Meanwhile, Facebook continue to bombard me with AI-generated scams pretending to be celebrities. I spend about half my time on Facebook ( about 2 minutes a day ) reporting these. I always get a reply stating that Facebook approve of these ads, and to whinge somewhere else. Pathological liars and criminals.

After all the disinformation from the nuclear industry, it's a bit rich for some to be crying fowl. China aren't the only ones with totally valid concerns. In fact anyone with a brain knows this is wrong.

Agreed. Terminology has some really nice features that no other products have ( that I've seen anyway ).

AI can't write or fix code, according to Gödel’s incompleteness theorem. I think most people instinctively understand that AI is, and never will be conscious. So why do we keep getting these ridiculous claims?

Crypto scammers will hijack anything they can to inflate their "investments" value. I'm just surprised they manage to convince venture capitalists to part with their cash. As for the small fry gamblers ... HODL on, fools ...

LOL. Nuclear has always been the most expensive method of boiling water brought to market. Safety issues aside ( and they are monstrous ), no-one in their right mind will invest in nuclear power plants with renewables ( including storage ) being the cheapest option on the market. The pro-radioactive-wastelands morons need to move on.

We've unfortunately been hosting our DEV and QA environments in Azure, and the service is absolutely horrible. We're getting MAXIMUM 3MB/s local storage speeds. Things reboot spontaneously. Things grind to a halt and need rebooting. This is by FAR the worse cloud provider around.

I'm shocked. Shocked and surprised. Surprised and confounded. Come on people ... this is the US. Who honestly believes a corporation will be held accountable for wreaking havoc on the environment? What's the environment done for us anyway? It's all about JOBS! Jobs and bribes. Bribes and revolving doors between government and business.

Seriously? Even Microsoft have abandoned C#. They're now pushing HTML5 and Javascript. Yes yes, there are some legacy apps out there written in C#. Good for them ... they can figure out how to migrate to a language with a guarantee of long-term support, development, etc. As for Linux developers, there are plenty of languages without the baggage and threat of legal issues from a convicted monopolist.

'Researchers' from Israel? Hmmm ... forgive me if I don't trust them. Israel, and Israeli 'searchers' work closely WITH the NSA ... not AGAINST it.

Why stop killing people, when you can continue killing them, but cheaper and with less do-gooders whinging about human rights violations? Quick questions ... it's the Christians who oppose euthanasia, correct?

I've given it a go, on and off. It's becoming usable. It appears to use motif or some god-aweful toolkit. But it's head and shoulders about the rest, from what I can tell.

Sadly, the rt-linux project is all but dead. http://lwn.net/Articles/617140... Unless this changes quickly, such linux-based projects will no longer be possible.

I'd push Postgresql to its limits, with an "impressively spec'd" machine ( ie > 100GB RAM, SSDs ) before purchasing anything else. This is more than enough for most people who think they need a data warehouse appliance. From there, I'd switch to Netezza, for a number of reasons, including Netezza being based on Postgresql ( so the porting effort is not *too* large ). It's also a LOT cheaper than other data warehouse appliances. The hardware is very impressive, and it's very simple to use and optimise. As for ETL tools, I avoid pre-packaged ETL tools like the plague. Roll something yourself - it's not that hard. If you're after some professional consultants, I work in this field. My blog: http://tesla.duckdns.org/ ... which has details of getting the ( free ) Netezza emulator VM working on Linux. My employer: http://www.smart-associates.bi... ... we have an ETL framework that targets Netezza ( amongst other DBs ).

Enlightenment DR19. Fast, stable, and nicely looking ( including compositing effects that Gnome hasn't had since Compiz went away ).