I'm considering it. Made bank on GE and Intel doing this.

Which call? The ones with our allies or the one with Russia?

Yep. My company is still doing on-prem to 365 migrations on a regular basis and I'm aware of three companies that I've interacted with that are still on-prem including one that's staying on-prem only for the next few years at least. Personally getting rid of on-prem exchange (well mailboxes, until recently you needed to keep it for AD user mail attribute management) and sharepoint admin is one of the big upsides to going to 365.

Fully agree. But it would require legislation, they will never allow it on their own.

This is one of those cases where things are not as simple as they seem. For one, plutonium does not directly decay to stable lead. You will never have a pure plutonium core for very long, so daughters are going to be present, some of which decay via gamma emission, and we know the ratios they will show up in over time. For another, when plutonium decays, the resulting daughter doesn't always end up in a ground state right away, but lands at an excited state, which then drops to ground, emitting a gamma when it does. Finally, the electron reconfiguration that happens during the decay gives off x-rays at known energies. All of this is why most Pu and U (also usually a alpha emitter) isotopes can be detected with a gamma spectrometer. Pu-242 is a standout, its gamma emissions are exceptionally weak, but it's undesirable in nuclear weapons which aim for as much Pu-239 as possible.

But all that is irrelevant anyway. If you read the article they are not looking for decay emissions. They are looking for neutrons created when high-energy protons from Van Allen belts slam into the uranium in the bomb. This creates a cascade of neutrons which the detection satellite's neutron scintillator based detectors (which are designed to discern the neutrons from the bomb from the background radiation) can pick up.

But sure, the nuclear physicist from MIT is the one full of crap here.

Between this and all the "Just pirate it!" replies, I'm going out on a limb and say pretty much none of you owns a modern console. You don't play off the disk, that hasn't been a thing for a while now. The game files get copied to the local drive on the console, the disc is then just used as a license check (and why getting rid of them actually sucks: no 2nd hand market). As for DRM, PS5 hasn't been broken yet. Even when it does happen, it's usually such a pain in the ass that most won't bother.

And how did that work out? Oh yea, foreign (mostly European) companies sprung up selling strong encryption products to the rest of the world, putting US companies at a disadvantage. Turns out the US didn't have the market cornered on math. The same thing will happen here.

Well one thing everyone doesn't do is use a model "... trained on text with all named entities and factual content stripped out before training. It learns grammar, register, and discourse patterns. It cannot learn facts because it never saw any." https://2brains.net/architectu... . Which is interesting but also very handicapped. If it works it would be great for things like customer service chatbots, or replacing about 75% of what companies want from Copilot. However it's really going to be limited to those RAG heavy roles. It will not replace the big foundation models.

Before I really even care about this though, I want to see demos and third party validation. Their site is very slim on meaningful details and I can already see some problems based on what they have disclosed.

Handcrafted, artisanal software!

Apparently some very loud minority of people do, yes. These same people seem to love fingerprints all over their screens. Guess Apple can sell more cleaning cloths to them.

So it's two things. One, I feel like there is some dishonestly on the anti-datacenter side on how much water they consume vs total volume of water they use for cooling. That said, they do "lose" a large amount of water in their evaporative cooling towers. Those are used to pull heat out of the primary loop coolant instead of a refrigeration driven chiller (or in addition to, to pre-chill the coolant before it goes to a chiller). They work by evaporation so that water is "lost". There are also concerns about treated cooling water due to some chemicals they use to prevent microbe growth and also chemicals to reduce corrosion. That should be treatable though, if they are forced to do it.

Well I mean, you can. You are doing it right now (assuming you didn't die between your post and now)

Evaporative cooling towers. They provide the cooling for the closed loops. Pretty common in big commercial installations because they are way cheaper than refrigeration driven chillers. They can be used to pre-chill before going to a chiller, or replace a chiller entirely depending on needs.

Filters and chemicals.

Not for the OS, only for apps downloaded from the store and a few Apple apps that are included by default.

Nah, they just send them back to the front until they stop coming back.

a) This particular species is not a major (or even minor) contributor to the food chain where they live in the US and b) They are an invasive species in North America.