Comment Time to fork it (Score 1) 109
Has the Netscape trademark been declared abandoned yet?
Comment Re: I'm in (Score 1) 34
Across three days, posing the same question about paginating the results of a powershell tool that interacted with AD, Gemini hallucinated four different command line arguments that didn't exist.
This is exactly how you expect a statistical prediction model to work.
This is exactly what you don't want in a coding assistant.
Comment Re:Scary (Score 1) 61
Multi-cloud increases your points of failure. Even multi-region within AWS adds complexity for data synchronization, and complicates the restoration of service after a single-region failure.
Comment Yet another map that doesn't have New Zealand (Score 1) 115
Comment DIGG swag (Score 1) 40
I still have a few of the pint glasses I laser etched with the DIGG logo, that I made to give away when I was burning the logo into laptops in the back room of the DIGG party in San Francisco in 2007.
Comment Re: Tips (Score 2) 52
I tried to tip an Uber driver with cash, and was told they were not allowed to accept cash.
Comment How much did this ad cost? (Score 1) 65
What's the price difference between getting a shill article posted on the front page vs running banner ads?
Comment Environmental track record (Score 4, Insightful) 57
I fully trust them to take as much care with this endeavor as they have with their oil business. What could go wrong?
Comment Re:and when it goes app store only pros will be go (Score 1) 91
I predicted MacOS would go app-Store only years ago. It's taken longer than I expected, but it sure does seem to be getting closer and closer to that.
https://f6ffb3fa-34ce-43c1-939d-77e64deb3c0c.atarimworker.io/comments....
Comment Re: So what's the big deal? (Score 1) 100
The difference is that for years Netflix encouraged password sharing.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fnetfl...
Comment Third-party doctrine in action. (Score 1) 35
Why is anyone surprised by this? Law enforcement in the US has long held the belief that they don't need a warrant if the information about you is held by a third party. It's not surprising at all that the free market found a way to earn a few bucks to speed up a process that was going to happen anyways.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
Submission + - Bank may go bust due to FTX collapse (cnn.com)
smooth wombat writes: Late Wednesday night, Silvergate Capital informed the SEC it won't be able to file its annual report on time, and is determining if it can continue to operate. Unlike most traditional banks which have steered clear of crypto, Silvergate is a dominant lender to the crypto industry.
The La Jolla, Califorina-based bank reported a $1 billion loss for the fourth quarter as investors panicked over the collapse of FTX, the exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried that is now at the center of a massive federal fraud investigation.
FTX’s collapse in November rippled through the digital asset sector, forcing several firms to halt operations and even declare bankruptcy as liquidity dried up and investors fled.
But unlike FTX, BlockFi, Celsius, Voyager and other crypto companies that folded last year, Silvergate is a traditional, federally insured lender that has positioned itself as a gateway to the crypto sector.
The La Jolla, Califorina-based bank reported a $1 billion loss for the fourth quarter as investors panicked over the collapse of FTX, the exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried that is now at the center of a massive federal fraud investigation.
FTX’s collapse in November rippled through the digital asset sector, forcing several firms to halt operations and even declare bankruptcy as liquidity dried up and investors fled.
But unlike FTX, BlockFi, Celsius, Voyager and other crypto companies that folded last year, Silvergate is a traditional, federally insured lender that has positioned itself as a gateway to the crypto sector.
Submission + - Fake DMCA takedowns blocking journalists' stories (bbc.co.uk) 2
Bruce66423 writes: 'Journalists have been forced to temporarily take down articles critical of powerful oil lobbyists due to the exploitation of US copyright law, according to a new report.
'At least five such articles have been subject to fake copyright claims, including one by the respected South African newspaper Mail & Guardian, according to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
'The claims — which falsely assert ownership of the stories — have been made by mystery individuals under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a law meant to protect copyright holders.'
Time for some intermediary to be required to have skin in the game so that when a takedown is shown to be false, the intermediary gets smacked? Or all DMCA notices to be issued by real people on behalf of organisations whose beneficial ownership is known?
'At least five such articles have been subject to fake copyright claims, including one by the respected South African newspaper Mail & Guardian, according to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
'The claims — which falsely assert ownership of the stories — have been made by mystery individuals under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a law meant to protect copyright holders.'
Time for some intermediary to be required to have skin in the game so that when a takedown is shown to be false, the intermediary gets smacked? Or all DMCA notices to be issued by real people on behalf of organisations whose beneficial ownership is known?
Submission + - SPAM: ULA about to be sold?
schwit1 writes: According to anonymous sources cited by Eric Berger at Ars Technica today, the rocket company ULA may be sold by the end of this year.
The potential sale has not been disclosed publicly, but three sources confirmed to Ars that potential buyers have been contacted about the opportunity. These sources said a deal is expected to be closed before the end of this year and that investment firm Morgan Stanley and consulting firm Bain Company are managing the transaction.
Berger correctly lists either Lockheed Martin or Boeing as the most likely candidates to purchase the company, simply by buying out their partner in the consortium. Both companies have strong reasons to obtain this company after the Vulcan rocket is flying. Boeing's future building SLS is questionable, especially once Starship/Superheavy becomes operational. Lockheed Martin meanwhile has been very carefully moving into the new industry, investing heavily in the rocket startups ABL and Rocket Lab. It might want to own outright ULA, so it can better manage it.
Berger also speculates that Amazon or Blue Origin might be bidders as well. Somehow I doubt any company associated with Jeff Bezos will buy ULA, since he already has his own plaything in Blue Origin. Stranger things however have happened.
Either way, once Vulcan flies successfully it will then be a perfect time to put it up for sale, and others to buy it. The uncertainty will be reduced, and ULA will no longer be saddled with two rocket families, Delta and Atlas-5, both of which are expensive and non-competitive. Instead, it will have solid launch contracts with Amazon and the military, using Vulcan.
Such a sale will obviously also force major changes at ULA, possibly for the better. At such times the new management often uses the change as an opportunity to clean out deadwood as well as force major shifts in thinking.
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Comment Yahoo is still around? (Score 5, Funny) 63
Well, that's a surprise.
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