No.. ants are too big. It's a door for nanite block the foundations for a type of microscopic robot race also known as the replicators.

Upon receiving the proper signal - the microscopic robots will break free through the hidden back door and then wreak havoc on the whole machine, and then the whole server room.

Such a door would have no room to open and even if you could open it

Clearly the door is a microscopic door, and on the edge not the bottom or top. Being a few atoms wide there's plenty of space, and can open from a microscopic channel so small a standard microscope cannot see it.

The recipients are not at fault for being given data they shouldn't have received.

Facebook is not a naive recipient in the story though. Flo used Facebook's tools to develop their app.

Facebook's user interface toolkit causes certain events such as clicking a certain button within an App to be sent back to Facebook to be logged and possibly data mined; most likely to allow users to be correlated to certain Ad audiences.

What does not make sense is why would end users think that Facebook is not recording their clicks? How does a website work if the clicks you are making are not recorded, anyway? Generally the things you clicked on have to be saved and processed on the server in order to send you a response.

I'm not sure why you'd think that.. If they were willing to rebuild the OS to be lightweight; telemetry is a feature they could still have. ChromeOS certainly has detailed telemetry - it's not a privacy-centric OS. And an efficient implementation of telemetry is not fundamentally at odds with the concept of a lightweight OS that can run with minimal resources.

What causes bloat is 35 years worth of baggage. A fresh new take on the NT kernel with no attempt at compatibility or the ability to use any program, binary, library, or driver, designed for a previous OS could be amazing. But the amount of work would be huge, and it would not be within Microsoft's nature is what I am saying.

They are always unreasonably - with no foundation or evidence accusing Chinese companies of compromising the integrity of products by planting backdoors or being in cahoots with the state government.

Now they're actually trying to do exactly what they've been accusing China of doing which is pressuring companies to compromise the security and trustworthiness of their product by installing backdoors for the US.

Perhaps their real "national security concern" is the Chinese products DONT have backdoors that let the US spy on citizens.

The farm lobby and "big ag" are not the individual farmers either; they're the companies that supply farmers with their necessary products such as equipment - chemicals, and seeds. Thus their disinterest doesn't mean anything either.

Big ag also aren't going to be the users, and large farms would monitor the health of their own fields through other means.
The satellite data would be more useful for traders and other market participants.
 

It is essentially politically-motivated attempts to sabotage future research and data gathering.
Trump has decided climate change is not a thing; therefore any research involving data gathering that could undermine the narrative shall be terminated.

The AI ends up recommending the patient commit suicide. Should YOU be charged with murder? It was your AI creation. A human therapist would likely be charged with manslaughter(murder basically) if they did something like that.

Would the human therapist actually get charged in that case however? It perhaps is unlikely the therapist can be charged criminally, unless you could prove that therapist undertook an act to advance that crime and aided them carrying it out - making them a cause or an accomplice. Generally your talks with a human therapist are confidential, and it's doubtful a professional would record anything so explicit.

It's not a general principle that if you do something illegal that your therapist can be guilty of something; even if you are following what you think their recommended course of action is.

I mean, even if they had said "I think you should go bust into the London gold vault and take all the gold".. That does not legally make them a cause for your actions if you choose to take that remark on your own and put it into action; it's not their action, unless they take an overt step forward, such as assisting you in planning your breakin, etc.

Merely talking about a crime or suggesting one does not cause or aid a crime in happening, etc. Even if you are seeing a therapist: you are expected to still know right from wrong. And if you don't, then you shouldn't be on the street, and what you really have in that case is a clinical malpractice violation.

So let me go back to that one...

The AI ends up recommending the patient commit suicide. Should YOU be charged with murder?

Should you be charged with murder. No.

Should you be found liable for a civil wrong: Yes. You are purporting to provide therapy, but it's a bogus product, and it possibly harms them further. If the patient ends up following that general recommendation.. I see how there could be an argument for wrongful death, but also it's tough to prove the causality, and that the liability should not be on the part of the patient who should have known the recommendation is wrong and inappropriate.

Just like a random dude on the street cannot just say "I can provide psychotherapy services"

Except that is not what the law does. If the law ONLY prevented you from hanging out a shingle that says "Professional Psycotherapy Services" without a license that would be cool.

What this law bans is so extremely broad the Calm.com and other meditation apps could be considered banned; assuming they provide music selections being provided to AI and not a Licensed Professional Music Therapist in that stat.

The definition in the statute is all services provided to diagnose, treat, or improve an individual's mental health or behavioral health.

By that definition services designed to improve mental or behavioral of health include a heck of a lot more than something advertised as professional medical therapy or psychotherapy service.

With a special exception for religious church counselors: "Therapy or psychotherapy services" does not include religious counseling or peer support.

I mentioned meditation apps.. But there are other services that claim benefits to mental well-being or claim to help in stress relief, such as Yoga or exercise apps, Just being a friend and listening to someone and offering informal advise, etc.

No hub, because

switch(config)#feature port-security
switch(config)#ip dhcp snooping vlan 100
switch(config)#ip dhcp snooping verify mac-address
switch(config)#ip arp inspection vlan 100
switch(config)#ip arp inspection validate src-mac dst-mac ip
switch(config)#ip source binding 192.168.44.17 001a.22e4.7761 vlan 100 interface ethernet 1/3
switch(config)#int range Ethernet1/0 - 20
      speed 1000
      duplex full
      switchport access vlan 100
      switchport mode access
      ip verify source dhcp-snooping vlan
      switchport port-security
      switchport port-security violation shutdown
      switchport port-security maximum 1
      switchport port-security mac sticky
      switchport port-security aging time 0
      switchport port-security aging type absolute
      switchport port-security mac-address 001a.22e4.7761 vlan 100

No. What you describe, I just call a "conspiracy" (assuming the action is harmful or illegal or .. eh, I think the word "shady" probably fits best).

I suppose the participants technically do also have a conspiracy theory, but I think it's inappropriate to call their direct knowledge that. The hypothesizing is usually by nonparticipants, and if they come up with a hypothesis with enough evidence to back it up such that their explanation becomes widely accepted in the mainstream, then they have a conspiracy theory.

(BTW, I know I already lost this argument decades ago. I lost the fight over the word "hacker" too. But that doesn't mean I can't grind this axe for the rest of my life! The word "theory" means something, or at least it did/should in my fantasy world.)

Undersea cables like that only work because it is optical cabling for communications only.

One does not simply run a 5500km extension cord.
The maximum length of a power cable is ultimately dictated by the losses, and the drop across such extreme length would also be extreme.

The voltage required would be so astronomical you can't necessarily manufacture the transformer to pull it off, and you might as well look into the wireless power transmission route at that point.

Wasps definitely DO have hives. The formal word is vespiaries, and also sometimes people refer to them as nests. Did you think wasps just perch at night with no shelter and no protection for their brood at all?

At first I thought it would be some form of BFS, but it's really simple, cause if you have a matrix, where you want to see if all the numbers pair up, and each can pair with any other eligible, it doesn't matter which cells pair together.

They don't ask if the puzzle is solvable but it seems like this should be solvable in O(n) time if the sum of all elements is the same as the sum of foreach(10-element).

e.g.

1 2
1 2

= 6

9 8
9 8

= 34

1 2
9 8

= 20

4 4
2 0

= 10

6 6
8 10
= 30

References are not pointers, they CAN be implemented using a memory pointer (into raw memory) or as an offset into a base memory block, and they can also be reference counted or not. References are in general much SAFER than pointers, as they can actually check if the thing they are referencing still exists.

Pointers are just a number, with no guarantees that that number refers to memory which is even still allocated to the process.
Pointers can be incremented while references cannot.

When you de-reference a pointer, the memory there may have been corrupted by another part of your process, while references (assuming you are only using references in most languages all bets are off with unsafe access in rust for example) have the guarantee that the memory you are accessing is not corrupt.

Since pointers are just a number, they are faster to use cause you don't need to do any extra checks at runtime to ensure they are valid.

Java for example has multiple types of References (normal 'Hard' references, soft, weak and phantom). C++ has 'smart pointers' which are a weaker version of references and I think that the many half-way implementation of references that are really just pointers with weak guarantees of safety have muddled the definition. Same goes for objC style ARC references, they are a very good implementation of a pointer with reference features but even Apple changed that when they moved to swift, even if the main way to interact with them (Reference Counting) is the same.

While at the core concept, they both refer to memory, they are very different. References simply have more features everywhere they are implemented (Java, JavaScript, Go, C#, etc.)