More like "Colossus: The Forbin Project"

Why shouldn't our work schedules adapt, instead of us adapting to work schedules?

If I want to enjoy the extra evening/twilight hours in summer for exercise, BBQ, or whatever, then why shouldn't I be able to start work an hour earlier and finish an hour earlier? I could get to work an hour before customers or other workers arrive and get my paperwork done without being interrupted.

It's possible to stagger start and finish times so someone is at work to deal with customers at all hours. Offer an earlier start and finish time for half the workforce.

And some workplaces don't even need people to be available for customers. If employers weren't so stupidly attached to "nine-to-five, onsite" traditions, they could get people working all sorts of hours.

It might be closer than you think.

The very next /. article (or previous) is an announcement of Microsoft's first Linux distro - Azure Linux 4. Fedora-based.

It's stopping - slowly. AGA-Rayburn have withdrawn solid-fuel cookstoves from sale in the UK, presumably because they couldn't economically be re-designed with catalytic converters.

They're still available in other markets such as South Africa and Australia.

I've got one (Rayburn) but I'm rural and we rarely get inversions, so the smoke doesn't tend to hang about.

It's been the major source of cooking, and the only source of heating and hot water for decades but we've recently had a big solar+battery upgrade so we're starting to electrify a bunch of things that were previously provided by the stove.

I think it's in the hackers' best interests to be honest about this.

If they aren't, and release the data publicly or sell it, or release it in any form after promising to delete it, it tells the world that they can't be trusted, and future ransom demands with promises to delete the data won't be worth the electrons carrying said promises.

They've proved themselves clever enough to crack the security on a relatively secure and trusted platform. They will be looking for the next platform to crack as we speak. When the time comes to make their next demands, the hostages will know that either they can be trusted to delete the data, or not. Being trustworthy means a better chance to be paid $BIGNUM. If their reputation were tarnished, hostages would be less likely to pay, and will take the consequences of exposure of the users' data.

After all, those privacy and security guarantees made when students were required to create accounts, well, no-one is going to be held accountable when the next breach happens, are they? Perhaps some prison terms would be a useful incentive to the next board of management when making decisions on whose software to use.

All those terms and conditions where you have to click "OK" ? Funny how consequences are mostly one-sided - the user. I've never seen T&C where there's any consequences for the other side.

Those things can barely perform when they're hot. Riding off on a cold H-D engine is asking for trouble.

Some people drive to get from A to B. Other people enjoy the process.

I like driving a manual transmission because it gives me pleasure to exercise my skills and judgement, it's not a case of hanging on to outdated tech, it's just fun. There's lot of old tech that we keep, because it's fun.

It's not *just* about the torque.

You don't ride purely for the engine's performance characteristics, there are other factors involved.

I like the noise*. I like the vibration. I like the feedback from the engine and gearbox.

*It's just a Moto Guzzi, not an "enhanced" H-D. It's not obnoxiously noisy.

Been riding since about 1993.

This seems like a lot of fuss. Either get used to the delivery of an electric motor, or stick with internal combustion.

Along with the simulated gear changes, I suppose they'll add some speakers to simulate the noise of of an internal combustion engine, with software subscriptions to make your e-bike sound like the engine of your preference - v-twin, inline four, etc.

Please select from the following:
1. Obnoxious Harley-Davidson without mufflers
2. Four-pot screamer with un-tuned 4-into-1
3. Civilised Italian v-twin

They're talking about companies using on the order of 500 virtualised machines. You bet they're going to look at alternatives to VMWare.

The mainframe solution like all others has its pros and cons, you'd be silly not to include it in a comparison table.

Surprised that a certain vigorous champion of Linux and MacOS hasn't been here yet to boast that this is far less serious than any and all faults in Windows.

Of course there could be downvoted comments lurking below my threshold but I'm not going to unlock it just to see.

Oh, dear.

My daily driver is an 8th-gen i7 with 12GB and it's fine.

I'm not compiling linux kernels or doing CAD, but if I were I'd probably need more.

And the machine I take to site visits is an 8th-gen i5 with 8GB. Again, it's mainly for browsing, RDP, word processing, that sort of thing but it's not hindering my productivity.

Don't forget nine nines of uptime.

Or hot-swapping CPU and memory modules in the unlikely event of failure.

They're not averse to change, they're averse to risk. Banks, insurance, airlines. They can't afford risk.

And they're generally quite smart when it comes to calculating risks to their business. They've figured out that there's nothing else that can do the job for the same price.