This is an attempt to reduce fear, but it seems like a pretty sophomore effort.

They have enough money for really good PR, so I have to imagine there are... personalities interfering. Or maybe just one.

Going to be fun watching the hustling as they try to IPO with a CFO who says it won't work.

That's an extremely short-term analysis.

Your red-pilled lawyer will soon have a reputation. They'll find their client pool shrinking, judges not giving them the benefit of the doubt, and other lawyers not referring work to them.

They'd better do a lot of slop cases quickly and hope the money lasts, because that strategy is going to tank their practice faster than they graduated law school.

"Incognito" has been redefined to mean "we'll pretend we don't know who you are."

More generally, if you're talking to a robot that runs on someone else's machine, you should not be surprised if the machine owner spies on you. Maybe it shouldn't work this way - I'd say it definitely shouldn't, and the big outfits acknowledge this by pretending it doesn't - but that's the world we live in.

The assumption should always be that these robots are front ends to Zuckerberg's & Google's user profiling systems. Your robot talk therapist or cofounder is trying to help Nestle and Ford manipulate you. And let's not forget LEOs and intelligence - we haven't heard much about how they're targeting this stuff yet. But they would be incompetent if they aren't.

I feel like we're stuck in a time loop with a a really screwed up read head.

I so, so very look forward to pissing on several graves. I'll happily be arrested in Arlington Cemetery, so long as they let me shake first.

"It enforces zero policy," Poettering said. "It leaves that up for other parts of the system."

"Calm down, stop being so jumpy. The explosives around your neck will not detonate. Unless I push this button."

LNG is not just used directly for energy.

It is an input to urea production. As in fertilizer. As in a major farming input.

So you can thank Mr. Peace President for you impending food bill, too.

Yes, the same dipshit that calls himself the peace president and minces around talking about redoing the drapes like a pantomime suburban housewife.

(Can you imagine what fun the press would have had with a President Hillary going on about the drapes?)

And then goes on to be a trashy asshole to the Japanese PM. Although that could "just" be dementia-driven disinhibition instead of intentional. And when he's gone, remember that this is what Republicans value - this incompetent, boorish, demented piece of trash. And why? Because he is hurting people they resent slightly more than he is hurting them, and they're willing to burn the constitution to do it.

Oh, that's not what they meant?

Nevermind, not interested.

Absolutely agree.

And you can rest easy knowing the US is currently crippling and isolating itself, so it will likely back off some of its nastier behavior over the long term. (Although the short term is turning out to be... interesting.)

But to be realistic you need to note US is not uniquely bad here. Nations have interests, not morals. If one ends up substantially more powerful than peers, it will throw its weight around. And the US, for all its faults and evils, has mostly promoted human rights and an expansion of political freedom. Its failures and hypocrisies there are many and awful, but I assure you a resurgent Russia or unfettered China would not be a better actor.

There have been several recent cases of the Ohio leg not being responsive to what the citizenry want. You can expect citizens to keep doing this until they manage to dislodge the arrogant little shitweasels who keep trying to tell normal folks how to live.

Nicely self-descriptive comment. I'll remember the name and not bother reading you anymore.

(1) Your conception of fairness is broken, apparently because you can't see the difference between sports and society's justice function.

(2) General hint to dealing with other humans: If you try to surreptitiously break rules and get caught, appealing to some sense of "fairness" makes you look like a fucking weasel who will say anything, so your words mean nothing. You just tried to get an unfair advantage and hide it, and now you're whining about being caught, demonstrating lack of remorse. You deserve to be stomped for it, if nothing else as an example to others.

Beginning to think that, if you are a normie[1], affirmatively picking your malware might be the way to go. You're going to get pwned, so you may as well pick one that will defend your gateway from other gangs and hopefully not be too awful.

Maybe someday we'll seeing APTs advertising for vassals and competing on terms.

[1] As in, you don't run snort at home or monitor CVE feeds

Fully homomorphic encryption is mostly theoretical, but that's because it is incredibly slow and uses huge amounts of memory, not because you can't write conditionals.

You can compute anything using FHE that you can with any other turing machine. As long as you can wait long enough.

If Intel can provide 1000x+ speedups, some of this might become usable in limited ways. Because right now it costs multiple seconds to do a single FHE multiply, and it needs something like 20000x the memory space of unencrypted computation.

The FBI is busy. They have to fly Alexis Wilkins to her gigs, fly Kash to her for the bootie calls, Fly Kash to party with people who can actually achieve something, arrest 5 year olds, redact all the child-fucking Donnie got up to in the Epstein files, and all these other errands.

That is after firing all the agents who had a clue.

They just don't have time to patch.