Dangerous, yes. A persistent remotely sentient threat to humanity, not a chance.

Maybe in the next 30 years they would make a military coup easier by allowing a smaller portion of military to be successful but that's still not likely.

The only risk AI on these pose is as they get more firepower there is a greater risk of large casualties if the AI fails (false positive). I defiantly agree that the other 3 are real threats and this one just for the press coverage and so some phds or potential undergrads can have some fun with hypothetical war gaming.

Of course you can't get do it scientifically your population is your sample group and the movies are not the same as last year.
The only way to look at these thing is just though the numbers.

The other conclusion could be that movies were less desirable to see this year or that the avengers was so disable it effected other ticket sales.

This is not for consumer cloud storage, where did get that impression?
This is the kind of storage that you host a database or similar on and hammer it for the whole year, and if it goes down things grind to a halt costing way more than 3k.

It provides an incentive for the service provider to provide their stated uptime.
I know as the customer they will be working hard to ensure they keep their service up so they make a profit for the year. Also, I know if it goes down some of my losses will be covered.
The alternative is best effort where the only power I would have is to move to another company. If I was to pay them extra I would not be able to ensure they were putting in any extra effort to maximize up-time, without going though the hassle and inefficiency of making a contract of the kinds of redundancy i want giving the provider no flexibility.

$3000 is not that much to a corporation that needs reliability, employing someone extra and buying the hardware would not even be close.

No application i can think of needs 5 nines which could by why it something like this remains so expensive.
If only say 1000 companies need this service then 3M a year in revenue is pretty terrible when you consider the costs of providing this service, the insurance can't be cheap.

Not when compensation is specified in the contract.

Yes, someone else should be doing it a lot cheaper for more data.
Still, $3000 is an absolute bargain compared to trying to do this as a one off your self.

Depends on the QOS requirements.
They might have to pay out a grand for every 30 seconds you can't get your data or there is too much latency.

There is a portable version (have not tried it) or installer that's about 200MB or less.
I think most people would prefer to use a cloud storage app and run it locally.

They got it working with broadway (gtk app to webpage) a while back so if you really want it its possible to do it yourself.

Its a tougher sell to put LO on the cloud. With no licensing costs you can just install it locally.
I would be far more excited by a mobile version.

This raises the issue of people with usernames in common.
There will be people who (accidentally or intentionally) share a usernames with those reported by sex offenders who will now be monitored.
It would be trivial and impossible to prove it was intentional to get a name on that list so at least in the short term someone can be treated as a sex offender.

Or does he just want publicity?
This is an extreme solution to something that is not really a current a problem and it has issues of its own.

The two main consequences of Desktop apps to me is you have to get them installed keep and keep them updated everywhere (and according to him you can't trust a browser download) and these apps will be OS specific.

Someone would make a lot of money somewhere getting this enforced and it would require creating an appstore/repo for every platform where you could get these from. This seems like a great chance to make parts of the web specific to a OS.

What you could do without breaking anything is have a site broadcast in the header that they want private sandbox from the rest of your running web-pages and only allow the browser to send and receive data to the provided site. It would break advertising but that’s necessary to be secure anyway.

This is way to simple not to have been done before, someone will have actually used it and unless they have rushed off to gitmo i would guess its undetectable.

I could understand why they might want local authentication but they should at least be able hand out keys to airlines for each airport and encrypt it using the key for the airport you are departing from.

You could argue that i guess but you wont be able to begin to support it.

You could argue that "It just works" is extremely hard on third party hardware with no or partial support from them and without Linus it would be in an even worse.

Why do the states need to cast it as block vote? Yes there was probably some reason to do it 100+ years ago but you could make changes in the interest of making your best effort to have a democracy.

Yes the system is backwards, it was made as a the end of a civil war, is unnecessary complex and is old.

Its far more important the lower house gets seats proportional to population than an upper one, in the context of system is probably not that backwards the senate is not being based on population.

There are systems like STV where you are still voting/ranking individuals but if your happy with the candidates that make it though R or D selections then you are probably happy with the current system.

The WA system seems weird and to enforce a two party state. can you have a liberal indepent win the other primary as a RINO and then have a final election.