...it was called spyware, now it's just called Facebook.

It is critically important to understand that what we refer to as "meaning" derives from actual and perceived value of things to the object doing the perceiving. Can a machine with no agency, little or no senses, no self or sense of self be expected to experience our world and express human values as we do? Simply not possible without agency (the ability to act,) self (a body of some sort,) and sense of self (conscious sense of one's self as individually extant within a context.)

Simply, human higher-level consciousness is little more than a keep-alive language loop within a memory (short-term memory) that has input (sound and thought -- memory access) and output (sound and thought -- more memory access.) This can be replicated, but without agency, self, and sense of self there simply isn't any reason to place values and take meaning from anything, and artificially placing values for an A.I. won't have the desired results.

Here, have even more "yes."

Embracing transparency. Which means being true to a set of ethical standards in all of life's actions.

You can call me Buddha all you like, but when you can see the possibility of calling yourself Buddha, then you know you're getting somewhere!

...wireless lice. 2021 sucks more than 2020. What's next, 5G bedbugs?

But then they come back with the -2nm chip: Where will it all end?

Shouldn't these server operators be held responsible for their negligence? This coming from a person who thinks people should be required to have a basic "operators license" to even access the internet.

My personal favorite in this regard: In Microsoft Windows desktop, right click on a USB drive to open the menu and it has "Format" right next to "Open" -- don't miss!

...ducks are dicks.

Probe is a pig!

...editor; he is an editor. The Linux Editor-in-Chief and, in my opinion, has done a great job of it. Thank you for your work, Linus.

Not all computer uses are vulnerable to such attacks? For instance, who is going to care if they are playing a single player game off-line when it would be nice to have the CPU working to full capacity. Perhaps a hardware switch....

...punching a tarbaby. One should never punch a tarbaby; there is no winning that fight. The thing is to be able to recognize a tarbaby when it presents and then steer clear. I suspect Mr. Stallman now knows this very well indeed.

Yeah, I have to agree about 0-based -- it's much preferred on this end.

Zero is a number too!