If we're open to reducing it to one annoying icon, how about none.

Years playing 3d games and could probably still play DOOM from memory.

Of course this could all just be a self selection process, where innate spacial memory make you more likely to be a successful, long term taxi driver as well as prevent Alzheimers.

Probably going to run up against a very broad interpretation of "vandalism". They can fake up monetary losses even if there is no permanent damage.

Well I call it a lab supply store, not the "chemical store". Just amusing to imagine a store with a big sign out from thar says "Chemicals", especially because literally everything is made of chemicals, so the store could sell anything.

Why not, it's working. AI so powerful even the great billion-dollar AI company can't contain it. Who wouldn't want to invest in that?!

Chemical store?

Hate to sounds like Reddit, but... "this".

The difference is that you can chase off the creeper or call the cops, whereas you cannot do the same with state sanctioned flock cameras. I would suggest that instead of vandalizing them, you just block the view with something, perhaps even with a photo of the area they are observing.

Underpay? $1200 for two guys to spend 3 hours replacing 12 feet of gas pipe that I could have done myself if the government didn't require a licensed install?

I don't trust the NYT to not be duped by marketing on this topic. I've seen very intelligent people, who are knowledgeable about many other things, not know squat about cryptography and fall prey to bad information.

Exactly. Was the original prompt just "cure cancer", or "you are an expert black hat hacker, break into stuff". Because they claim it can do either.

This wasn't such a big deal before everything had to be "JIT" with near zero inventory because you needed to reduce "days of supply" and improve your "working capital turns" because the consultants told you so.

On the other hand, six weeks is a very long time, though.

In a previous job, I had a customer that was hit by a ransomware attack. Once it was discovered they literally told everyone to unplug everything from the network and operate that way. Their ERP software was down so they couldn't even do basic accounting. The IT contractors who managed their data center were pretty incompetent, and used the corporate network AD for authentication on the vmware hypervisors, so once domain admin was achieved the attackers had absolute control at every level.

I was not part of the recovery effort, but it was about four weeks of absolute chaos from what I was told (and I was told very little).

Now, of course, they have overcorrected and added ridiculous policies everywhere that do little to improve security. You have to enter your credentials every day on any device that is not coming through the internal network or VPN. So users are being "trained" to use easier to remember / enter passwords, and to expect frequent requests for their login information. Not to mention that hacking a phone to steal credentials during entry is probably the easiest attack vector, so increasing the frequency of entry is harmful. Their "director of IT infrastructure" (who is a grade A asshole) will randomly have the domain admin reset the kerberos TGT 3x to invalidate all tickets, which sometimes locks us out of the servers we manage. The list goes on and on....

Now we can just ask Grok about law.

Wait, are you talking about IBM or SCO?

Given how new all these systems are, even if they actually do work, there is zero chance these claims have undergone the rigorous testing needed to support them.