Number 7 according to Car & Driver, which I think is much more trustworthy than whatever "Wealthy Driver" is. The Car & Driver list is also applies to 2025 rather than 2023.

https://www.caranddriver.com/n...

This is a general problem with mass market capitalism not limited to the medical sector. Walk into any large supermarket and it's stuffed with ultra-processed food that is not good for anybody. Relatively young adults are increasingly getting diseases of the old and bad diet is a big cause.

The reason that vaccines are real science is that outcomes can be reliably predicted. For prescription medicine the cost effectiveness and possible negative results are closely monitored and very well understood. That's science.

For AI no one can predict the cost./benefit, or even the actual cost. The social and environmental impact is deliberately being ignored. How big is the impact on infrastructure? Everyone knows the cost of water and power is being passed on to the general population while it is equally clear the the monetary benefits are primarily going to a select group of insiders and economic elites.

I'm very familiar with right wing tactics on Slashdot and you fit the bill. It's the pretend rational objection of casting doubt on established norms with a dash of conspiracy theory thrown in to spice things up.

You are a stealth anti-vax propagandist who pretends to be a rational voice. You may or may not use vaccines yourself since your side is ripe with hypocrisy. Do you think anyone in the high level Trump camp in vaccine free? (Maybe RFK Jr, but he has diagnosed holes in his brain due to parasitic worms.)

I look forward to your explosive diarrhea during the upcoming toilet paper shortage and likely hospital admission due to the consumption of tainted mystery meat from an undisclosed foreign location.

I know nothing about this guy or this project. But the author of the summary apparently feels that, in the spirit of deep investigation and journalistic corroboration, the evidence we *really* need to evaluate is an unnamed blogger:

and not the actual quote from the guy apparently supporting the ethnic cleansing of Europe?

Either that quote exists, and is infinitely more significant evidence for us to see and evaluate, or it doesn't exist, and the author is just helping to propagate slander.

Given the author's choice I'll take a guess which.

One is pure hype and the other is pure science.

We're screwed.

Dell wins a $9.7 billion Pentagon software deal after donating to Trump accounts.

I thought they were all independent contractors!!!

Assume there's a legitimate company out there that will verify driver's licenses. Do they really need to store everything "online"? No, they do not.

They can store it "offline" with a 1- or 2- minute delay to access the data, caching it in "online" systems for maybe 15 minutes.

This, plus alarms when large amounts of data is being moved from "offline" to "online" in a short period of time, would've either made this leak slower than it was or, more likely, led to this year-long leak being discovered and plugged long ago.

Is this inconvenient? Sure, but it's not a practical impediment for "batch jobs" like employment identity verification.

For "real time" things like renting a car, the vendors will have to begin the verification process, do things to "kill time" like review the auto-rental contract or go with the sales clerk to inspect the car, then tell the customer "you are good to go" or "we need more information to verify your identity."

For situations like a bank where you can't "fill the time," the bank can set up a highly-secure on-premises id-verification computer that can act as a long-term cache. Everyone whose ID isn't locally cached will need to "step aside" for a minute while their ID is verified. Or better yet, they can start the ID-verification process before getting to the front of the line.

IMO buying and selling are a matter of gambling on which way you think other people gamble.

I know what .rar and .gz are. If .lz is something similar, maybe dark matter is a compression artifact.

I'm sure that hopping on the AI bandwagon will fix everything.

The fact that it makes a big cloud around a galaxy or cluster rather than collapsing puts a lot of constraints on what it can do.

For more info, you'll have to go to someone who knows more about it than what I've read on science-news websites.

Dark energy is a real puzzle. As I understand it, it's too weak by a factor of 10^30 or 10^60 in comparison from what we should expect the known vacuum energy would cause. You see this mentioned very occasionally, but most treatments of DE that a layman runs across just ignore it in favor of wringing their hands over some issue that is trivial in comparison.

Some boffin cam up with that idea, but they rule it out because DM apparently doesn't interact with itself (very much) other than by gravity, so it can't clump up tight like a star or a planet or a living thing. (Something to do with shedding energy, IIRC.)

But it's a cool idea. If I were a novelist I'd run with it.

You said home ISPs sought to deploy Trusted Network Connect about 20 years ago. It hasn't happened. What's holding it up? The rise of mobile devices, smart TVs, and other devices incompatible with the remediation means available in quarantine?

I think AT&T (pre-1984) and the "Baby Bells" (1984 on) stopped putting lead shielding around copper cables in the 1970s or the early 1980s.

Legacy Lead-Sheathed Telecommunications Cables: Status and Issues for Congress is a report from 2023 that says

The report is light on details though. It's also not clear what part of the modern AT&T overlaps with the pre-1984-breakup version of AT&T.

I very much look forward to your explosive diarrhea, with additional hospitalization caused by tainted mystery meat from undisclosed foreign locations.

And I still haven't received my $2000 refund from DOGE government savings. Please send me a cashiers check for that amount and I'll pay you back without interest when the money arrives in the mail. Assuming that there is any public mail service left.