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Comment How many times do they have to prove it? (Score 1) 15

The gov really should only use the military certified versions of Windows.

The government is reliant on Microsoft solutions that are locked down, which is more certifying a specialists ability to do that properly and monitor it extensively.

"Military certified" reminds me of that time three-letter agency specialists came walked into the classroom to show us how to properly lock down a server. Two hours of regedits on an otherwise-generic NT 4.0 Server OS resulted in a perpetual BSOD. "Certified" would imply those in government know what the fuck they're doing.

Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 21

I'm 100% in agreement.

An idea: I'm big on disinformation. How about lots of machines sending garbage to the tracker receiving servers? Heck maybe even a botnet.

And the response to that would be the need for AI to sort the noise from the human cattle, which it would ironically do better than any human would.

Heck, with that much training it might become the best AI system in the world.

Be careful what you ask for, Human - 21st Century Proverb

Comment Prove it. (Score 1) 62

Liberals now contend the Conservatives came up with the amendments using artificial intelligence in order to gum up the government's agenda. The Conservatives deny that accusation.

If they want to deny the accusation, fine. Turn it off. Hunt down and kill any and all AI in question. Make the Conservatives to it. Then see what the response is. Kinda the nice thing about blaming The Machine. It still has a power cord to end debates with.

Comment Warmongering Bullshit (Score 1) 196

Taxpayers gotta love it when the senior sales rep from the for-profit MIC starts making “space terrorist” claims that only the for-profit MIC can confirm, which of course will be a (classified) matter of national security.

activities show that China is now treating space as a war-fighting domain.

Really? And what orbit around what planet again will China be using to replace the current one, after they shoot themselves in the face destroying their own?

China is communist. Not stupid.

Comment Re:Pay no attention (Score 3, Informative) 178

I'm still waiting for competition to come along and lower prices...

That's the sad part going on in America right now, and tends to highlight the industries that have corruptly captured markets.

With the amount of greed in banking and insurance, one would think it would be trivial for competition to rise up and easily compete. And yet, here we are.

Comment Re:It's not the cost of replacing the car (Score 1) 178

It's the cost of providing medical care to people who are hurt in a car accident. The US stands alone among rich countries in medical costs. Also care that's provided as the result of an MVA typically gets charged at the much higher "rack rate", not at the discounted rate your health insurer may have negotiated with your provider.

I'd like to see your claim validated by understanding the number of accidents that involve medical services to that degree.

Car safety has also been forced to evolve to avoid killing too many smartphone addicts behind the wheel responsible for their own harm. Cars do a lot to protect the human occupants now.

Comment Re:For the love of... (Score 1) 51

I don't see a great tax-avoidance scheme in these types of investments, what am I missing?

Seriously? You don't see any advantage in being rich enough to be able to legally bribe the literal lawmakers in a country that otherwise demands 50%+ of your income to be paid back in taxes when playing 'fair and square'?

Those in Control aren't known as The Donor Class for nothing.

The capitalists funding the largest ventures don't seem to care much about risk either, since there's a good chance they'll cash out on socializing any loss in the land of Too Big To Fail. Yet another advantage they bribed for.

Comment Re:What should we do about it? Why care about it? (Score 0) 158

One reason I like news about what is being done is that it isn't so depressing, reports about global warming getting worse is news but if there's no mention on efforts being done to address it then there's no good news to temper the bad.

Don't expect reporting to get positive even if reality and data confirm it every day. How do you think they get so much funding? Can’t get that check with an extra zero or two in it without selling it as a “crisis”, regardless if that’s true or not.

Mankind suffers from the Disease of Greed. Until we find a cure for that, nothing ever changes. Because it hasn’t.

Comment Re: interesting (Score 1) 158

I never understood the "follow the money" battle cry of the self proclaimed climate sceptics, when all the money spent world wide on climate research is dwarved by the monthly revenue of a single oil or coal company.

So, corrupt millionaires peddling climate change is somehow justified and valid, because corrupt billionaires peddling oil?

Uh huh. Tell me again why we shouldn’t follow the money.

Comment Re: interesting (Score 0, Troll) 158

How you feel and what the data says are not related. That's why the scientific method is a thing.

And yet when I read about how a single source (C3S) is being referenced to drive discussions like this, I think of just how easy it is to fool a billion or two humans into believing anything about climate change.

And we have plenty of fucked history with Greed N. Corruption to validate that pessimism.

Prove the science and humans involved, are not corrupt first. Follow the money. That, is our “method” thing now.

Comment Too Big To .Bomb v1.0 (Score 1) 51

Almost anyone announcing a new website can get millions of VC money in the Dotcom era, this looks no different.

Uh, not quite This looks considerably different than the .bomb era in one major way. Before, the product (or sales pitch) had to at least fail first before droves of people were laid off from a vaporware scam. AI has got Greed whipped up in a frenzy so much that we’re laying people off as some kind of preemptive strike against humans because of the sheer awesomeness of AI sales pitches. Yeah. That toddler-grade AI shitware is taking jobs already. And when they go bust, that job ain’t being handed back to the human who got screwed. It’s going up for sale to the lowest bidder.

Get ready for the AI-bust coming in the next few years when most of these companies go bust.

Again, not quite. You’re overlooking the fact that some of the largest companies in the world are investing in AI. When AI goes bust for them, they won’t lose a dime. Because every one of them will be deemed Too Big To Fail. Yet another grand improvement on the financial fuckery side since the .bomb era.

We didn’t learn a damn thing about keeping Greed in check from the .bomb era. Not a damn thing.

Comment Re:"spying" (Score 0) 104

Hmm-- "spying" seems to be a loaded word.

They're looking at the properties that they're insuring. Seems reasonable.

So as a taxpayer, I should set up NSA-grade surveillance at my local Representatives house? Given the insurance rates that amount to theft they’re getting kickbacks on, seems reasonable.

Comment Re:drugs are bad. m'kay (Score 1) 291

why do we keep listening to this drug-addled rich kid who is constantly wrong.

As opposed to listening to the other drug-added rich kids running the world? You can stop pretending all the rest are saints. Fucking hell the planet is now one big pill bottle. You can’t walk 10 feet through a church and not find an addict. Drugs, porn, social media, you name it.

Constantly wrong. Now that’s just fucking hilarious when looking at American leadership defining what is right or true.

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