Just be careful; a few old IBM sites had toxic waste problems. It sounds like they were just turning off the lights and water and walking away from these.

One woild hope everything was remediated but I wouldn't bet my own safety on it.

Yeah, that's why they mentioned the ancient Sony camera he lifted.

"Crime with a gun" is a separate crime according to NY.

SCOTUS will strike those down eventually. It's like saying "crime while praying" if it's a right.

Obviously he wasn't using the gun to jack a Betacam. He was probably worried about crackheads in there for the copper.

If the argument can be proved that they ruined the minds of an entire generation using a massive AI/Big Data model running at n terraflops by deliberately addicting children during the crucial neuronal pruning period of their lives, that is at a minimum going to cost the society tens of trillions of dollars and restitution would be far more than the proposed fines.

Nobody gets a second chance at that pruning stage, at least in this lifetime.

Their profits may be far lower than the damage they caused, but that characteristic is always true of parasitic entities.

This is basically the whole point of the Island of Pleasure warning in Pinocchio.

It remains to be seen what can be proved in Courts but the DSM-6 won't be kind to their arguments as outlined in TFS.

The idea is probably from 1950's comic books but the tech seems brand new since they don't need any landing legs and use a net-on-frame architecture.

People should pay attention because they didn't have orbital technology thirty years ago and now they have a space station, reusable rockets, and are about to have a Moon base.

And possibly ultra-long flighttime 'drones' that can fly over Picatinny Arsenal unimpeded; that much is uncertain. We have no explanation for their energy budget (at least white-world).

Having a country run by engineers rather than professional thieves who hire engineers to justify pillage has certain advantages (and disadvantages).

Let's not get too overconfident.

My banks site won't work in Firefox. Oddly it says it does, I have not tried on Windows. Maybe it would on Windows but I don't know why that should make a difference.

Yeah,

I kinda like Disney+, my family and I do watch quite a bit of content on it. It has gone down hill some though. I don't really pay for the ad tier it is bundled with my wife's mobile plan (so yes I do pay for it) but that bundle includes other features/services/tethering rules we want and is still the most economic to get them, at least without completely switching carriers.

I don't think I'd be a subscriber if we had to pay 'full rate'

$20 for ad free
$15 for w/ads

Would free be
$0 w/MOAR Ads!

Or would it be a limited selection of content, stuff comes out first on the paid subs levels?

Something even more aggravating and dickish like the first 8 episodes of whatever free, but oh look you have to subscribe to get episodes 9 and 10?

Regardless of what youtube and Tubi etc might be doing there is psychology in play here that I expect is going to leave either subscribers or would-be subscribers feeling resentful about the model.

They are counting some combination of legitimate risk, FUD, and protectionism to ultimately protect them from the Chinese models.

The reality is at some point in the not to distant future it will be cheaper to put enough AI accelerator hardware in workstations to give most folks using Claude/Claude code and similar a perfectly acceptable degree of performance. It always goes this way - it is never cheaper put hardware behind the glass when it can go under the desk long term. The only reasons to do it usual boil down to management and wanting to do something more bleeding edge that hasnt filtered to commodity hardware yet.

Of course for online applications that need to scale, and for complex engineering or very large data volume tasks, sure "Cloud AI" and certainly for anyone who needs to train a model. However the idea these guys are going to get individuals and business to keep paying $200 for tokens to use some desktop AI assistant is unrealistic, and down goes the datacenter volume requirements along with that.

Again I am not saying there isnt a new industry / space here or that it is all a bubble but the current Anthropic/OpenAI/Grok business model persisting for a whole lot longer does not appear to me anyway to that it fits the patter of the last 25 years of White-Collar-targeted IT systems.

Let me caveat that I also think the sorts of people making big investments in Data Centers are not stupid and at least see this as a likely outcome as well, presumably they believe they can sell the space/capacity to other users for other applications. If so why not charge the Anthropics of the world with the VC money huge premiums to rush build outs while you can get them? As long the assets are still marketable after that business drops off, it is a win!

As much as I want to say, it might be useful to have Web Based E-mail interface that will work in a basic / legacy browser, I don't know this is really true.

Not much of the web works at all if you try to use it with anything not Chromium or Apple-Webkit from less than five years ago. YMMV with recent Mozilla engines.

The few places where I can see someone maybe wanting to use this are the very places that people definitely should be isolating from all things Internet, especially not exposing it to e-mail content, which even if restricted to being from the local domain could still contain something malicious accidentally forwarded.

I can certainly understand why people would want / maybe just like or prefer a range of other legacy mail client. I mean if you handle a lot of mail and have been using Pegasus or something for the last 30 years and its all muscle memory, sure I get it. Moving from OWA-lite to OWA though probably isnt much bother for most people. At some point it makes sense to drop software likely very few folks are using.

Exactly my concern here.

There is enough wiggle room from them to mark arguments like 'oh well software tools sure we trust our company stores to hold on to them but um trade secrets we can't leave that stuff with just anyone with a set a wrenches and coveralls'

So they ship and require to ship back some 300lbs of server equipment and the fee is $800 every time.. Force any independent shops to go back to court.. Will Deere lose again probably, but in the mean time they still lock out anyone not willing to fight about it, and still have any owner who needs his tractor fixed yesterday (which for commercial farmers all of them) by the short ones.

It will be interesting to see how impactful this judgement really is in practice. Which ultimately will probably come down to the judges own relative apathy or aversion to corporate BS.

I'll at least agree it more than warrants investigation.

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Mere incompetence derived from overeager hopefulness does not deserve to be mischaracterized as thinking misconduct. Whilst there is plenty of malice in how the companies represent themselves to investors, I suspect this particular case is merely incompetence.

The constant broken record....

Dude their isn't going to be a bunch of 'competition' in spaces like DRAM. The upfront capital costs to make top drawer parts is simply to high. It isnt collusion, its natural monopolies.

Nobody is going to make or finance the investment required to build high capacity world class chip fabs, to not enjoy the prime mover advantage because the risk that as soon as they do something like magnetic-IC memory gets a commercially viable implementation and leaves them bag holding a bunch of capital that now produces chips people only want to use in cheap embedded applications for which there is plenty of other processes that 'good enough' already and higher yield for most applications. If you are producing DDR5 and suddenly having to market it to people that want to put in smart-bulbs you're in for a world of financial pain.

yeah nobody likes paying more for DRAM, but the answer is prices are not high enough, to actual justify new fabs and if they were the demand would not actually be there. Its also true that DDR4 is more than fast enough from PCs and gaming. While it would push CPU prices a bit and maybe hold clock speeds down some it isn't like wider bank interleaving support and even bigger (probably 3d caches) could not be added to spread reads and writes over more modules. It won't help minimum latency for a single byte cache miss much but again for applications that are not hosting/training AI models we really are 'good enough' for what people need at home.