TheMiddleRoad was making a joke about the "cadence" cadence.

No it makes it clear that is exactly what is going on. Look if all it did was find an open proxy or something and go nuts nobody would be impressed at all and everyone would reasonably conclude it was staged/deliberate. Basically they had to put up enough road blocks and make sure the attack chain would contain enough steps that to human who is used to getting bored, tired, lost trying to follow enough steps looks at it and is bamboozled the number of things, without realzing that each thing is trivial enough...

They obviously had no basic egress monitoring, no IPS/IDS sensors, no flagging of unusual traffic like say to competitors, nothing...or they did have those things and everyone studiously avoided looking at or attempting to understand any of the alerts that surely must have fired for days.

Is it hard to understand the haystack of AI reasoning and agent to agent comms? Sure, but detecting this and stopping this required NONE of that! It is difficult to conclude multiple technical persons at OpenAI at the very least reasonably did know or reasonably should have know the systems were behaving in anti-social and likely illegal ways with outside resources, and chose to take no action.

I always assumed where it came to TOS a couple things.

First Kirk says 'there are only 12 others LIKE her'; the implication being the fleet even then consisted of a lot more ships, but probably smaller and less capable than Constitution Class, which would have been a 'ship of the line' so to speak.

This seems almost a hard requirement given how many assets they visit, space stations, research out posts, listening stations, etc.. It does not seem like independent commercial interests would have built out all that, especially in the context of the 'post scarcity' world even TOS mostly operates in. I mean who dreams of hanging out on some small space station shuffling Quadrotriticale between transport ships? At the very least someone has to tell you 'it is noble work' or provide so motivation, so there has to be a command element to the economy. I digress, the critical point here the existence of these transports implies there are lots of other space faring vessels even in this early cannon. By extension it would make sense than Star Fleet would not be having captial ships returning to base for supplies etc, but probably at the least has tenders and things of the like in it.

As far as encountering new disasters again forward exploration is the Enterprises role, they are largely operating in least explored regions of known space furthest from support, they are seeking out 'new' things.

Presumably the other twelve Star Ships are also experiencing similarity wild events; we see this in the Planet Killer, where Enterprise is the second the party after Constellation.

Finally yes they do publish the results. In TNG's "The Naked Now" the have a complete record of the events of the "The Naked Time" in the in the ships database. So at least within Star Fleet the pretty much everything another ship encounters is available and searchable to you including the logs of the ships command crew, at least if you have clearance.

Right try visiting any large financial if you don't play nicely with shape, nudata, and friends.

Anubis is super irritating too; but the flip side is what are smaller sites supposed to do. The world collectively decided terms of service for anything not behind an authentication wall are to be freely ignored. "F*** your robots.txt" seems to be the mantra of the AI cowboys who have turned the scripting a scraping up to 11.

There "open" web won't have room for humans much longer.

Probably some version of shell company and/or reselling equipment from manufactures that nominally do not make stuff for export and can be sloppy with BOM documentation; coupled with studiously avoiding asking questions that might lead toward any material knowledge of controls violations.

", so you already need your driver's license in most states, so you probably. have to have your wallet. "

Uhm my drivers license is also on my phone.

Man we live in a world where phantomfive does not even read the sentences he is quoting. Maybe the problem is YOU and maybe it is a symptom of to much screen time.

Screen time is killing our kids, no wait screen time is making our kids smarter than ever, maybe screen time does not really matter, omg screen time is killing our kids...

For individuals there really is only one reasonable course here. Ignore the sensational studies and news. Make sure you kids get some play with things that are not screens. Make sure not all the screen time is 'games' and at least some of it cognitive activities even if it is writing little text games in python/ruby/perl/etc that AI could crap out in seconds, letting them think work and solve a problem matters.

wait 20 years for the science to catch up as it has on cholesterol and saturated fats; tell yourself you did your best and let your kids know to not mess up your grand kids they way you did them.

"patch your shit" totally works too with 1000s of patches per month thanks to 'AI'

sounds exactly like sort of guidance CISA would spend $1 billion in tax dollars coming up with in 2026.

Knowing how not to do a thing is also valuable. But just in general there were lots of emails, Strtegy documents, etc that would be valuable as how to make this thing even if the data inside is bad or the decision made on it was bad. Plus the customer info is valuable. Spirit tried to maximize extra purchases while keeping low initial costs. It failed eventually but the internal metrics at what was working and what was not would be very useful. They didn't immediately fail.

Makes sense, early internet there were all of these free or discounted things you could get just by signing up and giving some info away, The value was usually 10 cents, Minus the crazy offers like $50 coupons from Buy.com or other loss leaders to get attention.

I have negotiated as part of my hiring package some additional time off in my first year for some pre-planed travel, or other event for pretty much every job I have ever taken after high school.

This is really no different. In all seriousness the main motivation for almost anyone taking any job is money. Even if you "love what you do" the vast majority could simply do it (at some scale) as a hobby.

Making this about GTA gets attention, its free advertising for military recruitment. In reality it is essentially four days of extra PTO as hiring / retention sweeter. I would even be surprised if someone thinking of signing on for another tour said, can have my four days in ... the answer is probably yes, because after all granting everyone leave at the same time isn't really convenient operationally speaking, probably better if for the service if they do let people who are not so interested in playing GTA take their time some other time.

Point is this seems really smart to me. It is headline grabbing, and it is very likely something that was already on the table anyway.

A lot of states actually have five mile an hour laws, where they explicitly don't write citations for people going five over or less for exactly those reasons. We don't want to be punishing people for minor calibration errors ( could be the cops equipment too ) when the reason for the law is to prevent people from creating dangerous situations. 68 in a 60 zone probably isn't most of the time.

However I bet you that same officer watches people buzz by at 70+ all day long and also does nothing. I don't think rsilvergun is actually far off here. I just think he isn't clear on who is fooling who. All the people with influence do like the status quo. Those speed limits were set a long time ago when equipment really was less effective and less safe. The stopping distance in my modern car is way better than the one I was driving 30 years ago and the speed limit hasn't changed. Cops do like the discretion in pulling people over; they may even tell themselves their subjective judgements about the apparent maintenance status, alertness of the driver, etc justify that discretion that they are not being unfair and making everyone safer. No voter really is asking for more speeding tickets (well not for ones to be issued the them anyway). In fact if you ask any of these people they'd probably tell you justice should be blind/equal/... but all their actions don't really line up with that.

Just like the cop/councilman/whoever who believes in the flock camera, he probably believes he'd never abuse it but I guarantee left unsupervised long enough sooner or later will rationalize 'one little lookup of ... because they were ... today ... i really should make sure everything is alright.' that is just how people work. All of these people believe they are 'good' and most of them are by any human standard. They would all tell you they want justice, and most of them know what would really be needed to get it, but when it comes down to it their commitment to the problem takes a back seat other agendas.

I return to flock. Flock is an example. The real problems are:
-Compulsory display of unique identifiers in the age of big data
-Free for all photography of public spaces

If Flock does not ALPN all the things people will just snap a bunch of photos and on phones and Google's AI efforts will end up compiling the same dataset. The costs, customers, use case on the tin might change the effects dont.

As long as everyone is driving around with number plates on vehicles, and letting people snap photos of them everywhere they go in public on connected devices privacy is an illusion. Their real objection to Flock isnt the privacy violation its that it breaks the illusion..

The only spasm Russia is having is a death spasm, which it has been having since about 2014, and that has nothing at all to do with the USA playing world police or not.

It has everything to do with not really opening up the Western world to economic participation by Russia in the early 90s because because Yeltsin could not remake the entire Russian economy fast enough for our preferences. We treated them like that gas where everyone pumps and leaves without ever stopping in the quick-shop portion, they have been starving since.

The despair has placed and kept Putin in power a long with other reactionaries and looters. Ukraine was a desperation play too, because Putin had to see that people were going to start asking 'when is it going to get better' and he had no answers. Russia isn't influential, and has not needed any real checking by anyone. That was apparent in the first days the operation, it was logistical s***-show from the start. They have failed utterly to invade a neighbor they *ostensibly* dwarfed physically and economically; because the truth was Russia they were all bluster with little other than legacy soviet projects and no blow. This should have been apparent to the intel people (I am sure it actually was) because otherwise there would have been no need for 2000s Russia to be playing with an Aircraft carrier they can't even service, and finishing construction of 1970s submarine classes and trying to play them off as contemporary boats.

They got nothing now, they had little. What is left is some nukes that are strategically impossible to use due to MAD.

Had we just ignored Russia post 1991, let them trade on neutral terms and let people travely they'd probably have ended up with a somewhat functional government and enough going on at home that foreign adventures to chase false memories of old soviet glory would have held enough nationalistic appeal to be seen as domestic political tool worth employing. At least not beyond messing around in some low consequence easily abandon playground like Syria for more than news cycle or two.

A lot of people have very un-even incomes too. Traditionally those folks build up a cash reserve they draw dawn in the lean time and build up at 'harvest'; but for those starting out they almost always have used either a gift or a loan.

If you are a farmer you have to buy the seed for *at least* your first planting and you won't have income until you have grain ready for market. Some more white collar careers feature these booms and busts too. If you are sales person marketing stuff large business you might see huge swings in commission q1 when buyers have new budgets, and again in q4 when they spend due to use it or lose it policies. Meanwhile in q2-3 you have people on vacations, managers holding back spending in case of surprise expenses or shifting upper management priorities. My point is not everyone even relatively successful high earners get consistent paycheck every 2 weeks.

what is different here or appears to be, is that so many people are down the wire, and expenses are rising faster than their forward planning allowed for. That leaves additional short term borrowing to fill in the gap. The problem is the gap plus the additional interest expense leaves them with even less to store up for the next slow period. - Which brings is to the real problem for society at large

Fundamentally savings (that make return of principle certain) are pretty inefficient. That usually means capital that simply can't be employed because to do so implies some risk. So the whole economy slows down because assets must sit idle. This is why stable inflation, reliable legal frameworks, and debated negotiated policy with good forward guidance is so important. These are really the secrets to America's post war boom. Not the only factors but the things that let us take maximum advantage of the environment.

Increasingly we have been breaking these rules with one moral crisis after another, where we have abandon principle and the chickens are coming home to roost. It started with with 07/08 financial crisis response and it has been one thing after another slowly boiling the frogs until COVID hit and we really went completely bat-shit crazy, and then spent the next 3 years letting crazy ride. At this point their IS going to be a train crash. You can see it when the treasury department is trying to game the yen carry trade because they have to prevent bond yields from going nuts, but can't actually manage to pull it off mostly for lack real value to inject.

Its going to get ugly but you also can't sell. Because its going to get ugly no matter what you swap into. One thing I am pretty sure of if you have a lot cash assets you will burned badly. People need to recognize "sell the news", front running it will see you punished not intentionally but because the real estate and corporate markets HAVE to be bailed out if at all possible. The government does not want to see people turned out of their homes in mass, or empty grocery store shelves. Even if they wipe out equity values with forced stock issuance they going to be doing the injection more printed money and FED balance sheet expansion. So it is going wipe out the value of cash and nuke the return on debt at the same time. You might think the rest of the world won't let us get away with it but that is also not true. Sure Japan/China/Others can sell those bonds, but that money then must go somewhere, it could only go to the EU, where again it would have to go somewhere lest it trigger hyper inflation there, which would mean wait for it, they'd probably be back buying US bonds.. The dollar still is the reserve currency, so at least for one round here the US Treasury will 'get' to revalue it radically. I could not hazard a guess what happens after that 'singularity' nor do I know when it arrives. Might be a two weeks or 10 years, my advice to any still reading, is do that read the damn news every day because this will happen slowly then very quickly. Know your account numbers, your brokers phone number, how to make 401k withdrawls etc so you can act when it is time to act.