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Comment Imagine (Score 3, Insightful) 53

Imagine the horror of attempting to try to attain super-intelligence on data gleamed from Meta. But I guess when you have hundreds of billions of dollars to waste, the worst that can happen is, I don't know, depicted in some movie somewhere. The real story here: We are not taxing the rich enough. Time to go back to 70% for the upper tax bracket. You can still be stupid rich, but we need to feed and house the poor, and rebuild our roads, and provide affordable electricity/water/sewer, and clean up our environmental disasters from WWII and maybe even some education and medical stuff in there too.

Comment Re:I kind of wrote off Intel (Score 4, Interesting) 43

I don't think you can point at any one thing Intel did and say "that's what killed the company". I do agree stock buy backs did not help.

Back in 2006 when AMD bought ATI I thought for sure Intel was only moments away from buying Nvidia. It would have made sense at the time, but how would that have changed things in the long run? Who knows.
Would the roll-out of AI using high-powered Intel + Nvidia hardware have never happened?
Would AMD suddenly become the AI hardware powerhouse that Nvidia is today?
Would the Intel + Nvidia merger be like the Boeing + McDonald Douglas fiasco?

Remember that Intel survived the Itanium 64-bit disaster (Itanic).

Comment Re:OSU? (Score 1) 11

Does Ohio State University have an Open Source Lab? No. In fact, searching for Ohio State University Open Source Lab returns links to OSUOSL as the top results. Oregon has a long history of being a tech center. The west side of the Portland Metropolitan Service Area is called the Silicon Forest for a reason, and not just because of all the Intel campuses.

Comment Re:What? Just wait for Windows 12 (Score 1) 64

What the hell are you larping about? I printed all quantum AI 4D with my HP Epson directly to WiFi and all it spit out was 1080P confusion.
Next, I checked my connection on the moon. It was 100000000% perfect. But I noticed a slight bit of lag. So I unplugged the WiFi, and replugged it to nothing, and now everything is fine.

Comment Not just High School (Score 1) 192

Had an 8-station computer lab for 1st grade in 1985, either Commodore 64 or something from Atari. Best teacher at the time named David Hein.
Upgraded for 2nd-6th grade to some donated 286's from AT&T, terrible teacher limited us to Typing Tutor.
During 7th grade got a donation of 386's with ARCNet networking, Netware 3, took over as network admin.
Expanded the network to the middle school for 8th and 9th grade.
Eventually had the entire school wired for ethernet.
In 2003 I donated enough parts to build 14 new workstations to the school and gave a week of my time to show the kids how to build the machines.
In 2015 I donated another 14 new workstations to the school, a year later they discontinued computer education at the school, replaced the computer lab with a prayer room, and all my donated machines disappeared.

Comment Re:Rolled back (Score 1) 2

Funny that your name is whipslash, because the recent ad-loading of Slashdot actually causes whiplash. Advertisements with heights of 100px followed a few seconds later by replacement advertisements with heights of 1,000px causing the entire story to move and a story reader forced to re-focus their eyes to something potentially off screen is so incredibly annoying. If ads maintained their height and didn't force content to move around on-screen I would not have been annoyed so much. But now, reading a story on Slashdot, I am forced multiple times to scroll my browser simply to maintain current position of where I am trying to read.

Submission + - Slashdot Dies A Slow Death with Crippling Advertisements (slashdot.org) 2

zamboni1138 writes: Anybody familiar with the technology news web forum known as Slashdot have known about the recent decline in quality of stories and comments. Recently Slashdot decided to "upgrade" their advertisement experience resulting in an almost broken user experience for users that implement any kind of ad-blocking technology. Over the last week visitors to the site using ad blockers have noticed a unique experience with javascript alerts explaining "This page could not be loaded properly due to incorrect / bad filtering rule(s) of adblockers in use. Please disable all adblockers to continue using the website. (click OK if you'd like to learn more)". These notices are almost non-stop while trying to load/read a page making the site unusable.

Submission + - Slashdot goes mental with advertising 9

sizzlinkitty writes: Has anyone else noticed Slashdot failing to load because of your ad blocker? I know I sure have and it's breaking my user experience like no other.

Please post the blocking patterns you're using to make Slashdot usable again.

Submission + - Slashdot is dead and has been replaced by an ad-saturated shithole (slashdot.org) 1

An anonymous reader writes: ..and nothing of value was lost.
Between all the Trump-supporting shitheads that permeate this place, and now ads everywhere you look that can't be blocked without blocking the entire site, I declare Slashdot to be dead.
RIP Slashdot.

Comment Re:Stop spending money on bennies for freeloaders. (Score 1) 119

This is the unfortunate truth. We have had at least five unending wars since the 1970's, and non of them has be against the freeloaders. We could easily house and feed every person in North America that requires assistance, but we refuse to do so. It would lead to less homelessness, less incarceration, less domestic violence, but because of the warmongers we need to have an enemy to fight.

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