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Comment How many websites are the AI spiders killing? (Score 1) 27

Kind of a new Slashdot effect? I think I'm actually seeing some evidence of higher than usual mortality among old websites and I've been wondering if the cause might be AI spiders seeking more training data. Latest victim might be Tripod? But that one was already a ghost zombie website...

Comment Monopoly Spell (Score 2) 90

I wanted to murder Teams hundreds of times over the past few years. It's slowly getting better, going from F-minus to D-minus, but it still sucks the big one to Hell and back. Employees just eventually get used to its many oddities and flaws and learn to work around them.

The only reason so many shops use this P.O.S. is that MS bundles it with all the other MSware, making it a "really terrific deal". It couldn't survive in the market as a single product, even if open-sourced.

But the bundle "deal" is penny-wise-pound-foolish, because the total labor wasted dealing with its f$ckage is much more than the bundle savings. PHB's don't weight the labor waste into the judgement because it's not taken directly out of their own budget.

SharePoint is in a similar boat.

Submission + - WW III is not news yet? No effect on tech? (bbc.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Really surprised not to see any mention of this little development, but maybe everyone is afraid of being accused of antisemitism? Even if I'm "of Jewish descent"? That's how my father used to put it after being raised Orthodox and then losing his religion (all long before I was born). So this is a time for the anonymous option, though I don't think it means much on Slashdot.

My take? Whether or not this attack on Iran escalates into WW III mostly depends on Putin and Xi and whatever secret signals they are sending to Iran. Iran already has plenty of capacity to escalate, and Israel is already a ripe target for dirty bombs... Doesn't even matter if such a drone with uranium gets all the way to its target. This is one of those cases like horseshoes where close counts. Okay, so I don't think [the inscrutable? ;-) ] Xi wants any big wars anywhere, but Putin might be getting desperate and he knows he cannot retire peacefully to one of his dachas.

I've never lived in a predominantly Jewish community, though I have enough exposure to religious communities to know that I don't like them--and I think that's most of the problem with Iran. Probably Israel, too. But I have made a number of Jewish friends and I still remember what one of them said after he spent a couple of years in Israel: "There's such a thing as too many Jews in one place." Sometimes funny isn't.

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