Comment Re:Packaged goods (Score 1) 127
You mean stop collusion by killing a single entity at a cost of over 40 billion dollars. So the effect is absolutely nothing and it cost him dearly.
Unfortunately a lot of people can be swayed by speaking patterns regardless of the content. Musk clearly knows how to hire good people and also clearly seems to be able to motivate them to work hard. That is where it all ends, if he speaks on any topic it isn't in depth and rarely shows any nuance.
He also seems to be suffering from his own success these days as he is clearly only surrounded by sycophants. His purchase of Twitter and then inexplicable brand change to X of all things combined with rapid loss of revenue demonstrate that he is not making good decisions these days. We can all see he wants to make a monolithic app but you can't do that while you are cratering a company.
The RNA vaccine is no longer present in your body after 30 days. The resulting immunity fades after 6 months. You're attaching an arbitrary timeline to say something is safe. We'll gain more knowledge as time progresses sure. Calling it experimental when they've been experimenting with it for many years is not operating in good faith for an argument. Work on it started way back during SARS.
The reality is that over 100k people tested the vaccine before emergency responders ever got to it. I'm saying characterizing the vaccine as experimental is completely disingenuous. The polio vaccine was deployed over a matter of weeks in a much more draconian vaccine roll-out and that was indeed experimental as it didn't go through the same FDA trials that we do for all other vaccines now.
The RNA vaccines went through all the same trials as any other vaccine. If you are arguing the FDA testing isn't sufficient then that is a whole other argument. A lot of drugs are held back by testing requirements for quite a few valid reasons. We can't live in the land of perfection unfortunately. There is no side as you seem to think there is. Politics has nothing to do with this.
The only vaccine "withdrawn" from the market was J&J and that was due to it having an impact on women causing blood clots if they were on birth control.
This was the only vaccine made using traditional methods. Modern and pfizer vaccines have held up quite well to the test of time. They absolutely are safer for children even to this day. There was an inflammatory study talking about heart inflammation caused by the vaccine and completely ignored that it was greatly worse when caused by Covid itself.
Children in particular developed multiple inflammatory disease and experienced many of the same long covid symptoms as adults caused by blood flow issues to the brain which may have much longer term impacts. While most people in general who caught the disease got through it okay, those that didn't paid a heavy price which mirrors the Polio epidemic.
Parent keeps trying to say that Covid vaccine was experimental, completely ignoring the reality that the one vaccine that was made using traditional methods (J&J) was actually the one that caused the most problems. Statistically it was still a better bet than catching the virus without any protection. The RNA based vaccines were absolutely tested to the tune of hundreds of thousands of people before being given to those emergency response workers they clearly don't care about as they were some of the hardest hit by virus until the vaccine was released to them.
I do enjoy your reference to at will employment coming home to roost though.
This is just Microsoft's version of Citrix Workspace which has existed for more than 20 years. I remember when the first iPad came out, I posted about being able to use it for something useful by streaming a Windows desktop on it.
The difference with Citrix being that you have the option of streaming Linux and using secure browser among all the other apps they've built to enable almost zero trust at the hardware level.
Microsoft and Citrix have been working together on this for quite a while, so this was always the plan ever since Azure Virtual Desktop first showed up. The real question I have is if this will stick around, most Microsoft products much like Google get abandoned before there is even a replacement.
Healthcare has additional hurdles similar to the power producing industry that lead directly to increased vulnerability.
Whether your concerns are for SCADA or for heart monitoring equipment, patching is a bitch to the point that a lot of environments simply don't do it unless they have to. Thankfully most of these applications undergo a lot more QA, but whether its Linux or Windows, patching is still required and a very good idea.
When patching requires going through FDA recertification, most manufacturers will skip it and just certify the newer hardware. I've seen this in banking with check scanning hardware as well. (Think hundreds of checks/per second)
I've had a similar battle with Microsoft recently and their "Linux Support" where even changing the package version results in their application dying despite the kernel version being the same. The most recent package version they support is over 9 months old which means you have to patch and remain secure, while also fighting a DR battle with ASR.
Ultimately better off with Carbonite or DRBD but both methods suck compared with regular ASR where the VM is only created when you are in DR or testing DR.
The way the whole industry looks at patching unfortunately would have to be standardized to resolve this problem. Without a governing body to enforce even electronic medical record compatibility, there is no hope for properly documented patch cadence that would allow for certification to remain while updating a superseded package.
While I agree with your assessment overall. Microsoft created Sentinel to put all of that behind a single pane of glass. Otherwise I totally agree, I never liked that they called it Azure Active Directory and Azure Active Directory Domain Services as that confused a whole lot of people, then suddenly naming it Entra?
Stop making Azure a moving target and there's a good chance security will improve. Amazon with AWS is more stable in that regard and has had their own security issues however.
It is not wrong, you are just applying math where it doesn't matter. P-hacking as you describe and even more humorously with the condom reference both demonstrate that while there are extreme edge cases where the result may catch up to you, the average person will never experience it.
You are also applying the math arbitrarily in the case of your mask example as you state the probably goes down day over day instead of by exposure which for some days will be 0 and some days result in repeated exposure. The real world does not fit so nicely into your basic pure math example to the point of absurdity.
Long story short, do what the Japanese have been doing for decades, if you're sick (doesn't matter with what,) be polite and wear a mask. No one wants your flu or cold either. It is a very simple precaution to take do matter how pedantic you choose to be with your math.
Again, that's not how probability works. The odds of getting covid by being exposed day over day are irrelevant. The odds you get infected on any given day/exposure is 96% to use your number. If I go out tomorrow I have exactly the same odds of being infected as today.
Calculating the aggregate odds is meaningless data.
You are clearly someone that hasn't used ChatGPT. It is far more than fancy autofill. Even my wife uses it to draft emails when she needs to broach emotionally charged subjects with an employee that is misbehaving. She of course reviews the final outcome but it saves a whole lot of time and typing.
Flash forward to me, I needed to write a powershell script to lock down some specific IIS extensions across many servers. ChatGPT wrote my script in 30 seconds, I tweaked it with environment specific info on my own computer because we aren't going to give OpenAI any sensitive info.
Another project, taking an arp table and telling me how many IPs are in which subnets. I have over 200k IPs, took an hour to write with GPT and then another 30 minutes to tweak. It saves a tremendous amount of time. As always, its a trust but verify. If I wrote my own script I'll test it out in my lab first and make sure it doesn't do anything unexpected.
Lawyers have even used it to draft depositions, some are stupid and don't double check to make sure they are citing actual precedents.
There are no confidence meters for any answers and because they can't cite or otherwise tell you how they arrived at the conclusion its uses are largely limited to a pretty good starting point.
Do yourself a favor, try out these solutions.
What hath Bob wrought?
