Cohaagen sent Richter to stop them. Hauser was incommunicado and his "wife" Lori Quade was doing the sommersault splits.

Sometimes you just have to never go to Total Recall.

My 2015 Dell XPS-13 is an awesome traveling companion. It weighs less than 3lbs, runs perfectly, has no "co-pilot" key on it, nor "Windows." It has gone with me all over the world, including Australia, Europe, Canada, Belize, etc.

It doesn't record my screen, my keystrokes, or the sites I visit (other than the normal Chrome browser cache), and it doesn't exfiltrate anything to anybody other than when, you know, I hit "SEND" or "SUBMIT" or "BOW DOWN AND KISS THE RING."

Good thing Microsoft named their "nobody asked for this" product "Recall." Good thing it's only available on co-pilot machines. Good thing everyone using Windows HAS to upgrade to Windows 11, and some of those machines have a "your papers are not in order" problem with that.

To me that means there will be more linux machines on the market, more people tired of Microsoft MSplaining to them why it must be this way, and wanting their data to remain on the local hard drive (possibly encrypted, FDE and all that).

It is fun watching MS shoot themselves in the foot. Really I want some bacon-grease popcorn and a lawnchair.

As for "Recall", Cohaagen sent Richter. Lori is on board. Hauser is coming by. So long, Doug Quaid.

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> Yahoo wants to buy Chrome...

Yeah and I want to buy a $250,000 motorhome like Clarence Thomas was bought for.
I also want a $100,000/head dinner where people who want my favor pay to by my $EHUD cryptocurrency.
I also want peace in the world.
I want children to respect their elders.
I want elders to listen to what the children want.
I want red lights to change to green quickly.

I also want Ayrton and Michael to rejoin us and race against each other. Alain can commentate but Jolyon should provide the color!!

But hey, Yahoo (nobody in 2025) wants to buy Chrome.

If only they had money. And if Chrome was for sale. And there were no other better bidders.

Neither I, any companies I control, nor any I consult with will hire ANY Microsoft employees manager level and above within 10 years of being employed by microsoft.

You want to fire the plebes and not rehire them. That's your right. YOU HAVE NOWHERE TO GO in my sphere.

I CALL ON ALL HIRING MANAGERS TO MATCH THIS. SAY OUT LOUD: We will not hire any Microsoft manager level or higher within ten years of their leaving Microsoft.

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P.S. As to all things there are exceptions. If someone was fired not due to cause... that shouldn't count. But Microsoft is feckless evil.

If you want to be a competitor of Google but YOU'RE NOT THAT GOOD then what you do is hire lobbyists, buy some congress-critters (not hard nowadays when the top criminal in charge encourages corruption, destruction, and devastation) and then get them to say:

"Google. You're too good so you have to change to NOT BE SO GOOD!"
and for good measure add:
"And one day AI may be a thing YOU WILL BE GOOD AT so none of that either."

Corrupt government. Inept competition. Somehow this is Google's fault and they, their scientists, their inventors, their investors, and all of us who use their product (which I hear is a monopoly, but then nobody uses Bing, nobody bought any Zune players, and Roomba is in bankruptcy talks) will suffer.

Pope Francis, may he rest in peace this Easter Monday and for all time. He was an everyman pope, embraced LGBTQ, new foundations, and even hugged that slimeball JD Vance.

This quoted article gets so many things wrong, from when the Internet stated, DMCA Section 230, and the reequirement to regulate eveything.

REGULATION:
"The government" (meaning the US Federal government?) "should have regulated" (because EVERYTHING MUST BE REGULATED) "the Internet in the 1990s" (the Internet was around in the 1970s, was used to connect NSF supercomputing centers to universities in the early 1980s, giving unfettered access to millions of people, commercialized in 1993 giving rise to AOL, Netscape, and lots of free coffee-table coasters in the form of floppy disks and CDs with preconfigured software to "use your up-to-56Kbps modem to access the local dial-in number."

SECTION 230:
"SECTION 230 OF THE ACT" really referse to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, not the Telecommunications Act. The DMCA was the same horrific "save the children by shoving duct tape on everyone else's mouths" and it was ruled stupid EXCEPT for Section 230.

Section 230 is the reason we have Wikipedia, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Etsy, etc. It provides websites a "safe harbor" for being sued for user-generated content (UGC). WIthout that, the startups and smaller websites would either over-moderate, avoid UCG altogether, or never startup. Politicians like to pretend Sec 230 is anti free-speech. No, it just moves the liability to he/she who wrote it, not he/she/corp that allowed it to be on the web.

There have been many stupid regulations (FOSTA, SEXTA) that have hurt real people, outed some people, moved some from protected online communities. That last thing we need is more idiots who got elected dictating to everyone else (in the US) how to run things.

If we don't let chYna control the Internet, and we don't let russia russia russia control the Internet, then we should keep our politician self-dealing hands off it as well. Trump is a convicted criminal. More than half of US congress are unconvicted criminals with great connections. AND THESE are the people you want controlling YOUR access to social media.

Foxtrot Tango Mike
(and thank you for your service)

This is all TL;DR so if I'm short and you miss something feel free to blame me.

There are different types of databases. Popular in 2024 was Maria (SQL, FOSS fork of MySQL, competitor to Postgres aka PGsql, etc.).
Another type is key/value databases. SALARY=40000 RENT=15000 etc. Redis was FOSS but they* changed it. Valkey forked off Redis and they** are FOSS.

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* The people who controled Redis started with an FOSS license,but changed it. I'm not a lawyer, so let's just go with that.
The FOSS community forked Redis to create Valkey, and its license is 100% FOSS, its govening body defined, and while donations are welcomed, it has at least a 12-year funding shelflife.

If I got anything wrong, it's on me. FOSS ALL THE WAY EVERYDAY DRILL DRILL DRILL INTO A WORM-BRAIN-HEAD BABY!

Unfortunately flawed data collection means none of this is likely true.

It's a failure to properly statistically sample that creates what's called a "convenience sample." Think of bringing a clipboard to a shopping mall just after school lets out and kids are coming by to get a coffee, enjoy an arcade, buy cheap stuff, etc. The data they provide is very easy to get (hence convenience) but is entirely different than sampled data across the entire day, bored housewives, etc.

This is the same problem here. Citing a paper doesn't mean
- that you know anything or are able to intelligently judge anything
- are an expert on the topic or related topic
- cited it in a published peer-reviewed paper (vs a link on facebook or twitter or something equally banal)
- understood it

It's on the same level as "what is the most popular computer coding language" based on github and google searches. Yes, people who don't know the answer will go search for it... but that means nothing as to the language popularity. They can even clone git repos, copy git repos, or post their own original worthless code, andif the overall byte size (not tokens) is large, well hey great language.

Cite whatever "papers" (whatever that's defined as) as you want... but that doesn't change the value of said "paper" nor its value to anyone.

In the beginning... (good always overpowered the evil of all man's sins...) LIFE is a complex term and media fecklessness allows hoaxy carny people to collect grants and funding by pretending it's simple. It's not.

STTOS aired from 1966 to 1969. In that series we "learned" all "alien life forms" (except for the Horta) were humanoid in appearance, had arms, legs, mouths, ears, used a spoken context-sensitive-grammar (CSG) and had the same thought patterns, ethics, and morals of humans (except for anyone with a beard).

YET here we are over FIFTY YEARS LATER still "looking for extraterrestrial life" that LOOKS and ACTS just like us.

Enough with the "IF there's water there's life" or "If there's dimethyl disulfide there's life" or "If there are amino acids in the barren rock there's life."

Time to REDEFINE WHAT EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE IS and look for that, instead of constantly looking for the green woman, or the Major from Bajor named Narisse (that's "nose" in Spanish) with a nose piercing. Odo was a "changeling" which is Sci-Fi writer nomenclature for "we can change him as fits the episode and nobody will be shocked." Imagine if Martin Sheen changed into Kevin Kline mid-song making The West Wing funnier than Dave.

So I get that we all want to know there are other beings out there... can the media and hoax "scientists" (anyone who practices science) stop looking for what we have here as if that's the only definition of life?

Shout out to George Lucas, because in The Cantina Scene we see non-humanoid aliens. Of course on Tatooine they're all extraterrestrials. Even Luke Vader. (Oh yeah you know who his daddy was...)

You either AGREE or DISAGREE because that's how binary decision-making works. It's like using the word "may" or "maybe" because the coin is either heads or tails but 100% of the time it's "heads or tails."

Write your piece, and may you live in peace. (Also one more Sci-Fi reference: Dolf Lundgren: "...and you go in pieces.")

Just to confim.

One week our orange-soda-face-in-chief raised taxation on all products made in China except those made by Mapple.
Then ChYna matched those rates but not exactly but since they don't need US smaartphones and laptops, pretty much the same.

AND NOW Chyna has MAGICALLY (in two days) discovered NSA hacking.

Look, the NSA is hella good. If I were someone you'd know I'd tell you how good they are. And ChYna outed them in two days?

Someoe's been sleeping on the job.

Queue the autism vaccine Chyna Signal"Gate" idiots brigade.

How did we go from A to STUPIDEST GOVERNMENT ON EARTH?

Jerry Pournelle is still working on his Altair 8080. It has outlived him. May his rest be in peace.

Larry is still trying to figure out how a 2D Dyson Sphere can exist. Teela's waiting for him somewhere. The ring cannot sustain its own gravitational orbit.

But the Empire decaying from within, like a rotten apple... that's timeless. Thank you, Isaac.

Stranger in a Strange Land.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
Lord of Light.

Pick your drink. I prefer a double Zelazny with a Jane Lindskold wolf, followed by a Heinlein and an Asimov.

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NB: I used to go to The Pink Adobe in Santa Fe and say I was Roger's son. I always got a good table.

I'm looking for JOHN CONNugh

  No _I_ am looking for John Connor

  I will not be giving up my son!

  I threw people out of helicopters (Reacher), commanded a ship (Last Resort), and changed shape. I WILL GET JOHN CONNOR!!!

There's no such thing as artificial intelligence. There are just more modern spellcheckers.

There's no such thing as general [something that doesn't exist]. There's just Sci-Fi, and if you think it's recent go back to 2001 A Space Odyssey and see how HAL interacts with Dave.

Google isn't stupid, but they hedge a lot of bets because they have tons of CUBIC CASH.

They can hire anyone they can buy. I wish them luck. They are no longer able to distance themselves from evil.

Do you even KNOW what a KODAK Moment is?

Have you ever used a KODAK camera or "taken a Polaroid"?

If you want to learn more (then why are you reading slashdot?) here's your link:
https://www.kodak.com/en/compa...

Make something. Invent something. Improve something. Whatever you do, do it well. Don't use 1970s expressions and think you're smart. You're 55 years out of date.

9 out of 8 Republicans in the US assure us there is no heat wave, climate change, or anything to worry about.
2 out of 1 Repubicans say "Drill Baby Drill", and 3 out of 2 are allowing 50% of US national forest trees to be cut down and burnt.

Also "clean coal". Can't really speak much as to how stupid that is because it doesn't exist. It's like "clean muffler you can put your mouth on and breath fresh air."

Republicans. Because 1 + 1 equals 0.

Stupid shits. But hey, more storms means more insurance payouts for their friends at Mar-A-Lardo.