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Comment Re:An analogy (Score 1) 55

In the same way they view God as whatever the latest technology is.

A wheel with a wheel, a clockmaker god, a machinist, a weilder of energy, a programmer, a simulation, and now an AI.

Because saying "I don't know" is the most painful thing for a materialist.

The secret is: I have a goal and am willing to work hard to iterate. The best SciFi authors can do this in their minds - it's amazing.

Comment Re:First step in every single trial (Score -1) 64

My -guess- is the ebook market is highly fragmented so 10% was a lot but as I said, not familiar.

It's not. It's barely lost in the noise compared with Amazon. That particular case was about collusion to raise prices. The thing is, Apple's contracts with ~500,000 developers who have apps on their iOS App Store, if found to be behaving in a way that effectively raises prices, would make the size of the eBook price fixing cabal seem tiny by comparison. As soon as multiple companies and contracts get involved — which is absolutely the case when you're talking about a closed ecosystem like iOS — you don't actually have to have monopoly power to be convicted of Sherman Act violations at all. (And yet Apple does.)

Funny you should mention that case. Amazon used their profits from real books to finance selling ebooks below the price they paid to the publishers, so they could monopolize the market. All to boost sales of their Kindle ebook reader they also sold below cost to ultimately get everyone to buy their Kindle ebooks that only worked on their reader to monopolize the market. And they took 70% of the sale of those Kindle ebooks unless you basically sold your soul to them, than they only took 35% instead of the ridiculous rip-off from Apple at 30%. You're a tool.

Comment Re:Prevent (Score -1, Flamebait) 107

Odds are good that the 76 Swine Flu, Lyme Disease (and the two comorbid mutant viruses that showed up in Lyme at the same time) and AIDS were lab leaks.

The 1917 Flu seems to have come from a Kansas Army Barracks on a base with a diseases lab but it's too old to be certain.

Polio seems to have been spread through vaccines. Measles we know how to deal with. Smallpox and anthrax are still restricted to labs but we do know the Army did the attack on the Capitol.

It's not our only risk but it eclipses the other risks so it deserves the majority of attention.

Anyway WHO supports making the lab risk higher so they can go straight to hell.

Comment WHO is Malicious (Score 0, Troll) 107

WHO was a malicious peddler of misinformation and tyrannical advice during the covid leak outbreak.

Putting them in charge of the next one would be peak retardation. Why does the author here support "fail up" rewards?

Also retarded is the idea that only one approach should be tried in the next pandemic and that should come from central planners.

Try taking a year-one Information Theory class - Jeeze. They disqualify themselves by suggesting it.

Comment Re:Uhm... no. Just no. (Score 2) 58

All the denials specifically name iCloud Photos.

What I didn't see at all was an explanation that 17.5 includes automatic database repair or any technical explanation.

Maybe that exists and I missed it or maybe it's a secret update or maybe it's BS.

Until they come clean on the A5 GPU intentional backdoor I'll presume BS to begin with.

Open Source is a floor for being taken seriously on security claims.

Comment Going about it wrong (Score 1) 156

Require porn sites to have a top-level-domain or some kind of clear marker that indicates it's porn.

Then when parents purchase a device for their children, they can set an OS switch to filter out the marked sites and lock that admin area with a password. Any consumer device that connects to the internet would be required to make it easy for parents to find such an option. Device sellers will be required make sure the device is certified for such. (There will be a grace period for used devices, but over time their numbers will dwindle.)

I realize many porn sites will lie and cheat, and probably are operated out of overseas slums such that law enforcement will be unlikely to find them, but this will happen no matter what law is passed. There is no way to legislate around this kind of cheater, somebody has do the foot work of hunting them down and busting their ass, which is tricky to manage from a different country.

Comment Re:Damn,, (Score 1) 32

The concern he pointed out was third-party auditing of a fast-moving target.

It's a fair point; perhaps not as concerning as the prior Chairman of the Board of Signal Foundation having /deep/ Intelligence Community ties.

As far as we know Signal is secure but was that yesterday's build or Tuesday's build?

If we're suspicious and a national emergency happens and a new build comes out ... then what.

We should learn from the xz penetration.

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