I am Information Security practitioner and not an expert in this field, because nobody is. My experiences is that nobody knows what they are doing, most information systems are not secure in mistaken belief that nobody would bother breaking them, others are just secure enough to deter low-knowledge attacks. Almost everyone practices what is known proportional value deterrent, but treat high-value systems as truly isolated when so many side-channels exist.

If malicious AI ever shows up, we are screwed. We have zero hope of securing any information system from it. The only hope is that it won't end us because there is a good chance that a lot of hardware that AI might need will go dark.

I had to read TFA to figure out what isostatic is.

"Bizarrely enough, if we wanted to reach the Earth’s mantle, our best bet would be to dive down to the ocean floor and dig there; we’d “only” have to go through maybe 3 km of crust, as opposed to upwards of 25 km atop the Himalayas. This concept is known as isostatic compensation, and was actually uncovered by the famed British astronomer George Airy."

In Russia, there is no such thing as independent large corporation, there are only nominally privately owned, and formally state owned corporations. While Kaspersky does some good work, they should be treated the same way as NIST is in USA, with a primary mission to protect and advance state interest.

This will make password cracking that much easier. My understanding is that space-time tradeoff drastically changes with increased bandwidth for RAM. I am not smart enough to derive a formal proof, but I think a number of key-stretching functions just bit the dust.

Both views are simplifications. What you should be asking is as following, as people under 25 as they get older, still care about pointless shiny in their cars?

When I was under 25 I made some very questionable stylistic and functional choices for my auto, now as I got older I grew out of it.

I still remember how awful early consumer operating systems were. They crashed, they had ridiculous requirements, and bad design. While all of this was unfortunate, the improvements were to the primary purpose of these systems.

For cars, the awfulness of digital platform is for secondary purposes - these systems do not improve how the car drives, yet implications for your safety when something goes wrong are much higher.

Dear Blizzard,

If large number of people want to automate or outsource your game experience, then what you have is not a fun game but a chore.

All recent SJW articles were bad enough, now this drivel?!?! Why do editors here hate us so much?

If I kindly ask editors to go fight their gender wars elsewhere, would they need me to draw a map?

I read at -1, and I can personally assure you, that thing is a frequent AC poster here.

Could someone please explain this with a car analogy?

From 3.6 to DRM in just 3 years. Lets wait for the autopsy report.

I drive roadsters that can stop on a dime. If I stand on my brakes because I hallucinated a wall in the middle of the highway, I can guarantee that people behind me will rear-end me. Would you say there were following me too close and are at fault?

Driving requires a great deal of prediction, it is simply not feasible to drive 100% defensively in most urban environments. People will cut in front of you, you will never merge or change lanes, you will never turn left at a light. If other drivers start acting irrationally (or different-rationally like AI), the accidents will drastically increase. AI not only has to drive well, it also has to drive somewhat like a human, or other humans will keep crashing into it.

Nonprofits don't generate shareholder returns, this doesn't mean that they are prevented from enriching executives via compensation packages.

Big issue with AI controlled cars in a human-dominated traffic is that AI doesn't react the same way people do. Sure, all-AI traffic would likely be more efficient and less prone to accidents, but we are nowhere near this. Instead we have AI that to humans is hard to predict.

For example, huge puddle on the road, most humans would unwisely drive through it. What would AI do? No idea, and I wouldn't want to be driving behind it when that happens. What about a hobo at the end of the offramp begging for change? Would AI freak out about pedestrian on the road? No idea, and I wouldn't want to be driving behind it to see what happens.