Aren't there companies - mostly USA - with multiple 8s, much more than they could ever use?
I can understand IBM and HP needing multiple 8s, but General Motors and others?

That must be a nexus-1.

Won't be long before you can have a Leon for the heavy gardening work, a Pris for "company", and a Zhora to take out your enemies.

Perhaps even a Roy to discuss philosophy. Just don't make him mad by referring to the four-year lifespan.

"how to elevate privileges, hide processes, and quickly delete files"

He had to look that up? What an incompetent fool. He deserves his sentence.

Makes the rest of us look bad.

Fuck my 15 moderator points, you should be ashamed that this was allowed at all. What a load of shite.

I'm really disappointed.

Q: "And this, Bond, is your pee bottle"

Bond: "My what?"

Q: "You can't stop and relieve yourself at any time during this mission, Bond, you MUST pee in the bottle!"

Bond: "Does it do anything else"

Q: "Yes, there's a laser in the cap, be careful - if you pee on the cap, you'll short-circuit the laser's battery and blow yourself up."

Even embedded fonts is no guarantee.

"They also look better than anything that Word generates."

Sharper typefaces, perhaps?

Better keming, too?

Off to pihole I go. It already blocks resolution of telemetry upload URLs, we'll have to track down just who Copilot is talking to.

I think I'll go and read "Footfall" (Niven/Pournelle) again, to refresh my space battle tactics.

Project Orion, shuttles armed with missiles, fission-pumped x-ray lasers, it's a helluva ride.

That's great, good on you.

I joyfully anticipate your report on replacing banking and insurance mainframes with "non-mainframe strategies to zero-downtime, relative to the workload"

Or not. If banks, insurance companies, airlines, and others with a nine-nines uptime requirement could replace their mainframes with "non-mainframe strategies", I'd be happy to read about it.

Really? You don't think banks would have moved off the mainframe world if they had been able to find a replacement that was just as reliable for the same price or cheaper?

It's been decades, and it's never happened.

"The vast majority of no-downtime experiences in the modern era don't have mainframe involvement."

LOL. You have no idea.

I was referring to mainframes WRT to downtime, not VMs on commodity hardware.

There are a few pumped hydro projects in the pipeline, but a recent change in the Qld state government canned one of the proposals.

Yes, it was a right-leaning government that canned it.

"market-distorting subsidies"

Ok, sure. As long as you remove all subsidies from fossil-fuel sources, too.

There are also hybrid split systems that run off dedicated solar PV while the sun is shining, and switch over to mains* when the sun goes down.

*or your battery that was being charged during the hot part of the day. So you get solar-powered aircon for most of the day.

We've just signed a contract to supply Singapore with electricity generated near Darwin.