The point is that the price of computers (and computing devices) has gone up substantially. Everybody knows this, not addressing common knowledge is making an argument in bad faith.

But yeah you can get an underpowered mini PC for $300 if that's all you need or can afford.

So is $80 for an echo dot but here we are.

808s and Heartbreak is the best album since Bing Crosby.

https://www.cs.wisc.edu/2025/0...

And DARPA has a whole program for it:

https://www.darpa.mil/research...

There is not going to be $2,000 worth of RAM in a new computer, get real. Tesla Y has 16GB RAM in the FSD/Autopilot and 8GB RAM in the infotainment computer.

This is just an excuse for people to whine about how all they want is a car without automatic window openers.

A snapdragon 7 based phone should be like $400. Paying $650 for one doesn't make any sense unless you're constantly breaking small components.

What is the article suggesting - books are sacrosanct, and must never be destroyed or thrown away? Millions are being published every year, millions have to be recycled, who cares.

I know, distrust the system, but the truth is our 98% disc free reality already has made games cheaper. Browse https://www.xbox.com/en-US/gam...">the XBox Store and there's always going to be AAA games from three years ago for under $10, or indie titles for $6.99, or shit like that. You'd never see deals like that back in the day when games were all on disks, even before accounting for inflation. Much cheaper than used disks from Gamestop, even.

Thanks for the advice on raising children, old guy with no kids.

It's not a remotely level playing field. One soldier who took part in the Venezuela raid basically had orders in hand when he placed multiple bets on the timing of the raid, netting a ton of money. There have been many other examples of inside information being used to stack the odds.

This is absolutely not true. There are plenty of people in the financial side of a business that have information that is material but non-public, and trading based on that knowledge is illegal, including sudden cuts in spending, audit results prior to publication, and more. HR will be aware of major layoffs. Facilities might be aware of impending site closures before they're announced. All these things can be used for insider trading.

Lower-level people aren't usually pursued because they're small enough to fly under the radar. But that doesn't mean it's not illegal, and it doesn't mean it never happens.

This has always been a thing and maybe we need SSL for WiFi. Let's get Let's Encrypt on the case and Apple and Google throwing up big scary "Do you trust this Wifi?" for all non-certified Wifi hotspots and slap on a Certified label.

Yes, while the article doesn't say I'll guess it's more like a lax, trivial hack. Like somebody breaking into your house when you forgot to lock the door.

But it's still something that AI shouldn't be doing in the first place, especially when it's just done incidentally, and suggests that this nascent technology is capable of worse.

The whole debate it kind of dead. You buy a Mac if you can afford it, they're the best. You get a PC if it's for work and the system administration sets that up for your organization, or because you're a gamer and want to use a $1500 computer to play games on like it's an XBox. Linux desktops are for old, contrarian nerds.

What an absurd question. Most of the prompt was about students, so I'll tell you how much time it costs: about three seconds for the students to see where on the boot up screen the web browser is. Then they click on the web browser, and that's it. From there it's all the same and they just go to google classroom or whatever. I speak empirically. I taught at a school that went from Windows to Chromebooks, and the students barely even noticed the transition.

Long time Slashdot reader theodp is remembering his own childhood where maybe people had to actively learn to use DOS, and then the Mac GUI was kind of a strange transition, and etc. Times have changed, grandpa!