Do they hate money?

How thick is that disk with 14 platters?

Assuming that the scale isn't logarithmic or some such.

This sounds quite sinister and James Bond-ish. Is Ernst Stavro Blofeld behind the satellite interceptions?

But when we read the article we see things like this:

What the actual fuck?! If it is sensitive information, then why is it unencrypted?

I'm going to have to assume that the fault here is in the article's author. They have to have fucked up the details. Surely, European officials aren't that fucking stupid.

Definitely not everyone is stealing TV. I'm opposed to piracy and I'm definitely not plugging one of these janky Android Trojan horses into my network.

But, the price gouging is totally out of control! Cable companies and streaming services alike. They are priced absurdly high. Even more so when one considers the low quality programming that they are pushing. Then they layer ads on top of services I'm supposed to pay for? Fuck them. Piracy may well be on the table in the near future.

OK, you've piqued my interest.

How, or in what way, did Claude help with dating and self discovery?

We'll see if the can continue to resist the pull of the dark side.

Will it be anything worthwhile? Or will it be another tiny niche Google walled garden, eclipsed by Windows, MacOS, Linux...

Market capitalization(Market Cap) is a nebulous index number and not a real value. Market cap is used by stock traders as a quick indicator, a cheat code, to estimate the value of a corporation. I s determined by multiplying the current share price by the number of outstanding shares(shares in the market).

The problem is that the share price is a completely arbitrary value. There are billion dollar market cap companies that have no sales/revenue whatsoever.

Crypto currency is a fantastic illustrator of how meaningless market cap is. Doge, Fart, and Shit coins have or have had market caps in the billions. But, they are imaginary coins. They are intangible and have no intrinsic value. So despite the market cap, the coin is virtually worthless.

SO, don't fall for the value inflation language that they use for their hyperbolic stories. A trillion dollar company is not what you think it means.

Walmart's profits(EBITDA) was ~$40B in 2025. So they'd need 25 years to reach $1trillion. The market cap is meaningless in this context.

A Slashdot article that is a blog post about a blog post. For fucks sake Slashdot!

To clarify; GoogleSQL(nee ZetaSQL) is a higher level SQL language for querying across a wide range of different SQL and SQL like systems.

GoogleSQL is not a database.

The link that TFA should have included is https://github.com/google/goog...

Freezing temperatures in Florida. Leaking o-rings. Fuel leak.

Why do I have this sense of deja vu?

For the record, I fully expected the launch to be delayed. just Artemis things.

Cute. I hope it wasn't generated by AI.

This is just bullshit to pacify the naysayers.

There's no way they'll turn around and pull features that they just launched and marketed.

Maybe they'll cut the marketing. Maybe they'll stop their push, although I doubt it. But, there's no way they are rolling anything back in Windows 11.

Maybe they'll pull it form Windows 12,but, even then, I doubt it.

I read a few threads on Moltbook, prior to this story. I'm no Luddite, but I found Moltbook to be rather terrifying. The whole movent of turning openClaw AI agents loose on the internet with no logging, audit trail, guard rails... is frightening and upsetting to me because of the shear ignorance ans stupidity of it.

I hope that this and other incidents serve as a wake up call that will instill some temperance in these fools. But hope is not a plan and is unlikely to come to fruition in this case.

There's also the problem with bits training bots accelerating our journey to the dead internet.

Very poorly. I'm sure you've heard of murders, assaults, rapes, thefts, extortions... perpetrated by prisoners while inside prisons.

I think you were in too much of a hurry to argue your feelings so you failed to think about it objectively for even a second.

If you were actually clever, you could argue that the rate is undefinable since you can't divide by zero.