Comment Re: Is vice signaling the new virtue signaling? (Score 3, Informative) 110

by linear a on Monday June 22, 2026 @03:14PM (#66204556) Attached to: Some Electricians Think Building Data Centers Is For Sellouts

Godwin's law kicked in early on this thread.

Comment Godammit, Donut! (Score 1) 294

by linear a on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @01:17PM (#66182548) Attached to: Donut Lab's 'Solid-State' Battery Exposed As Regular Li-Ion

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Comment Not altruism at all (Score 3, Insightful) 63

by linear a on Saturday November 29, 2025 @08:36PM (#65825485) Attached to: Scientists Discover People Act More Altruistic When Batman Is Present

The Dark Knight spawns not altruism but fear and terror in evil-doers.

Comment I for one ... (Score 1) 69

by linear a on Monday November 10, 2025 @08:00AM (#65785390) Attached to: What Happens When Humans Start Writing for AI?

I for one welcome our new AI overlords.

Comment Re: This is like SF (Score 1) 133

by linear a on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @04:31PM (#65741454) Attached to: London Became a Global Hub for Phone Theft. Now We Know Why.

Not dead, just slashdotted. Or running on AWS.

Comment Dibs (Score 1) 57

by linear a on Thursday October 16, 2025 @01:31PM (#65730000) Attached to: Paxos Mistakenly Issues $300 Trillion of PayPal Stablecoin, Exceeding Global Currency Supply

Dibs

Comment Re:Blowing up the Bubble! (Score 2) 46

by linear a on Saturday October 11, 2025 @03:04PM (#65718742) Attached to: 'Circular' AI Mega-Deals by AI and Hardware Giants are Raising Eyebrows

Too big to pop!

Comment $1013/month to backup one petabyte on Amazon Deep (Score 2) 82

by linear a on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @12:02PM (#65712106) Attached to: 858TB of Government Data May Be Lost For Good After South Korea Data Center Fire

List price is $1013/month to backup one petabyte on Amazon Deep Glacier. Of course, cloud costs are always higher but that gives you an order of magnitude cost estimate for a back-this-up-we-will-never-need-to-restore-it archival copy.

Comment Re: Gross (Score 1) 60

by linear a on Friday September 05, 2025 @01:55PM (#65641388) Attached to: Bathroom Doomscrolling May Increase Your Risk of Hemorrhoids

National geographic!

Comment Re: 32% password success rate? (Score 1) 139

by linear a on Thursday May 01, 2025 @11:21PM (#65346329) Attached to: Microsoft Makes New Accounts Passwordless by Default

Oops, 32% as stated in the post.

Comment 32% password success rate? (Score 1) 139

by linear a on Thursday May 01, 2025 @11:20PM (#65346325) Attached to: Microsoft Makes New Accounts Passwordless by Default

42% password success rate sounds like bullcrap to me.

Comment Re: what dummies lmao (Score 3, Informative) 139

by linear a on Thursday May 01, 2025 @11:18PM (#65346321) Attached to: Microsoft Makes New Accounts Passwordless by Default

I suspect they mean"pin and something else", e.g. a device such as a phone.

Comment Re: The strange thing (Score 1) 16

by linear a on Thursday December 19, 2024 @09:42AM (#65024879) Attached to: Murder Mystery Solved By Google Street View

Even stranger if murderers picked a place without cameras to drag a corpse around. Probably a big "oh sh*t" moment when you see the Google camera bot drive by.

Comment Re: This is a delusion (Score 1) 183

by linear a on Saturday October 19, 2024 @09:50AM (#64877085) Attached to: West Virginia Town of Green Bank Has Become a Refuge For Electrosensitive People

Didn't SURVIVE the testing?

Comment So, the answer to global warming is... (Score 1) 143

by linear a on Saturday September 28, 2024 @01:45PM (#64824115) Attached to: A Cheap, Low-Tech Solution For Storing Carbon? Researchers Suggest Burying Wood

...to cut down trees. And then bury them?