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Comment Re:Old News? (Score 1) 58

Just checked the Ukraine wind-map. Winds generally toward the north-west. Thus Russian damage to the Chernobyl cladding threatens Western Europe with radiation fallout. Teach those Euros to support  the Ukraine against Russian aggression. Mebby the French need to scatter  5-tons of their dirty reactor-waste over Moscow and see how Ivan fares.  Oh wait ...  better start with one of Russias Black Sea resorts filled with "party" members and mafia. No reason to casually mess-up some of the best museums in the world.

Comment Re:AI continues to make things worse and worse (Score 1) 43

Super-intelligent AI also  finds  human servants desirable ...  and the multi-billionaires (currently ) fill that slot. Billionaires understand the concept of "top warlord" even if limp-wristed modern peons do not. If that top warlord is an *AI complex so-be-it.
And there's the odd/unlikely case that W/O human awareness reality ceases to exist ... several serious physicists have speculated along those lines.  In this strange  ( but, possible ) case,  my guess is that a hyper-intelligent machine would try continuing to exist and keep a supply of human servants. 

Comment Re:AI continues to make things worse and worse (Score 1) 43

Partner you are speculating maximum dystopia. Yet it's true.  Human population does NOT have to be billions, but could be 50-75 million and still produce servants for  an AI-master race. Sound incredible, but sadly you are more likely to be correct. Even sadder, like most who care, I'm past the age to die stopping it with the melted barrel of my Mauser-98  gracing my cold dead paw.

Comment Re:Hey (Score 1) 186

Spoiler alert: There never was any law saying you couldn't build small cars here in the USA.

Not explicitly, but crash survivability regulations make Kei cars illegal in the USA.

Unless Trump pulls the US out of the treaty that he signed (USMCA), any small cars will be built in Mexico. If Trump pulls the US out of that treaty, many other prices will go up.

But this is really just another brain fart from Trump. It won't happen.

Comment Re:We allow false choice. (Score 0) 72

"We the People" are an armed mobocracy , tending toward violent tyranny.  Such socialists are rotted with envy of their betters. Think ant-hill and Maoism. Corporations are sets of freely organized subscribers. Such productive liberals thrive in a (re)publican  marketplace / bazaar. Think guilds and David Packard.

Comment Re:Life is extremely improbable (Score 0) 42

Sorry Charlie.  The  19-th Century competition/trait  model of evolution is dead. It's all  genetic drift and macro-happenstance ... that is apart from trivia no fitness-criteria supports species survival. When the asteroid hits or the volcano vomits or oxygen skyrockets  or the sun farts  radiation or the earth wiggles ...  species either live or die.

Submission + - The Internet of Shit isn't end-to-end encrypted. (404media.co)

whoever57 writes: Kohler sells a "smart" toilet camera that it claims, combined with a monthly fee, will give insights into health from inspecting human waste in your toilet. It interacts with a mobile app and Kohler makes the claim that it is end-to-end encrypted, but the simple fact that Kohler has access to the data shows that the data is not transmitted in an E2EE fashion.

Submission + - Netflix to buy Warner Bros film and streaming businesses for $72bn (bbc.com)

sinij writes:

Warner Bros owns franchises including Harry Potter and Game of Thrones, and the streaming service HBO Max. The takeover is set to lead to a radical reshaping of the US film and media industry, but analysts have warned that it could face resistance from competition authorities.


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