Comment You can't have AIDS without AI. (Score 0) 43
AI is poo.
Comment Re:Garbage in, garbage out. (Score 1) 71
You're reading my mind. FWIW I've been loving Go the past few years.
Ob: "C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung."
Ob: "C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung."
Journal Journal: It is 2025 and Slashdot doesn't support IPv6?
I've been migrating all my stuff to IPv6 because I'm retarded and felt like (another) winter project.
So I have a Debian VM that is IPv6-only for testing things out, general browsing, etc. and see that Slashdot doesn't support IPv6? One would think a tech site would have been onboard with this years ago.
So I have a Debian VM that is IPv6-only for testing things out, general browsing, etc. and see that Slashdot doesn't support IPv6? One would think a tech site would have been onboard with this years ago.
Comment Re:Headline (Score 1) 16
Headline needs some punctuation.
Under this new legislation you'll be able to fix it yourself.
Comment Re:Incredible stupidity (Score 2) 198
"Time" is a human invention, you can start work, school, businesses, at whatever "time" you want, you absolute fuckwits.
Whether we adopt permanent standard time or permanent DST, over time behaviours will adapt to have 'start of day' and 'end of day' where people find them comfortable, just with a different number on the clock. But that does take time for behaviours to adapt and in the meantime it isn't insane to suggest that issues could arise.
Submission + - Russia fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (bbc.co.uk)
Hope Thelps writes: The BBC is reporting that Russia has fined Google more money than the entire world's GDP:
A Russian court has fined Google two undecillion roubles — a two followed by 36 zeroes — for restricting Russian state media channels on YouTube.
In dollar terms that means the tech giant has been told to pay $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
Despite being one of the world's wealthiest companies, that is considerably more than the $2 trillion Google is worth.
In fact, it is far greater than the world’s total GDP, which is estimated by the International Monetary Fund to be $110 trillion.
The fine has reached such a gargantuan level because — as state news agency Tass has highlighted, external — it is rapidly increasing all the time.
According to Tass, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov admitted he "cannot even pronounce this number" but urged "Google management to pay attention."
The company has not commented publicly or responded to a BBC request for a statement.
Russia media outlet RBC reports, external the fine on Google relates to the restriction of content of 17 Russian media channels on YouTube.
While this started in 2020, it escalated after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine two years later.
That saw most Western companies pull out of Russia, with doing business there also tightly restricted by sanctions.
Russian media outlets were also banned in Europe — prompting retaliatory measures from Moscow.
Comment Re:Long overdue (Score 2) 132
It applies only to people (not companies)
I agree it's weird wording but I would guess they mean that the rights apply to individual customers not to companies i.e. If Bill Gates bought a defective product for personal use then he could sue on this basis but if Microsoft bought the product then they couldn't - they'd have to rely on whatever contractual terms they entered into.
Comment Why would they sell it for real money? (Score 4, Interesting) 29
I suppose the buyer wasn't prepared to part with any precious cryptocoins so the seller will have to accept worthless dollars instead. They really should have offered something more valuable than the company e.g. an NFT of the company.
Comment Re:US pushed UK to do this (Score 1) 41
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The US DOES NOT RECOGNIZE the UCJ (it's incompatible with the US Constitution)
The US definitely recognises the ICJ, has brought cases before it (e.g. Treatment in Hungary of Aircraft and Crew of the United States), votes on the appointment of judges to it (as a member of the security council) and has a judge on it (Sarah Cleveland) . You may be thinking of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which the US is not a member of and consequetly doesn't submit to its jurisdiction- though that isn't really the same as saying that the US doesn't recognise it.
Comment Decent but needs an ad blocker. (Score 1) 47
Don't use the app, it tracks all your accounts. Instead use Reddit in a browser with uBlock Origin. Otherwise it is insufferable.
Submission + - Early Mickey Mouse Finally Enters Public Domain (bbc.co.uk)
Hope Thelps writes: A number of films including the earliest ones featuring Mickey and Minnie Mouse finally enterd the public domain today.
The BBC reports:
Steamboat Willie, a 1928 short film featuring early non-speaking versions of Mickey and Minnie, is widely seen as the moment that transformed Disney's fortunes and made cinema history.
Their images are now available to the public in the US, after Disney's copyright expired.
It means creatives like cartoonists can now rework and use the earliest versions of Mickey and Minnie.
In fact, anyone can use those versions without permission or cost.
But Disney warned that more modern versions of Mickey are still covered by copyright.
"We will, of course, continue to protect our rights in the more modern versions of Mickey Mouse and other works that remain subject to copyright," the company said.
US copyright law says the rights to characters can be held for 95 years, which means the characters in Steamboat Willie entered the public domain on Monday, 1 January 2024.
Those works can now legally be shared, performed, reused, repurposed or sampled.
The early versions of Mickey and Minnie are just two of the works entering the public domain in the US on New Year's Day.
Other famous films, books, music and characters from 1928 are now also available to the American public.
They include Charlie Chaplin's silent romantic comedy The Circus; English author AA Milne's book The House at Pooh Corner, which introduced the character Tigger; Virginia Woolf's Orlando; and DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Comment Re:How's this even possible? (Score 0) 100
Evan Apple doesn't say that, Einstein.
I don't follow celebrity culture so I don't even know who Evan Apple is and I definitely don't care what he has to say about this. He should stick to his rapping or whatever.
Journal Journal: Taking a Slashbattical 3
Gentlemen,
It's been real. I've found vast amusement verbally sparring, and refined my understanding thereby, so: thank you.
But both work and school are ramping up, and cutting some of the social media faffing about is needful.
Blessings to all of you in the New Year. I hope that there is an event in about a year that is recognizably an election, and that sanity prevails. I've no confidence in man, but infinite faith in the Lord.
It's been real. I've found vast amusement verbally sparring, and refined my understanding thereby, so: thank you.
But both work and school are ramping up, and cutting some of the social media faffing about is needful.
Blessings to all of you in the New Year. I hope that there is an event in about a year that is recognizably an election, and that sanity prevails. I've no confidence in man, but infinite faith in the Lord.
Comment Re:Well, you've at least copied the links (Score 1) 9
So, as long as there is no prior data, and we live in the present tense, then we can deny, say, that the ship is sinking? There may be a reason that you are in academia...
Comment Re:It's not that simple of a question (Score 1) 414
The conservative goal is the absence of a King of the Hill, not to _be_ King of the Hill.
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