Comment Alberta, figures... (Score 2) 105

by Thud457 on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:27PM (#66406825) Attached to: Microsoft's Canada Timezone Troubles Leave Admins Fixing Calendars, Pretending They're In Bogota

FINE! I'll start MY OWN timezone . With BLACKJACK and HOOKERS!

Good thing they don't do anything complicated up there like scheduling trains. Or airplanes.

Comment Pardon me (Score 1) 98

by Thud457 on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:25PM (#66401852) Attached to: Binance Suffers Biggest Crypto Hack In History With $6.3 Billion Affected [UPDATE]

I foresee another $1,000,000 buy of Trumpcoin in CZ's near future.

Comment MUH MAGIC BEANZ!!1 (Score 1) 20

by Thud457 on Friday October 30, 2026 @08:53AM (#66401228) Attached to: Polymarket Halted International Trading After Hackers Drained Accounts

How do MORONS manage to amass 6.3 BILLION dollars to lose?

Comment NYT Style guide (Score 0) 23

by Thud457 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:35PM (#66400206) Attached to: Nvidia Chief Seen As Target of Chinese Spy Plot

It looks like the continually failing New York Times hasn't updated their style guide.
The proper term is now " Super Intelligence /s ".

Comment It's been noted before by others but (Score 1) 72

by Thud457 on Friday October 16, 2026 @07:17AM (#66378412) Attached to: Police Seize Robot that Sexually Assaulted Teen Girl

The Future is stupid .

Actually, stupider than imaginable.

Comment Re:sounds like the right way to do it (Score 1) 65

by Thud457 on Thursday October 15, 2026 @12:01PM (#66377204) Attached to: Bank of America Hired 1,000 Contractors to Patch Software Flaws Exposed By Anthropic's Mythos

Sounds like AI is making MORE jobs for programmers.
"Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism " my ASS!

99 little bugs in the code,
99 little bugs.
Take one down, patch it around,
107 little bugs in the code!

Comment Re:Magnetic USB-C charging! (Score 1) 94

by Thud457 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:22PM (#66368292) Attached to: Microsoft and Nvidia Unveil Surface Laptop Ultra For $2,599

-I wonder if that charger would work with other USB-C-powered devices.

MOAR POWAH = faster magic smoke production! Efficiency!1!!

Comment wait'll RFK jr hears about THIS (Score 1) 196

by Thud457 on Monday October 05, 2026 @12:07PM (#66363996) Attached to: Radio Broadcasters Support America's 'AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act'

Word up, freakin' Wolfman Jack and GOAT GLANDS! Public service, indeed.

Comment contrapoint: (Score 5, Funny) 165

by Thud457 on Monday October 05, 2026 @11:08AM (#66363866) Attached to: Sam Altman: 'The World Should Accept Some Bad Things Happening' For the Benefits of AI

The World Should Accept Some Bad Things Happening to Sam Altman to avoid the downsides of AI.

Eh, I'm sure it'll be fine. No need to be alarmist, like they were about Trump.

Comment Re: You're shitting me! (Score 4, Insightful) 172

by Thud457 on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @12:00PM (#66338688) Attached to: Cops Searched Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of 'LMAO,' 'IDK,' 'Hehe,' And 'Asdfg'

There should be a required WARRENT ID field and it should be checked against valid active warrents. Otherwise, access denied.

Comment I have no proboscis and I must scream (Score 2) 51

by Thud457 on Monday September 14, 2026 @09:46AM (#66337242) Attached to: Male Fruit Fly Brain Trained to Play Doom

Man, Nicholas Tesla was right when he wrote

"You will live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension."

Actually, I think I've got this one, other than whether this was really necessary.

Comment FaaS - Fascism as a Service (Score 0) 60

by Thud457 on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @01:37PM (#66319605) Attached to: FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

(alt subject : "Oops, all data breaches!")

Nothing to see here, just normal day-to-day government work circumventing the 4th amendment by outsourcing data collection to the private sector. This kind of thing happens all the time.

Move along, Citizen!

Comment corrosion of norms (Score 1) 62

by Thud457 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @08:55AM (#66317494) Attached to: Kalshi Dishes Out Its First-Ever Lifetime Ban to George Santos

Has he(George Santos) done anything to help the Republican Party?

Yes, he has. He has made a bald-faced mockery of the rule of law. That's priceless for supporters of an imperial presidency.

Comment The dead pool, like Clint Eastwood, not Marvel (Score 3, Insightful) 62

by Thud457 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @08:48AM (#66317470) Attached to: Kalshi Dishes Out Its First-Ever Lifetime Ban to George Santos

The fact of the matter is that the very existence of unregulated bookies like Kalshi incentivizes actions that may not be reversible, like, I dunno, bombing another country or burning down an orphanage.

Comment Re:The long-term impact of this on the US (Score 1) 195

by Thud457 on Friday August 28, 2026 @02:31PM (#66311734) Attached to: Canada Hires 48 Scholars Away From Top US Universities

Yeah, I remember a previous incident where we were concerned about a "brain drain".

hah! You thought I was talking about this.