Yet another reason to use open source virtualization - the legal cost of proprietary can be unbounded.

Plenty of former Oracle customers use PostgreSQL now for similar reasons.

The Fortune 50 can afford the risk of proprietary but most small businesses can't.

Unless you violate the BusyBox license you shouldn't have any worries.

I wonder if any insurers are covering this yet.

A full system crash is a bad thing - most people could agree to this.

So after all the kerfuffle about IDE controllers having master/slave drives, microcode blacklists being offensive, etc. Microsoft of all companies is making their crash screen black?

I don't care but it's shockingly inconsistent.

At least the Andorians won't be offended anymore.

People ought to be incentivized to reduce plastic on their own, especially food, due to the estrogenic effects.

They say it's a "great mystery" why males have historical low testosterone and women have messed up cycles.

I just found out last week that my chewing gum (notionally a xylitol-carrier) is made with "gum base" which I presumed is a mixture of several plant and tree gums.

Nope! FDA allows, and the market dominates, mixtures containing polyethylene, polystyrene, etc. Real gums went out when I was a kid.

I'm not on the microplastics scare wagon but this is out of control!

Bobby is doing great things with coal tar dyes, so maybe there's hope for plastics (then wheat contaminants, ideally).

Both methods can get you "a job".

If you want to be a 9-5'er that's fine but outside of the trades that's really unstable work. Pink slips and bankruptcies everywhere.

Work your social networks (family, church, community groups) for opportunities to earn money on your terms, if you can handle it.

Interesting because the moral argument is about reproduction.

I own a notepad and a pencil. But if I start writing "A long time ago in Galaxy far, far away" and continue as such, 'you' will threaten to beat me up and put me in a cage for years (if I persist despite threats).

That just obliterates real property rights in favor of imaginary property rights. And real property rights are the basis of a peaceful civilization.

On the other hand, the AI bros have a moral obligation to not suddenly destroy society's creative engine of thinkers to make a quick buck.

On the other ... tail ... the lizard at Facebook has no morals. People expect their government to protect them from such predators because their government school taught them a fairy tale version of what government is.

7+7 is how the Founders understood the Constitutional bargain.

Mark Twain planned to add a new chapter to each of his books every seven years.

"You do want to know what happened next, don't you?"

Life+75 is just abuse and Corporate Welfare (but I repeat myself).

But math has "a steep learning curve"! :ducks:

> film which has comparable resolution to 4K and below

"It's complicated".

Many of the masterpiece films were filmed on 70mm which is about 4x the size of 35mm, plus better emulsion with a tighter grain.

So if we take your 4K number for a normal film and 4x it and double that for scanning we're waiting for 32K to master it digitally.

We're going to need faster storage!

Why ask why you need it?

Ever see a Jumbotron in 1080p? It's ridiculous.

I can totally see a wall-sized screen being useful for many businesses. Walk to one area, read what's there, move to another area to read something else. Analysts, factories, hospitals, military, theme parks, etc.

They already are doing this with walls of a dozen different screens, with that many video cards, cables, power supplies.

Or complex video splitters, muxers/demuxers, etc.

When they scale to 24K there will be customers too.

I'll be happy with low-cost 8K when all that hits the market.

Yeah, Brave has for a few years and it's a Chromium downstream.

I don't like it at all, but maybe in right-to-left bottom-to-top writing cultures it feels natural.

There's a retired couple in my town who had to tell everybody how virtuous they were to save the planet with their EV's and then their Volkswagen burned down their 1800's barn while charging, destroying the other EV and almost burned down their house (flame damage but saved by FD).

Billows of black smoke for half a day.

I have similar concerns with my solar batteries and need to figure something out.

Works a treat. I've used disk2vhd for for many years so every "backup" is familiar and quick to peruse.

Shouldn't those go in %APPDATA% ?

n.b. I last adminned Windows when NT4 was dominant.

They do offer half-price Prime delivery if you have an EBT card.

"I need the content of your book for AI but I won't pay you $14 for a copy."

That's scummy.

Not the ones they bought and scanned.