All work with phages should be restricted to the Delta Quadrant.

They're brilliant at making games. They have their suite of exclusives that people love and will buy the console for. And they keep a consistently high quality bar for those games. Even the worst Mario game was still good. Same for Zelda. Same for Metroid. As long as they keep that the case, and their consoles are reasonably priced they'll sell. Which, combined with cheaper parts, is why they generally made a profit per console rather than a loss.

Xbox and PS don't have that. They used to each have some exclusives- but they've gone away from that road due to the high cost of creating them (Nintendo's focus on gameplay over high end graphics also reduced the cost of making a game). Even the exclusives they do have don't have the reputation for quality- they tend to run hot and cold. And MS in particular has waffled between wanting to push xbox vs PC gaming, reducing the number of exclusives as they launch on PC. It leaves them in a place where there's no driver for their new product other than better graphics quality. And with the economy tightening, that's something that will be dropped first.

After all, they're one of the main culprits who are driving memory and other hardware prices through the roof right now.

Anything that leaves us Mullenweg-free is a good thing!

Given node's track record vis a vis security, this might not be the best time to mention that.

Please let us know as soon as the Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, etc. front-end systems have been rewritten in perl!

It's not as important as you might think. If the concern is humanity being able to survive the loss of Earth's biosphere, then the enabling technology to accomplish that is recreating an independently sustainable human-compatible biosphere elsewhere -- which is not something that Starship, on its own, will be able to do within the next 20 years, even if it could place human beings on Mars. So if the Giant Space Asteroid comes for us, we'll be just as doomed with Starship as without it -- the Mars colonists would starve to death a few months after the Earth resupply ships stopped arriving.

"Important for our species" ... how? Trust me, our species ain't going anywhere. There's nowhere to go.

Things have been somewhat quiet on the PHP security front for the past several years, and it's really bothered me. It has seemed like the PHP developers have forgotten their roots... forgotten what made them so beloved. So imagine my joy when I read this announcement! The devs have obviously now refocused on returning to their core competencies.

They're learning - the hard way - a whole lot of things about modern warfare that all of our western militaries could really benefit from.

But then I guess "America First" means we'll likely limit ourselves to in-house knowledge (because we're the greatest!), including our older ultra-expensive drone tech that in a prolonged conflict will get overwhelmed by an opponent fielding cheap countermeasures.

Hate to Godwin this topic so early, but - this is straight from the Goebbel's playbook. Shout loudly and repeatedly, claiming your enemy is guilty of Nefarious Activity A, to provide attempted cover for your own intent to commit Nefarious Activity A.

We've seen it numerous times - such as during Trump's midterm convention, when he told attendees to "Cheat like hell because the other side is doing it". This is one of the main reasons he's been shouting that lie over and over again, despite being unable to prove it in court even once. Notice you haven't heard anything about the Georgia ballots recently? Further back, remember how his crony's recount of Arizona's 2020 ballots eventually resulted in the eventual and very quiet admission that their recount showed Biden did win the state - and with slightly more votes than the official tally showed?

Musk really can't stand it when the spotlight isn't on him, can he?

Most Slashdotters will likely be disappointed when they find out what "the title is alluding to".

Assuming all goes well, I agree. OTOH, returning old equipment back into service after it had been written off is a little risky, don't you think?

It's perfectly possible to build a machine that will incapacitate a human at close range; all of the world's militaries have been doing it for years.

It's also possible to deliberately dial down the machine's combat effectiveness to the point where a fight against a human might not be a foregone conclusion.

OTOH, having done the latter, what have we learned? That we can design and build a robot that we nerfed just enough that it usually loses in hand-to-hand combat?