but in places like New Mexico and Texas, they're building these data centers in deserts. If you evaporate a gigaliter of water in these areas, it's not staying in your watershed. It's going to move at least 300~500 miles, in regions where cattle ranchers and farmers have been struggling with water already for decades.
Counter point, maybe don't farm in a desert or grow almonds there.
You can eat what comes out of a farm. You can't eat what comes out of a data center.I can live without almonds, thanks.

Why did you bring this into the conversation? Did someone say it was bad everywhere but it was ok on Jan 6th?
Probably b/c Jan 6th, and a persons reaction to it is highly indicative of one's political bias. All those people screaming ACAB, were eerily silent about Ashley Babbitt. Heck, there's still normies convinced a dozen Capital police were beaten to death by angry mobs on that day. So when the people screech about the "carceral state", yet say nothing about Jan 6er's sitting in jail awaiting trial/charging, a person's reaction to Jan 6 proves as a barometer of their particular level of political hypocrisy.

Can we finally know whether or not there is beer on the sun?!

I have such fond memories of EA from the '80s, but as far as I'm concerned, that's a completely different and unrelated entity.

That mentality never left Microsoft. They just to have work harder to maintain plausible deniability. Plausible, that is, to the anti-trust courts and politicians, none of whom know anything about technology.

I don't think that's likely. GOG has been around for almost 20 years. If they were to renege on providing offline installers, what could that possibly gain them? That only makes sense if they are planning to reimplement DRM, and that would immediately kill the company.

Because filtering the training data is so much harder than just having them swim through the internet swallowing everything, like whales eating krill.

Wow, I did not think blue no matter who individuals still existed. It will be interesting to peer into the mind of one such as yourself.
The Republicans absolutely need to be sat in the naughty-boy corner for a bunch of election cycles till they flush the whackos that have commandeered the party. But its not enough Part of the problem is that the Democrats also need to think long and hard about who they serve. Trump should have been *impossible*. In a healthy country nobody would have voted for a raging whackadoodle like him.
Oh we're getting close to taking some accountability for creating an environment where Trump could win. Shows promise.
Then you throw in a pandemic that utterly upended everyones lives and left the economy a lot more precarious,
Now you've missed the plot. The lack of trust in govt. and institutions? That was fueled by the constant streams of lies, "2 weeks to flatten the curve, 2 months and then everything will return to normal. Lock downs have 0 negative effects. Falling off a roof while testing positive for COVID equals another COVID death, etc."
Then get some constitutional ammendments to ensure that the executive will never ever ever be capable of corrupting democracy, justice, the public service, and the rule of law ever again.
Don't worry your DSA brethren will get rid of all of that and create a unicameral legislative committee.
It NEEDS to be a party OF the people FOR the people and BY the people
Don't worry Tovarish, we will root out the kulaks!

Like a broken clock, you are partially correct. The people should be afraid of anyone trying to dismiss political thought they don't like as mental illness. That is a cheap and easy way to stifle debate. Unfortunately, your assertion that social justice is an automatic good, has not been proven. As C.S. Lewis once wrote. "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

I'm sticking with stone knives and bear skins.

Dude... any thoughts where the L-F-P comes from? LiFe are the first two letters, and Phosphate is PO4.
Amen brother, it is truly staggering how the grand parent post got modded +3 insightful. Wow, /. has hit the skids hard.

We can bust on Microsoft all day and all night, and they deserve it, but the fact that their ability to find and fix these problems has greatly increased is a good thing. Software is incredibly complex, and no software more complicated than "10 GOTO 10" is free from the potential of security problems. Microsoft's QA has gone downhill in recent years, but now it's getting better apparently (even if it's after the fact). They are not going away, so this makes all our lives better.

I wrote a file searching utility in C++ about 30 years ago. About 15 years ago I ported it to Python and found it to be faster than using the Windows directory enumeration APIs, and I've been using that ever since. It just searches filenames, but that's all I need.

"NOTE: Experiences vary by region." says to me that Microsoft doesn't even know what their changes will do.

Can they factor a number larger than 21 with QC yet?