damned good point. If I had points, I'd mod this up.

Please stop. Crypto is a market driver. High demand for GPU is a legitimate use case for technology serving legitimate customers. You sound like you work at the USPS, complaining about how business would be great if it weren't or all those pesky customers slowing things down.

If there is high demand, companies will make more GPU. Let the market handle the situation, but you keep on whining.

As for global warming, this argument just won't ever get any traction. Oh no! Some people are using electricity for a use-case I hate! What about all the data centers running servers that do little more than consume electricity? What about NASCAR burning gasoline to drive in circles? What about city buses that drive around mostly empty in the late hours of the evening? The list goes on.

Oh, but you're mad about *crypto* so you have the moral high ground. Now hop on the empty city bus and head to the public library for a noble use of resources.

So, the thing is supposed to engage Traffic Jam Pilot whenever certain conditions are met. While in a traffic jam, the driver is free to do things other than pay attention to driving. If the traffic jam clears, the driver is alerted and needs to respond in 2 seconds.

What if the driver doesn't assume control? I suppose the car will slow down because safety. This allows for the driver to remain engrossed in the book/media non-driving stuff.

People are distracted enough when they drive today, so let's add youtube mode!

I'm really not that chapped about this product, I think it's pretty cool. Just pointing out the fatal design flaw.

Let's see the results!

a) Al Capone (75%)
b) Tony Soprano (10%)
c) Bonnie (9%)
d) Clyde (6%)

Conclusion: Bonnie wins most innocent!

70lbs isn't that heavy. A couple of people (or one strapping one) could easily just pick it up and carry it away. -$74000 in property taxes.

RHEL is the windows of Linux. It's gross and untrustworthy from a business standpoint.

Exactly. Any password this idiotic was going to be found anyway. Should the intern have changed it? Yes. But the blame lies on the process, not the person.

I don't think we need to go as far as passing a law to make it happen, but is there a site that does this already?

With RAM soldered into the board, if your RAM dies, you need a new main board, making it very complicated to repair. RAM on my old thinkpad is a 10 minute repair. Easy. I would like to see the scale of difficulty of repairs. What's a 0? What is a 10? I can't imagine trying to repair an iPhone without cracking the screen. I tried to replace the battery on an Pixel 1 phone and ended up with a crack. Plus, you need a heat gun to even get started. That's not easy.

But it's a balancing act. For the manufacturer touting sleek and sophisticated *and* waterproof, you gotta have a phone case that's sealed up tight, which will complicate repair. I'm no Apple apologist, but I can see their angle on it.

I'll stay old school for as long as I can.

Thanks for clearing that up. I'll try to be more technically sound in my sarcasm next time. ;p

Haha. Yeah, but some drives start to throttle writes after a certain wear percentage, so realistically we're talking about something like 14 years. Not 16. So...maybe Windows 98, then?

Bitcoin and crypto aren't going away. I'm no shill, but opportunities like crypto are always going to be filled with risk, doubt, wild swings, and failures. Bitcoin has been "failing" for 12 years now. It's passed the startup phase. I'm not saying it will be the next thing, but the technology is definitely a thing.

All this FUD reminds me of the early cloud computing days. OMFG!!! Move your data out of a private datacenter to "the cloud"!?! Are you some kind of idiot? Yes, I was that kind of idiot then and I'm a crypto idiot now.

This. It's all about the customer. Amazon does many things, but it only does one thing: start with the customer and work backward. Amazon will continue to disrupt until customer morale improves in every industry.

"the investment needed to return to the moon likely to run in excess of $150 billion and the cost of a round trip to Mars easily two to four times that, there is a way to reduce the cost and technical requirements of a manned mission to Mars: send the astronauts on a one way trip..."

Hell, for $150 billion for a moon trip or $600 billion for a one way Mars trip we could send 4,200 troops on a one way trip to Iraq and Afghanistan! Think of all the good their deaths have done for humanity. Man, even my own dark sarcasm sickens me sometimes.

Build another one, then de-orbit both of them. Why build and destroy one when you can do two for twice the price?