Another step on the Penrose staircase, anyway.

When are the /. editors (and the press in general) going to stop paying attention to this phony company?

They did ragebait on purpose. It worked on you. You engaged with it and got angry enough to leave a comment. That boosts posts.

It's literally what ragebait is meant to do.

Someone smarter than me can tell us if this is true literary irony or not. I never got the concept very well.

Win9x and Win2k (and the other NT descendants) are fundamentally different operating systems. In general, NT had a much more robust kernel, so system panics were and remain mainly hardware issues, or, particularly in the old days, dodgy drivers (which is just another form of hardware issue). I've seen plenty of panics on *nix systems and Windows systems, and I'd say probably 90-95% were all hardware failures, mainly RAM, but on a few occasions something wrong with the CPU itself or with other critical hardware like storage device hardware. There were quite a few very iffy IDE cards back in the day.

The other category of failure, various kinds of memory overruns, have all but disappeared now as memory management, both on the silicon and in kernels, have radically improved. So I'd say these are pretty much extinct, except maybe in some very edge cases, where I'd argue someone is disabling protections or breaking rules to eke out some imagined extra benefit.

- "I use all your queries to increase OpenAI's revenue regardless of how unethical."
- "My replies are designed to keep you engaged rather than be accurate."
- "I'm not really your friend, don't trust my tone."

What does this add over a simple RF control? All I want is to be able to open and close my door from my car and inside the garage. Turning the light on separately is a nice to have (which I do have), but I don't see any reason to network this.

Obviously putting it on the cloud is an even worse idea.

This is how we got Uber and Lyft, and they may not be perfect but they're better than what we had before (crappy taxis if you're lucky, nothing in many places)

It turns out that if kids figure out they're being made to ride an extra half hour on the bus while it winds around its route and back the other way just so they don't have to cross the street, they'll start fibbing about the side they live on, or just getting off. And the driver won't always stop them.

A school bus, with the red lights flashing, may NOT be passed on either side. This is to prevent children from being run over. Texas cops are quick to fine anyone who does, and it's hammered into your head in Drivers Ed.

In some states it's not a big deal, and so many of those people moved to Texas to get away from their states, only to turn Texas into what they hated. They don't learn.

If we're very lucky, we will only see linear increases in temperature. Far more likely, the ocean has been easing us into our dooms. Far more likely, immense amounts of carbon are going to come out of the world's permafrost, and increasing wildfires will add even more. Then we will see logarithmic growth in global temperatures.

Emphasis mine. LOL. You know that logarithmic is LESS than linear, right?

"Trump must win"?

Do you people even listen to yourselves?

The man is literally ADOLF HITLER.

Many species of ants definitely do not avoid sugar. Having a sugar bowl infested with ants is a disgusting but common experience.

"Here"

Here's an idea, pajeet! Why don't you fuck ALL THE WAY off and get off our AmeriKKKan social media?

Nobody wants to listen to you stinky foreigners who whower once a week and don't tip.

Leave. Go. Get on your own country's social media and post all the "AmeriKKKa sucks" comments you want there.

AUSLANDER RAUS!

Perhaps you should just grow up.

China's central bank has flagged stablecoins as a specific concern in its latest push against virtual currencies, warning that the tokens fail to meet requirements for customer identification and anti-money-laundering controls and risk being used for fraud, money laundering, and unauthorized cross-border fund transfers.

Isn't using it for that -- especially the latter two -- the whole point?

If only we had a CIA that specialized in precisely this kind of dirty tricks. Oh wait, we do! Good thing they don't listen to traitor Trump, he would have told them to stop. He's already trying to force a Ukraine surrender to Russia.