String Theory has contributed some useful mathematics but its position as the Only Game In Town (they call it that) appears to have been a psyop to keep Academia out of the work being done at private contractors.

Retired people from e.g. Skunkworks have described corrections and extensions of Maxwell's Equations and the Dirac Equation as the path that has yielded experimental success.

Those guys didn't "shut up and calculate". Their work is under NDA, WUSAP, ITAR, and Invention Secrecy Act restrictions.

Some parallel work, e.g. Exodus Technologies, has started to bear fruit in the public domain, so the psyop is being wound down now. Additionally China has surpassed the US in implementation so they want All Hands On Deck.

What was strategic advantage has become a strategic liability. One can understand this mindset by not caring about the hundreds of millions of lives that could have been saved by resultant technologies. When only State Supremacy (and COG) are factored in the normal human behavior goes out the window.

The impossible need to power AI for a communist surveillance police state may also be playing a factor; hard to know prospectively but somebody has the power source being demonstrated on the slow drip of DoD "UFO" videos.

Most people won't put Space Aliens on the top of the list of culprits when ATS projects by humans will suffice.

The biggest hurdle will be getting Deans and Department Chairs to discard their life's work as meaningless. What a "Good Scientist" should do and what most people will do are not the same. Hence the "funeral to funeral" adage.

If you want to see sharp edges, build an AI Surveillance Grid and send people's home electric bills to $2000/mo to pay for it.

Not that the DC government people can be trusted with any of it. Lies and deception are their standard MO on everything now.

Probably nothing, if we're being honest.

The only way it could make sense is if you use the broadcast data against a one-time pad and then you have a key to decrypt some other data, however distributed.

There aren't enough unique messages to be the data payload itself. Regular key rotation makes some sense.

Instead of a key it could be a pointer to another data source too. Frequency, satellite channel, URL, whatever.

It does seem premature to conclude the content. No doubt there are many other possibilities.

Okay, you do it. Go get rid of all the Bitcoin. Also why are people still repeating the lie that crypto is only for money laundering, when that has repeatedly been shown to be false?

A Scout is Trustworthy but this BSA has never demonstrated that virtue.

Their PR is difficult to parse as valid English but it sounds like gaslighting of the type "you can only trust what you may not examine."

It sounds incoherent but perhaps that means they have nothing else left.

Most people in Open Source are generally Helpful.

It doesn't make a lot of sense in the first place since Apple doesn't permit adult content within the apps they
allow within the AppStore ecosystem. ( as far as I'm aware of anyway )

Perhaps instead of doing all this silly age verification stuff for a smartphone in the hands of a minor, why can't
we choose an option to forgo a data plan for the phone and simply prevent the user of said phone from connecting
to the internet at all ? Don't need a data plan to make a phone call . . . . .

Why do we have to have both a phone plan AND a data plan ?
Why can't we choose one or the other here ?

( actually, we know why and it's because the telecoms make $$$$ by forcing both plans on you for these devices )

Effectively turning it back into JUST a phone.
( You know, like what we had prior to the smartphone becoming a thing )

This would:

1) cut the monthly bill for said phone by a significant amount ( it's just a phone at this point )
2) satisfy the parents who always seem to yell " What if I need to contact my child ? "
3) satisfy the kids who always seem to yell " What if I need to contact my parents ? "
4) would probably reduce the amount of time kids spend on a smartphone by a VAST amount
        ( this is a big one as kids spend far too much time on these things )

This would put the burden of choice back into the parents court instead of increasing the privacy
risks for the entire population. Not to mention it would save them some money as well.

You can -choose- to give little Timmy a fully unlocked phone with a data plan but, you have to
take responsibility for what little Timmy does with said phone if you do so. That's on you.

or

You can -choose- to give little Timmy a phone that isn't capable of connecting to the internet
at all while still maintaining the ability to contact them.

Voila, smartphones are now child safe :D

No one is using well-known ports for anything legitimate that isn't the associated service. Anything spun up on e.g. 110 that isn't a POP server is going to inherently be questionable.

It does not matter if China or the US or Timbuctoo does this first. The world is fucked whoever gets there.

I would trust my American Overlords over the Chinese overlords ANY day of the week....

Most just want money....and that's the goal they will work for no matter what the perceived consequences might be.

And "might be" is the key phrase here.

I mean, unless a humanoid cyborg from the future comes to MY house, cuts and peels his arm skin away to show me the endo skeleton and maybe the chip in his head..I'm not going to believe "maybe" could happen and sacrifice my research and livelihood.

I don't "lighten up" when small minded people are talking about decreasing my quality of life for their selfish benefit. I look down on them, as is appropriate. You're a small little man, and you're also just not funny.

I've lived MANY MANY years before all the environmental crap has been thrown out there...and my quality of life has not suffered one iota due to it.

I think that's impossible for internal combustion engines. They can't meet the emission control standards without intricate computer engine controls.

Fuck the emissions control standards..hell, we're already rolling them back in the US.

They weren't realistic anyway....let users have a choice.

I lived all those years before we had them and feel no ill effects nor is my life any poorer for the experience.

Typical nostalgia story. You must have forgotten how many repairs were made when you were a kid. My 15 year old prius has never failed once. I have only taken it in for routine maintenance: oil changes, AC recharging, bulbs replaced, battery changed every few years. It's never broken down or failed to start or made a funny noise and I live in a frozen hellhole. When I was a kid, this level of reliability was UNHEARD of. My parent's Chevy's were being repaired constantly. We knew the local auto mechanic well. I remember being stranded on the side of the road and getting a ride from a stranger to a pay phone to have our 5yo car towed. I was probably 8 and the lady driving had a bag of sour cream and onion chips open she was eating and that was my first time eating one (and I didn't like it, but was so glad she gave me a snack). It was kinda scary being stuck and seeing my dad stressed out in the days before cellphones on a rural road.

Funny....my family had pretty much the direct opposite experience yours did.

In the 70's and 80's....Let's see. My '78 280Z ran like a top...the only repairs it really ever needed was when I kept wrecking it as a kid. But I changed the oil regularly on it myself, easily....and mechanically ran with very minimal shop needs.

We had a Buick Le Saber early 80s....never really problems with it, I think it had AC work on it once that I recall. We had a '69 Volkswagen bug....pretty much ran till it just one day fell apart in the mid 80's and was then replaced. 280ZX....ran great for years, no shop time that I can recall.

And as for washing machines and dryers....hell the stuff from 30 years ago is STILL usually runing just fine today, it's the new shit that fails in a few months.

My mom has had to replace high end washers once and dryers twice in the past 2 years....

Computers and other crap are just extras to go wrong...I dont need 55 gradients of water or warm air temperatures...just the basics...wash....dry.

If my old trusty units finally give up the ghost....not a lot of simple dryers to find, but I'll spend over $1K to get the simple Speed Queen mechanical washer....just the basics and should last the rest of my life time.

Because Claude 4.7 sucked and set them back by quite a bit.

You have a small brain.

And you appear to have little to NO sense of humor.

Lighten up Francis....