I know nothing about Michael Mann, but Hotez was mentioned as a campaigner against misinformation.

I presume that is the same Peter Hotez that is very active in trying to suppress the lab leak origin of covid.

Seriously. My car window was smashed when visiting SFO in 2020. This had become rampant everywhere, leave *nothing* visible. Police are very frustrated.

Their three strikes laws have filled the jails, so their solution is to never prosecute!

So go take a container off a train, there is no real down side.

It shows that GPT is actually figuring things out, rather than just looking things up. And the mistakes GPT makes are human like mistakes, amazing.

Politicians aids now regularly use GPT to review information and write policy documents.

It will not be long before GPT et. al. de facto rule us.

10 loose bolts, hanging on the plane
10 loose bolts, hanging on the plane
If one loose bolt, should accidentally fall,

There'd be 9 loose bolts, hanging on the plane...

They find some loose bolts, that probably are not that critical. They not only fix the problem, they also put out a call to all the other planes to have them specifically checked.

If a plane crashes (too often) they do not just ignore the problem, they seek the cause, and the cause of the cause etc.

Compare that with what happens when a virus escapes a lab and kills millions. Nothing at all. Just quietly ignored.

The old Digest Authentication almost got it correct. But there are better PAKE algorithms, in particular Secure Remote Password is excellent.

That would enable one to use the same weak password everywhere and be secure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I would love to read something succinct about how Rust handles locking and pointers.

All I can find is long books that go into uninteresting detail or short articles that tell me how good Rust is.

For memory, my impression is that Rust is like Visual Basic, you use lots of dynamic arrays rather than things like linked list. Plus maybe smart pointers with counters. (Plus the trivial case like a string object with an unshared pointer to an array of characters.)

For locking, if you use shared memory there is a deep problem. The only really good solution is ACID as used in databases, which involves locking, guaranteed serializable, deadlock detection with rollback etc. using transactions, but is too heavy for a kernel. ACID copies data, it is pointers that are hard.

With a bit of skill you can cook up a new virus in your garage with fairly modest equipment. DIY manuals in the science journals. You can even mail order the DNA from several companies for about $1000. Labs around the world are doing this, particularly Gain of Function research where they see what it would take to make a virus truly infectious.

What could possibly go wrong?

(Of course, this has never happened before. Covid-19 resulted from a pangolin eating bat soup or similar. www.originofcovid.org)

So yes, there is a place for government regulation. But probably not in picking battery technologies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

According to TFA step 3 was not performed either. They seem to be pretty quick to do the full arrest rather than just questioning.

Standard police approach.

1. Get eye witnesses to do an identikit and produce a foggy image of the perpetrator.
2. Look through files for dubious characters that match the image.
3. Interview the suspects, cross off the ones that have an alabi, or money for good lawyers.
4. Do a line up with your preferred suspect and random people. Unsurprisingly the witness picks the suspect.

Eye witnesses, no alabi, no good lawyer. Case Solved!

I've got bad news for you about HTTP. Google is inflicting some horrid binary new standard, and eventually HTTP will be considered insecure legacy.

(They could have got most of the benefit by simply adding the Query string in the response. So that they could be interleaved. But...)

When I can not Be Ill with I and l.

Letters need to have different shapes.

Microsoft Verdana is actually very good, I use it for programming.

They are a purely political organization, not a scientific one.

I have no feeling about this particular issue, but the fact that the WHO says it means absolutely nothing.

Um, obviously it is not going to come packaged with an idiot installer for the latest version of Windows. It will require decoding, but be designed to be decoded, and so much, much easier than, say, Cuniform. E.g.

2@3#5 3@6#9

Pretty obvious @ is + and # is =.