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Comment Re: Except Trump currently violating the privacy (Score 0) 117

By undocumented, you mean illegal.

I don't give the faintest shit about their rights. Not an iota.

If they would have wanted to participate as members of the society, they would have come here legally.

That said, one of my biggest disappointments of the current administration is that yes, while they are trying to cull the (up to) 3 million a year let in by Mr Biden's open-Democrat-voter, er, -border policy, there's been afaik no effort from the administration (nor its critics) to fix/improve/simplify LEGAL immigration which is 100% good.

Comment Re:this is better [than what]? (Score 1) 80

Perhaps the best counterexample of your premise is the Unabomber. Yes, not on the Web--but I think that was half because of the timing and half because he understood the lack of real technology-based anonymity. But he tried quite hard to stay hidden. And died in prison..

Theodore Kaczynski was caught because of poor Operational Security (OPSEC). He let his ego get the better of him, delivering a 35,000 word manifesto and insisting that it be made public.

He was caught only because he thought he was smarter than everybody else, leaving clues with each bomb and in his manifesto. Ultimately the Washington Post's publication of his writings caught the eye of researchers, and more importantly, his younger brother David, who turned him in for the $1M reward.

Comment Re:Unless you own the company (Score 1) 48

Your job is not your life.

Agreed completely.

Your job is just a means to earn income to support your life.

Still with you.

Being "engaged" in your job means sacrificing part of your life for free to benefit the owners of the company.

Err... what? There's no "for free" involved, that's where the whole "earn income to support your life" bit comes in.

By all means, don't make your job your life--there are certainly better things out there. But being asked by your employer to give a fuck and put some effort in is certainly not a bridge too far.

Comment Bohm/diBroglie ignored (Score 2) 23

The MIT blurb "politely" ignores the Bohm/diBroglie synthesis of both (pilot) wave and mechanical particle  as entities continuous in space-time. The blurb goes for either/or pimping-the-ride for the boys-from-Copenhagen.  Guess that's like  a woman ignoring an ex-boyfriend at her own wedding. 

Comment Re:They don't really care about censorship (Score 1) 230

"The vast majority of these titles have obvious sexual themes and many have the word "incest" in the title."

Yes, for once he's right: it IS because Republicans are against children freely able to buy such titles.

Democrats, on the other hand, have been advocating the sexualization of the young (if they haven't trans'd them) so I understand rsilvergun's bitch here.

He's obviously sad that he has nowhere to peddle his MAP fetish.
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Comment Re:Because people work 12 hours a day (Score 2) 89

However, if you are in that shitty position, you should not own a dog.

My wife and I figured that out during covid. We were both "essential" employees and by the time we took care of work and our two children, we had no time for anything else. Our dogs were living shitty lives and it killed us to do it but we rehomed them. I was upset about it but after it was done, I was even more upset that we hadn't done it sooner... because we let them live those shitty lives while we kept on keeping on trying to figure things out.

Comment Re:Technology NOT AI (Score 3, Informative) 88

There is no sudden increase due to AI. There is a clear increase due to increased use of electronic equipment. Bitcoin, electric cars, etc. all contributed just as much as AI.

This is just plain incorrect.

The freaking summary points out that "Tech giants Microsoft, Google, and Amazon plan to spend $80 billion, $85 billion, and $100 billion respectively this year on AI infrastructure." That's a quarter trillion dollars worth of infrastructure (that has not a thing to do with bitcoin or EVs) which is going to require a shit ton of power.

On a more personal and anecdotal note, I work for a company that serves the power industry and one of our customers (a gas turbine manufacturer) will be increasing their capacity by more than 3x over the next five years--this is not speculative, they have already taken the orders, their capacity is booked through the end of the decade, and the reason is the datacenter boom. Most of our other customers are dealing with similar growth and their stated reasoning is the same.

Comment Re:Meanwhile in the 40k universe (Score 0) 89

Yes, I remember them well. They had an office next to RIPLEY, the alien-walking service. I believe RIPLEY even provided Teflon walking-suits and  "head-cones" for the creatures.

Will we ever get a walking service for snowflake wokers that includes rose-colored glasses, wife-beater Ts and genuine Palestinian manufactured sandals ?

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