Comment 'she hadn't "entered" his heart' (Score 1) 29
Okay, but - has he "entered" her... um, heart?
Comment Re:Wait so she's dead *and* frozen? (Score 2) 29
One goes better with tartar sauce.
Although, admittedly, some people do like tartar sauce with their fish too...
Comment Re:How? (Score 1) 54
But that's just a bunch of asterisks?
Comment Re: Move to free states. (Score 1) 80
I can pretty much guarantee you that a gun is next to useless. Id I'm going tontake you I'm putting a bag on your head while two other people grab your arms and lead you into a van.
You won't even have time scream and draw attention to yourself, let alone draw a gun.
If your gun is in your hand, by your side, with safety on, I'll still grab you before you fire it.
Comment Re: Step 1: Don't own any BitCoin (Score 1) 80
If they can read Slashdot, the sandwich is too old regardless of when the parser was born.
Comment Re:A bit of a double standard (Score 1) 44
They gave up their privacy when they stepped out of their front door.
Comment No... (Score 1) 22
You already had your turn in the late 2010s after big data and before AI. You don't get to come back to the hype line for seconds.
Comment Methodology? (Score 4, Insightful) 54
Clicking through a few levels, it appears this is based on an analysis of stolen password dumps. It does not say whether they took steps to limit their analysis just to passwords grabbed in bulk as part of data breaches - so, if brute-forced passwords make up a meaningful percentage of the total, it's possible their overall counts are biased and inflated.
Comment Are we back in the '90s? (Score 4, Informative) 54
I remember a story on Slashdot from around the turn of the century, an audit of servers at the Pentagon found that the most common Admin password was Password, the second-most common was P@ssw0rd.
At my first real IT job in 1996 if you knew the birthdate of of the children of 4/5 of the users you knew their password. I wasn't allowed to insist on a change in the user training.
Comment Re:Not a surprise knowing someone does not know AI (Score 1) 27
Okay, technically it's possible - but those Kryten hardware accessories are prohibitively expensive for most businesses.
Submission + - US Backs Three Mile Island Nuclear Restart With $1 Billion Loan To Constellation (cnbc.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Trump administration will provide Constellation Energy with a $1 billion loan to restart the Crane Clean Energy Center nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, Department of Energy officials said Tuesday. Previously known as Three Mile Island Unit 1, the plant is expected to start generating power again in 2027. Constellation unveiled plans to rename and restart the reactor in Sept. 2024 through a power purchase agreement with Microsoft to support the tech company’s data center demand in the region.
Three Mile Island Unit 1 ceased operations in 2019, one of a dozen reactors that closed in recent years as nuclear struggled to compete against cheap natural gas. It sits on the same site as Three Mile Island Unit 2, the reactor that partially melted down in 1979 in the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history. The loan would cover the majority to the project’s estimated cost of $1.6 billion. The first advance to Constellation is expected in the first quarter of 2026, said Greg Beard, senior advisor to the Energy Department’s Loan Programs Office, in a call with reporters. The loan comes with a guarantee from Constellation that it will protect taxpayer money, Beard said.
Three Mile Island Unit 1 ceased operations in 2019, one of a dozen reactors that closed in recent years as nuclear struggled to compete against cheap natural gas. It sits on the same site as Three Mile Island Unit 2, the reactor that partially melted down in 1979 in the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history. The loan would cover the majority to the project’s estimated cost of $1.6 billion. The first advance to Constellation is expected in the first quarter of 2026, said Greg Beard, senior advisor to the Energy Department’s Loan Programs Office, in a call with reporters. The loan comes with a guarantee from Constellation that it will protect taxpayer money, Beard said.
Comment Re:Not a surprise knowing someone does not know AI (Score 1) 27
Damn, that's funny, lol!
Comment Re:Does this mean it'll stop sucking? (Score 1) 23
If there's anything that touts PhD-level reasoning and writing, it's a recipe book.
Example recipe book with a PhD author: Modernist Cuisine
Submission + - Who has the biggest footprint on the Web ?
An anonymous reader writes: WokeGPT: In terms of digital environmental footprint, some websites like Pinterest, Docomo, and Office.com have notably high carbon emissions due to their traffic and data usage ..
Submission + - The AI Bubble That Isn't There (forbes.com)
smooth wombat writes: Michael Burry recently said he believes the AI market is in a bubble. Why should anyone listen to him? He's the guy who famously predicted the subprime mortgage crisis and made $100 million for himself, and $725 million for his hedge fund investors, by shorting the mortgage bond market. Will he be right in his most recent prediction? Only time will tell, but according to Jason Alexander at Forbes, Burry, and many others, are looking at AI the wrong way. For him, there is no AI bubble. Instead, AI is following the pattern of the electrical grid, the phone system and yes, the internet, all of which looked irrational at the time. His belief is people are applying outdated models to the AI buildout which makes it seem an irrational bubble. His words:
The irony is that the “AI bubble” narrative is itself a bubble, inflated by people applying outdated analogies to a phenomenon that does not fit them. Critics point to OpenAI’s operating losses, its heavy compute requirements and the fact that its expenses dwarf its revenues.
Under classical software economics, these would indeed be warning signs. But AI is not following the cost structures of apps or social platforms. It is following the cost structures of infrastructure.
The early electrical grid looked irrational. The first telephone networks looked irrational. Railroads looked irrational. In every major infrastructural transition, society endured long periods of heavy spending, imbalance and apparent excess. These were not signs of bubbles. They were signs that the substrate of daily life was being rebuilt.
OpenAI’s spending is no more indicative of a bubble than Edison’s power stations or Bell’s early switchboards. The economics only appear flawed if one assumes the system they are building already exists.
What we are witnessing is not a speculative mania but a structural transformation driven by thermodynamics, power density and a global shift toward energy-based intelligence.
The bubble narrative persists because many observers are diagnosing this moment with the wrong conceptual tools. They are treating an energy-driven transformation as if it were a software upgrade.
The irony is that the “AI bubble” narrative is itself a bubble, inflated by people applying outdated analogies to a phenomenon that does not fit them. Critics point to OpenAI’s operating losses, its heavy compute requirements and the fact that its expenses dwarf its revenues.
Under classical software economics, these would indeed be warning signs. But AI is not following the cost structures of apps or social platforms. It is following the cost structures of infrastructure.
The early electrical grid looked irrational. The first telephone networks looked irrational. Railroads looked irrational. In every major infrastructural transition, society endured long periods of heavy spending, imbalance and apparent excess. These were not signs of bubbles. They were signs that the substrate of daily life was being rebuilt.
OpenAI’s spending is no more indicative of a bubble than Edison’s power stations or Bell’s early switchboards. The economics only appear flawed if one assumes the system they are building already exists.
What we are witnessing is not a speculative mania but a structural transformation driven by thermodynamics, power density and a global shift toward energy-based intelligence.
The bubble narrative persists because many observers are diagnosing this moment with the wrong conceptual tools. They are treating an energy-driven transformation as if it were a software upgrade.
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