Or are Slashdot stories becoming just one marketing release after another? I mean, it's been a problem for some time, but now it's just getting ridiculous.

No country can afford to take in unlimited refugees. At some point, the answer becomes another question. "How to we raise the standard of living for people in that country because we can not afford to take any more of them here?"

LK

OMG!

As the saying goes, the defender has to get it right every time, but the attacker only has to get it right once. AI is good at getting something impressive sometimes, not so good at always getting it right.

Yep. Although some Nazis saw Fraktur as an expression of German "kultur", Hitler always personally disliked it. What really pushed it over the edge was the conclusion that it made communicating to populations in the occupied territories more difficult.

...they gotta use Papyrus! "So classy."

Xbox has always been weak, and likely has never been profitable, and hardware has never really been Microsoft's thing. Xbox getting only 10% market share, however, is new territory. This may be leading to more pain than Microsoft is willing to take. Back in the Genesis days, would you have thought that Sega would ever walk away from consoles?

People who can't do simple arithmetic are so fun.

If you haven't worked it out, doubling your net worth every day for a month means you end the month with one billion times what you started with.

Multiply that by two million...

The US armed forces are 2.8 million strong. The DoD employs about million more civilians on top of that. That's not even counting contractors that the DoD may be buying licenses for. 2 million Microsoft 365 licenses doesn't seem that outlandish.

"I'd argue that Cobol and Fortran have carved out a niche where they *are* the best in their class."

Seriously, and I say this as someone who knows both Cobol and Fortran, what niches are Cobol or Fortran best at other than "applications that are already written in Cobol or Fortran"?

They moved fast and broke things.

And now I'm picturing Harrison Ford going around asking people what time it is.

In a constantly changing world where change is happening ever faster, ChatGPT is essentially a static model.

While games are, apparently, not art and their authorship does not matter. Do I have that right?