I'm betting their Research Project is continuing....

They're probably using that apology letter to try to answer questions like:

* How susceptible is the Open Source Community to lame excuses from organizations that try to sabotage their work?

* How vulnerable is the Open Source Community to letting rogue organizations inject more defects just by changing the personnel of the people submitting compromising patches?

* Can groups that want back doors in Linux (hackers, government groups, etc) just switch the names of contributors and get to add more backdoor attempts even after their first people are banned?

The only way the Linux community can come out looking secure in the university's final research papers is to be extremely strict in the conditions of their return to the community.

There always has been an exodus. It's part of why Silicon Valley is so successful. Even in the 1990s I had friends moving to Costa Rica after doing successful businesses in Silicon Valley.

Stanford and Berkeley constantly churn out entrepreneurs and researchers in emerging technologies

Sand Hill Road's VC's constantly look for Stanford and Berkeley projects to invest in

SF's bigger financial institutions work with those VCs take the companies beyond the startup stage.

As the industry matures, those move out to make room for new innovation Silicon Valley is what it is because of a deliberately engineered close partnership of universities (Stanford, Berkeley), finance (Sand Hill Road for small ventures, San Francisco for bigger finance), industry (the Stanford Business Park, etc) and government (In-Q-Tel). This was intentionally modelled after a similar successful pattern around MIT. Great article on that here. http://www.netvalley.com/silic...

Report the professors who are spreading Corona Virus instead.

Considering places are moving toward all-electric home appliances as part of decarbonization effort", this might make sense many places: https://www.bakersfield.com/ne...

Also - obligatory KFC bitcoin mining rig: https://www.gamesradar.com/kfc...

Silicon Valley is what it is because of a deliberately engineered close partnership of universities (Stanford, Berkeley), finance (Sand Hill Road for small ventures, San Francisco for bigger finance), industry (the Stanford Business Park, etc) and government (In-Q-Tel). This was intentionally modeled after a similar successful pattern around MIT.

http://www.netvalley.com/silic...

That pattern continued with companies like Sun, Apple, Oracle, Netscape, Google, Lucidworks, Databricks.

Hard to see that happening in many other parts of the world.

Perhaps best to cascade firewalls from different vendors.

If you chain a Cisco firewall with a Huawei firewall, sure, each may allow some traffic through.

But unless they collude they will probably block each other's backdoors.

With SQL Server running in a Docker container in Azure's cloud, in many ways they're already doing this in a way that's invisible to some of their customers.

Just like the BSD derivatives before (SunOS 4, Ultrix, etc), it's totally expected that OpenAI innovations will mostly end up being proprietary.

Perhaps this is the right time for someone to create a similar community based more around FSF-like principles than OSI-like ones.

Beta. They've already tried this in other countries.

Technologically - of course autonomous drones will be more effective than humans. They'll also probably me more "moral" - committing fewer war crimes (like the Mahmudiyah rape and killings).

I think a more fun question is what will happen politically. There's a huge voting block of veterans that consistently votes for increased military spending. If automation reduces the number of soldiers needed, that could drastically reduce such votes.

So almost (but not quite) as good as an unlocked bootloader?

That sounds like a feature.

Since when have locked-down devices been considered a good thing here?

The word "innovation" (as opposed to invention) is exactly what China does. The word was practically coined to describe that process. https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Seems something that browsers should disable by default.

The title has it exactly backwards.

With a little more fear and a lot more groupthink, this entire thing could have been over in 2 weeks.

But instead people still have a lack of fear and lack of willingness to work together; so we'll be stuck in almost-but-not-quite-lockdowns for virtually forever.

And that's the worst of both worlds.

Same with many (perhaps most) humans: https://www.theatlantic.com/he...