Ya, but then the Trump family connection ... never mind. :-)

(a) There's a sucker born every minute.
(b) A fool and his money are soon parted.

To be fair, I've thought this about all Trump schemes and fund raising. Perhaps some new laws will result from his tenure to prevent future president from the kinds of self-dealing he's done while in office, and SCOTUS will uphold them, though I'm dubious they'll actually be needed (as much) going forward. /super-cynical

That just encourages everyone to conspire together to use more, and anybody not on board is in trouble for not using enough.

I was half way through re-reading The Two Tower - (*sigh*)

There's a simple way to solve this.

Identify the individuals who are demanding it, and have them come up with the backdoor that they believe is secure.

Put out a test bed and invite the world's hackers to compromise it, with a large cash prize for the first one who does.

If no one does, it becomes mandatory.

If anyone does, the individuals demanding it (and anyone involved in creating it) are criminally responsible for conspiracy to commit any crimes that might have been committed, which will almost certainly include death offenses.

If they're not willing to bet their lives, they don't get to be anyone else's, because compromised encryption will result in deaths.

I'm not too worried, as hotels should have these patched within two weeks. Just thank God there's no hacker conference this weekend in a city like Las Vegas, which has the most hotel rooms in America.

You'd think there'll be people solving the easy unsolved problems, but the fact is humans go for glamor. I'll give you a specific example, in my company .. which does biotech .. I mention in passing to every intern the following: "there are about 20,000 genes in the human genome. For many of them, nobody has investigated what it does. You can find numerous lists on this (reference: https://unknome.mrc-lmb.cam.ac... ) .. for example a famous gene like TP53 (which causes cancer when fucked) has tens of thousands of publications made about it (though ironically there's likely still stuff it does that we don't know). Meanwhile as shown in the reference URL there are hundreds of genes that have had no papers published on them. Like zero, no publications .. given the resources available at this company we will let you investigate what those genes do and possibly find out something cool, but, you have to do it on your own time."

Guess how many interns have bothered to do that in the past decade? Zero.

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It will eventually be revealed that rsilvergun is a Chinese LLM trained entirely on the complete works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Kim Il-Sung, and Mao.

And there's a sucker born every minute who will buy it.

He wouldn't have touted or even created this dashboard if the report hadn't suggest a rosy payback. The jury is still out on that prediction.

Also, which is it? Did they get rid of half their books but are still there, or were they destroyed?

Even you don't know what the hell you're jibbering ab out.

Truth Social I'm sure. As hard as it is to believe, there are still people who think Trump is a genius, and still want to "own the Libs".

No, they do not. They have the same number of books as they did 15 years ago, give or take a few.

You're projecting that your shitty library run by idiots is the same for all libraries. Sucks to be you.

It must be terrible, letting the Orange Dragon live rent free in your head like that.