level of security as well.

I don't think you are being fair to science fiction by tossing out Hubbard or Battlefield Earth. Hubbard did write some interesting science fiction & Battlefield Earth isn't terrible either. If you ignore the whole scientology shit show, from a purely SF perspective, I'd say both are average or above average.

> too memory constrained to think about running any version of Linux

Chips like that are dying out due to memory being larger & other chips that can at least run uboot (also written in C).

Forcing both parents to work likely isn't causal. The breakup of the family working all together at the same/related jobs is likely more specific. One can work and nurture at the same time, they rightfully go hand in hand. Teach your progeny what you know the way you learned it. It promotes learning and confidence in learning.

I find it frustrating and disturbing that there isn't any discussion of overpopulation here.

The core issue is our lack of predators. If we don't use our intellects as the predator to control our growth, catastrophe and tragedy will take it's place.