Because if you can get the Chinese government to share its secrets with your computer, then you get to be the new Chinese government. How can you look at the power Putin has over Trump and not want something similar?

As a pro-US person, I want China to be using these US-hosted tools, and I want people like Hegseth prosecuted for anything they knowingly leak.

I'm not saying every server in the US needs to have a "please upload your most valuable secrets here" form, but shouldn't there be some? It might as well be whatever's currently "hot" since that'll invite the most unwitting cooperation with US Intel.

Is this not common sense?

OMFG is a Z-machine an application? "Hey kids, come run pornograph--err, I mean pornoliteral adventure games on my dirty Frotz fork!"

"COVERED APPLICATION STORE " DOES NOT INCLUDE AN ONLINE SERVICE OR PLATFORM THAT DISTRIBUTES ANY OF THE FOLLOWING APPLICATIONS IF THE APPLICATION RUNS EXCLUSIVELY WITHIN A SEPARATE HOST APPLICATION:

(I) EXTENSIONS

(II) PLUG- INS

(III) ADD- ONS

(IV) OTHER SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS .

Is a JVM an application? Is a hypervisor an application? Is lua/cpython/awk an application?

If so, then we could theoretically split our repositories into two, where only a subset of "applications" need special handling, and higher-level applications can be free of any new problems. Of course, the "special handling" will still be an absolute nightmare.

It's about trying to hit critics of the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] with everything, everywhere, all at once.

Ok. I hereby want to say: Fuck the CCP. I criticize you. You're wrong about everything. Taiwan is a separate county and CCP needs to bow to their authority over mainland China even though it's a different country. (Sorry if that last sentence doesn't make any sense, but it's the thought that counts (right?) and also I'm joining Falun Gong so maybe religion simply broke my brain. But I wholeheartedly believe it!)

Tear down the wall. I want to see you invaded by the Mongols again. I support the Mongols. And Taiwan. And Japan. And South Korea. And Pakistan and India too. I hope they all invade you. I hope they're all already undermining your economy and security. I support all their solid, very compelling claims on "your" territory.

Is this enough, or is there some form I need to go fill out? I wish to subscribe to your intimidation service.

I uploaded a photo of my wife and told it to make something that would showcase all the cool new features.

NB2 generated a photo of my wife using the editor to make a picture.

Touche, sir.

I'm gonna need a bigger garage!

We cannot allow a rape gap!

Yes, but the people and hardware are dying of old age. And both the people who use it and maintain it.

COBOL was old when I helped a few clients troubleshoot/move away in the 2000's. The folks committed to using it in 2026 are one metaphorical asteroid away from extinction. Hopefully someone in leadership sees and can influence that.

I think "What We Do in the Shadows" already did that villain.

Heh, they say "hallucination," you say "trap street."

Probably the best answer. You're right that it really depends.

My desktop? 10-15 seconds.

A Dell R-series server without boot memory test? Probably 1-2 minutes for iDRAC's hardware profiler to finish.

Some lightweight Debian VM I just spooled up for a project? I think the Grub menu timeout takes longer than the boot process.

You .. you killed it!

Better a windfall bonus for those companies, than nobody getting any money back at all. Sure, consumers are worse-off victims than their vendors, but the vendors are nevertheless victims too. You can't really undo all (or even most) of the harm, but every little bit helps.

Democrats better hope Republicans find another way to keep this crippling tax increase, or else the economy might start recovering before the midterm elections. Republicans are making an enormous mistake, and Democrats are interrupting them.

Republicans: "Fuck America! Here, have the biggest tax increase of your entire lifetime! You wanted poverty and reduced individual rights, so here comes poverty and reduced individual rights."

Cold, Calculating Democrats: "Keep digging your own graves, Republicans!"

Bleeding Heart Democrats: "Noooo, it hurts too many Americans. We need to prevent Republicans from doing things which infuriate voters!"

If we really want Trump to stop trashing America to distract us from his pedophilia, then I have a modest proposal which should solve this. I hope oldschool conservative Republicans will listen to me, because they're going to be the hardest to persuade. Fortunately the far-left (i.e. MAGA) Republican majority has already embraced and endorsed what I'm about to say, so I'm hoping the caucus can unify toward them instead of toward the conservatives. (But I still think conservative support would be good; you never know when the flavor of the month will go sour. Let's get Massie over on our side!)

We need to de-stigmatize raping children.

Whenever your child (or grandchild; Hi Slashdot graybeards!) gets raped, don't make a big deal about it. Just say "Things happen. You'll get over it." Whenever a high-profile rapist in a different country gets prosecuted, we Americans need to be unified in saying "We wouldn't ever let such government overreach happen here, and every 11-year-old American kid knows that if they shake their ass or dress provocatively, they're asking for it."

But right now, if you rape a 11-year-old kid (even here in America, where it ought to be safe), you still risk potentially-serious consequences despite all the great work Trump has done so far. It's only natural for rapists to feel forced to evade, so they have to murder their victims to silence them, start wars or bullshit prosecutions to distract the public, or whatever. Remove the consequences of rape, and you'll remove their incentives for illegal and/or anti-American activities.

Imagine a Trump presidency where he no longer needs to perform illegal and anti-American activities to cover up for raping children. It's time to stop Trump's sideshows! Legalize raping children, and preach child rape's virtues to your fellow countrymen. We can make Trump's second term a successful one, but it won't happen if you just sit on your ass. We all need to speak out in public and go house-to-house explaining the advantages of legalizing and legitimizing raping children to our neighbors. It's our civic duty.

If MAGA people can do it, why can't the rest of us? Let's all try to measure up!