What Sam and cohorts are really thinking is that the AI gravy train is wobbling head-first into disaster, and they want the government to bail them out before the whole thing goes off the rails.

No it isn't. That's just the excuse they use because there are enough gullible people to believe the "think of the children" bullshit. Age verification is a power play to weaken the citizenry. It's corrupt government overreach.

For now. The noose will tighten as time goes on.

You are incredibly ignorant and naive if you think it will stop there. These are foot-in-the door steps. It's typical first steps of a repressive regime.

It seems that Mozilla still has no clue why they're getting their asses handed to them by Chrome. They need to stop fucking with the inconsequentials, and spend more time making their browser work. I have a few sites that just don't work in Firefox, but work fine in Chrome.

Whoever modded this Troll is a moron.

Those two things are diametrically opposed.

Money is becoming meaningless for these people. I have never been so shocked at the complete and utter irrelevance of the value of money in some circles. OpenAI should have crumbled months ago, as would have happened to any other company in a sane economy. When it does finally crumble, it will drag a significant portion of the economy with it.

A childbirth moment, if ever there was one.

Streaming is great for watching things you don't want to buy, or to find that one in a dozen movies you didn't know (or didn't think) you'd want to watch more than once. It's a useful tool if you use it appropriately.

With the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?

Linux was fixed a long time ago on 64-bit systems, as it uses time_t internally.

Even bad 3rd-party 64-bit code that uses int (or unsigned int) for time MAY work with just a recompile. Any 32-bit code that uses unsigned int for time will fail. Any 32-bit code that uses int for time will have already failed.

Nah, we'll have GTA 6 first. Or maybe even "Duke Nukem For Life."

That reminds me of a funny (to me) story of how I got the job I've been at for nearly 25 years now. When I graduated from College/University, I had thousands of dollars of student loans. I was working on fun software at home, and I didn't want a full time job yet. I substitute taught (babysat) Middle School a day here and a day there for a bit of spending money, but that was the extent of what I wanted.

I had gotten my student loan payments deferred once, and needed to get them deferred again. I needed six job rejections to prove that I was looking for work, and I had zero rejections for zero attempts. The rejection notices were due to be submitted to Sallie Mae soon (in a week, if I remember correctly), so I panicked a bit. I check local employment sites, found six listings for which I was woefully under-qualified, and applied for them all. I got six job rejections in record time! I submitted them to Sallie Mae, and quickly dumped them into the round file. Back to my pet projects.

A day or two later, I got a mailing (physical mail) from one of them asking me to come in for an interview. "Shit, shit, shit!" I told them about the rejection letter I got, and was told it was a clerical error. Translation: the hiring manager arm-swept off his desk, and my application was in that pile of paperwork that went into the trash. It happened to fall on the top of the contents of his trash can, and caught his attention when he went to empty his trash. I went in for the interview, got home, and found a message on my answering machine asking me to sub the next day. I agreed, and thought nothing of it.

I got called in the next day for a second interview, and hesitated because I had told the school I would sub. I canceled the subbing for the day, and went to the second interview. When I got home, I found a message on my answering machine with a job offer from that company. I hesitantly accepted, and have been there for nearly 25 years. I have a reputation there as being a miracle worker.

Moral of the story? There isn't one. I just thought it was funny.

While the computing infrastructures are totally different, the time it took my 8-bit Tandy Color Computer 3 from the 80s to go from power up to usable was about 20-30 milliseconds.

My Linux desktops vary by how much time GRUB takes to launch the system (there's no need to include GRUB's wait time). After it launches Kubuntu, though, the time to a usable desktop is a small handful of seconds.