I've met dozens who have specifically told me as such, and hundreds more who went along with them in beliefs. I know some born-again Christians in Texas who are just now, in the past two or three years, coming around to the idea that Jesus wasn't born in December, and that the choice of that day to celebrate the birth was a public relations move by the Catholic Church.

There's been quite a bit of backlash because of that fact. Born-agains are Protestant and very devout, so anything done by the Catholic Church is immediately suspicious, if not outright wrong.

It's been amusing to watch.

Deja vu. This exact question was asked the last time Sony made the news.

Yes. Yes it is.

As long as there is more than one independent open source compiler, this can be eliminated as a threat vector by chains of compilers compiling compilers. Overt backdoor insertion routines can be easily detected and removed from a compromised open source compiler. That leaves only extremely subtle backdoors. Those can be defeated by having compilers compile themselves and each other, to break the subtlety.

If you can afford to perform detailed audits of gcc and clang, then follow the correct procedure, this isn't a concern, at least for the foreseeable future. If you trust the open source community to have found and removed or otherwise prevented all overt compiler comprises, you can pick a random selection of different versions of the various open source compilers and compile them from source yourself, with gratuitous extra or oddly variant flags. Cross compiling somewhere in that chain is also a helpful method of breaking some of the theorized mechanisms.

You can reduce the odds of being caught by a compromised compiler far enough that your odds of being struck by a meteor are higher. That should be good enough.

That would depend on the price, wouldn't it? If the marginal cost of 10 Gbps vs 1 Gbps is negligible, by all means, provide 10 Gbps. 10 Gbps ethernet over copper (for use within the residence to be able to take advantage of this speed) is still at the margins in terms of price, but that's mostly for the same reasons that 1 Gbps was so expensive for so long. If only "enterprise" uses it, it stays expensive, because business, as always, charges all the traffic will bear, and business customers like to pay more because they think that means they're getting something valuable.

Once residences started using 1 Gbps, the price dropped and dropped and dropped and now you can get a very good quality 24 port 1 Gbps ethernet switch for less than $100. 10 Gbps will follow the same trajectory, but the demand has to be there. This is the first move towards creating that demand.

Other people have pointed out that the server side won't talk to you at 10 Gbps anyway. You're throttled by the server at far lower than that. I've pointed it out myself for the past few years. But we know that the backbone bandwidth is in the ground, unlit, to support far higher outbound throughput from data centers. There's just no demand, and it saves on server hardware. Again, this is a move towards creating demand.

Somebody has to be first, and it has to be on the demand side. This is one of the first, at least in the US.

It may shock you to discover the counting game was in the books. That was not invented for the movies. It was the start of the friendship between Legolas and Gimli that grew so strong that the appendices go so far as to say Legolas took Gimli with him when he went over sea, the only dwarf ever taken to Elvenhome.

The shield-surfing... not so much.

I'm so glad you asked! This is a common misconception. Indeed, unicorn farts are methane! They come from the intestinal bacteria of unicorns, of course. A microbe's gotta eat, ya know. Unicorns only shit rainbows. They don't fart them.

Bennett Hasselton IS Ramble-bot 1000. The ramblings are being posted by the same type of machine that has been getting academic journals to publish its articles. Dice wanted to pad their page hit numbers, so they bought a Ramble-bot and named it Bennett.

You think I'm joking, and so do I, but really, just how far away are we from enough Markov chains that Dice can order the Ramble-bot to write 300 words about the frumious bandersnatch and the Ramble-bot will dutifully crank something out that is indistinguishable from a Bennett screed? It's not exactly a high bar to clear.

None of these stories are about today. All of these stories are about trajectories, and the shape of things to come. And the self-evident fact that unless something changes, the 'poor' as you condescendingly call them with your snide quotation marks, will not be walking around with smart phones and have internet and cable TV at home. When the market value of the things the robots produce is greater than zero and your ability to earn any money is precisely zero because you and 100 million of your neighbors have been displaced, you will not be buying anything.

The poor will be sleeping the sleep which sees no awakening. You can't eat dirt, especially when someone else owns all of the dirt.

As opposed to the security needs of consumers, which are obviously non-existent. No doubt it will come with a CALEA exemption, because Boeing. (Watch for a one sentence rider inserted into an otherwise totally unrelated bill some time in 2017.) Of course they will be absurdly expensive, but the Citizens who possess them will easily be able to afford them. If you can't pay, you definitely don't deserve security. But you can't have one unless you are on The List anyway. After all, they're CALEA exempt. You must have been background checked, approved, and sponsored before you can get on The List.

Remember, Service Brings Citizenship! Enlist today!

Does this sound paranoid? Think about your answer for a second.

Sounds like Lum the Mad, except in annoying video format.

A shame that site is gone... Turns out Lum can't design very well himself, but he's a good analyst and critic.

His lazy all-afternoon hunting down of young people could have been ended with fewer deaths if Norwegian youth had ever heard the phrase: run from a knife, charge a gun. No one else needed to be armed to have stopped him far short of the 70-odd deaths he caused. They just didn't know how.

While you're at it, I'd say, given how much less the per capita debt of the nations in question have risen compared to American debt (presumably the bastion of the "free Market" the AC was referring to), maybe it's worth dropping the "cost" tag too.

But really, you shouldn't be responding to the obviously deranged. Arbitrary capitalization of words, arbitrary scare quotes everywhere, and spamming all caps words? Deranged.

Well yes, but humans have a long maturation period. Getting us to reproductive maturity necessitates keeping our parents alive as well, not just us. A human with at least one parent who survives 15 years after its birth has a decided evolutionary advantage over a human with no parent surviving a year after birth. A human with two present parents surviving at least 20 years after birth has an even bigger advantage. A human with two present parents surviving at least 20 years after birth plus at least one grandparent surviving at least 20 years after birth has the biggest advantage evolution has yet found.

Characteristics from the human lifespan to human sex drive can be explained in these evolutionary terms. Humans live approximately 60 years in good health, which is their own maturation period plus the maturation period of one offspring, plus the maturation period of that offspring's offspring. The male human sex drive and the female's ability to accommodate him year round (extremely rare in mammals) have been described as the evolutionary mechanism that ensures not just two surviving parents, but the presence of two surviving parents.

Evolution may not care if you get ugly after your 20s, but evolution does care if you contract cancer and die at 35. It's a disadvantage to your offspring.

(Pedants who want to complain about us anthropomorphizing evolution are invited to take a long walk off a short pier. It's shorthand.)

You have a six digit user ID and you don't know how the moderation system works?

Probably because the best you can do is agree with a post claiming that because we don't have a video of the cop deleting the video, he must not have deleted it. Really? And he can't even spell "alleges" right.

You eventually get moderator points if your own posts get modded up. If you fail to contribute to the conversation, you don't get to affect the moderation of those who do.

Yes I do.

It's called culture. Humans have been producing it for thousands of years. Claiming it is some sort of property that can be owned is a legal fiction created only in the last few hundred. The vast majority of consumers of culture throughout history and pre-history did not pay for their consumption. If authors got paid at all, they got paid once, by their patron, and forever after the cost of spreading the media was the marginal cost of duplication, and the cost of consumption was zero.