If The FBI has such specific information ("23 pipeline operators"), then it should be easy to inform the companies and support them in fixing the problem.
Honestly, knowing the FBI, this is more likely about justifying their own existence. Ask them to show the evidence, and have a third-party check it out. Won't happen, of course...
If you are just using your computer for mail and browsing, 8GB is plenty. Of course, if you are buying a Mac, you are spending unnecessary money anyway - just buy a Chromebook for half the price.
I seriously don't understand why people like Apple and their overpriced products. It's almost a cult...
No. Banning a particular kind of computing you don't like? That would open the door to banning other types of computing. Like encryption, which various governments would love to prohibit.
If you don't like crypto (which I totally understand), then don't use it. Bannng it - aside from being ineffective - would also be a dangerous precedent.
author says their projects "underscore the critical need to quickly establish regulatory frameworks...
Ah, a sneaky argument for more regulatory capture in favor of established players. Or another wannebe little dictator. Or both.
The thing is: Whether AI or biological intelligence, the signs of a civilization are likely to be much the same: engineering structures, electronic signals, alternations of natural events (atmospheric composition, maybe even orbital changes).
The most likely explanation is simply distance. We cannot see anything as small as a planet at interstellar distances. The best we can do is notice the miniscule dimming of a star, if the orbital plane of the planets allow them to pass in front of the star from our perspective. If we cannot see planets, we cannot possibly see any but the most massive engineering structures - on the scale of Dyson spheres.
Signals over interstellar distances? While Earth went through a fairly noisy electromagnetic period, the signals were still to weak to be picked up (by our level of technology) at the nearest star. As technology advances, we no longer need hundreds of kilowatts for ordinary radio stations; indeed, most signal traffic is now using fiber optics, which are not detectable at all.
The thing you have to realize us that Chinese industry and the Chinese government are intertwined. This isn't a matter of a foreign company making a better product for less. This is a governmental effort to break into a new industry - with subsidies, and political support.
Look at chips, and the effort to regain manufacturing capabilities in the US. Primarily by funding foreign companies, because US industry us no longer competitive. That's what China wants to achieve with EVs.
...are quite obviously illegal. Someone like the EFF needs to puck a representative case and carry it through the courts.
Case n point: our car periodically displays a new T&C. You can review it, sure, literally no one will do that. And then? What is supposed to happen if you click "no"? We never agreed to any T&C - we just signed a purchase contract, one page, no fine print.
Ah, some good old existential angst... Humans can live literally anywhere, given the necessary technology, raw materials and energy. On Mars, on the moon, in interplanetary space - it's all possible or potentially possible. The question is whether or not it makes sense at a particular point in time. Possibly not yet, but in 20 years? 50 years? Very possible. There are a lot of resources out there, as well as energy, that could be useful.
Fuck Capitalism.
Capitalism is the system that has pulled more people out of poverty than literally anything else. Capitalism rewards people for their work, thus giving them an incentive to work productively. When someone rails against capitalism, they are almost always wrong: their real objections are to corruption, or regulatory capture, or some other abuse of the system.
Since the 1960s, every science experiment or human being that's come back to earth from space, even today, is still landing in a capsule in the ocean
Kind of weird to forget about the Space Shuttle. Or, for that matter, the current X-37 used by the US military: it doesn't carry crew, but it is a reusable and lands on a runway. This kind of obvious omission doesn't give one a lot of confidence in the company...
Or maybe it's the journalism? That quote only seems to appear on bottom-feeding sites like Yahoo, MSN and LinkedIn.
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
