I was as bored as you were in the stores, and used to go to all the display PCs and add "ctty null" to their autoexec.bat files.
That's pretty mean! I'm trying to remember - wasn't there some simple way to bypass autoexec.bat and config.sys on startup? A function key or something like that?
For now, global growth is about 3.2% annually, which isn't bad, but it's also below the 4% trend growth the world had seen for decades, he said earlier in the interview. That risks a repeat of the 1970s, when growth was low for a decade.
Low growth is considered a "risk". It's too bad we can't be satisfied with sustainability. Isn't striving for endless growth a bigger risk for our planet?
But did you ever use a GOTO statement to intentionally create a loop?
I recall, as a smartass kid many years ago, running a loop on a bunch of display computers in some store so they kept printing to the screen "I am overpriced for what I can do".
Yes, I was the same kid that liked to wind up all the mechanical alarm clocks at the department store and set them all to ring at the same time 10 minutes later.
As it turns out, one of the popular open-source tools had a default configuration to store their backups in S3. And, as a placeholder for a bucket name, they used... the same name that I used for my bucket. This meant that every deployment of this tool with default configuration values attempted to store its backups in my S3 bucket!
So, if I were to open my terminal now and type: aws s3 cp
If there is a "random_key" in your path, how are other people defaulting to that?
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So apropos.
Mandate a price cap on parts, and track the individual parts by serial number instead of just the complete device. Then disallow activation of any device which has any stolen components fitted.
People only buy black market parts if they are significantly cheaper than legitimate ones. If the parts are available close to cost price from a reputable source, there is far less incentive to take the risk on stolen parts.
Mandating pricing in a capitalist country? Good luck. Also, I don't think the big issue here is about preventing use of stolen parts. It's about knock-off parts being manufactured at scale in places like China.
Wrong analogy.
A more appropriate analogy is putting out a report of your probability of needing a knee replacement in 20 years from now but you're chain smoking as well as drinking large amounts of alcohol and eating tons of ultra-processed food today.
All of these things are problematic, but you should tackle the issues that are right in front of you instead of ignoring those to focus on something that might happen down the road.
Wrong analogy.
The probability of needing a knee replacement in 20 might be affected by things you can do today, such as maintaining a healthy weight to reduce stress on your knees, exercising regularly to strengthen the muscles around your knees, etc.
More importantly, why assume that working on multiple problems simultaneously is not possible? Would you stop brushing your teeth to prevent cavities down the road because you're dieting to lose weight today?
So yeah, file a report about the dangers of AI that doesn't exist yet if that's what you want to do.
But think about solving actual problems we are already facing before worrying about one that is still just a dream.
So your advice is "Let's wait till AI causes some real damage before we do anything about it".
Brilliant. I guess it's fine to smoke cigarettes too, so long as you don't have lung cancer yet.
What century do you live in? Nowadays, when a gay person is outed, we no longer tar and feather them while chasing them out of town ringing bells and yelling "shame";. Even most conservative families barely even care if the gay aunt or uncle attends family thanksgiving. Remember when the US congress passed the law legalizing gay marriage? No? That's because literally nobody cared. Society had put that issue to bed a decade previously. Even the republicans couldnt bring themselves to gripe about it, and that's a group that will shut the government down if anyone even so much as looks at them crosseyed. Nobody in the US except for a super-tiny fringe of religious fanatics cares anymore.
Holy fuck you are oblivious. Nobody cares about being someone being outed? How about the person being outed themself? Do you think every user of Grindr is openly gay, or wants to be? Can you not conceive that there are gay people not OK with being outed, for any number of personal reasons?
... the guy is either a) hostile to LGBTs or b) spectacularly ignorant of both current events and US history, completely tone deaf, and just HAPPENED to choose the dating app that gays use.
What he is implying, and what everyone else would have plainly understood, is that closeted gays working in national security positions would be ripe targets for blackmail by foreign agencies. This is neither hostile or tone deaf. It's simply alluding to an obvious security concern.
If you've got stuff worth stealing and want actual security you should invest in geese and dogs.
I prefer a security solution that doesn't shit all over my property. And I'm not talking about the dogs.
Chemist who falls in acid is absorbed in work.
