...but big companies reselling each other GPU time is recalling what happened years ago with fiber bandwidth. I am stockpiling popcorn to enjoy the forthcoming show....

yes, but the OS on show are much older.

Probably it will be a posthumous Darwin award.

...a way to freeze Internet explorer was by inserting a < img src=lpt1: > tag in the html code.

...for a moment I was thinking about something like Bat Mobile.

oblig xkcd quote...you cannot name raptors without considering Randall Munroe's obsession you, insensitive clod!

... a large scale GAN. One AI trying to catch the AI doing insider trading, the other AI doing insider trading without being caught.

...and someone from Meta, Alphabet or whoever else will knock your door to get your own energy. You need better laws to protect people, not alternative energy sources.

Here in Italy I live in a *large* single family home, and the montly bill is of about 300 USD. It is a 100% elctric powered home (heath pump, induction kitchen, etc.), and in a few months I will have 6kW solar panels installed, dropping on average my bill to 0 USD/month. Remember also that Italy has a very high cost for kWh, when compared to the rest of EU, and unfortunately we phased out nuclear reactors years ago. Maybe something is wrong with the whole US electric power supply.

Since this is a data center, managers and employees misunderstood the concepts behind concrete programming...

...is the offer on Ebay ?!?

Don't be too surprised. I am struggling since a few months with the rebuild of an old FORTRAN program. It is about 15,000 lines of code, only a printout was available, and the OCR replaced randomly '0' with 'O', '1' with 'l' an so on. Multiple pass with compiler and ftnchek solved most problems, but still something is not OK. Luckily, in the printout there are some test examples...

...can it be repaired ?

...will discuss the case of dupe posting on Slashdot ?

Remember, remember the end of December,
The storage, the clicking, the plot.
I see no reason why the Click of Death treason
Should ever be forgot.

Iomega had 100 megs, a kingdom of space,
To save every file with speed and with grace.
No floppy could match it, no disk could compete,
It made our old desktops feel shiny and sleek.

But deep in the plastic, a shadow was found,
A rhythmic, sharp snapping—a terrible sound.
The "Click of Death" started, the heads went astray
, And all of our data just withered away.

So burn every SCSI and Parallel lead,
For the disks that would fail us in moments of need.
Remember the Zip, and its short-lived command,
Now buried like Guy, in the silicon sand.