That is pretty much how I feel.

To be fair, it is not that humans cause the CO2 emissions what makes them deadly. It is the extreme volume in such a short time that is the problem. If this were a normal climate-change event, it would take 10'000 years or longer to get where we will be in 100 years. The deadly aspect is the speed.

Obviously, the denier morons cannot tell the difference between 100 and 10'000 years. Too complex a question for them.

AliExpress is an intermediary. And it allows me to buy the same stuff I would buy locally, just a lot cheaper and with reasonable shipping fees.

You you think buying the same things at artificially inflated prices is somehow "virtuous", you need to have your head examined.

And make some stupid claim about some "anomaly". The "anomaly" is that probably that I use AliExpress only on a Linux machine with no audio in the Kernel.

Wrong. The number of Qbits is not scaling. It is slowly very going up. It would need to go up double-exponentially (!) to even give us liner improvement in computing power per unit of time. It does not even go up linearly with time, it is _slower_. Hence we will never even see enough effective Qbits that can stay entangled long enough to attack currently secure cryptography. The Sun will explode before that happens.

That said, QCs will _never_ break AES256. This universe is to small for that aver happening. The QC effort for that is 2^128 and no computing mechanism will ever be able to do this number of steps.

What really astonishes me how confidentially clueless people like you are. You do not even understand the basics and yet you make gande claims.

I know that 28 was wrong. I read some other paper at the same time and keep confusing the two. That does however mean absolutely nothing, does in no way invalidate my argument and does not give you anything. And since it was not even Shor's algorithm that was run (due to absence of decisions), it means even less.

However, you seem to be totally ignorant with regards to algorithmic complexity. That means you do not even have the very basics needed to be in this exchange.

True. MS is just responsible for utterly shoddy IT security and fostering a culture of insecurity and bad code. That does not make them directly responsible that criminal people use the opportunities they created. They are the root-cause for the problem though.

It depends. If it can just be a special layer 3/4 payload and not a magic layer 2 package, you can send it from outside to any machine that is Internet-reachable.

On an individual level, definitely. On the level of society, that will make the upcoming crash and long economic crisis harder.

Walking on two legs is not a smart mode of locomotion for a machine.

If you do not find fun as an adult, you are doing it wrong. Here is a hint: Regressing yourself to a mental child is not the way to do it.

Nope. But idiots incapable of learning, like you, are still expecting the golden age tomorrow when it has been announced to manifest very soon for 30 years now.

QCs are not going to happen. Deal with it.

I agree. But what this means is the death of low and medium expertise levels. People that get high expertise have always found ways to do it. They are just pretty rare (maybe 10% of all CS/IT people), and that makes them expensive. On the plus-side, we have been producing way too much (mostly crappy) software anyways and we have used way too high-maintenance server and software systems in addition. The 10% are quite enough to keep things running and maintained once all the cruft and crap is removed from service. Obviously, AI will not play a role in that, because it cannot and will never be able to perform on that level.

What a stupid comment. Did you even read what the story was about?

That is the wrong approach. To firewall these, you need to know the type and nature of the backdoors in there. But once you know that, you reject the product.

Also, a firewall does nothing for SMS unless you do SS7 firewalling, which is very, very hard to do and requires expensive equipment.