Unsure, I think the weak headline meant "If we multiplied what we made in 6 weeks to equal one year, that would total $100 M for the year."

I've been in water 24 years now. We ALREADY don't have enough* water. LA pipes it in from hundreds of miles away, for example. My friend from AZ tells me of their conservation efforts there, with slogans 'If it's brown, flush it down; if it's yellow, let it mellow.'--I was surprised to hear that was even a thing in the US. The long-timers at my company tell of how our Midwest water tables are no longer keeping up with demand (via rains), lowering year-by-year.

We have 5000 US data centers now, with 4000 more supposedly planned. My coworkers are getting the water system quote requests across their desks, so at least some of this is legitimate. A few million gallons per day is what a town of a few tens of thousands of people approximately use. I hope this isn't all for just AI-made cat videos.

My dad golfs and he says that some courses are now only watering the playable areas, letting everything else brown or go to scrub brush. * That is, potable, cheap and local.

I'll volunteer to not build a wind farm for a scant $100k. Heck, I'm not proud, 20 bucks.

I'm not anti-wind/solar, but I've lived in our wooded area for ~ 40 years and have not seen a bird crash into a solid object, so I presume it's extremely rare--they are experts. However, they DO fly into our closed windows every other week, and that's just when I'm home to witness them. Such a collision often causes them not to die immediately to where they end up elsewhere, like next to your terrace wall. I noticed that the window collisions increase during migrations when inexperienced birds try to deal with these unfamiliar window things.

I discussed these with a store worker once and examined her "gun". The tags seemed to have no-power "e-paper" displays. They might not even have batteries, relying on the gun (touched to the tag) to give power to the tag to update its display.

I'm sure there are different kinds of tag systems, but such a design makes much sense: Cheaper, no dead batteries, no reliance on a working Wi-Fi, easily confirmed that the correct price is next to the correct item.

Yes, you don't want to hear the doctor mention the latter after a colonoscopy.

They should have said "tune to an empty channel".

"No, it is not a good idea for server passwords to be '1234'."

My root is D:\, you insensitive clod!

Has anyone else noticed that AWS' (IoT Core) website has gotten much slower, about the time I read that they are using AI to write much of their code?

Eh, I live near a coal power plant, each smokestack is over 400 feet tall. There must be a reason.

I can spell "Ohio" and I don't want them there either, if the residents don't. It's not like corporate estimates are perfectly accurate and not like corporate promises are forever.

Whenever--the laws that were in place at the time of the crimes, I reckon.

'Can we film the operation? Is the head dead yet?
You know, the boys in the newsroom got a running bet
"Get the widow on the set," we need dirty laundry'
- Don Henley, 1982

Shouldn't it be as simple as "Did they break our laws?"