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Comment Re:Well cult followers (Score 3, Insightful) 313

If the CEO of TotalEnergies had any balls, he would have used the money to build the wind farm (probably a slightly smaller one, so he has some profit) in a country that needs it most (Cuba comes to mind). It would be the best ad and best investment for the company imaginable.

Comment Re:"helping" yeah so good of them to "help" (Score 3, Informative) 151

No. A loan is lending something out and later getting it back. You lend things out that can be used, not used up. Asking extra money for a money loan is or was seen as inhumane in all major religions. Only Christianity now tries to deny that. The extra money is called usury, and was forbidden (because seen as inhumane). The moneylenders who violated that law therefore came up with the word "that what is in between", or, as money terms are often in Latin, "interest". So interest is the criminals term for usury.

Comment Could that be used? (Score 1) 51

I have been thinking if we can use this for anonymity. I am thinking about "VPN over SPAM", "data connection over ads" or "chat over slop" or something like that, where basically bulk waste traffic is slightly modified to contain a small amount of useful data. The bulk traffic would be sent to a vast number of users, so you would never know who the recipient is by looking at the traffic itself.

As yet, I could not come up with a practical solution, but it would make the waste less wasteful.

Comment Excellent idea (Score 1) 61

I think we will need to build a system to train this computer. It will probably be the size of a planet. If we hire some small 4-legged scientists (mice) who experiment on larger two-legged lab animals (humans), we might expect results in a few centuries, unless the Vogons decide to build a galaxy highway through it first.

Comment Overlordship (Score 3, Insightful) 46

Attestation is stealing control from the owners of the device. That is why google wants it so badly. They want you to pay for the device, but then have full control over what you can and cannot do with it. That a consortium wants to take that control from google is understandable, but still evil.

Attestation is basically "you might be root, but I am your king".

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