It's copied from The Atlantic, and right away, the opinion author's assertions run into trouble.

"For the overwhelming majority of graduates, the returns on going to college more than offset the cost of tuition. ". That's news to all the grads drowning in debt they'll never pay off.

"After factoring in financial aid, the cost of attending a public four-year college has fallen by more than 20 percent since 2015, even before adjusting for inflation." What? Seriously?

Many more things like that. And she never even addresses the issue of enrollment now being overwhelmingly female, with majors that are money losers in the job markets. Nor does she address the fact that a growing number of students are foreign, sent here by their families or governments to gain technical and business knowledge to take back home after graduation. The whole thing reads like a PR piece for colleges.

Negative, Ghostrider. While standard support is up, HPE has an extended support system called "mature support" covering HP 9000 and Integrity servers until 2028, including HP-UX support . So it's not truly dead just yet.

Switch to Linux if possible. macOS is another option, but expensive and limited since Apple has its own issues too.

So you have the truck equivalents of Marine Pilots, combined with an airport "drop and go" style parking system. The autonomous truck arrives at the lot, parks up in the designated assigned at the gate or whatever waiting bay, or queue, and when there's a loading dock ready, the "pilot" manually drives the truck the last few 100m.

Besides, while it's certainly possible that all the loading docks might be in use, if you have a "complete jumble of trucks", then that's a fairly major yard design failure and major safety issue since anyone on foot will need to content with trucks coming any which way. Surely any one with the slightest clue would come up with a layout with a suitable combination of one-way systems, a suitably sized overflow lot laid out like a holding park at a ferry terminal, and a whole bunch of clearly marked safe walking routes. Arguably, the pick a dock and arrival time issue shouldn't be a problem either - modern cars are some of the most connected devices of all time; what makes you think any autonomous trucks will be any different? It wouldn't be that hard to come up with a system that tells in an inbound truck that there won't be a bay free for 30min or whatever, and to slow down a bit on the highway to delay arrival accordingly, or just go around a suitable block a few times.

Everyone that buys Windows licenses from those El Cheapo Google Marketplace vendors has to as the licenses tend to be pro licenses pulled from machines that won't activate over MS's web method.

Ahh, yes... German cars. If every decent car company does something with 6 parts, the Germans will find a way to make it require 27 parts. All of which are horribly expensive and require specialized tools to install. Or they'll put the timing system at the back of the engine so that a routine service item becomes an engine-out procedure. Garbage cars driven by people who don't know any better.

The space station leak reminds me of an old trick for a leaky cooling system in a car: put pepper into the radiator.

The little flecks of ground pepper get washed around the cooling system and eventually block tiny cracks in the radiator or other places. Putting a raw egg into a *cold* radiator will do the same thing; when the engine gets warm it cooks and blocks the leak. Both of these tricks have saved me on the road, they do work. But they are temporary and you need to thoroughly flush the cooling system after the repair.

I wonder if the Space Station has had the same sort of thing happen - airborne dust blocking a leak?

So, ~4,400 satellites that are now going to be a little over 10% closer to Earth. That means they are also going to be ~10% closer to each other and moving across the sky faster as well, and therefore the light trails they leave across the sky in long exposures will be even more densely packed.

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of ground-based telescope using astronomers suddenly cried out in frustration and were suddenly silenced.

Me too! ;)

I don't like to read a lot, but I do read web pages like /., IRC, newsgroups, forums, messages, emails, etc. :P

It's not an education if you only assign stuff "relevant to their lives" (which is a crapshoot decision in any case; what books are really going be relevant to modern teenagers?). Part of what you're supposed to be getting in school is knowledge of the foundations of your civilization, which is why colleges have a Great Books program in the first place. High Schools typically don't burden students with all that many difficult old books anyway. I had to suffer through Wuthering Heights but I also got to discover Lord of the Flies.

Might it be that the Beeb relies on groups like the Spectator for guests as an opposite to it's own party line, and thus drive the outrage demo to boost ratings? A' La the old CNN crossfire route? What else would they do? Bring on, say, the Guardian every night and basically just agree on everything?

The daily format, yes. The Internet has killed that.

But I think there's still some room for print journalism under certain conditions, and profitably so as well, if done right.

Many moons ago, I used to get the Washington Post's Weekly Edition. I don't know if they do it anymore, but it was a newspaper, mailed to your home once a week, that had longer, more in-depth investigative stories and analysis on the issues of the day than you'd find in the daily papers, as well as an opinion and editorial section. I think something along these lines, combined with certain elements of the old Sunday paper format... cartoons, ads, local events and notices, arts coverage.... could sell as part of a larger digital subscription that gives you daily access.

It might just be profiteering, but beside a little RAM they do contain other ICs which, like RAM chips, are all made on wafers. Any fab capable of turning blank wafers into ICs that is interested in turning a profit (e.g. ALL of them) are going to be prioritising those lines with a higher profit margin (RAM/GPUs/NPUs) and ramping up costs to match demand. That is eventually going to create a knock-on supply/demand problem for other chips that are not in high demand to fuel AI startups as well, and as supplies of those chips run low, that will drive thier prices up. Combined with tariff/export tit-for-tats, these kinds of supply issues were starting to impact the automotive industry some months ago, so it shouldn't be surprising it's now expanding into other sectors.

Asus is a big company, so probably wasn't entirely based on a "just in time" supply chain. If they are running low on parts inventory and that lack of supply of general components is now starting to bite, then we're going to see similar price rises from other vendors fairly soon too. If so, then I'd be preparing for hardware pricing to spike across the board before the AI bubble pops and making "buy now or wait" decisions accordingly.

Yes, my 12 mini is getting too slow! :( Or at least update SE to have newer hardware parts!!