All that we need for c-suite employees. Let's go with it!

I live in the US, and there are short distance trains like that. But mostly we don't have short distance trains, and electrifying our very long routes wouldn't make economic sense.

Going to move to a sugar-free galaxy.

If all goes as it should we'll all simply be working less in 10 years time.

That seems phenomenally unlikely. Absolutely vast changes were made to the world of work since the 1970s with the inexorable rise of computing and productivity gains have been vast. And yet the 40 hour work week has remained.

To be honest, I already am.

cool. You are not even slightly the majority in this.

Perhaps the real problem is that there is simply no reliable way to tell a real human's post from a generative AI's post anymore, since by the AIs are trained on the posts of real humans and are asymptotically becoming indistinguishable from them. You certainly can't simply go by post-quality, since the some of the smarter bots are better posters than some of the, err, less-well-informed humans.

Because of that, it's hard to feel good about putting any real effort into a social media conversation, because in the back of your mind you're always wondering: am I engaged in any kind of constructive activity here, or am I just unknowingly humping a rubber doll that Zuckerberg (or somebody) has provided for my amusement?

And in the final analysis, that might be a good thing. Did you (your company) write that JavaScript? Probably not. You downloaded some crap from npm and included it in your pages.

IIRC, it was some npm installation scripts that allowed a "dependencies" section to include a URL for code to be included. From anywhere in the Internet. Bypassing the repository. And allowing the owner to place new code at that location any time they saw fit. Some of the exploits did things like encrypt your disk and ransom your data. Or steal your BitCoin wallets. Or AI development system tokens.

But quite a bit of low level stuff gets snuck into these repositories. Including stuff that lies quietly, damaging nothing. But inserting tracking code into your pages for the benefit of unknown third parties. So, no. I won't be loading your web pages along with a bunch of code that I don't know what it does. And neither do you.

CloudFlare got caught (by my ISP) for using a web site that was widely considered to be a scam site. I did a search on the URL and read a bunch of "interesting" reports on it. Including an email that Google had sent in response to the blocking, pleading with ISPs to stop it. Why was Google apologizing for ClownFlare's f*ck-up? My best guess is that they had piggybacked their own tracking stuff onto CFs Captchas. You just can't trust anyone who uses JavaScript anymore.

Show of hands: How many people sat in on Hegseth's phone call regarding this topic?

In which case, the most an ISP can do if they detect an unsecured device on the customer side of their modem is to cut off service.

Lots of Windows systems will be going dark soon. Too bad you didn't upgrade when the latest OS release came down the pipe. Your new system will be available as soon as we find some DRAM.

That's a "No" to Netflix. And a "No" to Paramount.

The only bidder left appears to be Ow! My balls!

But Russia and Iran? They have no meaningful A.I. offerings to compete with. China does, but their tactic would be to promote the market for A.I. And then undermine US sunk costs with their lower priced services. And come to market with cheaper DRAM aimed at consumers.

It's mainly plain old FUD. Just stir up some griping about "those damned Communists". Neither Russia or Iran being a member.

That's what CloudFlare is for. To make sure you haven't turned JavaScript off, are not blocking ads and have an acceptable level of tracking allowed.

Web site operators with ads aren't nearly as interested in blocking bots. They get paid for ad views. Prove that it wasn't a human that clicked that MongoDb banner. Or pay up.

It's the advertisers that should be screaming about the scraping. They're the ones that have to write the checks to the site owners.

Have each car help. Could even make them self driving in rail yards to assemble themselves onto trains.

Governments are making it increasingly difficult to be independent contractors. Some people do gig working. Some hang around the Home Depot parking lot. Others boost.

But let people share their thoughts without being social. Kind of like Slashdot.

And one of the most dangerous types of managers: One who knows the technology that he is overseeing.