Comment Accuracey (Score 1) 102
The tunnel segments... weigh more than 73,000 metric tons, and have to be placed within a tolerance of 3 mm.
That is mind-blowing.
Comment MFA (Score 1) 106
With MFA, it should not be a catastrophe if someone obtains your password. That's the point of it.
Comment Re:Yep. Keep some older UNSAFE computers. (Score 1) 66
It's clear that in places like the EU, Russia, Canada, or China, un-bugged non-surveillance-enabled computing is more and more unwelcome.
Canada is the home of OpenBSD, which is not only open source, but was founded largely in response to strong cryptography being classified as a "munition" is the US.
Comment Re:Customers Update (Score 1) 20
very-end-users.
Haven't heard that term before. I like it
Comment Customers Update (Score 3, Insightful) 20
cPanel is urging all customers and web hosts to update immediately.
For hosted websites, is this not something the web host should be doing for their customers?
Comment Welcome to Slashdot (Score 1) 44
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Comment Re:more faster (Score 1) 56
> It does a great job of following the coding patterns and conventions YOU demonstrate in your code base
I didn't need AI for that, why now? And maybe I want it to write code better than I can.
Maybe you want to to write code faster than you can? I used Claude to build an entire an entire web-based application with SQL Server backend from scratch in less than a day. Is it the *best* code that could possibly be written? Probably not. Does it work as intended? Yes.
Comment Sour Grapes (Score 1) 56
Aesop wrote a fable about you a couple of thousand years ago.
Comment Lobbying Industry (Score 1) 183
Lobbying is big business in Washington, and somebody has done some pretty successful lobbying by the sound of this. I guess when the leader of a country is unabashedly open for bribes, it should be no surprise if lower minions can be bought as well.
Comment Hand in Hand (Score 1) 114
Having a Microsoft account at install time goes hand-in-hand with Microsoft enabling drive encryption by default. You'll want to have a place where you can retrieve the BitLocker key that you didn't know you had.
Comment Re:Started as a Meteor. (Score 1) 45
Started as a Meteor though, correct? Both can be true. Unless you want to retroactively call it a meteorite before it hit the ground, which is silly.
No, it's not both. It either strikes the Earth or it doesn't.
Comment Not a Meteor (Score 2) 45
If it strikes the Earth it's a meteorite.
Comment More Samsung's Fault Than Microsoft? (Score 1) 85
The bug seems to be in connection with the Samsung Galaxy Connect app
Windows can be made to run much better by removing all the bloatware that system builders preinstall.
Comment Working with other people's code (Score 4, Insightful) 150
pretty soon there will be so much code generated, that nobody will be able to make sense of it, especially when it stops working.
This is actually where I think AI is very useful. Have you ever had to take over a bunch of code that someone else has written? Possibly with little or no documentation? With Claude, I can have it parse a bunch of code and it does a pretty good job at summarizing what the code is doing, and can make modifications to it with minimal effort on my part. I just describe the functionality I would like added or changed. Is it perfect? Of course not, but I can be quite productive with it.
Comment Re:Seems like a waste of time and money (Score 2) 66
I'm pretty sure this was a solved problem when I was a kid and that's been a long while now.
Indeed. The first rigorous study was by the French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey around 1894, using high-speed photography.
There is also a story about Thomas Edison and Henry Ford doing some experiments together, but it's likely apocryphal.
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