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Comment Re: So they are learning from the USA (Score 1) 364

" I don't know if you are really that ignorant or what your malfunction is." This is where the conversation ends because when you have to make your point by being personally insulting, im done and owe you nothing.

I have no other words to characterize idiocy like "A 5000 year old country doesnt forget its roots or what a brutal dictatorship they were ruled over by the Shah for 26 years" so yea if the shoe fits wear it. I provided objective reasons to support my characterizations of your remarks. You on the other hand have nothing substantive to say and can't support your positions. You are just wasting everyone's time.

Comment Re: So they are learning from the USA (Score 1) 364

The NY Times and youre calling me ignorant...quite hilarious but dont get your narrative in the way of a good story.

Your statements were factually incorrect. What is your issue with the NYT article? Are there any facts in it that you dispute? If so which ones? Do you dispute Mossadegh held a sham referendum that got 99.96% of the vote to give himself powers he was not constitutionally entitled?

There is no definition of coup that includes someone with the constitutional right to do something legally doing that thing. This would be like saying had Nixon not resigned and was impeached and the removal vote succeeded he was ousted in a "coup". That isn't a thing and makes no sense. The king always had the power to remove Mossadegh and he exercised it on Aug 15th 1953. This is an indisputable fact. A coup is when a member of the state exceeds their authority to gain power they are not legally entitled. Nothing like that happened.

As for the CIAs involvement it is way overblown. There was real popular support for the king and this at is how he won the legitimacy contest with Mossadegh who was convicted and jailed for three years for his illegal coup attempt. The CIA absolutely had plans and tried to help the king but their role was minimal. The real power came from a coalition of Iranian supporters who won the day.

Comment Re:win 11 source (Score 1) 21

At this point, there is probably nothing that can rescue either Microsoft or Linux from the hordes at the wall. Both are performance-first operating systems. There's nothing surprising or unusual about that; this is the dominant paradigm. Windows NT made at least some attempt in the other direction until version 4, but then they prioritized UI latency over memory security. LLMs apparently don't have to be able to think to recognize patterns which indicate vulnerabilities. If having closed source is even still a benefit in hiding failures, it won't be for long.

On top of that, the hardware isn't secure enough either and both are going to have to be addressed to reasonably secure our systems from this new threat. They were never really secure, humans could find the same vulnerabilities, but there weren't enough humans looking. There's lots of compute hours being spent looking.

This isn't limited to Windows and Linux, every vaguely common system has the same problem. None of them were built for security first, because such a system would cost more to operate and almost nobody has been demanding to pay more for less performance in security's name. But many have long predicted we'd get to the point where we start to spend our performance advancement budget on security because some development will necessitate it, and it seems like we might have arrived there now. There are and have been more secure systems, but the home PC is going to have to become one of them because otherwise we won't be able to use them for anything other than getting pwned.

Comment Re:So they're the Mafia? (Score 1) 364

Why yes he did. Iranians were perfectly peaceful to the rest of the world despite arguing a lot at home.

Your ignorance is beyond words. The Iranian regimes raison d'etre is literally "exporting the revolution". It has wreaked havoc thought the region for decades doing exactly that. The fact Iran is the worlds leading state sponsor of terror is not merely an empty slogan.

The regime has the blood of the entire region on its hands in addition to oppressing and massacring its own people while severely lacking any internal legitimacy. I hope they get wiped out.

Your gasoline is now more expensive because Iranians turned against you.

The Iranians are Trumps and BiBis biggest fans.

Comment Re:Mixed feelings.. (Score 1) 87

I hate seeing seemingly intelligent people view this as "I hate that business guy more than the other business guy", as opposed to "What rules should American business have to operate under".

That's a typically shit take, because both of these business guys have proven repeatedly that they are both hot garbage as human beings. It on brand for you to ignore that.

Comment Re:Meta: The model for America going forward (Score 1) 33

The real fear is not that the AI doesn't work but rather that the AI does work to at least some extent.

And unfortunately, it does. The corporate world has already satisfied all of the relevant if statements. It works to some extent if you are willing to accept massive failures — the industry has proven that over and over again by rewarding failures with sales, they will buy proven trash before paying for quality; they will accept "good enough for right now" and kick the can forever; they will rewrite entire products and discard years of both development and goodwill just to look like they're forward-looking to idiots, because nobody ever went broke assuming there'd be no shortage of them.

If you're willing to accept shit results because you have no pride then AI is good enough. And... *waves around vaguely* ...people should pay attention, because that's the dominant paradigm.

Comment Untrustworthy is an Understatement (Score 2) 21

It's hard to prove that Microsoft cares less about security than other vendors, without a bunch of information from Microsoft and other vendors that we're not privy to — not even shareholders get to know the full risks involved in the products upon which their dividends depend. But it's easy to prove that they will happily lie about it.

Comment Honest question... (Score 2) 87

Anyone with legal experience answer, I'm curious how a question of statute of limitations went to the jury. Is that not a decision of law? And if that was a major factor, how was that not decided first? A full trial wasn't needed to decide whether or not there was even grounds to sue.

Comment Re:Iran is going to lose access to the gulf (Score 1) 364

The US has used a tiny fraction of its power in Iran. They could bomb the place into rubble if they wanted to, but that isn't the goal. The goals are: No nuclear weapons, stop funding terrorists all over the world, stop threatening their neighbors and international shipping. Iran has a well educated population and natural resources that would make them a very prosperous country but they are ruled by thugs.

The only goal that matters is regime change.

Comment Re: So they are learning from the USA (Score 2) 364

In 1953 was Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh was ousted with the aid of the US government which is an act of war

You are spewing raw unadulterated nonsense.

The king ousted Mossadegh because he was perusing a coup against the state to install himself as a dictator. What the US did do was run a largely ineffective propaganda campaign the CIA itself considered a failure and pulled the plug on against Mossadegh. It consisted of acts like buying up radio ads, printing fliers, paying people to show up and protest/shit on Mossadegh whose popularity was already in decline.

The king didn't require the assistance of the US government to oust a prime minister. According to article 46 of their constitution the hiring and firing of ministers is by royal decree and firing is exactly what he did on Aug 15th 1953. Only the king can hire ministers. Parliamentary votes for new ministers required the kings consent.

For anyone confused about the history I recommend this article from Aug 4th 1953 on the NYT archive.

"A plebiscite more fantastic and farcical than any ever held under Hitler or Stalin is now being staged in Iran by Premier Mossadegh in an effort to make himself unchallenged dictator of the country."

https://www.nytimes.com/1953/0...

the Shah was overthrown and the US embassy destroyed when the Iranian government took prisoners and were portrayed in the media as savages.

Savage is exactly what the dark age nonsense known as Khomeinism is.

A 5000 year old country doesnt forget its roots or what a brutal dictatorship they were ruled over by the Shah for 26 years

FFS during the massacres of Jan 8th and 9th millions of people were chanting long live the king and writing the kings name in actual blood. I don't know if you are really that ignorant or what your malfunction is. The Iranian regime does not have legitimacy and has done nothing but shit on Persian culture going so far as preventing newborns from having Persian or non-islamic names.

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