It's been 21 years since the Sony CD rootkit debacle and Windows still runs random shit from external sources. Is this a new thing introduced by young dipshits who don't remember the Sony CD rootkit debacle? Or is it older people who are just so fucking stupid that the only tech job they could get was being on the Windows team?

Free speech includes lying.

NT was fucking garbage. It was unstable and security bugs abounded. Later versions were profoundly better. I remember getting new servers on Windows 2000 and it saved me from an incredible amount of firefighting.

When the version of iOS is released iPhones will be able to do everything this does, be more portable, and they have a camera for uploading photos to ask questions about. Google and Samsung phones already have that functionality. So do a lot of Chinese phones. Why would anyone buy a low end speaker that does less than the phone they already take everywhere? I cannot see how this appeals to anyone but industrial design geeks who idolize Jony Ive.

Merit should always consider strictly value.

IBM is still in fine shape. The company is not losing money. Revenue did not fall off a cliff like the stock price did. If they're smart IBM can wait this out and quietly prepare for things to bounce back when the insane AI capex ends and people need something IBM is ready to provide. (But, realistically, IBM will just lay off 25,000 good people instead of putting human capital to good use as part of a long term strategy.)

I don't have time to keep track of security updates for my router, apply them, and check now and then to make sure it hasn't been compromised. Comcast has the infrastructure and people to do it all themselves. I don't have to think about it at all.

Of course it's probably the only thing Comcast can do right, but I think most people on Slashdot have heard that story a million times so I won't go there!

The $5K a year just gives you a $300 per person per visit discount. So pays itself back in 15 visits or so.

Plenty of us nerds can afford this and want to see news about this.

Grab the rope hanging from the bubble! It will pull us all up forever! We're all gonna be millionaires! Put your whole 401k into NASDAQ growth funds! YEEHAAAAAAAAAAW!

Companies want to pay CEOs high salaries. It gives the impression that the company is doing well because it can afford to pay the CEO handsomely and that the CEO is doing their job well. Which inflates share prices.

When the AI bubble pops there are going to be lots of skilled chip designers looking for work. Maybe there will finally be some fresh competition in the Intel and AMD duopoly in the PC CPU scene. If we could have low power, cool running, SoC units that can run Linux as well as Apple silicon handles MacOS I might finally go back to Linux.

If urban people can deal with ugly postmodern architecture in their cities the rural people can deal with cooling towers. Manhattan even has a giant power transformer station with multiple steam vents that look like smokestacks; that's no worse than a nuke plant. Once you get used to the sight it just becomes part of the neighborhood.

Nuclear energy is green energy. Just because the externalities of nuclear are more obvious than the externalities of wind or solar does not make those other options any cleaner than nuclear.

Garbage regulations like IP create these behemoths. If you want freedom, stop regulating monopolies into existence.