The internet is more than just the web, and this is just a bizarre proposal. If you think bandwidth caps are bad, just wait until you can get charged per-connection fees.

Calling Belgium 3rd world isn't fair at all. It's a fledging 3rd world country at worst, nothing at all similar to the imminent 3rd world country that (say) the UK is.

"everybody is held up to one set of rules."

When has that ever happened?

An ethics of one.

Just picturing all those robot cleaners and flying micro drones out there.

DOGE To Rewrite SSA Codebase In 'Months' (wired.com)

https://developers.slashdot.or...

I would classify neither HPE or Juniper's networking gear as "expensive buggy crap." Both of them produce fantastic equipment and have for decades.

Capitalization can count in an email address too.

The part before the @ in an email address is handled by the mail server.

Similarly, the part after the third / in a URL is handled by the web server (or other server for not http:)

The host/domain part of the address in either is not case sensitive.

Agreed completely.

Still with you.

Err... what? There's no "for free" involved, that's where the whole "earn income to support your life" bit comes in.

By all means, don't make your job your life--there are certainly better things out there. But being asked by your employer to give a fuck and put some effort in is certainly not a bridge too far.

You spend a lot of time on X, huh?

but I don't really consider women with 20% bodyfat in their 50s overweight..or men with 15% bodyfat at any age.

Well, you'd be wrong. BF% of >15% for men and >20% is overweight.

The reality is that most women over 50 are closer to 40%, and for any age it's >30%. Over half of women over 30 are obese. (Men aren't great but it's nothing as dire as this.)

This is even with our greatly-loosened criteria for what is considered obese - it used to be even more strict. People today are disgustingly unfit.

Coal isn't 'dirty energy'. Particularly with EPA regulation, it's considered "green" now. It's overall ecological impact (that is, in terms of total lifecycle cost) is significantly lower than wind.

Saying "wind is green" is myopic and short sighted, and doesn't include the massively disproportional material and ecological cost of producing the disposable steel and concrete towers with large, easily damaged fiberglass resin blades.

Wind isn't the lowest cost for baseload - if it isn't subsidized. It's not even competitive with natural gas, and is markedly less reliable.

It's subsidization which makes it cost competitive. And even then, it's only competitive per kwh, it's not competitive for primary base load (which is 100% what a datacenter needs) because wind is cyclical and periodic. It isn't always windy in WY, and it's often too windy for wind power (35mph+ winds). I'm really tired of the tripe propaganda about wind/solar. I LIKE wind and solar, conceptually (and for the ability to run it off-grid), but let's be real.

The solution here, long term, is likely SMR generation at-scale. You've got many datacenters, and the capacity scales rapidly. A single large reactor doesn't make fiscal sense, but a national program to produce industrialized SMRs at scale which could be deployed as needed over a period of years would, enabling cheap power generation. When you build at scale, you're able to drastically drive costs down.

Fission is also now on the horizon.

But in the interim, green coal and NG are likely to be the thing.

(I'm not looking forward to the massive impact that this is going to have on the regional NG market; NG has already gotten significantly more expensive, and so many people use it for heating.)

I always thought the quiz was a joke.

Like the concept itself was supposed to be humorous and set the tone of the game.

Don't dog walkers often group together dogs from a similar area?

3 people paying $10/hour vs 1 paying $20 or some such.

I've never been a dog walker, but I've always assumed the people with lots of dogs at the dog park are.