Yet another reason to use open source virtualization - the legal cost of proprietary can be unbounded.

Plenty of former Oracle customers use PostgreSQL now for similar reasons.

The Fortune 50 can afford the risk of proprietary but most small businesses can't.

Unless you violate the BusyBox license you shouldn't have any worries.

I wonder if any insurers are covering this yet.

A full system crash is a bad thing - most people could agree to this.

So after all the kerfuffle about IDE controllers having master/slave drives, microcode blacklists being offensive, etc. Microsoft of all companies is making their crash screen black?

I don't care but it's shockingly inconsistent.

At least the Andorians won't be offended anymore.

People ought to be incentivized to reduce plastic on their own, especially food, due to the estrogenic effects.

They say it's a "great mystery" why males have historical low testosterone and women have messed up cycles.

I just found out last week that my chewing gum (notionally a xylitol-carrier) is made with "gum base" which I presumed is a mixture of several plant and tree gums.

Nope! FDA allows, and the market dominates, mixtures containing polyethylene, polystyrene, etc. Real gums went out when I was a kid.

I'm not on the microplastics scare wagon but this is out of control!

Bobby is doing great things with coal tar dyes, so maybe there's hope for plastics (then wheat contaminants, ideally).

Both methods can get you "a job".

If you want to be a 9-5'er that's fine but outside of the trades that's really unstable work. Pink slips and bankruptcies everywhere.

Work your social networks (family, church, community groups) for opportunities to earn money on your terms, if you can handle it.

Interesting because the moral argument is about reproduction.

I own a notepad and a pencil. But if I start writing "A long time ago in Galaxy far, far away" and continue as such, 'you' will threaten to beat me up and put me in a cage for years (if I persist despite threats).

That just obliterates real property rights in favor of imaginary property rights. And real property rights are the basis of a peaceful civilization.

On the other hand, the AI bros have a moral obligation to not suddenly destroy society's creative engine of thinkers to make a quick buck.

On the other ... tail ... the lizard at Facebook has no morals. People expect their government to protect them from such predators because their government school taught them a fairy tale version of what government is.

7+7 is how the Founders understood the Constitutional bargain.

Mark Twain planned to add a new chapter to each of his books every seven years.

"You do want to know what happened next, don't you?"

Life+75 is just abuse and Corporate Welfare (but I repeat myself).

If that tracking device includes an electric shock collar which activates every time you lift your hand to your mouth once you exceed 1500 calories... It very well could.

I've generally preferred to pay people a salary, when reasonable to do so.

I hire(d) people (I still employ some people directly) to do a job. So long as the job was done properly, I'm not a big stickler when it comes to spending time at work. If the job can be done in 4 days, so be it. My concern is that the work is done on time and properly. It's also not important to me how they did the work, so long as it was done right.

I'm all for a 4 hour work week, so long as their wages match what they'd make for a 40 hour work week. Yes, minimum wage is too low. Then again, I'd never consider paying someone the least amount I could pay them by law. That's just a kick in the proverbial nuts and pretty damned degrading. "I'd pay you less, but the law won't allow it."

Sounds like a site where people can ogle documents and spreadsheets -- those blank ones leave a LOT to the imagination ... :-)

But math has "a steep learning curve"! :ducks:

> film which has comparable resolution to 4K and below

"It's complicated".

Many of the masterpiece films were filmed on 70mm which is about 4x the size of 35mm, plus better emulsion with a tighter grain.

So if we take your 4K number for a normal film and 4x it and double that for scanning we're waiting for 32K to master it digitally.

We're going to need faster storage!

Why ask why you need it?

Ever see a Jumbotron in 1080p? It's ridiculous.

I can totally see a wall-sized screen being useful for many businesses. Walk to one area, read what's there, move to another area to read something else. Analysts, factories, hospitals, military, theme parks, etc.

They already are doing this with walls of a dozen different screens, with that many video cards, cables, power supplies.

Or complex video splitters, muxers/demuxers, etc.

When they scale to 24K there will be customers too.

I'll be happy with low-cost 8K when all that hits the market.

My house was built before CAT6 came out. It should be easy to upgrade as everything runs through in-wall conduit. I figured I'd do that for future-proofing.

I've not really seen a need to upgrade. It works well enough and there are jacks in most rooms. I also don't have the bandwidth to make it matter much, though fiber will be here before too long. Upgrading then may matter. (Fiber wasn't going to come up my road, but I contacted the company and a couple of neighbors and I will pay for the fiber to be run.)

Cat5e should still be fine. I'm not going to bother paying for full GB service, as I don't need that much bandwidth. I'll be fine with half of that and CAT5e should be viable.

This is about the 'inadequate' comment you made.

I could see it being inadequate for some people. As for me, it's still holding up and still fit for purpose. I've lived in a bandwidth-impoverished area for going on two decades. So, my needs, perhaps better said expectations, are different. I don't even see a reason to go full boar on the GB speeds. As I am technically a business, they say I can request even higher speeds. I'm simply not interested in that.

Then again... We'll see how I feel after a few months. I may end up wanting to splurge and increase my speeds. It could happen.

You'd think so, but you won't feel a thing. You won't have to adjust your diet because you'll naturally lose weight. Then, well, you won't even suffer a headache, a toothache, a stubbed toe, or any of those other painful things.

Hmm... This needs a pithy statement that can be summed up enough to fit on a bumper sticker.