Some of us still cynically hang onto our Cold War experiences. Once we started realizing that border agents can search your phone if you travel within 100 miles of a border, we got a little paranoid about what the government would find in our profiles and on our devices.
With my text messages, there are quite a few conversations that end with "hang on, let's talk voice" or "let's meet up later". I'm not the only person that is distrustful of the power that the federal government has. And of course, anyone with a half a brain distrusts what private corporations are going to do with your data once they get their claws on it.

How are we supposed to sell ad space in children's loot box games if the government takes away all of our users?

It doesn't matter if it's bad - if China and Russia agree it's bad you have to be for it.

You can never agree with China because they have a totalitarian AI Surveillance Police State there so you must support a totalitarian AI Surveillance Police State here.

If you are against techo-feudalism you must be one of them Putin Lovers.

- The New York Times / Langley, apparently.

Half my salary at my old job was paid in stock. I assure you, both the federal and state government consider it income. I pay taxes on the cost basis, same rate as any ordinary income on a W-2. The I pay taxes again when I have realized gains.

I'm wondering where the free services come rolling in from all this socialism. Everytime there's a petition to do something about rent, there are a bunch of ads put up to say "No on proposition __". It is almost like the landlords run our cities instead of socialists

Bingo. Seriously, how much of a worm does a person need to be to want a master?

Ancient Romans used do it. And we have done property tax for a very long time in America, which was the main pool of wealth for the rich until the late 19th century, and still is the main one for the middle class today.

Need a better example? The Wealth Tax of 1935

Need something more recent? Currently France, Norway, Spain, and Switzerland have a wealth tax.

I'm amazed to find your comment is an isolated example of reading comprehension and critical thinking.

Many others are 'accepting the premise' and 'entering the frame' of the LA Times weirdos.

Didn't expect that today.

What if...

Someone (say someone who was familiar with doxygen and GCC) developed number of comment types, where some stipulated preconditions that must be true for the function to run correctly, postconditions that must be true once the function has run, kernel facilities that the function definitely needs, and kernel facilities that the function definitely doesn't need. These would all be optional for any given function.

A static checker could then validate if the code meets the behaviour expected by the programmer. This is precisely what is done in SPARK, a fork of Ada for high-reliability code. Combined with existing static checker capabilities, this would greatly increase the number of bugs that could be caught with all kinds of tools, AI included.

It could ALSO build a full fine-grained mapping for any fine-grained mandatory access controls system. You'd also want includes that you could import for precompiled libraries. This would allow someone to verify if the code was making unanticipated/undesirable calls but would also make SELinux possible to develop for at the application level.

It would not be trivial. If it was trivial, it would have been done simply because it already IS done in other languages and that makes it "obvious" to anyone who has been programming for a while. However, it should not be massively complicated, simply because you can use AI as the static checker. Once it has a definite set of bounda that must be satisfied, it should be much more capable of knowing what paths would violate those bounds. Which means that the checker stage essentially is trivial today, leaving only the markup stage.

MS Office doesn't run that great in wine either. WPWin runs pretty very well on Wine, which is just as well, I'm not terribly comfortable in Word. There isn't a satisfactory CAD for Linux or one you can run in Wine. In school (long ago) I used AutoCAD on SGI and then Windows, had to reserve time in the computer lab since I was a student and I could not afford any SGI hardware.

While app support in Wine is not as good as we'd like to see, many (most?) games work well. And some of the old games I have that don't run well on Windows 7 (sorry, I don't have access to anything more resent) are running fine for me on Wine. So in a very real sense the compatibility is better than the real thing. (just kidding, the reality is more complicated)

The media tells me I live in some kind of socialist welfare state, yet I'm surrounded by anarcho-capitalist in every corner of the (SF) Bay Area. But I guess I should not believe my own lying eyes and trust the right wing pundits and media on this.

Government will buy people food and healthcare if they are poor enough. Saves businesses a lot of money!

Just be careful; a few old IBM sites had toxic waste problems. It sounds like they were just turning off the lights and water and walking away from these.

One woild hope everything was remediated but I wouldn't bet my own safety on it.

Yeah, that's why they mentioned the ancient Sony camera he lifted.

"Crime with a gun" is a separate crime according to NY.

SCOTUS will strike those down eventually. It's like saying "crime while praying" if it's a right.

Obviously he wasn't using the gun to jack a Betacam. He was probably worried about crackheads in there for the copper.

If the argument can be proved that they ruined the minds of an entire generation using a massive AI/Big Data model running at n terraflops by deliberately addicting children during the crucial neuronal pruning period of their lives, that is at a minimum going to cost the society tens of trillions of dollars and restitution would be far more than the proposed fines.

Nobody gets a second chance at that pruning stage, at least in this lifetime.

Their profits may be far lower than the damage they caused, but that characteristic is always true of parasitic entities.

This is basically the whole point of the Island of Pleasure warning in Pinocchio.

It remains to be seen what can be proved in Courts but the DSM-6 won't be kind to their arguments as outlined in TFS.