Setting aside the risible condition of requiring all computers to connect to a "non-profit FAC Verification Center," how, exactly, do you prevent rogue AI from inserting a FACStamp into its own content?

I've been building my own PCs for ~30 years, and the "cores" (CPU/MB) average 8-10 years before I build a new one.

My most recently replaced (i5 3570) was actually doing just fine at 9 years old; but nVidia stopped making driver updates for Win7 and it was my gaming rig, so it had to be retired. Took out the GTX1660Ti GPU and built a Ryzen5 5600X / X570 platform around it. Wasn't too happy about having to "upgrade" to Win11, though.

Yep, this was my first thought after reading OP. Dad is failing his responsibility to engender independent thought in his offspring.

Am I the only one who remembers this?

You realize that's most of the market, right?

Here's another word for you: hypervisor.
While a single instance of an operating system might have limited capability to utilize parallel processing resources, a hypervisor hosting multiple instances of operating systems can easily schedule 100% of the hardware's compute capacity.

You're suggesting that people read a book by a professional liar to mitigate their skepticism of lies currently being told by a guy who's on record lying under oath before Congress?

Has the world gone completely insane?

That belligerent bitch would've been the worst.

The only account they have on Twitter is the one that mirrors the organization's name.

I made no mention of Iraq. You brought up that strawman all on your own...but since you did, yes, I'll lay that big meaty chud onto the US Intelligence community's pile of "high confidence" assessments, too.

And Wikileaks is now a cult? Because you say so? Because they've exposed the ugly truth about your preferred political snakepit? I know cognitive dissonance can be painful, but do try to manage some self-respect.

Let's compare/contrast the historical veracity of information released by Assange/WikiLeaks with that of any US intelligence service, shall we?

One has an impeccable record of authenticity, while the other is run by documented liars. In fact, both Brennan and Clapper sat before Congress and bald-faced LIED when asked about the existence and activities of the NSA's domestic spying apparatus.

The better question would be: Why would anyone in their right mind not believe Assange over the Liar McPantsonFires in Washington DC?

I suppose, perhaps in the same sense that the stuff that comes out your butt is the same as "food," you could make the claim; but most people will give you Forest Whitaker eye when you try it.

Threatening a person with violence is criminal behavior already covered in the penal code.

Yes and no. Yes, it's likely a minority of the population who account for a large percentage of "actual crime," and I quote that to discount the nonsensical crimes of possession upon which our political heroes have spent decades wasting incalculable resources. No, in that the inferred parallel of cops to the general population isn't a valid one. A much more apt comparison would be to liken police to an organized crime outfit or terrorist operation, as the very institutions themselves are engaged in criminal pursuits of varying degrees of severity. Within that paradigm, most or all of the involved individuals are guilty of crimes, unlike within the general citizenry.

The Mafia use the term omerta within their ranks to describe this code of silence, reinforcing again the parallel between police and organized crime syndicates.

Largely because the audience to whom they're speaking are either ignorant or uncaring of the rest of the axiom. Believe you me, the bunch has been spoiled for a very long time.

Your implied assertion ("A") that it's a small group of inherently bad cops is both flawed and wholly unsubstantiated.

The fact that there are *daily* reports from all over the country of cops abusing their authority in various ways and being caught engaging in criminal acts themselves debunks your assumption.

Policing problems in the USA are institutional. The personnel issues are symptoms of the larger sickness. Body camera deployments here bear out my contention: how many incidents of violent police behaviors have we seen recently where the cop "forgot" to turn on his recorder? How many incidents where recordings were captured, but the police refuse to release the raw footage to the public?

Anyone actually interested in providing police accountability through these would have mandated that individual officers have no control over the recorder's operation, and stipulated that failure to wear the device properly would have resulted in suspension or termination depending on what was "missed." They also would have demanded that raw footage be held securely in escrow by a non-LE third-party. That neither of these very basic parameters were even discussed, much less required, should tell you all you need to know about what a charade this truly is.

...by a navel (3319-3289, at present).