The school administrators, unlike the people who actually make the schools work, such as it is, tend to be paid pretty well.

I get so tired of hearing the school systems stress technology so much, because they are inevitably 20-30 years behind in their understanding of how to best utilize it, leave alone secure their systems. I always fantasized about teaching a computer class that didn't even touch a keyboard for the first half year...

I recall Windows 3.51 was quite secure for the time. But once they merged the DOS branch of the OS with the NT branch, things got a lot worse for several years.

It's good to hear AWS has never been hacked because just about every other company with data has been. A lot of people rely on AWS, and what you are saying is accurate and if they are running their systems correctly, there can be a reasonable expectation that they will be secure. That's nice to know.

> What I learned is that teachers have literally no time for anything.

The school system in the U.S. is notorious for this. Teachers get so much stuff dumped on them, much of which has little to do with actual teaching. It's a truly thankless job that cannot be fixed by dumping more money into the system. It's fundamentally broken. There are plenty of good teachers, but their effectiveness becomes more and more fettered every year.

Source: father of 4, and husband to a school teacher

In my experience the two worst things to combine are "education system" and "technology".

If the script kiddies are hacking your system, you've got bigger problems.

Is "script kiddies" still a thing?

I'm so old.

When you're talking petabytes and "reading DNA", I don't think 60 minutes is the right order of magnitude.

I'm not sure this is going to be public facing. Many of the objections seem to assume that it is. OTOH, AI is known for returning the answers you want it to return, regardless of the truth of those answers. So perhaps it's the perfect yes-man.

I'm not going to claim those are harmless, but banning them appears more socially destructive than allowing them.

Going to a particular date on a tape is a seek operation. A better reply would be that there's more than on kind of cassette. (1/2" tape has been in cassettes before, just not the kind you usually think of. And that was durable enough to allow a reasonable number of seeks. But I'd sure hate to have to patch a tape with that density.)

But how long does it take to search to the particular bits you were looking for? How many times can you search through the tape before it breaks? There are reasons random access cassettes were never popular.

It's not hard to believe. There are lots of plausible explanations. Most likely some of the chips are multi-function,but sold to do one particular job (so only partially documented).

That doesn't imply that the chip didn't have a built-in radio, just that it couldn't transmit or receive without some ancillary mechanisms.
I suspect the claim is technically true, but the reason is that the chips were designed to be sold to different people to do different things.

Are you reasonably certain that this claim is false? Remember that the US is trying to do something similar to NVidia chips. Also lots of chips are multipurpose, with the same chip being sold to different people for different functions.

I'm not sure I believe it, but I'm also not certain it's wrong.

Yes, it will be largely human interaction, and action in environments designed for humans. But that's NOT a small use case.

Last I heard, the mouse models of Alzheimer's were really bad models.

The argument about usuform robots vs. humanoid robots goes back to at least the 1940's. We've *got* usuform robots, Humanoid robots are still works in progress (if you don't count things like the robot receptionist that built into the desk...mix that with a vocal chatbot and there are some jobs it could do. If I read right the one on display at the latest show in China didn't need to be built into the desk, and had a full humanoid body...attractive female, but clearly artificial, unlike the earlier one which wasn't clearly artificial, until you noticed why she couldn't stand up.)