You have it wrong. The list is not to be put in human hands. The human is responsible for wrong diagnostics much more often than the software. This is known for a long time. This was already the case 40 years ago for some specific diseases where the software (expert system) was better than a human to diagnose the disease. Now, the spectrum is broaden because data is available to take advantage of machine learning. It is known, such systems are better than the expert physician at diagnostic. It is beaten only by a panel of experts. A panel of experts to diagnose someone is very rare.

What do you believe the physician do when performing a diagnostic? Look at symptoms, compare with data, evaluate probability you have disease A, B, C,..., request more tests if he cannot determine between many diseases, iterate. The physician cannot process the extraordinary amount of data a computer can to evaluate the options, probabilities and pick the suitable and best tests to discriminate when in doubt. That's why a physician can easily be beaten by the machine at this game. So, why going back to a physician once you have the best diagnostic possible?

We can even imagine the machine can also pick the best treatment, provided it is continuously fed with data from million of patients and progress from different treatments for a given disease.

Beside that, some of the headlines are really unlikely even if we discover at the end China actually had hacked information. In particular, why in the hell would the Russian would like to pass hacked information to China instead of exploiting it themselves? You must assume they are really, really stupid to waste the information by passing it to China, even for economic considerations or whatever favor China can give them in return.

You don't know anything about what you are talking. Trademarks and copyrights are two different things. You do not infringe a trademark by naming it, you infringe a trademark by using it to brand your product. Next, copyrights apply to original artistic work. You cannot copyright thoughts. Also, you infringe a copyright by not giving credit to the original owner and/or using someone's else artistic work to make money. So, yes, humorists and comedians are subject to violate someone's else copyright by using someone's else artistic work to make money without paying royalties and/or obtaining a right to use it. That's why an American produced TV series derived from a UK produced TV series will have to pay rights to the original authors to produce an adapted and remake of the original. I see no reason for this to not apply to jokes.

Right on spot. It is up to the manufacture of the so called very expensive hardware to maintain its platform. Don't you pay support to this manufacturer? Or are you telling me all these hospitals are running very expensive hardware (PET scanners and so on) without any maintenance contracts for these multimillion devices? In that case, it is the hospital's direction to blame for the fiasco.

Gross negligence is when someone like the CTO and/or CEO continues to run his business using Windows XP without buying maintenance and patching the OS knowing the manufacturer stopped supporting this OS a long time ago, except for paying customers. Wow, there is still 150 million idiots out there running unpatched versions of Windows XP.

Gross negligence is letting you IT infrastructure going outdated and unmaintained because you want to save a few bucks and you are gambling with your company's security betting you will be safe because you are not a target big enough worth attacking.

Until six months ago, the large company in financial industry I am working for was still running thousands of Windows XP workstations and everything internally developped running in a browser needs to support IE 8.

Many servers were installed with selfsigned certificates and nobody really cares, even the authentication infrastructure was running an outdated and no longer supported version of OpenSSL. Outdated and no longer supported versions of Java were found everywhere.

But, we haven't suffer a major attack yet. Management is still rewarding the sloppiness attitude on security because it saves some budget money at the end of the year.

Are you talking about systemd?

This has nothing to do with the OS, it has everything to do with the provider you bought your device from. Mine is patched regularly by BB, on average once a month.

That's why I got my Android phone patched regularly by the manufacturer buying it directly from the ominous BB instead of a telco provider. It is patched about once a month with the latest bug fixes and latest version of Android.

And they aren't fuschia.

My first, second and third reaction too. And what you say for C is also true for Fortran. That guy doesn't know what he is talking about. Neither Fortran, nor C are first generation languages as he states it anyway. This article is total crap. Shame on you Scientific American for publishing that shit.

Absolutely not, he just clicked on NASA's clickbait for funding.

Alive or dead?

Are you on a Harry Potter overdose? Will and money is not sufficient to make everything happen.

Nonsense given the effort it would have been to hunt a mastodon to just eat marrow. The return on the investment is too low. I believe the hypothesis of this study rests on very weak facts.

From right margin? You surely meant left margin.