errr... Apple doesn't charge for its operating system. macOS literally doesn't have a price.

The trouble with Transhumanists is that they all imagine there will eventually be only one human per company with an army of AI's to do the work.

But they all think they'll be that one person.

Also, they're insane.

Boogergooks.

They've never met 7th Grade boys, have they?

When CUDA started taking off we had ATI hardware, to support their open source pledge, and looked into ROCm.

Just getting the drivers to build on EL-anything was an extreme effort, and it wasn't my first rodeo.

Without betraying confidences, I was told second-hand that there were only ten people on the GPU driver team across all platforms and that they were doing their best and not sleeping enough as it was, with Compute way behind gaming bugs on the priority list.

I couldn't independently verify of course but the theory fit the data.

I immediately empathized with the suffering of the devs and went out and bought nVidia cards, annoying binary drivers and all.

Since then I've felt like that some bean counter at AMD wrote nVidia a trillion dollar check.

If you're not a tiny company *overstaff* your engineering departments so you don't miss new opportunities as they arise. The opportunity costs exceed the opex costs.

Same here but this lack of support will matter much less than dropping i486.

There are still embedded systems sold today that only meet i486 specs. I don't use them but some industries do.

Sure a $12 ESP32 can handle those tasks but it's a revalidation thing.

Not that anybody from those vendors stepped forward to maintain a tree.

OTR might be small enough.

The Axolotl Ratchet is much better but perhaps too big for SMS.

TextSecure probably would have offered it were that feasible.

Of course if you can arrange one-time pads you're 1:1 at 140 characters.

Are you under the impression that horse races aren't, occasionally, rigged? That the 'insiders' bet based on insights they get from owners, trainers, stable hands, and jockeys?

How is this any different from the outcome at local horse race tracks that offer gambling?

Really this is far more probable than a dozen people went crazy in the same way at the same time which seems to be a plurality of comments.

If there's an American great ape they live in Washington state, not Ohio, based on report frequency.

Star Wars nerds? Yes, so many in Ohio.

His best buddy specialized in making exploding pagers.

Good luck out there.

In my younger and more foolish days I had a Pontiac and I opted out with wire cutters to the Surveillance module's power cables.

At the time I was actually more concerned with remote unlock hijacking than tracking but still I didn't trust GM.

All together now: WE TOLD YOU SO.

If I had to guess 20 years later doing that would disable the ECU.

I think you're being a bit aggressive in your HIPPA explaination.

They aren't sharing specific, identity-revealing medical information about anyone.

Knowing that a user visited a website for pregnant, low-income DACA participants doesn't confirm the user is pregnant, low-income, or enrolled in DACA.

It's like saying by observing someone walk into an abortion clinic that violates HIPPA because now I know they are pregnant. I can prove no such thing from that visit - they could work at the clinic, they could be going in with someone that is pregnant, or they could be going to the clinic for any of the plethora of non-abortion related treatments and tests.

To violate HIPPA you need to have sufficient identity information to identify an individual and reveal their personal medical info. That's simplified, but knowing a person looked for information on a website doesn't *prove* anything.

As this story is about healthcare exchanges, you might have a hard time finding a printed application form.

I don't think they support a model where:

- you send in your demographic info,
- they send you a list of choices based on your information,
- you mail them your selection from the list provided,
- they send you a confirmation letter in the mail.

I don't think the open-enrollment window is long enough to facilitate that interaction.

A reasonable explanation/theory, but based on the ab-so-lute-ly ludicrous money spent to create these federally-funded websites, why were they relying on, as you describe them , "automated site builder tools"?

The time and cost involved reminded of the story around the build-out of Xerox PARC - they started with nothing, had to invent their workstations and invent a means to network those machines, then design and build the physical servers the sites ran on...

Bottom line, including tools to capture metrics around usage is a perfectly valid thing to include in these sites, but using a "free" tool that harvests user data on a gov't website is a big no-no!

Yeah, this sounds like some kind of jaded Transhumanist humiliation ritual.

If true as written, those 'monks' are without honor or reverence.