My latest vaccine shots had the 6G upgrade, to take advantage of the higher-speed web access when the networks upgrade, but if they're selling those frequencies to high-power carriers, then I won't be able to walk into any area that handles AT&T or Verizon. :P

Seriously, this will totally wreck the 6G/WiFi6 specification, utterly ruin the planned 7G/WiFi7 update, and cause no end of problems to those already using WiFi6 equipment - basically, people with working gear may well find their hardware simply no longer operates, which is really NOT what no vendor or customer wants to hear. Vendors with existing gear will need to do a recall, which won't be popular, and the replacement products simply aren't going to do even a fraction as well as the customers were promised - which, again, won't go down well. And it won't be the politicians who get the blame, despite it being the politicians who are at fault.

Only it'll be worse, because the value of the "assets" that have secured all those mortgages they sold the risk on as derivatives will almost certainly go into freefall along with everything else when the bubble pops.

"So, Mr. Jones, you secured your mortgage you're struggling to repay with £1m of... ah, crypto. And what are those holdings worth now? $500k you say? Well, if you'll just vacate the premises and hand over your house keys, I'm sure we can sort all that out to minimise our losses as far as possible. I hear there are some nice bridges and stuff to live under not too far from your neighbourhood. Next!"

The trouble with Windows' insistence on backing up is this: it has no way to tell which files in Documents, Music, Videos, etc, need to be backed up, and which don't. For example FL Studio puts a ton of files in Documents\Image-Line. Around three gigs. Most of those are provided in the installer, so it's crazy to use cloud space for those. Of all that, only Documents\Image-Line\FL Studio\Projects needs backing up, and possibly a few user-created presets lurking somewhere. And it is a similar story for much of my music software. Then there are many gigs of music files that I have backed up on NAS anyway, so no need to back them up to the cloud (and if I did, I'd blow my 100G cap).

But Microsoft in their infinite wisdom think it's sensible to just try and back up all that to the cloud, possibly using a free account with only 5G total, for 100's of gigs of data.

I remember the old "Windows ain't done until Lotus won't run!" schtick. I wouldn't surprise me at all if the "faulty" code originated with the Edge team to help encourage adoption of their version of the Chromium user tracking software over Google's version, and through doing so nudge a few more people into using Bing and Copilot instead of Google Search and Gemini for even more tracking.

Think of an iceskater pirouetting on the rink with their arms stretched out. If they pull their arms in, they start to spin faster, thereby conserving angular momentum, but they don't gain any additional mass from doing so. More massive blackholes with a faster spin have just consumed more matter to get to that state, but it hasn't fundamentally changed the overall mass of the galaxy they are in.

It was, and is. But there's another factor to this. Look at the figures for Google (which is also doing AI) vs. those for Anthropic.

Google is still mostly an ad-provision driven business, and it is fuelling that business on a relatively low volume of content scraping to actual eyeballs visiting the site and viewing the ads it providing. The cost of providing the data to Google's craweler is, one would hope, largely recovered in the ad revenue generated and other financial benefits from those actually visiting the site (subscriptions, purchases, tips, whatever). In otherwords, they have a viable business model and will survive to provide content to those that want it another day.

Now look at the other extreme in the provided figures with Anthropic. The site gets *nothing* back from Anthropic, quite the opposite in fact since Anthropic is harvesting their content and using it to train their AI engine, any issues around copyright be damned, but is paying for the hosting costs and the quite insane levels of crawling Anthropic is doing. I mean, seriously, WTF is Anthropic doing to need that level of crawling? That's just out of the park and looks very much like a script that is running completely without any throttles even though it's just pulling the exact same content down over and over and over again, which does not give me much confidence in the quality or competence of their developers. For the website though, it's going to completely skew their hosting costs - they had a business model with Google's ratio of 2:1, maybe even at 18:1, but at 60,000:1? That's an increase in an overhead by a factor of 30,000, which is going to break a lot of business models, and potentially they could also be paying Anthropic to help generate some of their content, thereby making their problem even worse... That very likely means more paywalls, more deliberate attempts to poison AI-scraped data, and - of course - lawsuits.

Unless the AI bubble pops soon, I fear that there's only one way this is going to end, and that is with the Internet completely overwhelmed with AI-generated slop, many of the smaller content producers and hosters that can't adapt quickly enough having folded, and any remaining residual content with value that people might actually want to see locked away behind paywalls and other login protections. Maybe it's time for written media to have its "vinyl" moment; Anthropic et al's crawlers are not going to do too well with a printed book...

The Starship fun reminds me of that scene in Robocop 2 where they unveiled two failed attempts at a Robocop 2.

Also origin stories. I think 4 out 5 fantastic four movies are their origin. Same with superman and spider, and probably all of them.

I think one reason for that is, those are the types of movies that people might prefer to watch in a theater. If the story takes place in homes and offices, and there is no magic or explosions, you might as watch it on TV.

I used to go the theaters all the time, no I hardly ever go.

In no particular order:

1. Way to expense for an experience that, at best, is marginally better than watching it on television.
2. Annoying people in theaters who talk non-stop and use their phones.
3. Movies are not very good. Uninteresting stories. Uninteresting characters. Rehashed woke crap. Nothing that is thought provoking in the least.
4. Time travel and parallel universes mean that nothing that happens actually happens, so who cares? Main character dies? No problem, some time travel will fix that right up.
5. It will be streaming soon enough anyway.

I used to be able to stream smoothly with Firefox, now I cannot. I don't know what changed. But I gave up on firefox for just this reason.

I use an M3 Macbook Pro at work. At home I have an Ubuntu desktop machine and a Lenovo Win11 laptop. I use the Windows machine once a year, to run Turbo Tax, though I boot it up occasionally to keep it updated.

A drone capable of carrying either of those payloads for 200 miles and returning to base would be at least as large as a small general aviation aircraft. Then there's the fact that an being able to change out an oil pump would be completely impossible for probably over 90% of the population. Better just to call for a tow truck and settle down to wait for half the day.

Anyone know how Walmart gets around the FAA requirement for visual line of sight operation for drone flights?

The stated range for drone delivery is "up to six miles from the store". So this isn't happening in the middle of nowhere.