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Comment Re:Blocks ..... (Score 1) 104

"Plain and simple"?

Former, and I might add ousted because I opposed the data center, town board member here; no, there's nothing "plain and simple" about them being "good" for a town.

Because they AREN'T and this one is learning that lesson the brutal way...

Noise complaints are through the roof, electricity costs for everyone are spiraling out of control and higher every month and the town itself sees NO revenue from electricity taxes, the "incentive" tax rate was so stupid low that we're taking in ZERO taxes from the center for 3 years, and after that the negotiated tax rate was so low that it'll take 28 YEARS to break -even-....

I was not speaking in hyperbole when i made my initial comment. I was not exaggerating. I was not some uninformed idiot speaking from a place of guesswork...

I had the plans, the incentives, the tax rates, the "planned revenue" numbers, ALL of it in front of me for months... and they were trying to convince me and the rest of the board that 2+2=9... I was the only one that was willing to do the actual math, not listen to wild undocumented promises, and ignore the literal bribes...

I got overruled, kicked out, and now there's much regret abound.

For once I find no satisfaction in my right to say "I told you so", because the town where I've live for decades is being destroyed by the scum bags pushing these data centers.

Comment Re:Blocks ..... (Score 2) 104

You know that most data centers are built in town after making tax exclusion/reduction agreements.... RIGHT?

The data center owners take this reduction and then proceed to decimate the town they're built near by skyrocketing electricity costs and starving the municipality of water while providing zero to a at most a handful of long term jobs in return because the shortsighted "leadership" of these bumpkin towns don't know, or care about, the full cost of the damnable things because all they see is wild promises sandwiched in a few fistfuls of dollars waved in their short term thinking faces.

Comment Re:Every company should do this. Fight fire with f (Score 3, Insightful) 50

The line between the two is blurrier than you think.

That's the issue, how much does it take before italy decides a start up competing with youtube is a piracy site because a user posts a chunk of pirated content?

The issue is that instead of following the existing due process of law to get sites like that removed the correct way; they're looking for easy, blanket attacks to apply with minimal effort and time. It's not about protecting copyright holders, it's about the money of a few corps taking over the law... because this is all that is.

Comment Doom! Destruction! Devestation! ... Details? (Score 5, Insightful) 12

Ok, great, we know all these hundred plus extensions are bad... But let's only name a single one so that users can't learn about and remove the rest.

There's useless news, then there's infuriatingly useless news.

Two guesses as which one this is.

Comment Re:Still using my 1080Ti (Score 4, Interesting) 49

by MrMacman2u (#65885121) Attached to: NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux

You're completely correct, except it's still great for games too.

I'm still running plenty of my 1080p games on my GTX1070 no complaints at all, these are still strong and valid cards and I really don't have much incentive to upgrade.

As for the hilarious "what to do" instructions that are linked for Arch?

Step 1; don't use Arch. Step 2; Done.

I have no respect for a distro that doesn't respect my time and energy; one that reeks with the mentality that every day os tasks -should- have a high cognitive load and be hard to do "because they're supposed to be" when most every other distro has mitigated or eliminated those pinch points. Screw that. I have other things to do and worry about rather than babysitting some fussy OS that's so dev oriented that they've forgotten normal users exist... and wouldn't care even if they hadn't.

Submission + - South Korea Mulls Creating 'KSMC' Contract Chipmaker To Compete With TSMC (tomshardware.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: Although Samsung Foundry is a major chip contract manufacturer, the South Korean government mulls creating a government-funded contract chipmaker tentatively called Korea Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, KSMC, reports The Korea Biz Wire. Industry experts and academics have proposed the initiative.

The Semiconductor Industry Association's Ahn Ki-hyun called for a long-term government investment. Experts project that an investment of KRW 20 trillion ($13.9 billion) in KSMC could result in economic gains of KRW 300 trillion ($208.7 billion) by 2045. However, the big question is whether $13.9 billion is enough to establish a chipmaker. Another concern about publicly funded corporations like KSMC is whether they could develop advanced manufacturing technologies and land enough orders from clients to be profitable. It turns out that in addition to semiconductor makers, Korea needs more fabless software developers.

The proposal was introduced during a seminar hosted by the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK). The plan aims to address structural weaknesses in the industry, such as an over-reliance on Samsung's advanced nodes under 10nm amid the lack of mature process technologies. Smaller system semiconductor firms struggle to thrive as Korea lacks manufacturing diversity, as seen in Taiwan, where companies like UMC and PSMC that focus on mature and specialty nodes complement TSMC's advanced process technologies.

Submission + - More Than 140 Kenya Facebook Moderators Diagnosed With Severe PTSD (theguardian.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: More than 140 Facebook content moderators have been diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder caused by exposure to graphic social media content including murders, suicides, child sexual abuse and terrorism. The moderators worked eight- to 10-hour days at a facility in Kenya for a company contracted by the social media firm and were found to have PTSD, generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) and major depressive disorder (MDD), by Dr Ian Kanyanya, the head of mental health services at Kenyatta National hospital in Nairobi. The mass diagnoses have been made as part of lawsuit being brought against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, and Samasource Kenya, an outsourcing company that carried out content moderation for Meta using workers from across Africa.

The images and videos including necrophilia, bestiality and self-harm caused some moderators to faint, vomit, scream and run away from their desks, the filings allege. The case is shedding light on the human cost of the boom in social media use in recent years that has required more and more moderation, often in some of the poorest parts of the world, to protect users from the worst material that some people post.

Submission + - Health Care Giant Ascension Says 5.6 Million Patients Affected In Cyberattack (arstechnica.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: Health care company Ascension lost sensitive data for nearly 5.6 million individuals in a cyberattack that was attributed to a notorious ransomware gang, according to documents filed with the attorney general of Maine. Ascension owns 140 hospitals and scores of assisted living facilities. In May, the organization was hit with an attack that caused mass disruptions as staff was forced to move to manual processes that caused errors, delayed or lost lab results, and diversions of ambulances to other hospitals. Ascension managed to restore most services by mid-June. At the time, the company said the attackers had stolen protected health information and personally identifiable information for an undisclosed number of people.

A filing Ascension made earlier in December revealed that nearly 5.6 million people were affected by the breach. Data stolen depended on the particular person but included individuals' names and medical information (e.g., medical record numbers, dates of service, types of lab tests, or procedure codes), payment information (e.g., credit card information or bank account numbers), insurance information (e.g., Medicaid/Medicare ID, policy number, or insurance claim), government identification (e.g., Social Security numbers, tax identification numbers, driver’s license numbers, or passport numbers), and other personal information (such as date of birth or address). Ascension is now in the process of notifying affected individuals. The organization is also offering two years of credit and fraud monitoring, a $1 million insurance reimbursement policy, and managed ID theft recovery services. The services became effective last Thursday.

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