They only care about the prediction markets because it can leak military plans. They don't care if politicians are profiteering.

This isn't about Office. This is about Office 365 and Azure, and how a license is bundled when you use Azure but unbundled if you wanted to use 365 and, for example, AWS.

It's a shame because I wish they would, but the gov.uk link explicitly talks about "CMA’s cloud market investigation – Microsoft’s use of software licensing reducing competition in cloud".

This won't be what people are hoping for here - actual Office. This is purely about licensing costs with regards to cloud deployments.

"The other zero-days leaked include .... BlueHammer, a separate Microsoft vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-32201 that was patched in April."

By definition, if a patch is available it is not a zero day.

20 years ago I thought these agencies were incompetent. Now I know that it was actually their peak. The FCC of prior administrations would document their goals, send out a notice for public comment, write a proposed rule set, hold a hearing, the make a rule. Now they make a rule, and everyone goes "That doesn't even make sense" then they switch it. It's not just the FCC: It's the DOJ, DHS, EPA, etc.

It's the original founder at least, Kevin Rose. I had a look at the relaunched I-can't-believe-it's-not-Reddit version and it was...ok'ish. But yes, they were unprepared for the bots in the main forums and unfortunately the place never got big enough to have any traffic in the smaller ones.

It's ironic - I looked at Reddit before The Great Migration following Dig...err...3? whatever the fiasco revision was. Like many others, I moved when that version of Digg appeared. I was interested when Digg said they were coming back, because Reddit has become a bit tiresome other than the smaller, subject-specialised subs. Alas though, never took off.

"sponsored work visa entirely depended on people primarily coming over to mooch off of benefits". I'm not American, but that sentence doesn't make much sense to me. If they're working, they're earning and contributing tax, right?

I don't quite agree with everything you said, but I'm willing to overlook everything because of your correct use of the word fecundity. 10/10, would reply again.

It's been a while since a comment on Slashdot made me happy. Thank you, sir.

Also, thank you for being a teacher. People say "thank you for your service" to military men when I'd rather say "fuck you for participating in the violent colonial exploitation of militarily weaker nations".

Thank you for your service.

I have kids too. I'm not going to pretend that I have all the answers. But parents have lost the ability to properly impart etiquette to their kids, in many cases because they have none themselves. So kids' behaviour in public has gotten worse. Simultaneously, adults have become spoiled brats unwilling to tolerate even the slightest discomfort, which is why you have people whining about having to listen to crying babies on flights. For fuck's sake babies are the literal future of our species.

Kids' etiquette needs to be improved.
Adults need to grow up.

I've travelled around the world, and it's only the so-called advanced Western countries that have this problem. For example, I was in Vietnam recently and kids' public behaviour was practically alien compared to kids back in Australia where I live. When kids did cry or make a ruckus, nobody even looked up. It was just understood that that is what it meant to live in a society that had kids.

Alternatively we fix that problem at both ends: we raise kids to behave well in public, and we as a society understand that putting up with kids who are in the process of learning etiquette is the price we pay for not going extinct.

Interesting that you feel that those are the only two options. Modern American society provides neither of those. In any case, the rest of the world finds it hilarious that no matter how often and how many of you dumbasses are driven to bankruptcy over mundane medical incidents, you STILL don't see the value in having a few social services provided at the government level. Don't mind me. You keep shrieking some shit about communism because I have to go. I have a doctor's appointment, because getting a regular checkup here in Australia isn't something I have to save up six months ahead for.

No, they use it because they feel that living in a fair society is a good thing. Fucking scumbags.

UK. I installed solar on my roof and put a home battery in last month, and am very happy with the results. It took up-front investment of course and payback times vary between 4-7 years depending on the rates for selling energy back to the grid, but I'm fine with that. My first bill has my electricity cost down about 40% - I installed part way through the month so can't really give consistent figures as yet.

With the solar+home battery, all my domestic electricity usage is easily taken care of. I also took the opportunity to put in a whole home backup, meaning that if there's a power cut the house carries on. Power cuts aren't really a big problem in the UK but little micro ones do happen, and I got fed up of resetting the digital clocks and rebooting everything.

The solar+battery doesnt take care of 100% of my usage though, not by a long way. I've been driving an EV since 2018. I do around 22,000 miles per year, My solar peaks at around 5kWh and is best used to power the house and add to the house's battery capacity. I use about 22kWhs on a round-trip commute, and the home battery is 12.5kWh. The typical max I might need then is 34.5kWh a day, and I also need it overnight - solar isn't going to help me there. My actual pattern is load-shifting: charge both car and home batteries cheaply overnight, use solar+battery through the day on the house and sell the daytime excess to the grid.

On the car alone I have saved around £8-10,000 vs petrol, add in the car maintenance and the savings are even higher. For solar+home battery I don't yet know, not owned it long enough to be able to give good figures but the usage pattern is looking good. If I'm asked about EVs I rarely make an environmental argument - if you can charge at home, the cost argument is so massively in favour of them that's it's barely worth a debate. If you can't - nuance time and more questions to be asked.

I'm not off fossil just yet - still have gas heating. The heat pump equations are a lot trickier to work out - without load shifting it's much more expensive, plus how will it average out over winter when I presumably get less solar to recharge the home battery during the day. So heat pump is the next bit of research rather than my automatic next move. For the rest though - just no argument, the renewable/EV route is just better.

Sorry, I didn't mean to twist your panties. I was merely pointing out (pedantically, I admit) that the rules of logic are not identical to the rules of statistics. LLMs (and arguably all current generations of AI models) are inherently statistical systems. This can be pretty easily demonstrated by the fact that all current LLMs can be coaxed into saying things that are illogical. As you point out you can "approximate" logic and arrive at logical conclusions with these systems, but you are not doing so using a logic engine. You are doing so using a stochastic system.

At the philosophical level, logic exists outside of our neurons. Its rules are (as far as we accept anything in reality) independent of human existence. So just because our neurons are also subject to the imperfections of stochastic systems does not mean that ALL stochastic systems are logical.