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Comment With the crappy IT security everywhere... (Score 1) 20

... such an event is actually possible. Far too much critical infrastructure is not even remotely secured as well as it should be. Hackers usually do not go after it, because there is no profit in it and scary people may come looking for them. But AI, while not very competent as attacker, may not understand that and may attack anyways.

Comment That old idea again (Score 1) 79

It seems enough time has passed since the last catastrophic failures in this space that people do not remember. No, this does not work except in some very specific scenarios. What Meta is probably doing is get hardware done for their very special and very irrelevant elsewhere use-case. That does not even merit a story.

Comment Re:Summary ... (Score 1) 281

It always helps to ask questions like Why did time get coordinated in the first place?

Yes, exactly. DST came about because there were issues to be solved. Apart from sleep there is also recreation and having an additional hour to socialize with people which also mean there are a bunch of businesses that operate primarily in this time. We can also talk about traffic issue and the sun being in a different position when they are driving.

I think what we're looking at is the short sighted stupidity of emotional retarded people who's version of thinking is yelling at people to support an idea they are too cognitively lazy to consider for themselves.

Comment The obsession with DNS is stupid (Score 2) 57

A good place to see that politicians are generally clueless and incapable or unwilling to see facts. I mean, I can run my own recursive DNS with no problems and the only thing I lose is some performance from caching. There is not even a reasonable possibility to block this in the network.

Comment Funny thing (Score -1) 54

Software Engineering still is not even remotely real engineering. It is too messed up, to chaotic and too clueless about its main object. Hence, no, she cannot have established it as a proper engineering discipline, because it still does not qualify as one.

Seriously, I am getting really tired of some people being lauded all out of proportion just because they were women in tech. I have no problem with them being recognized, but this type of story is just propaganda and deeply dishonest.

Comment No, he did not "calculate".... (Score 1) 185

What he did is make up some "facts" and then throw some math on top to obscure that the "facts" are pure hallucinations. Works on the stupid and is something regularly done today. It does work better when the math used is statistics, because that is hard to really understand even for experts. But, if sone right, you get all kinds of magical symbols and an end-result that _surely_ must be true...

That said, the already started human-made climate change will reduce population, probably pretty strongly. When agriculture stops working in mist places, that tends to have rather strong limiting effects. Hence regulation mechanisms are coming active before things are getting close to the point were only fast collapse is possible. This seems to be an universal property of finite complex systems, such as we have on this planet.

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